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PAGE EIGHT SOCIETY NEWS Mr. aqd Mrs. George P. Byrum left early this week for their winter home in West Palm Beach, Florida. They were accompanied by their nephew, Bill Whichard. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Haste, of the Panama Canal Zone are visiting Mr. Haste’s mother, Mrs. Joseph Haste. Mr*HaSte is home on a 60-day vaca tion and will return to the Canal Zone early in January. William R. Israel spent the week end in Charlottesville, Va., where he visited relatives. Mr. and Mrs. James Vernon White returned to their home in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday after spending several days visiting relatives. P. T. Owens of Newport News, Va., -spent the week-end in Edenton visit ing Mrs. Owens. The latter will move to Newport News as soon as their house is vacated. ROTARY MEETS TODAY Edenton’s Rotary Club will meet at 1 o’clock today (Thursday) in the Parish House. An attendance contest is now in progress with William and Frank Holmes as captains of the two sides. Both captains are very anxious to have a 100 per cent attendance. J. A. MOORE IN HOSPITAL J. A. Moore is a patient in Duke Hospital and friends will regret to learn that he is a very sick man. His condition varies, so that most of the time visitors are not allowed to see him. i PARTIN B. & L. DIRECTOR At a meeting of the directors of the Edenton Building & Loan Association held Thursday night of last week, J. P. Partin was elected as a director. Mr. Partin succeeds the late Lloyd C. FOR FASTER RELIEF NEVER Mb# Till a Cold Gets¥torse! I Quick I Dm Tlmm I PonMe-Pwtr N— P»—/ -JgF A little Vicks Va-tro-nol in each nos tril relieves head cold distress last! And if used at first warning sniffle or sneeze, Va-tro-nol actually helps to prevent many colds from developing. Try it! Follow directions in package. VCKS VA-TRO-NOL BULOVA, GRUEN, ELGIN and LONGINES WATCHES CAMPEN’S JEWELERS ' THE MEN’S SHOP Starring in Robert Riskin’s an R-K-O Radio Release Says /'MEN’S SOCKS BY HOLEPROOF ” '/‘ ■ ' FIT INTO MY STYLE PICTURE FOR OCCASION” alp wßSSßp fjßHr Us Holeproof stocks are here for every occasion a man needs them. Foe sportswear, dress...and business. Nylons, wools, silks, rayons and _ * cottons..and in mixtures. Inreg- . QU In Cl Ik ukrand short lengths. Come in wRI Ul ( fla IV today, sec the grand selection... you witt want to replenish yonr sock wardrobe. Ae pair «ockt by HOLEPROOF 1 ■ " J Burton, who was a director for many years. MASONS MEET TONIGHT Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M., will hold its regular meeting tonight (Thursday) in the Court House at 8 o’clock. W. O. Elliott, master of the lodge, urges a full at tendance in order to complete plans for the joint meeting of Districts One and Two next Tuesday night. Save A Life By Sharing Food Says Nutritionist - —« Eat no more than you need, waste hothing, and share your food with the less fortunate, is the formula Miss S. Virginia Wilson, Extension Nutritionist at State College, offers for helping save a life and improving your own health at the same time. Do not eat less than you need to keep healthy and work efficiently, Miss Wilson said, just cut out the “extras” so some starving person can have enough to keep him alive. Everyone is being asked to eat less bread, poultry, eggs and meat, because all four save wheat, which is high in food value, can be shipped long distances without spoiling, and are liked by more people than any other food. Bread can be saved by taking only the bread you are going to eat, and allowing no bread to go to waste by letting it mold pr go stale. If it is difficult to use a loaf of bread before it molds, try to make room for it in the refrigerator. It will keep several days longer there. Another good place is a well-ventilated, washable bread box kept in a cool place. Wherever stored, bread should be well wrapped in moisture proof paper. One million pounds of bread can be saved daily if every American family will save one slice, Miss Wil son said. Cakes and pastries use flour too therefore, saving bread and eating more cakes and pies won’t help the situation. Sweet or white potatoes, rice, grits, corn, dried peas and beans can take the place of some bread in lunch and dinner menus. Cheese, fish, poultry and egg dishes can be used in place of meat dishes. Dried beans, peas and soybeans can also replace meat in some meals. Use them in scalloped dishes, aa baked beans, in croquettes and casserole dishes, or as just plain boiled beans. The hardest hit meal on poultry less and eggless Thursdays will be breakfast, the nutritionist said, but with careful thought a wholesome 'meal that meets all the requirements of a good breakfast can be planned without an egg. A good breakfast for these cool fall and winter morn ings might consist of: orange juice, oatmeal or other hot cereal with rais ins, buttered toast and a beverage. Money, and not morality, is the principle of commercial nations. I —Thomas Jefferson. TH» CHOWAN HERALD, BPENTON, N. C.. Ttf (/RauAE. NOVEMBER 13, 1947. facts mm GUESSES V in. ■inn i Editor’s Note: With a tuber culosis clinic scheduled to be held in Chotran County in November, the following article has been re quested to be printed in The Herald. The article, “Facts Ver sus Guesses,” was written by Dr. J. D. Riley, Superintendent of the Arkansas State Sanatorium, and appeared in the August issue of >' The Sanatorium Sun, published at Sanatorium, N. C. , Ignorance or lack of information is the greatest ally that tuberculosis ; has. Tuberculosis could not cause the human suffering and human . deaths that it does if all people were , informed in regard to this disease . and what to do about it. We could . „ within .one generation bring it to the E insignificant place that typhoid fever . or smallpox or yellow fever holds ; now. The trouble is*thq£ before a member of one’s family hag tuber- ' culosis, he pays little or no attention j to it, and when one finds out that he J has tuberculosis, he gets an abun dant supply of all kinds of advice. When a man’s knowledge is not ( in order, the more of it he has the , greater will be his confusion. All shades and qualities of advice , can be had for the asking and often without the asking. Ignorance of the , issues at stake does not restrain 5 these voluble advisers from proffer ing 'their well meaift but misdirected j and meddlesome advice with great , assurance and insistence. Ne’er-do- ; wells and failures in all walks of life ! and notorious advisers. One danger from such advice is the tendency to accept it when it coincides with our , whims and pleasures in preference to the best advice which may not be < convenient and pleasant to take. The habit of laymen, especially i “T. B.” and “ex-T. B.”, of giving ad vice to tuberculosis patients when < they are absolutely ignorant of the , pathology and physiology of the dis ease, especially if Hie patient’s physi cal condition is a pernicious one. Truly, in this province, “fools rush 1 in where angels fear to tread.” Mr. Talkative Meddlesome or Mrs. Busybody tells the patient that he or she knew Mr. Smith who did so and so and went to a certain place and either got well or did not get well. ' When we consider the fact that some patients get well in spite of numer ous follies and dangerous practices, and, on other hand, that some < die under the very best treatment and conditions, it should be evident that the few cages which come with in the knowledge of laymen should : really have no influence in the mat- < ter. The reason that patients listen to laymen is not because patients think that laymen know because the layman is more apt to tell them the things that they would like to be lieve. Sometimes even physicians are in clined to want to tell patients things that they like to hear. Os course all of us would like to do that, but today no physician is justified in withholding facts from the patient and more than h$ is justified in gues sing what the diagnosis and condition of the patient is. I have just read in a daily paper where a certain supposedly-to-be specialist, being tried by the United States Government for using the mail to defraud, states on the witness stand that his gtiess was as good as anybody else’s. Surely his-guetS may not be as good as anybody else’s but no one can guess whether a patient has tuberculosis, cancer or any other condition, and neither can he guess what ought to be done about it It is obvious to the informer that if one guesses that patient’s have cancer that he will often be wrong and the patient will often recover, unless the treatment interferes, and furnish testimonials as cures. This much for diagnosis. When he happens to be right in his guess, his mistakes are buried. What would you expect but an accumulation of testimonials of cures of cqncer, when, in fact, those involved neither know how to diag nose nor cure cancer and those fur nishing the testimonial did not have cancer and those who happened to have cancer are dead and can’t tes tify? However, Ido not propose to use my time and paper and ink dis cussing so-called physicians who prey upon the ignorance of the public, for it appears that they‘will always be and that there will always be plenty of gullible fools to make them rich, who will be.attracted to quacks and charlatans by radio advertising and “whatnot.” Progress in our tuberculosis prob lem depends largely on the family physician. In the years gone by, the family doctor of the horse and buggy era was larely dependent on this un aided five senses'in making a medical examination but today physicians add to their five senses a multitude of laboratory tests which enormously in- Radio Sendee For quick and dependable radio service, call THOMAS JACKSON at Hughes-Holton Hardware Store. Jackson Radio Sendee PICK-UP AND DELIVERY >h a ■ ; v W'* %• crease the accuracy of diagnosis and ] minimize the expense and duration of i the treatment, and enhance the poesi- i bility of cure. i With the modern methods the mod- 1 em' doctor observes the remotest 1 parts of your anatomy. The otoscope 1 lays bare the ear drum; the cysto- 1 scope lights up the interior of your 1 bladdar; the bronchoscope lights up ' the trachea and bronchi, and the ’ thoroscope lights up the pleural cav ity. It is possible now for a physi- 1 cian, by the use of a gastroscope and 1 an unbelievably small camera, to 1 take a picture of the lining of your stomach wall and thus identify ulcers, I tumors, and other changes. Guess | work is eliminated. The examination of tissue removed j from the living body is especially I useful in determining whether or not ' a tumor is cancerous. There are dif ferent kinds of cancer, but by the ex amination of sections of tissue under s the microscope it is possible for an s expert to determine exactly not only t whether it is cancer but what type j of cancer, and advertisers who make a diagnosis of cancer without such t tests neither know how to diagnose 1 nor treat cancer. In the detection of heart disease, t even the greatest specialist leans c nowadays on the electrocardiogram, c As the heajrt contacts and dilates, g five distinct “waves” of electrical j energy, each having a special signi-* t ficance, are produced. These are traced by a complicated magnetic de- t vice on a reel of paper. By the ar— f rangement of these waves, the physi- S cian detects disturbances of the heart \ long before they can be found by or- i dinary examination. i Grave conditions of the brain or 1 spinal cord formerly were locked in j bony valuts, hidden from the doctors ] eye. Now many of his questions are < answered by testing the spinal fluid. In fighting some illnesses, notably < pneumonia and diphtheria, time is all 1 precious; early recognition enables ' the physician to take swift thera- i peutic steps. For instance, certain 1 valuable serums are available for ’ treating lobar pneumonia, but the j physician must learn quickly what I type of pneumonia confronts him. < To discover this, the patient’s sputum t is placed upon a slide and then a < small amount of rabbit serum (ob- j tained from an animal inoculated for ■ example, with Type 1 pneumonia, i germs is added, and a mixture is < stained with methylene blue. If the < patient is suffering from Type 1 in- i section, the shell-like capsule en closing the pneumonia germ swells 1 Visibly. Diphtheria may also be de tected by hours. By another test the fact of preg nancy may be established within 24 hours. When the X-ray was first used in 1 medicine it showed only the shadowy outline of the bones, but constant im provements now permit the doctor to visualize the heart, kidney and lungs; and we now have what is known as a laminograph or planigraph by, which we can take an X-ray of a cav ity in the middle of the lung without even showing the ribs in front or be hind this area. These are but a few of the tests the modern doctor invokes. They will never wholly supplant the physician's skilled senses, nor would he make a diagnosis on the basis of a single test. The modem doctor correlates your symptoms, takes a careful his tory of your case, checks one test against another, and is thus liberated from the guesswork—sometimes suc cessful but nearly always hazardous. I will not expect a patient who has tuberculosis to try to remember the tests briefly discussed in this grticle, but the purpose in mentioning them is to try to convince patients that physicians have a basis for their con clusions, in regard to both diagnosis and treatment. Every patient who has tuberculosis should have specific directions based upon knowledge of the individual patient. The patient THERE IS NO JgBRANDY Since IHttl 1780 UttRD & CO. PSPI **9V«MU.| Mu. . m ... i v ... - -it * ■ should have constant medical super vision which most be changed from time to time to meet whatever de mands that may arise. The defeatist attitude of some physicians and patients is pernicious and will reduce one’s chances to half those offered by a vigorous and per sistent plan of treatment instituted at the earliest possible moment and continued until advised by a com petent tuberculosis specialist that no further treatment is necessary, and even then the patient should be re examined at intervals to determine whether his tuberculosis is arrested. Your physician is your best friend. Give him the cooperation that he de serves and your' chances to recover will be greatly enhanced. Carry-Over Stocks Os CorirAre Lower Carry-over stocks of old corn in all positions ill North Carolina amounted to 4,763,000 bushels on Oc tober 1, the Federal-State Crop Re porting Service reported. This is four per cent smaller than the 4,921,000 bushels on October 1, 1946. Stocks of oats totaled 6,289,000 bushels last October 1, or five per cent less than the 6,613,000 bushels on hand October 1, 1946. Barley stocks, at 563,000 bushels,- were 44 per cent larger than the 392,000 bushels on hand a year earlier. With the exception of barley, stocks of feed grains in North Carolina were generally lower than a year ago. Stocks of food grains, however, were w,ell above those on October 1, 1946. Stocks of wheat, at 8,597,000 bushels, were 20 per cent larger than the 7,- 158,000 bushels on hand a year ago, and rye, at 434,000 bushels, was 72 per cent larger than the 252,000 bush els on hand October 1, 1946. For the nation as a whole, stocks of old corn in all positions amounted to 289 million bushels October 1. This is 67 per cent larger than a year ago and more than on October 1, 1944, but less than stocks in 1945 and 1943. The national average for the preced ing four years is 276 million bushels. Os the current total, 258 million bush els were on farms. Stocks of oats to taled 1,052 million bushels, of which only 75 million are in off-farm stor ages. While smaller than October 1 stocks in 1945 and 1946, the current national total is larger than the pre-, ceding two years of comparable rec ord. and eight per cent below the average for those four years. . ~ _______ Town Council Will Meet Next Tuesday Town Council will hold’ its regular November meeting next Tuesday i night, November 18, .the usual meet- H ' V \». « vNL MJtU COSTLY FLAVORS FORBIBM LAMDB IWETHERILL’SI I ATLAS «s=ss» I I READY-MIXED 1 i~~ "T I I pmmrs '| A — \ f l ' timet HOT ■ ■■■ - M H 11m Dm* point mod* for all exterior woodwork. M ■ Wt Rotity applted, wwrt hotter, ond lortt longr ' B ■ than any paint you can buy. Givos your Horn# . V W sura protection agabntrot end docay. 1 f Mad* in « wkk» rang* of AttrocHvo Colon. 1 V Omm M-Cinpln; FshtNi MimMss jM L **"**"*””"* m-fy. ,J j V ■ . 'll 1 Byrum Hardware Co. I EDENTON, n c. 1 ing on the second Tuesday night har ing been postponed due to the Arm istice Day celebration. Quite a bit of business is expected to come before the Councilmen for consideration. Too Late to Classify THREE - ROOM FIRST FLOOR apartment at 106 East Queen Street for rent. Apply Mrs. N. J. Hollo well, 215 East Eden Street. ltp WANTED TO BUY— USED BABY’S crib. Apply Mrs. A. S. Hollowell, Phone 159-W. ltc Bakery Reopened Effectyre today (Thursday) I am resuming operation of Bond’s Bak ery on South Broad Street Bak ery products fill be cooked daily. WALTER BOND jl . OLD Mr. BOSTON H ORANGE I . GIN I \A •W UmAftjjk us owi n 1 PROOF WflBH HOTMM MIIUIMHL WE' 1 . — TODAY TOMORROW and SATURDAY | Special '/i Price Sale On Groups of SWEATERS SKIRTS RAIN COATS BATH ROBES SUITS COATS DRESSES „ HATS \ i BAGS hnd I JEWELRY * / ' Preston’s i a Kemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrnmmmm—mmmm
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