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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, January 6, 1
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Polio Prevention ... Polio Care
Why "Omit Flowers" At A Time When
They Are Meaningful, Asks Rev. Harris
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March of Dimas Poster Girl, Mary Koaloskl of Colllervllla, Tann.
watches as her sister Kit la Injected In March of Dimas tasts of tha
Salk polio vaccine. Needle le wielded by Dr. Richard F. Kalsay.
Together, the girls represent the two great aims of the March of
Dimes—the treatment and prevention of paralysis caused by polio.
Governor Byrnes Calls Upon People
To Support 1955 March Of Dimes
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Governor James F. Byrnes has
asked the public’s support of the
1955 March of Dimes which be
gan in South Carolina and across
the nation on January 3.
The Souht Carolina chief ex
ecutive in announcing his sup
port of this year’s campaign em
phasized the fate that the March
of Dimes is facing a bigger task
in 1955, even as the prospect of a
polio vaccine looms brighter than
before.
National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis statistics shew' a to
tal of $64 million must be raised
in the 1955 March of Dimes for
Foundation to continue its pro
grams of patient care, preven
tion, education and research
without interruption.
According to officials of the
National Foundation for Infan
tile Paralysis, 9,000,000 doses of
the polio vaccine are being pur
chased by March of Dimes funds,
although the effectiveness of the
vaccine will not be fully known
until test results are released th.s
spring.
In addition to the vaccine, Gov.
Byrnes was informed by Foun
dation officials that gamma glob
ulin is available in sufficient
quantities to be used at any point
where a polio epidemic threatens.
"March of Dimes funds are
now helping protect healthy
South Carolina children as well
as helping provide care for the
polio-stricken,” Governor Byrnes
said, "and I ask for the enlight
ened generosity of all those who
are able to give, so that a wortn-
while cause may be continued
and a great humanitarian victory
hastened.”
Social Agencies To
Hear Director
Mental Health Clinic
The Laurens County Council of
Social Agencies will hold its
monthly meeting at the Toastee
Grill in Laurens on Tuesday, Jan
uary 11, at 1 p m. The grill is lo
cated opposite the Agricultural
building.
The special guest speaker will
be Dr. Samuel R Kilgore, M. D ,
of Spartanburg. Dr. Kilgore is di
rector of the Spartanburg Mental
Health clinic under the supervi
sion of the South Carolina Mental
Health commission directed b>
Dr. W. P. Beckman, M. D. The
Spartanburg clinic serves several
counties of this area including
Laurens.
All men and women interested
iq, the work of the Social Agen
cies are cordially invited to attend
the luncheon and hear Dr. Kil
gore in a discussion of the impor-
itant work he heads. Those desir
ing to attend are asked to make
reservations at once with Mrs.
Sarah Martin, Box 197, Laurens.
Mrs. Martin is casework super-
i visor for the County Department
of Public Welfare.
By Fred •rick Brown Hank
Chaplain, United States Sanata
“Please omit flowers", is a re
quest often issued when arrange
ments are announced for what i<
usually called a funeral service.
In life’s darkest hours, when
hearts are torn by poignant grief,
when it seems as a dear one goes
from our sight and side that life
has tumbled in, a strange new
directive puts * taboo on the
Creator’s petaled masterpieces
which can say nameless things
that no human lips can utter.
Whence comes this incongrous
suggestion? Omit flowers—In the
V alley of the Shadow, when
every yearning impulse is strug
gling vainly to express feelings
that are too deep for words! Then
it is that flowers offer wings to
affection, appreciation and con
solation, to wistful memories and
assurances of sympathy. Of
course, carping critics of any cus
tom may suspect the aroma of
commercialism in the slogan ad
mittedly coined by vendors of
blooms—“Say it with flowers.”
But, alas for the one who in so
fragrant a phrase detects only
the ring of the florists’ cash reg
ister. In “Say it with flowers”
there stretch enchanting vistas of
sacramental beauty like the glory
of a garden or the shimmer of
n oonlight on a silvery sea.
A choice friend, here no more,
whose spiritual apprehensions
found radiant kinship in flowers
as he pondered a ptsey’s secret
for entering the sacristy of an
other’s felicity or pain, left us
this verbal bouquet:
"The enterprising florist does
not attempt to suggest what you
ihall say. That is your part of
the enterprise. His, to supply the
vocabulary, so to speak; yours to
select the particular words re
quired for your message. Indeed,
your floral gift can say things of
exquisite delicacy and tender
meaning for the expression of
which a dictionary leaves you
impotent. Heart-meanings con
veyed by flowers become pris
matic, whose white light breaks
into a perfect shower of crimson,
vio4et and gold.”
Yet it is boldly proposed to
blow out all the floral candles
on the high altar of grief—to bar
all that glory from the place of
mourning and remembrance—
when the daughters of music are
brought low! "No Trespassing”
signs are set up against the con
soling presence of the splendor
w hich had captured the very be
ing of Oliver Wendell Holmes,
of Thy ordaining
Priests, sermons, shrines,”
In the midst of such a Halle
lujah Chorus, lifting to the high
est heaven a paean of gratitude
for the tint of the tinitst flower,
how impertinent appears a ban
ner with this strange device:
“Please omit flowers” — Omit
“priests, sermons, shrines” What!
Bring no symbols of the white
flowers of immortality which
bloom around the solitude of the
grave? Omit flowers when gath
ered friends come to hear the tri-
until
been
flowers that never arrive
after the undertaker has
summotnd.
If we practice th esirople rule
of being a little kinder—a little
more thoughtful than necessary
—we would escape the prickling
regret of the searching lines:
"It isn’t the thing you do, dear,
It’s the thing that you leave
undone t
That brings you a bit of a
heartache
At the setting of the sun.”
Every week we rub elbows
with fellow pilgrims whose
hearts are famished, hungeripg,
unwittingly, perhaps, for a crust
of encouragement. Some “well
umphal assurance that death is! done,” some gracious word from
but a portal to another room in Us might come with the beauty
the Father’s many - mansioned, and fragrance of a flavor. But
house? No flowers as emblems
whispering of the virtues and
graces that made the earthly life
of the one who has finished the
course, even as a garden of the
Lord?
How black and bare the "last
rites” can be if there is no loft
from which comes the solace of a
mulit-colored surpliced, flower
choir in the chapel of death! Oh,
to be sure, like any other hallow
ed ritual, defiling hands may
turn it all into a vulgar display
of pagan extravaganza. But
there is an old proverb warning
against letting out the baby with
the bath. A remedy for excess
es which prescribes that flowers
be eliminated when and where
they are needed most savors of
’h ruthless iconoclast.
But listen, says one with a cold
gleam in his eye: Why not give
the money spent for flowers to
some humanitarian cause? How
piously realistic! But the under
tones of that proposition are sus
piciously like the snarling sug
gestion of Judas when Mary
poured the precious ointment,
perfumed like English violets, on
ihe feet of the Master she adored.
The miserly instincts of the one
who was to betray the Galilean
tried to measure the sunbeam of
too often we do not say it.
What a calling—to be florists
in the realm of praise and of
fragrant words that keep men
on their feet! Remember Tol
stoy’s beggar who, in the thrill
of % salutation that lifted him to
the level of brotherhood, forgot
even his empty stomach. And
never forgot, at your peril, that
Jesus declared that the final con
demnation would be reserved for
those who forgot the flowers of
mercy and help.
The meanest kind of a miser is
cue who omits the flowers of
generous speech. Felicia Hemans
has penned a verse which well
might be entitled, “Please Do Not
Omit Flowers:”
“They speak of hope to the
fainting heart.
With a voice of promise they
come and part;
They sleep in dust, through the
wintry hours,
They break forth in glory—
Bring flowers, bright flowers!”
WITH THE SICK
Patients at Blalock clinic in
clude Mrs. Lige Gossett, Mrs. Roy
Kennedy and Mrs. J. T. Whitman
The following, who have been
this fragrant deed with a hone-) of ,^ ai f ens : „ .
tary yardstick: Why this waste! patients at Hays hos P lta l. re '
This could have been sold and)^ rned ^ homes earUer in
the proceeds given to the Jerusa- the week; W ’ a King * J ' K Ev
lem Community Chest! But
Jesus, who cared supremely for
the poor said: “Let her alone. She
hath done it for my burial.” He
was not in favor of omitting
flowers.
If the injunction of Judas,
PERSONAL MENTION
Mrs. Hope Sadler of Rock Hill,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert aHll of
Summerville, were guests several
days last week of their daughter
and niece, Mrs. C. W. Copeland,
and Mr. Copeland.
American People
Gabbed Last Year
Washington, Jan. 1. — AmerL
cans are gabby.
179,000,000 local telephone con
versations per day, on an aver
age.
6,600,000 long distance calls
daily. i
<162,188,000 telegrams during
the whole year ~
S. C. Has Fourth
Worst Polk) Year
With 316 Cases
Columbia, Jan. 1—A prelimi
nary count of 316 cases gave
South Carolina its fourth worst
polio year on record in 1954.
Dr. G. S. T. Peeples, state
health officer, today said the
disease accounted for six deaths
Case totals were the highest
since 1948, when the state record
ed 381 cases.
Polio attacks were scattered
throughout the state. Only seven
counties got through the year
without a case.
Charleston county had the
highest number, 44, followed by
Richland with 36 and Greenville
with 32
The polio peak came in /xugust
-when 22 cases were reported.
The year also witnessed par
ticipation by Charleston county
in the use of a new vaccine
against the disease. About 3^0C-
of the county’s school children
were vaccinated as part of th'
nationwide test program.
ans, Sherry Armstrong and
Frank Templeton of Joanna.
Paul Nix is recuperating fol
lowing an operation at Blalock
clinic.
Mrs. Marie Hammock who has
been a patient at Blalock clinic,
“omit ointment,” had prevailed it 18 convelascing at home.
when he declared: “The Amen of scarcely at all.
would not have been balm for
the wounds of the poor. And
those who have looked fairly per
centage-wise into the situation
today report that omitting flow
ers where their potent ministry
is needed most benefits the needy
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The Kelly Glenn circle of Dun
can Creek Presbyterian church
! will meet Tuesday afternoon,
January 11, at 3 o’clock at the
I home of Mrs. R. L. Webb. Mrs
! James S. Gray will lead the Bible
I study.
An adult school sponsored by
the Joanna schools began Tues
day evening and will continue
J each Tuesday and Thursday
1 nights from 6:30 to 8:30. The
\ school will be for adults over 16
who are interested in getting
high school certificates. There
will be no charge for the course
and those from the Joanna, Clin
ton and other surrounding arete
are invited to attend.
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nature is always a flower.” Some
unnamed constable dares to for
bid the entry of the gay loveli
ness which banished his gloom,
as Emerson gratefully remarks,
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
In a poet’s rapture Walt Whit
man cries: "A morning glory at
my window satisfies me more
than the metaphysics of books.”
And it was Tennyson, with a tiny
bloom held in his hand, who
soliloquized that if a man could
tell all that is mirrowed there
he’d know what God and man
are.
ers”,
their inspiring ministry in unfor
gettable lines:
“Were I, O God, in churchless
* lands remaining
Far from all voice of teachers
or divines,
My soul would find in flowers
But funerals and memorial
services are not the only occas
ions when the sign "Omit flow
ers” needs to be carefully in
spected and appraised. Gruff
Thomas Carlyle sobbed bitterly
as he bowed at the grave of his
wife. He felt that across the
years he had omitted the flowers
of praise and affection. The sin
of omision was now like a sword
through his souL With a gnaw
ing regret be muttered: ‘O Mary,
I loved you all the while! If I
The following are medical pa
tients at Hays hospital: Mrs.
Belle Hames, Freeman Lanford,
Mrs. Marie Farmer, Patsy Wyatt,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. W.
Wyatt, and Mrs. Mildred Prince.
Mrs. Eloise Robinson of the
Whitten Village staff, is a patient
at Blalock clinic.
Birth Announcement'
CROY
Mr. and Mrs. James Croy an-
nounce the birth of a daughter,
Deborah Gail, on January 1 at
Blalock clinic. Mrs. Croy was
before marriage Miss Bernice
Sexton.
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day of January, 1955, I will ren
der a final account of my acts
and doings as Administrator of
the estate of Maggie Wicker Sul-
ton in the office of the Judge of
Probate of Laurens County, at 10
o’clock a. m., and on the same
day will apply for a final dis
charge from my trust as Admin
istrator.
Any person indebted to said es
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make payment on or before that
date; and all persons having
claims aaginst said estate will
present them on or before said
date, duly proven, or be forever
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Administrator of Estate
of Maggie Sultan Wicker
Dec. 13, 1954 4c-w-Jan. 13
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Five Men Make
Five Mistakes
One man struck a match to see if the gaso
line tank was empty.
rr WASN'T!
One man patted a strange bulldog on the
head to see if it was affectionate.
IT WASN'T!
One man speeded up to see if he could beat
the train to the crossing.
HE COULDN’T!
One man touched an electric wire to see if
41 was charged.
IT WAS!
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One man cut out hi
could save money.
to see if he