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i Thursday, June 28,1956 ■' ‘ r — ,By SPECTATOR.. MEN AND THINGS Life is made up of small hap penings, little incidents. Some times the failure to salute a man man have calamitotts results. But I’m not dealing with catastro- phies or anything of sinister as pect or grievous possibilities. On a trip recently I saw ,8 car which seemed to have stalled ♦while trying to climb a steep embankment. The car was unin jured, apparently but was almost upright as though trying to climb. That was near Green Pond. Know where that is? After a long, hot day in a car without refrigeration, or air-con ditioning, I felt as. though the “unwearied sun from day to day” had sapped all my vitality and left me dried out, if not desiccat- el, you know. The condition called for relief. If I had been riding with a certain handsome cavalier he would have suggested some sort of sola, probably with a sardine or two. But I was am bitious and adventurous and de cided on something that I could tell you about. So I drank a glass cocoanut milk and followed that with a glass of papaya juice And thereby hangs a tale, as the Bard of Avon says; or, perchance, two tales. I was adroitly framing up on ies of my quiet and uneventful you so that I might tell two stor- life. • . Papaya juice. Years ago, in South America, I had a digestit disorder. An assistant suggested that the papaya (a melon like a cantaloupe or muskmelon) would prove a help to digestion. The papaya has a tang and is said to be full of pesin. It did the work. So I bought a glass of cold papaya %uice. It didn’t 3eem like the melon; probably it was, I and not the papaya, who had changed. And as to cocoanut juice: there again. Makes me think of Banana cake with no flavor of banana; or cocoanut ice cream without a trace of cocoanut. On a ship coming back we spent a couple of days at Guaya quil, Ecuador. A lady on the boat told me of the marvelous allure of cocoanut ice cream, a poem of refreshment — and all that, in the exuberance of a lady’s adm iration and gustatory delight—if yoir know what I mean. I thexVand there—and there-- after—set out to find this grand and exhilirating confection which #ould banish dull care and fill one with inexpressible good will to all the world. Well I tried nad tried at various ports of call and when neither Ecuador nor Colombia, Panama nor the Canal Zone provided cocoanut ice cream I resigned myself to a life without ice cream, in spite of all the perfervid prognostication of that lady. Life has its turnings, you know. As I walked down the street in Havana, all forgetful of cocoanut and cocoanpts, however arranged to beguile the unwary, I saw the sign Helados de coca. There it was: Cocoanut Ice Cream. Of course I made a mess of the oc casion. Havana has—or had—a Cerveceri%—a beer place, serving free beer,. It was a populad re treat, even hang-out. Not being a beer man my intoxication would not be bibulous exactly, although ice cream quickly lique fies. I ordered a dish of cocoa- nut ice cream and a big segment ot cocoanut cake. That combi nation neutralized each element and I derived no thrill from eith er,, not even the taste. But I learned something: the best cocoanut ice cream I ever ate was sold by a than ih t-V lumbia, alas no longer in busi ness. Whenever you want the best try it at home. • • * What are the medicos up to now? When I was a small boy I heard a physician talking to a young lady. He was speaking of the “idiosyncracies" of people, discussing learnedly the so-called peculiarities or special suscepti bilities or allergies, you know. I had never heard that word “idio- syncracy” and I was much im pressed, as was the'young lady. The good physicians of today don’t work magic charms, but they sometimes overwhelm us or over-awe us by the words of many syllables. In fact there is a discussion of that in a recent issue of News week. Says the editor: “Why do patents fail to follow their doctors’ instructions? One reason, perhaps, is that the doc tors do not always make them selves clear. Even MB’s are belatedly realiz ing that unwillingness to cooper ate may actually be an inability to comprehend. As one practit ioner put it last week: ‘In pro mulgating esoteric cogitations, the doctor may resort to plati tudinous ponderosity, jejtine bab- the doctor may resort to plati- blement, asinine affectations, and ventriloqiiial high jinks.’ Or, as Disraeli once said of Gladstone, perhaps the dcotor is nothing more than ‘a sophistical rhetoric ian, inebriated with the exub erance of his own verbosity.’ To test this theory of patient- obfuscation, doctors at a Florida hospital recently made a study of the vocabulary understanding of 100 women patients from 15 to 46 years old, half with elementary-^ and half with high school educa tion. Each was given a list of twenty wors commonly used by doctors in talking to' patients. None knew all twenty; only 17 per cent understood sixteen or more, and the average age num ber of words known was only twelve. Least familiar trems: Anemia, rickets, hemoglobin, enriched and protein. To most of the patients ‘maternity’ meant a type of dress. Anemia was defined as ‘ena- jna,; vitamins stood for pills, but not as related to food or nutrition Yet, 80 per cent of these women read magazines and newspapers regularly and listened to medical news on the radio. Rural or city living had no effect on the score. How can doctors bridge this gap between professional intent the doctors’ extemporaneous des and patient appreciation? ‘Let cantings have intelligibility with out thrasonical bmobast 1 .’’ As a mere layman I should not venture into a discussion of phy sicians, but I think the advice about simplicity of speech will cause the loss of much psycho logical effect. If the medicos use simple lang uage and suggest simple and cheap remedies they will lose the curative potentiality of ponder ous words, evil-smelling concoc : tions and expensive shots. All tlfe words and medicines we don’t understand are a stimulus to pur faith; and faith is a wonderful restorative. * • *t Town Journal Editorial carries a stimulating editorial which I copy. “The genius of progress. The other day General Motors dedi cated' a new Technical Center near Detroit. There, on a 330- acre campus some 4,000 scientists, engineers and technicians experi ment with all sorts ol things from nuclear energy to the elusive se cret of a car clock that will keep time, and a car that will run on such fuels as peanut oil. General Electric’s famous re search facilities are expanded every year. Out of Chrysler’s laboratories came an experimen tal car with no pistons that lately crossed the country. The Ford Motor company has an immense research organization. U. S. Steel has just announced plans for a giant new research ^ center Pittsburgh, and has 44 existing research facilities of its own. .The great chemical company labora tories have advanced American progress in thousands of ways. The Technical Centers, the re search laboratories are forever making changes in our ways of living, changes for the better. An old and large pharmaceutical concern reports that more than half otiits sales are being made with items which only eight years ago did not exist. which make for better liv: search itself is a product dom. 4 The freedom of to. inquire, and to seek, is the genius of progress. home, and in your town stores, that could not have been there ten years ago! Clothing, food, medicine, equipment—nearly ev erything has been improved by research. Research itself has become a $5 billion industry in the United States, and is growing fast. It grows because it pays. Ever new products which serve human health and comfort also make ever new jobs and businesses for the growing population. 1 Can’t we ever be satisfied with what we have? Certainly not! Who wants to go back to the ‘good old days’, even of 1940— when we had no antibiotics, very little nylon and no television? Mankind lives poorly through PUBLIC RECORDS The following public records were filed last week in the office of the Clerk of Court of Laurens County: Carroll W. Copeland to Joe H. Bonds, lot on Shands street, Clinton, for $900.00. ’ J. L. Ballard to Carl H. Fow- ....... v and John W. Bailey, V4 acre l^kat the item, in your <,W| on ^ Greenwood . w.terloo Township, for $100.00. Carl H. Fowler to Sarah Bail- ley, V4 acre on Lake Greenwood, Waterloo Township, for $75.00. S. M. Leaman to West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., 214.T acres in Cross Hill Township, for $10 and other valuable considera tions. Ardena B. Lark to B. Hubert Boyd, 287.9 acres in Hunter Township, for $10.00 and other considerations. Richard Campbell to Charles - ton and Western Carilina Rail way Co., strip of land contain ing 4.1 acres being bounded by lands of John Henry Cunning ham, for $1,200.00. Nancy Black and Mrs. Mary Lake Jones as Guardian Ad Li- long centuries because all people tern for Nancy Black Stanley A. were ignorant of the resources about them. What little work could be done had to be done with muscles. No one had figured out how steam or petroleum or electricity could multiply energy Nothing was kown about chemis try, so it was impossible to sep arate or combine the abundant elements of earth and air to make the marvels that are -common place today. Average life was short because so little was known about the body itself: We live now in a new and dif ferent world. As long as there are research laboratories and Technical centers investing in tomorrows, living can ke£p on changing for the better. And enormous foundation of scientific knowledge has b^en, built. Upon it new’ discorveries and new ad vances will develop. No discov ery in science seems to be final. Each one opens up new questions, and when these are answered others appear. . Sficnr-s performs on miracles; it only accomplishes new under standing. Research is an endless quest for facts about the mate rials of nature, for facts about the laws of nature, and for know ledge as to how to - obey these laws. We are all fortunate that free American industries can invest profits in the search for facts Black, lots in the Lake property subdivsion, Laurens, for $71.50. Emma Blakely to Jos bu a Blakely and Beulah Neell, lot on Washington street, Laurens, for $5.00 love and affection. Martha L. Cox to Richard J. Johnson and Betty Jean C. Johnson, lot on Yarborough Mill road near Watts Mill for $411.23 and assumption of mortgage. H. V. Higley as Administrator of Veterans Affairs, to Edgar B. Norton, lot on North Livingston St., Clinton, for $4,000.00. Paul Lake, Edmund Lake. Het ty L Phinney, Rebecca L. Fuller, Stanley A. Black, Mary Lake Jones and John Lake, to Mrs. Mary Lake Jones as Trustee and Mrs Hetty L. Phinney, her suc cessor as Trustee, lots in the l^ake property subdivision, Laurens, for $5 00 each, T. R. Sims to H C. Sims and Lois Sims Smith, Trustees for Sims cemetery, also L. E. Jones and Howard H. Jones, 1 acre in Waterloo Township, for $1 00 Anel Rainey to Hymen Lurey. 1 acre in the city of Laurens, for $300 00. Nathaniel Shumpert to M H Hunter .Jr,, lot on West Hamp ton St., Laurens, for $300.00. J. L. Fennell to West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., 62.7 acres in Waterloo Township, for $1,724 25 Mrs. Mary Lake Jones, individ ually and as trustee for Paul Lake, Edmund Lake, John Lake, Stanley A. Black, Rebecca L. Fuller and Hetty L Phinney and Mary Lake Jones, to A. Y. Bry son, lot on Forest Drive, Laurens, for $1,425.00. Marriage Licenses Issued ^ Wane Calwile, Gray Court, and and Margaret Louise Boyd, Gray Court. Mack Arnold, Laurens, and Betty Jean Parris, Laurens. Horace Donald Cooper, Inman, and Annie ChnStihe Moore. Spar tanburg. James Frank Brown, Decatur, Ga., and Mary Joan Ray. Clinton. IF YOU DON'T READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON'T GET THE NEWS Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST 2uv Sooth Broad St Phone 658 Office New* »*• te fctt Chronicle Want Ads Bring Results BARBECUE - JULY 4th EDDY’S PLACE 1 Mile Out On Whitmire Highway Ready at 8 A. M. BEST BARBECUE IN LAURENS COUNTY i.S. NORRIS AND SON NOTICE WE WILL BE CLOSED TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, JULY 3rd, 4th and 5th Rowland's Radio and T.V. Service Here’s the tubeless tire that offers a combination of built-in benefits at a price you can afford. Hie Gulf Tubeless is a first-line, high quality tire with the extras—yet it costs no more than a regular tire and tube. * TMIE-M FOR « HEN SET RONr CHARLIE'S SERVICE CENTER *3 314-316 E. 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It gives you more safety-surge breakaway when you floor the pedal and switch the pitch —more electrifying full-power acceleration to pull out of a tight spot. And it gives you all this with absolute smooth- 1 ness—because no gears ever shift in Dynaflow. But if you think this great new getaway is the only reason for Bnick’s strong position in tlie Top 3 of America s best sellers — listen: In every 1956 Buick there’s newness fronaend • to end. ~ i New 322-cubic-inch Y8 engines. New brakes, new frame, new rear end. A new deep-inl cushioned ride. New handling ease, new quiet, new comfort. New interlocking safety, door latches. New; Safety-Aim headlamps. New styling and beauty inside and (tut. \\ hat it all adds up to is the Best Buiek Yet, by far. And you’ll find all these new thrills packaged in a price that makes any 56 Buiek you choose your smartest buy yet. Can you come in this week? •,\W' Advanced Variable Pitch DynafLm: is the only Dyna-' fhm Buu k hutUh Unlay. 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