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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, October 22, 1953
Lydia Mills.
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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.
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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. Assertions that alcohol causes
! certain diseases, affects the brain
tissue, or causes a shortening ,of
can'T ne wrona: I life “have been disprov-en by ob
jective and empiric evidence that
could be repeated in any labora
tory."
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