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The writer was most agreeably .surprised when • i Clinton recently to find what he deems the “ ost complete county social service center he has discovered in his travels through a large part of the state. # ... • social service center occupies the second and third floors of the Caison Building 0n the most prominent corner in Clinton. It houses the welfare department, the relief agency, the County l^ome Economy quarters, and the County Health department. . - costly equipments haye been purchased, bnt it is a marvel how many things of practical importance and convenience have been supplied with little outlay of cash. In fact, one of the marvels of the social service center is the cheapness of it. Mr. Caison gave the county, through the Welfare agency, the ren tal of those two floors for the nominal sum of S20.00 a month. However, the agencies had to go to the cost of clearing up and remodeling the floors for their own purpose. The -outlay for that work was $1,000, which came from relief funds. The development has taken place under the di rection of Mr. A. W. Daughtry, the efficient county welfare officer, assisted, particularly, by Miss Garrison. The latter has provided'in her department many conveniences which, serve not only the department directly but. as illustrations to visitors of how such conveniences may be sup plied at little cost in their own homes. Those conveniences are too numerous, to mention. The relief business has recently been divorced fPT *e wdf*T€ department and is now pndisr the charge t>f Mrs. James Buffer. J , ' /.Witson, who served acceptably as county physician,.recently gave up the puMic work and moved to Angier, where he is associated with Dr, Young in hiB extensive practice. Dr. Plato parting, a young physician of talent, has been chosen as county physician to succeed Dr. Wilson, hut is now taking a special course at the State University in preparation for talcing up the work the first of April. ' The writer feels that Mr; Daughtry deserves the highest commendation for the achievement. Not would he withhold commendation fr-ora Miss Garrison and the other co-operators in the fine undertaking. Mr; Caison’s public spirit is also to be commended. A Marvelous 'Contrast. This social service center, with its various agencies for social service, contrasts greatly with conditions of a few years ago in Sampson or any other county, when the county commissioners each first Monday would grudgingly grant from $1 to $3 a month for upkeep of the aged and • decrepit. It had to be a peculiarly aggravating case if the appropriation- amounted to three dollars a month. Nothing more clearly illustrates the change in social consciousness and conscience that has taken place within a decade and a half than does this center and the ‘ American Legion’s Community Center, pictured in another article. North ARNOLD A. McKAY, Maxton, N. C. Iii conversation with a young college graduate the other day she wanted to know who the heck John Charles McNeill was. She knew even less about Carolina history, but could rattle off facts about pioneers playing tag with Indians and runaway slaves and the birth of the Republican party. Why was this ? The answer is easy. Our tax-supported colleges are still filled with foreign missionaries who came here and dug in during the State’s extravagant educational program. With the probable exception of Carolina, I question if there are a half dozen Tar Heels in positions of administrative and directive responsibility in any of the others; and in the college libraries and departments where patriotic sentiments are born, there are even less. One may study calculus in the moon, but I should like to see the historian developed anywhere except beside bis heath. I doubt even if there are teachers in some of our tax-supported institution's competent to teacla tne State’s social, economic, and literary -hi&tory. Let's take the Woman’s’College,at Greensboro as an example, since I happen t® Lnow *eimetbing about it. Here -is the proportion according to de partments : biology, 12 in the department, no Tar Heels among them; (chemistry, tLl; Educattoa, 27-1; Languages, 17-1; Health, i&-l; Hietory, 11-0; Home Economic®, 9-11; Library, '9-2 i Mathematics, 3D; Music, A5i2; Ehyajcs, 2D., Psychology, 2-1; Social Science, 3D. In every instance except one in *tbe £®r«gm»g <^a5S*^u" tion, Tar Heels occupy a most inferior and s*® ordinate position in every department. Only £he department of English .show's a comparable a®a representative ratio. The -State Collie *®d Carolina—the former especially—#re Q&ightdy supplied with educators, specialists, and high-de gree men who came here when the pastures 'were greener. As a State w>e may have all sorts of complexes ,and -ignorant superstitions, bid who® it eomfifl tct-uata/tidin' .Ha *nur state -colleges xenophobia is not one of them. And not that it matters, but here are a few more educational facts that should be educational to some of th,e citizens ... Free textbooks do not necessarily mean books at less cost. Unless there are rigid provisions it means simply that book publishers will sell to the ’State and get, of 'Course, their full price. In California grammar school texts cost on an average of 40 cents a .child, state printed; but this is not California ; : . A news paperman ,who certainly had * no pretty little axe to grind (estimated recently that the state 'de positary of school books in Raleigh does an an nual business of $100,000 . . . Many of the teacher-salary figures published in daily papers are based on yearly and not school-year wages. Naturally the monthly wage is lower. But sal aries in public schools are much too low at that . . Carolina wants Slt):000 to continue her en gineering school' at Chapel Hill while there is -a perfectly superb engineering school at State. Combining the two would be sensible . . . There ace summer schools in full blast at Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Greensboro with a director for ,the three in addition to heads for each. That does not look much like economy ... Appropriations higher tins year (ns usual) asked for by the Greater University authorities,, the subtie plea being better salaries. A popular theme just now, but nothing is said, or very little, about making curricula conform to general academic standards in other institutions tike Hopkins, Virginia, and other universities.Too many coupes, that are thin, not germane .and basal,—in every one of the units ... “Too many departments), deans, dupli cating functions . . . They are still talcing us for a ride. By afl means tax We corpomtims . . . pay better salaries to teachers everywhere .. . yet the money where the money is BUT make those who spend it account rigidly for its wise and economi cal use. _ ■ _ . _ < o A FEW REMINISCENCES Dunn Attorney « <ireat-Nephew of Alexander £mb»m Bell sad of eneral Robert E. Lee—Beaman D'feed Yankee -un3 to Short I was talking wfrh Chaa&e Beaman, in Clinton, a few days ago. The Beaman family in Sampson is a small one. It must ,heve origin at od 0 the more eastern counties, Where -thene are Bea mans today. If I remember oorrectlythere is «o teaman listed in the Sampson census.-of d/90, hut my mind is running bade to John •R. ,B®a'rriarl» long-time <jhairmam of the < county .heard m com Wiissioners and advisor-general to. the citizens ■ the county. John R. Beaman's i»me was a house hold word throughout the -county fifty to Six. y years ago. He was Charlie Beaman’s uncle and the grandfather pf Morris Reagan Beaman, e® well known in tbujs £tate and others (as an ,, in railroad rates and howl^paifpeW ;adv4sor for -'forehead City port ^rcknhters.' Dared Yankee to SH®ot I recall as a tot h&fmrg therl&te Rev. J.. C. Stewart, sitting t>y tne ame a wuwa »• . old Tana laamc, tell of John R. Bea«mo s defying a Yankee .soldier in 1865. Me Stewart was talking with Mr. Bieamah -oh his piazza when a group of Yankees rode ,»p «a front -of #ie -h«ttse and asked some tnselent -ques tion Mr. Beama/n told them to 4 go to f ^ something of the kind Anyway, Ihe Yankee IteattMd to Aoot han. Beaman ®epl*d. “Shoot, damn you.” Tl,= Y«iW .took hnJt hie wood but psohably (.wposaly asnled i«gh. J-to bullet lodged in the piazza .cokmai agaantt wWcU Mr. Be«na« was leaning, past .a dew inches »kcwe h;s hea(i. The Yankees rode on, leaving Mr.. Beaman uriphased. a ^ i recall the exact words—“Shoot, damn you —because the preacher hdd shocked me by re rTTTrrrm v* * - * »< r? m 3 : •' v.-,‘ peatiug the wr>rd “datma." The late , Aipmie Chestnutt shared with Mr. Beaman -the respect and canfidsenoe «f tbs peo ple of ihe owffify. Neither fad had- mwe than ,a few months schooling. In one of the frequent rtmgfe* about .school district botiradarieS’ haflidght before the board of county commissioners for settlement, one of the patriarchs remarked to a ft 4" f-nn f4lgt Q.tl/^A ltIC /jUlulcQ XQUQl. t^jiltmilluv UUUtre TBC ns*oaa«*wv *»*« 11 ■ ■ to walk to schosl that he had to watte three nr - four miles when he was a child. The othtt triarch retorted::. ‘’But yon walked it dwiiiih few; times.” You noticed that "Reagari” m the name of .Morris Reagan Beaman above. R is significant^ Morris Beaman’s mother is a meoe of the re nowned Senator John H. Reagan of 1 exas. Mop* ris was telling me the ether day of -an Bidden: that I had utterly forgotten, ant Morris hmmelt was too young to femettftfer %ut it has boon told to him so often that he apparently riemembei* it. it was m 1890, and the writer, wot ye* -quite 21, was “taking the census” He reached the of Morris’s parents, down bn a big Six ®**us plantation, late m the evening, and ^ » **”* to save the toddler Moms from onslaught v£ a playful calf which seemed to want to butt hioa< around a bit. _ • ' Morris’s father John R. Beatnan, Jr., iaA taught school for a few years after a sea»on^< the State University, and possibly I missed be-1 mg an orator by not getting to attend his school wjhen he taught on one side of the old district one winter. ^/\Tben the new central school fordid-* in? was built and the Pugh boys who had attend ed the Beaman school joined us again m school, those boys surprised everybody by their, ability to rise on Friday evenings and declaim most oratoricafly. Jim's forte was “Ye Call Me Chief”; Willie’®, “I Come to Bury Caesar.” John R, Beaman had actually taught those boys-to de claim as well -as I have ever known boys. The Beaman family-is still small. Charlie, who like his uncle, has been a county -commissioner (during the recent Democratic regime m the county) has no children. Only the descent of Wiffiam Beaman of “Beamon’s Cross Roads” on the Bunn-Clinton highway, seems'likely to keep the name alive in the old county. John Ed. Bea man, a grandson of the patriarch oF my child hood, has been a prominent -oontraGtor aaa Ra leigh. His 'brother lives in 'Greeushoro, I be lieve. The children of the late James K. Mor risey and Mrs. Bettie Beaman Morrisey, have the unique distinction of carrying in their yeiffl.*, and only they, strains of the Richard Clinton, the Richard Herring, and the Beaman blood: Rich ard Clinton sold or gave the land for the county seat, Richard Herring was the chairman of the county court to •Whom the deed was made, aod John R. Beamafc was long the most generally es teemed citizen of the county. Yet I was taikaag with one of the Monrieey daughters the other (by, and ^he was unaware of the intimate relatipns her ancestry had with the early ih-istory of the county, 150 years ago. _ , A lfieee of General Robert lien. For a generation a niece of General Robert E. Lee, *if Attorney Claude Bell of Dunn has tns genealogy straight, was living in the woods oi “high Sampson” and few of the -citizens of 8* county aware of the fact. Not only so, htft her, husband was a nephew of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. _ I had thought that Attorney Bell was some m the old Sampson stock of Bells. It was -only flW ofher day that l was inquiring into his rejatren ship to the Bells I had known, and to Ghertcr, iBeH, auditor of the state prison, when Cfeode tnirl me that his father was'born in PetmsywatHa* Inquiries 'dicrtefi the following informs**)**: Dread M,a brother of Alexander Grzamm Bm, had seized near Stnithfidld. He didaflt marry* His nephew M came dcrri to^ve-ww? him. xhe uncle died just before “the war. T** nephew .and hear soon sold the estate amd fww . $30,000. He expected to go hack to Ptmsgfr yania. The War hrc&e out before he departs and he went into the army. After the w*r young Willis Bell.was broke.. He, went to upper 5a«$* son and “bought, a farm. He was marrifedjtvrece, but Oarde’s mother, according to that gttiflemjm, was a daughter of <3(1. Joe lee, brother ,of Gen eral Robert E. Dee. • The Belliamily prospered in the remote back woods. Wilis 3M1 *ea% became w*afc%, mb wealth went in the 80k» and the earlier part» of this .century. Willis Bell’s life se-’ms to haye been a model one. And our friend Claude has a heritage of ancestry fliat he should guapd mort carefully. ^ As a .great nephew of General Robert E.Lee tvyuj .also of Alexander Graham Bed, a^d a great grandson of Light Horse Harry Lee, he could join any of the Patriotic grotjps -of the oOuiftry. (Continued on page eight) ^
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