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1. " I : * m' % W ■ ; i I I’a^e P’our THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, October 22, 1953 Lydia Mills. *( (continued from page 1) , With The Sick New Members Being Secured blown appearance.” 3. It is not true that a chronic drinker inevitably becomes an al coholic—‘‘there are millions 6f reg ular drinkers who aren’t and won’t become alcoholics.” 4. On the other hahd, the alco holic doesn’t have to be a chrohic drinker. 5. No alcoholic is ever “cured”— the condition is merely arrested. I tell the truth. —Selected Glad to report Joe Smith has re- For Farm Bureau turned home after a stay at Hays hospital. ! . , . . ^ , Miss Barbara McLendon is a pa-. A drive is now on for new mem-; tient in the Spartanburg General J> ers °* Laurens Counts Farm hospital where she underwent sur- Bureau.^ At^meetmg^ njr Baumberger gave an encouraging t report of the progress being made and the response campaign captains are receiving. ♦ The drive in the county started gery on Friday. Little Boy Has Party Thursday marked the fifth birth day of Claude Grady, Jr , as his mother, Mrs. Claude Grady, Sr,, en- lertained with a party at the Kin- 'September 6 with approximately j nergarten rooms. Arrangements of ( 350 n e*‘ members signed up this yellow zinnias and mangolds were year representing an increase of ; used on the tables and piano. Fa- around 50 P pr /ent The campaign; vors and decorations were sugges- will continue for about t*o more tive of Halloween. . weeks was stated - ■ Mrs. Wallace directed several Mr. Baumbeltfcer described the games and the group sang the Farm Burea uas the largest farm birthday song before the gifts were organization in the world with a Refreshments of potato, million and a half members in the opened. chips cookies and candies, with cold drinks' were served. A spec ial guest for Butch’s party was little Dennis Roberts. Mrs. Taylor Is Club Speaker nation and over 19,000 in South Carolina. Its object, he said, is to aid the farmers in securing better mar-j kets, equitable prices and legisla-. tion favorable to farmers’ interests. -Miss Mary Johnson, president of The bureau is resportsible for the the Woman’s club, presided over farm credit system, rural electrifi-| the October meeting held Thursday cation, rural telephones and othqrl in the Community center. The things that have helped the farm-1 meeting was called to order with 1 er in recent years^ A concrete ac- the quotation. “A community is complishment, he said, was a tax like a ship; everyone ought to be refund of S20 per tractor to South* | prepared to take’the helm.” Mrs. Carolina farmers. J. B. Templeton gave the devo tion and the roll call was answered by naming a fall accessory you would select. After the business meeting the program chairman, — Miss Clyde Smith, presented Mrs. George W. “The Farm Bureau, he declared, | I “is the best tool we have with' which to build a sound and pro-, gressive agriculture.” Farmers who wish to join may' send their aplications to W. P. Dickson, secretary, Clinton, Rt. 2, Authority Says 70 Million In U. S. Drinkers Taylor, who gave her impresMons or see an y member of the of the country and people of Bra- organization. ziL m Hostesses serving refreshments were; Mrs. J. C. Meeks, Mrs. Clyde Smith, Mrs. Melvin Satterfield and Mrs. Joe Davenport. f Plans were made for the Hallo ween carnival which will be held i on the night of Friday, October 30, { at 6:30 in the auditorium of Provi dence-school. Thih is a joint affair with the teachers and members of the Woman’s club and is held every.I Washington, Oct. 20—A top au- year Those in charge are; director, thority on alcoholism said today 60 Miss Mary Johnson; refreshmeht- jto 70 million Americans, mostly table, Mrs. David Word, chairman, parents, drink alcoholic beverages Mrs. Claude Sims, Mrs. J. T. Lan- and four million of them are poten-i ford and Mrs. Earl Hamrick; couh- tial or confirmed alcoholics. 1 , I try store, .Mrs. R C. Adair, chair-j j) r Selden D. Bacon, director of; man, Mrs. Addison Neighbors and the center of alcoholic studies,, at! Mrs. E. C. Burdette; bingo, George Yale University, also declared that. Fleming, Burl Allen and Mrs. lone the ratio of alcoholism by sexes' Wallace; fish pond. Miss Lou Belle ^ about six men to one woman. It; Neighbors, chairman, Mrs. Mark j s most common between the age Windsor. Mrs. Mattie Harvey and 0 f 35 an d 55 f he said. Mrs. Horace Smith; pickpocket, By racial groups, Dr. Bacon said 1 Miss Margaret Blakely; cake walk, native white Americans, Irish, ! Miss Clyde Smith, chairman, Mrs. Scandinavian, English and Poles David Roberts, Mrs. Corley and have a high rate, while the Medi-1 Mrs. Harold Blackstock; dr6ss pa- terranean people such as the- Ital-' rade, Mrs. R. E. Whtimire, chair- ians and Greeks tend to have a low j man, Mrs. Charles Gaffney, Mrs. rate. Floyd Poole and Mrs. Melvin Sat-, ‘The Jews, almost all of whom terfield; apple bobbing. Mrs. B. F. use alcoholic beverages, have an Harvey, chairman, Mrs. Fred Bodie; extraordinarily 1 low rate, a fact entrance committee, Mrs. Harold which has been recognized for over Hairston, chairman, Mrs. Clyde three centuries," he said. Trammell, Horace Smith and Clyde | Dr. Bacon gave these highlights on his studies in a copyrighted interview in U. S. News Sc World Report, independent weekly news magazine published here. In a wide-ranging commentary on problems bonnected with alco holism, Dr. Bacon pointedly criti cized the “classical temperance lec tures” of persons he described as “very- sincere, well-meaning drys. ’ He also chided American schools SURVEYING J. R. CRAWFORD , CLINTON. S. C. Phone 3493 Joanna Trammell. 'Tot* Tor Tot*” Camp Fire girls will sponsor Toys for Tots” a special Mem bership March community service project which opened Sept. 15 and will conclude November 30. The Camp Fire girls,have invited non-members in the community to participate in the project. The Horizon girls, under the lead- j and colleges for failing to educate ership of Mrs. Mattie Hamrick, I youngsters about “some very real have volunteered to canvass the 1 dangers attached to drinking." neighborhood for used and discard- "Telling them nothing, telling cd toys. They will be brought to them nonsense, or talking down a collection station located at the to them with nothing but negative, community center. Here the toys commands—these are all ineffec- will be cleaned and repaired and j tive and rather escapist types of will be used as gifts to needy chil- education, especially since the stu- dren. dents want education on the mat- — — - - — - j ter," he said. Dr. Bacon said that fundamen- i tally he does not believe knowledge about alcoholism is a major need in an educational program. Dr. Baqon said the pattern of ‘classical temperance lectures” of ten take the form of this warning to students: "The first drink—it’s the first drink that’s the dangerous one— you’re one drink away from a drunk. A little beer here and there, and this horrible social drinking will lead to death, disgrace, dis ease. The liver will turn purple, the brain shrink, and so on.” Among other things, Dr. Bacon made these points: 1. 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