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''age Eight t'ME CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, March 10, 1953 « Dr. Herbert Spaugh Everyday Counselor We are a great nation of pill-taxers. Dr. Walter Alvarez of the Mayo Foundation, in his column, “Your Health," tells us of recent findings of a group of doctors in dealing with high blood pressure. They tried quinine and quinidme in the treatment of this disease. At first they were delighted because these drugs appeared to bring the pressure down some 20 points. Then they decided to change their patients onto new pills which, although they looked Ike the old ones, contained only a little sugar. They were shocked to find that these pills worked even better than the others had, and in some cases they lowered the pressure by 50 pionts. Ob viously, says Dr. Alvarez, the lowering was due to a mental soothing of the patient. He goes on to say that wise Tloctors today are becoming ever more conscious of the fact that many people are so very suggestible that if they are giv en any medicine, and especially if they feel great hope about the medicine, for a time it will cause them to feel much better. Dr. Alvarez then re fers to the opposite type which is so afraid of medi cine that he will vow it gave him a headache, has- leau, and other symptoms, even though all he had Dr. Spaugh were some pills containing sugar. All this adds up to the fact that faith is a tremendous factor in the healing of any disease. First, there is faith n the doctor and then in his medicine The doctor can do the average patent very Ittle good if he has no faith in him. Of course, there are exceptions, like brok en bones, severe cuts, bruises, etc. If faith is such a potent factor in the treatment of disease, why can’t we carry it even beyond the doctor and over to God? I don t mean to leave out the doctor, and depend on faith in God alone. It is my conviction that metical doctors are God's agents for healing. But I don't think we need to limit treatment of disease to doctors alone. Thev will tell'you themselves that they don't heal a paitent, but only treat him. Nature o r God does the healing. That being so, we should help the doctor in his treatment, not only by having faith in him, but also in having a greater faith in Almighty God, Who set up all the laws of nature. If we are honest about most of the diseases which afflict us, we will have to admit that they come about because we or someone about us have violated some of the laws of nature — the laws of health. If we will concern ourselves with studying and understanding the laws of God, including the laws of health, then we will be able to cooperate with our doctors when we ned them, and maintain a superior state of health all the time. Remember that the salvation which Jesus Christ preached was a whole salvation—body, mind, and spirit. He said you couldn't sepa rate the three. Modern psychology now confirms this. If you are a pill-taker, don't forget to include the most important of all—the “gos-pill." FARMS... AND FOLKS By J. M. ELEAZER Clemson ColleRe Information Specialist ’ Drouths or Dollars" peanuts from ?0 to 50 per cent. The Carolina Power and Light an d 50 on - Company made a survey of re- j One of the irrigation farmers suits from irrigation on the interviewed, S. R. Bryant, of Lo- farms in their area of the Caro- i ns, said, “If I didn't have the linas. They have been publish ed in an attractive booklet en titled, “Drouths or Dollars.” The summary show's tobacco yields were upped from 10 to 200 per cent, pastures from 25 to 1,000 per cent, alfalfa from 25 to 100 per cent, cotton from 10 to 30 pre cent, cucumbers from 50 to 1,000 per cent, sweet potatoes from 15 to 50 per cent, sorghum from 20 to 50 per cent, home gar dens from 25 to 200 per cent, money to buy a system, I would mortgage something to get en ough to buy one” • . • • Turkeys For Caster J. K. Brogdon of Clarendon, had an idea about turkeys, and it w’orked. There are few u any fresh dressed turkeys for Easter time. Practically all grow theirs off in the fall. If you serve this fine meat in the spring, you’ll most PerAcSire- Te^er Nubbins with m a Ujmjm Vertagreen* For Commercial Crops For bigger corn yields, jfet Vertagreen for Com mercial Crops. Proved in actual field tests— and by corn growers themselves — to give outstanding results. Vertagreen has been especially prepared for corn soils in this area. To make extra bushels with fewer nubbins, use com plete, better balanced Verta green. Order early from your Armour Agent. Vertagreen also' comes in an analysis for lawns, flowers, shrubs, trees and garden vegetables. Armour Fertilizer Works Clintoa, South Caretiaa tertegreen | f *"» Food Hayne B. W 111 O. E. likely have to use a bird that has been in storage a good while. , And some folks prefer a freeh- killed bird. So Mr. Brogdon puts in sev eral thousand poults in Decem ber. Then they are prime and ready for market out in late Ap ril and early May. He made en ough on these the past bad tur key year to rescue his total ope ration from the red. Distributing the ^ risk, more even employment for labor, longer use for facilities, and less competition are some of the ad vantages he found in this prac tice, according to County Agent Grainger. His 12,000 turkeys are started in three equal batch es of 4,000 each, getting them in early October, early December, and February. * * * Home Garden Now At a recent meeting of exten sion workers at Clemson, Roy Ferree called attention to some important angles of the vanish ing home garden. Costs are high and farm in come low. In this squeeze there is one thing each farm can do to help itself. And that is, have a good, small, w'ell-kept, produc ing garden of quality vegetables. In the past we have been prone to say, “Oh, I can buy ’em cheaper than I can growe ’em.’’ And maybe that was so during flushed times. But is it so now? A small, well-kept, producing home garden can easily save a , hundred or so dollars a year you’d other wise have to spend , for store-bought stuff. And it ! w'ill add just that much to your 1 income Of course, it would cost ! you something to grow these | vegetables. But not nearly as , much as you’d have to spend for I inferior stuff other wise. I You will note I have stressed ! a “small’' garden. And I do that I for a purpose. Most gardens are entirely too big. You plant them with the enthusiasm that comes with spring. You have so much 1 early stuff it just wastes there. Soon the hot weather arrives and you let grass take it. Then by late summer the garden has become a snaky place, over grown with weeds and grass the fertility stimulated there. It is amazing what you can grow in a very small garden that’s made very fertile, watered and attended to. properly. Be fore one vegetable is finished, you can have another planting coming along there in the mid dle. Then take the old one out | just as soon as it begins to fade, I and work the soil to the new one that’s already coming there I between the old rows. | Another reason for the small ( garden, it’s not as much work and you can handle it with noth ing but a hoe, if you have noth- ■ ing else. You can afford to ( mulch it too, which helps hold moisture and keep weeds down. And you can also afford to irri- Igate it as needed. Nothing in sures your gardening efforts like water at the ngm time. For that makes quality stutt as w’ell as 'quantity yields. * * * The Winds of March This is a dynamic time of year. The w'inds of March qre blowing winter away. The miracle of growth is writhing awaken ing bud, limb, root, bulb, and seed. And very soon now the drabness of winter will be swal lowed up by the. miracle that’s spring. My, it’s good to be alive and abroad in the land! * * * Boys Are That Way Last week we were talking here about makin’ sorghum sy rup when I was a boy. Folks didn’t have jars nor jugs to put it in then. But each family had a syrup barrel, made by the local I cooper from sturdy white oak. And that was their source of sweetening for most of the year. But out the next summer, when the weather got hot, some- [ thing usually happened to that syrup. Either it gave out about that time, soured, or had all turned to rock candy. I well remember one late June Saturday my brother, colored playmate, and I washed up early, put our clean overalls on, hitch ed up the wagon, and went to Chapin for some syrup. Ours had given out some days before, and we were missing the basic stuff that we topped practically all meals off with, sorghum, fresh butter and bread. We took two live chickens with their feet tied and a few eggs, as was the custom, to pay for it with. My daddy was the country doctor, and he had gotten some sort of medicine for malaria that abounded in the area in a-5-gal. jug. It was saved, cleaned, and used for syrup thereafter. The chickens and eggs brought en ough to get 3 gallons of syrup in addition to a little salt and pep per that we needed. It was drawn from a barrel and poured in our jug. For some reason bulk syrup will often start “working” or foaming up, if dis turbed at that season. And this did. But I haven’t room for that here now. Wil hold it until next week. * # ****^*^**^*^*^*^*^^^*^*^ J ^ > ^^**^*^^^^* > ^*^*****^*------- - >-- rfrrrrrrf rf< . fffft . rf fr( . frffrfr< . ff f< . ffffrfr —..>^ f - r . f . rrrff< . ffrrfrff<J CREDITORS' NOTICE All persons having claims against the estate of Dr. F. KL Shealy, deceased, are hereby not ified to file the same duly veri fied, with the undersigned, and those indebted to said estate will please make payment likewise. MRS. DAISY B. SHEALY, * Executrix, Clinton, S. C. Feb. 18, 1955 3c-W-M-19 IP YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS 74 Bring a Friend To Church With You i . / i SSmLam ,. Jjfai •vsX^v * — P ... .. '"uniaar*** ilflll! sH :# ..... ia » ;• 8 ft f : I v.k This young lady might mM tht next step and take a nasty tumble! Of course her parents wouldnYdretm of letting her tty those stairs alone until they had taken every precaution to teach her how to ntenage them carefully and safely. 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