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Thursday, June 11, 1931 McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA PAGE NUMBER TWO Lions Of S. C. Meet June 18-19 At Myrtle Beach Public Health in Time Of George Washington MYRTLE BEACH, June 8.—On AS COMPARED WITH THAT OF tfOU* fa OAftJ H* c a June 18th-19th the Lions of South Carolina will gather at Myrtle Beach, S. C., for their annual Dis trict Convention. Among the distinguished Lion visitors to be at the District Con vention at Myrtle Beach will be G. H. Hastings of Winston-Salem, N. C., a former Director of Lions In ternational. Mr. Hastings will rep resent the International organiza tion at the Convention. Lion Gov ernor P. L. Felder, Jr., of Orange burg, S. C., District Governor of the 32nd District, will act as Chair man of the Convention. Governor Felder has visited practcially every club in his District during the oast year and is acquainted with the in dividual club problems and the policies of his district as a whole. District Conventions represent ing approximately 2500 Lions clubs are being held prior to the Inter national Convention at Toronto, July 14-17 so that the agenda of the International Convention may be discussed and district policies formed. South Carolina, the 32nd District of Lions International, will also make final arrangements for attending the International Con vention as a unit. Although auto-caravans have been planned by the majority of the clubs throughout the 32nd Dis trict, many of the delegates from the more distant points will ar rive Myrtle Beach by rail. A program of unusual interest has been planned by the South Caro lina Convention Committee and everything is in readiness to en tertain a maximum number of Lion delegates and guests at the Myrtle Beach District Convention. ORANGEBURG, June 10.—With Walter Going, of Columbia, an nounced as the general chair man of all activities in connection with the annnual convention of the South Carolina Lions Interna tional to be held at Myrtle Beach, June 18th and 19th; plans are rapidly taking form for possibly the most enjoyable gathering of the Lions ever held in this State. At the headquarters of the Dis trict Governor, P. L. Felder, Jr., here, committee assignments have been 0 made, and notification given in order that the convention will click in true service club fashion when the delegates reach their ho tel at Myrtle Beach. District Secretary C. E. Summers announces that nearly a hundred reservations* have already been made for hotel accomodations, and others are reaching him daily. This Indicates that the attendance this year will be unusually large. ; District Governor Felder is now completing the program which will provide for two full days of enter tainment and profit for those who attend the convention. The pro gram will be announced within the next several days. XXt- TODAY (By Surgeon General H. S. Gum ming, U. S. Public Health Service.) T rmo* TTnclr approved February 27, 1813, en- xjung J-Ausiv titled “An act to Encourage Vac- Protects Corn cination » M provided for the distri bution of vaccine virus throughout the United States. Despite the fact that more than a century has el apsed since the efficacy of small pox vaccination was " proved, uni versal vaccination is not yet prac ticed and the disease is still quite prevalent in this country, although less severe than formerly. ' : Measles seems at times to have raged very fatally in some of the colonial towns. In 1740 and 1741 Connecticut was swept by a severe epidemic of measles. In 1773 measles broke out in epidemic form in Philadelphia. A very malignant epidemic occurred in N$w York iri 1778. The type of measles which occurs now is quite ..mild as com pared with that period. Epidemics of influenza prevailed throughout the colonies at various times. In 1747 influenza raged over North America, and again in 1761. A characteristic descrip tion of the condition is" given by a physician of that time as follows: 4 It began w { th a severe pain in the head and limbs. A sensation of coldness, shivering, succeeded by r <reat heat, running at the nose and a troublesome cough. It con tinued for 3 or 10 days, and gener ally terminated by sweating.” The disease was epidemic throughout the country in the spring of 1781, and was observed to leave a tend ency to the development of pul- When a motor vehicle goes over i monary tuberculosis. The recur- Com earworms are so common in this country that most farmers do not consider it worth while to make efforts to fight them, but tests conducted by the United Btates Department of Agriculture show that ears with long, tight husks suffer less than half as much injury as ears having short, loose husks. , Ears with long, tight husks are characteristic in some varieties, the department says, but there is enough variation in all varieties for a farmer to select for seed only ears with long, tight husks. In this way he can build up a strain having better husk characteristics. Long, tight husks are also good protection from other insect pests of com, such as the com weevil, in sections where com is stored in the husks. < This is an additional reason for, farmers to select their com in the field, where they can give proper consideration to the type of husk. x Peanuts make a good sandwich filling, if you put the roast shelled nuts through a coarse meat grind er, and then stir in enough cream to make the mixture easy to spread. Add salt. This filling will not be pasty. X While our present public ?iealth activities, with the excep ;ion ol vaccination against smallpox and the use of quinine in the treat ment of malaria, belong almost wholly to the past fifty or sixty years, a comparison of the preval ance and reverity of disease and the state of the public health dur ing the lifetime of George Wash ington with such conditions of the present time is of interest. Such a study is particularly timely be cause of the arrangements being made by the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commis sion for the celebration of our First President’s two hundredth birthday in 1932. Historical records indicate that the principal obstacles which the early American colonists had to overcome were starvation, disease, and the Indians. These three things conspired to impose great 1 hardships upon the early settlers and constant hazards to life. In some instances entire settlements were wiped out by disease and starvation. Though school histor ies do not mention the fact, :‘t is on record that Jamestown was abandoned “because of epidemi- cals.” The more prevalent diseases in the Colonies were smallpox, scurvy, intestinal conditions—diar rheas, dysenteries—what is now recognized as typhoid fever. There were, of course, outbreaks of influ enza and colds; and tuberculosis was not unknown. Smallpox was one of the most fatal and most common diseases of the period. This disease was epidemic in Philadelphia in 1730, two years before the birth of Washington. Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography relates that in 1736f he lost a son, “a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox.” He adds that “I long regretted him, and still regret that we had not given it to him by inoculation.” It was not until the latter part of the 18th century (1796) that Dr. Edward Jenner, an English physi cian, published his observations on the value of vaccination against smallpox and showed the world how the disease could be prevent ed. The practice of vaccination was first introduced into the Unit ed States by Dr. Benjamin Water- house, one of the early officers of the United States' Public Health Service (then called Marine Jlos- pital Service,) in Boston in 1800. He obtained some vaccine virus from England and vaccinated his own son, thus performing the operation in this country for the first time. Thomas Jefferson was greatly in terested in vaccination and en deavored to encourage its wide spread use. An act of Congress Don’t Rasp Your Throa With Harsh Irritants "Reach for a LUCKY instead" Place your finger on your Adam’s Apple* You are actually touching your larynx—this is your voice box—it contains your vocal chords* When you consider your Adam’s Apple, you are considering your throat— your vocal chords. What is the effect of modern Ultra Violet Rays upon tobacco? Dr. E. E. 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Sunshine Mellows—Heat Purifies Your Throat Protection—against Irritation — against cough ited by an epidemic of what was undoubtedly diphtheria, though the term “angina maligna” was used. A similar outbreak is de fever among her crew. / health of the present and preced- Ten years before the birth of ing centuries. Judged by our pres- George Washington, the State of ent day standards, the sanitary Virginia passed an “Act to Oblige quality of the water supplies of the scribed at about the same date as Ships Coming from Places Infect- | United States in Washington’s: having occurred in New York, ed with the blague to Perform time, or even as recent as 50 years Numerous other outbreaks are also their Quarantine.” jago was low. R A T - S N A P KILLS RATS Also mice. Absolutely prevents recorded. The first aid to the con- As early as 1716 a committee was I The great pestilences of Wash- proves^thS. ^ATT-SNAP^omes*in trol of this disease was the discov- appointed by the legislative body I ington’s time have either been cakes—no mixing with other food, ery of diphtheria antitoxin in 1894 of Massachusetts to select a site practically eradicated from coun- Guaranteed. The decline in the death rate from this disease has been very marked, from about 116 per 100,000 popula tion in 1890 to 6.6 per 100,000 in 1929. At the beginning of the century prior to the birth of Washington, one writer refers to “fluxes, fever and the belly ache” as being com mon conditions. He relates the above-mentioned conditions to im proper eating. Dysentery appears to have been a rather common summer-time complaint in the col onies. It was not unUl the be ginning of the nineteenth century, however, that typhoid fever and typhus fever were differentiated. ** -'V « ; As late as 1842 a writer on :nedi- - _ . . J „ 35c size - 1 cake - enough for for an isolation hospital for quar-J tries which have applied modern p a ntrv. Kitchen or Cellar. antine purposes. In 1730 an act | public health knowledge or have 65c size - 2 cakes - for Chicken was passed empowering courts to been reduced to a minimum. In House, coops, or small buildings. adjourn and remove from towns appointed by law for holding courts, in case of sickness by the smallpox. A year later an act was ington’s time have now been passed “to Prevent persons Con- identified, the source of the infec- cealing Smallpox and Requiring a tion for man has been learned, and addition to the elimination of the aI| f *Vm and out-buildin^tora^e scourges of Coionial days, diseases buildings, or factory buildings, which were undiagnosed in Wash- Sold and guaranteed by STROMS’ DRUG STORE McCormick, S. C. Red Cloth to be Hung Out in all Infected Places.” The practice of surgery during the time of Washington was in its early stages, and great advances have been made in that field as well as in the control of communi cable diseases. Blood letting and cupping were still popular. In fact, the records show that in the cal subjects in the United States | last illness of Washington he was classified the fevers under four bled four times. headings—typhus, typhoid, per- Scurvy, which we now know to iodic,^and yellow fever. Today tyr a dietary deficiency, phoid fever is a vanishing disease, chiefly the lack of fresh fruits and Yellow fever visited the Colonies vegetables, was common not only and States on several occasions, an among persons on prolonged sea outbreak of particular severity voyages, but among the people in having occurred in Philadelphia the settlements on land. No doubt in 1793. New York suffered from this condition was more prevalent a severe epidemic of yellow fever during the winter season, in 1795. On the 19th day of July. measures of preventing the con dition have been made known. Sweetclover can and does make u^e of nitrogen from the soil but If the Father of our Country since it is usually grown upon should return to earth today, it soils poor in nitrogen it depends, may be that he would be most as- more than mosti legumes,, upon ni- tounded and perplexed by the de-'trogen which is captured from the velopments in the field of mechan- air. The capture, of this “free” air ics, because those developments nitrogen is the joint act of the would be at once the most obvious; plant and the bacteria which form but later he could not fail to be nodules on its roots. FOr this rea- cqually amazed at the new science son inoculation is particularly de- of public health and at the modern sirable in growihg sweetclover. The sanitary methods and. safeguards bacteria that cause nodules on of health that are employed in sweet clover are. the same asB those^ public health work and that have that inoculate alfalfa, and in the contributed so much to the health, East a field that, has not produced happiness, and prosperity of our alfalfa or sweetclover in recent Nation. . , years should be inoculated before Many of the Lespedezas make good hay provided the crop is cut; it is planted to sweetclover. tXX Swppt. rhprripc in*p' pvppllpnt in- The development of water purl- long before the seed is ripe. Un- ’ salad, either mixed with other 1795, a ship, the ZEPHYR, arrived fication as a practical measure! i e ss the season is very dry, there fruits or as one of the predomin- at New York from the West Indies, may be said to date from the be- ; wi ii b e enough seed on the second ant ingredients Select largo A boy in her crew died soon after ginning of the present century, and growth to reseed the field. To de- firm cherries and pit them. The she came into port. The health the results of its application in i ay cutting until most of the seed cavity may be stuffed with cream officer, a physician, boarded the public health constitute one of the i s r ip e results in inferior hay. 0 r cottage cheese and the cherries vessel and viewed the corpse. He greatest public health achieve- There is no reason, says the U. S. served on lettuce leaves with any a bump there are two impacts on rence of severe epidemic outbreaks developed the fever and died on ments of the century. The history Department of Agriculture, why preferred dressing. They are es- the road surface—shock impact of influenza unfortunately is still that throws it up, and drop impact of common occurrence. ;wben it lands after the bounces. i In 1735 and 1736, Boston was vis- the 29th day of July. Another of water purification is clearly Lespedeza should not become a pecially good when added to pine- ship which lay at anchor near the. associated with the general pro- standard hay on ZEPHYR soon developed cases of gress in sanitation and public, markets. the southern apple salad: or mixed with fruit, salads containing pineapple.