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Pag* I've FHE PILOT Friday, November 18, 1927. ANNUAL MEETING OF RED CROSS (Continued From Pasre One.) sale of the Red Cross Seals begrin- ning on Thanksgiving at the termi nation of the roll class were discuss ed, and it was requested that no seals he sold before that date, in order to prevent the overlapping of the two drives. It was with deep and sincere re gret that the Association said “good bye” to Mrs. Leonard Tufts whose presidency and chairmanship has ex tended over two years, but whose health has made her resignation im perative. As in her final address, Mrs. Tufts has set forth so clearly the organization of the Association three years ago, its present work, and future possibilities, it seems most fitting that it should be printed at the end of this artcle for the benefit and information of those who are at pres ent ignorant of the work and aims of the affiliated organizations. At the end of her address, a basket of roses, given by the incoming pres ident and chairman, Mrs. Francis T. Keating, and presented with a gra cious speech by Mr. Morton, was ac cepted by Mrs. Tufts. Mrs. Keating, on taking office, gracefully expressed to the Association her sincere inter est in the work and her aspirations for the future, which with the hearty co-operaton of the members should be well assured. Other new officers include Mrs. Suttonfield, of Pinebluff, as first vice president; Mrs. Phillips, of Carthage, as second vice president; Mrs. Mud- gett, of Southern Pines, as third vice president; Mrs. Jessie Page, of Eagle Springs, as fourth vice president, and Miss Marcia Hill Haskeil, of Pine- hurst, as corresponding secretary, a new office created to relieve the re cording secretary of correspondence. Dr. Alice Presbrey continues as re cording secretary, W. P. Overman, of Carthage, as treasurer of the local chapter of the Red Cross, and R, N. Page, Sr., as treasurer of thte Health an4 Welfare Association. MARCIA HILL HASKELL, Corresponding Secretary. sponsible for six months of the nurse’s salary—the county paying the other six and for her car anjd its upkeiep. The money for this comes presumably from the membership roll call. In reality, Moore County has never raised enough at that time to cover this expense and right there you have one of the main reasons for the organization of the Health and Welfare Association. With an or ganization needing assistance to sup port its nurse, and a welfare worker, needing, at least, financial assistance to helx) her cases, why not combine the two? Therefore, the Health and Welfare Association hlas tried, not only to help pay the nurse’s salary but to try and have enough money to give a small amount each month to the we-lfare worker for little expenses that she was constantly having to meet if she was to make her worlj really effective and whic|i did not come under any relief given by the county or was a large enough sum to present before the Association. I This work we have tried to finance by roll call returns of which, as you know, 50 cents from every member ship goes to National Headquarters to be used for their splendid work— also the State Tuberculosis Associa tion has very generously turned over to our organization the allotment usual for local work from the Christ mas Seal sale. This fund can be used only along certain lines as anything that will help to build up general health, especially among children, and therefore, make tuberculosis less liable. This of course includes its di rect use on cases of tuberculosis al ready developed—we have kept a number of cases at the Sanatorium, both white and colored. Besides these two sources we have the Health and Welfare dues and contributions of any nature. I am afraid it would take too long to go over the work of these two years in any detail. In no respect have we been able to do all we would have liked. The reasons for this are, first, a very poorly supplied treasury and second, the fact that two work ers, however efficient they may be, cannot cover a whole county, and more than make a beginning on the work. For a nurse there are many lines of work and we have to choose or a church auxiliary or of a parent- teacher association. This would avoid making a separate organization in a small place and would automatically gain the interest of a larger number of people. Associated with these two needs is that for a larger income. The work cannot be carried on with out money and we all know that is what we are very short of at pres ent. George Bamhardt, of Rowan coun ty, planted three acres of alfalfa last year and reports that it is the most profitable crop that he ever planted. He harvested four tons of cured hay per acre and his cows grazed over the fall growth which increased their milk flow. THE PINEHURST LUMBER YARDS Pinehurst, N. C. With the Holidays approaching- it is desirable to find some cheap and handy material that will serve for making show window panels, frames, walls, and shapes of various kinds for displaying goods. What you are looking for is I S Standing here for the last time as those that seem to be most important your president and chairman, three things seem to me as outstandingly prominent in my experience during my two years of service in your or ganization. Thei first is an intense for our county and our people Be side nursing, remaining any length of time on one case is impossible, but she can visit sick cases, make sug gestions and instruct members of the Light, Strong, in light colors, and susceptible of cutting into any thing. A thousand designs can be made from Upson Board, and it can be applied to any scheme that calls for a quickly-made and quickly taken down display scene. Miniature buildings, Walls, temporary partitions for sepa rating one display from another and almost anything that Holiday display calls for. Upson Board. Get it in big sheets or little ones, much or little. Also remember Upson Board is a great dependence in ^ XT X buildmg. Get it and any other reliable building supply at the THE PINEHURST LUMBER YARDS Pinehurst, N. C. and constantly growing interest in j family in the care of the patient. In the work; the second an increasing a larger way, classes in home hygiene realization of its worth and the con sequent necessity for it; the third is the friends made during these two years. Since those days when we, lin ing up with countless other chapters over the United States, were busy with sewing and the making of hos pital dressings for the Red Cross in time of war, I have always felt that the friendships made when working and care of the sick cover this phase of a nurse’s work; classes in first aid are also of value and often mean that a life may be saved or pain relieved in an emergency by a class pupil. School lunches we have found of val ue not only to the general health of the children but of value in a way of which we had not thought, namely, to improve attendance and produce shoulder to shoulder, in a good cause, {better school work. A child who was were of a more solid and lasting na-1 accustomed to bringing a cold boiled ture than those made in any other | sweet potato for its luncheon found way. Therefore, I want to express I the addition of a cup of hot chocolate my gratitude for the opportunity 11 hot soup, both an incentive for have had to know the ladies of this attendance and a strengthener of in section and for thteir kind forbearance Merest in work. Some of the places of my grievous short-comings as pres- . helped finance lunches, realizing ident, and their co-operation and their value, have continued to carry friendship. them on when our help was with- As our Association and its organi- <lrawn. Baby clinics, pre-natal work zation has not always been thorough ly understood I want to take a few moments for a review. Three years ago Mrs. Whitaker, of Southern Pines, organized the Health and Welfare Association with the idea of a coun ty association to support the work of the Red Cross nurse and the coun ty welfare worker. Briefly, the or ganization is an affiliation ’ of the Moore County Health and Welfare Association and chapter of American Red Cross—a president who is also chairman, vice presidents and vice chairman and branch chairman in as many places in the county as were and examination of and help for school children who seem under par are other phases of our work. Among the cases handled during the last year were two crippled children taken to Gastonia for treatment, both of whom are at home now and doing well; 18 bad eye cases taken to Fayetteville to be fitted for glasses and a baby case, a school boy and a seriously cmplicted pre-natal case at different times to the hospital, also five adults to octors for special treatment. We had an undernourished boy of about 12 years who is sole support of a fam ily of three—him we helped to have mtumtxtmumxtxmmtxtimntitnntmtmxitttmmtxmttxttmtttnxmtmxtuiutxtmttttixtutxtmtttxtxnttmtmtxxmmumimmt Pinehurst Warehouses willing at the beginning to join the food he needed and could not af- central association. One officer serves days. Pinehurst, N. C. The Funiture Department is as busy as killing rats these Folks coming in and wanting their houses equipped for fall for the two bodies with the exception of the treasurer. As Red Cross funds have to be kept separate, and an ac- ^unting of them made to National Headquarters each year, there is a separate treasurer for each associa tion. The branch in each place is supposed to be independent, raise their own money, of which a quota is supposed to go to the central body, and handle their own problems inso far as is possible, but particularly that they be ready to give the two workers assistance in every possible way to aid their work. The branchss are a very vital part of our organiza tion. As a cham is only as strong as its weakest link, so is our organi zation weak where the branches are weak. A branch chairman is appoint ed not merely to attend the monthly meetings of the association but as the first step in forming an active unit of the whole. She should organize a committee of those who are interest- and willing for service. If then, the welfare worker and nurse knew the members of the committee in each place and that by applying to them they could get assistance or advice for needs arising in that place; if, for mstance, each place had a loan closet, as a number have, for sick ness in ^ homes where there is little to do with; if among the members of commattee there were one or two filing to give the use of their car to t^e cases to hospitals, doctors, etc., think what a help it would be to tne nurse and welfare worker. Of wurse ^en in the experience of the organized branch there would ^ many caseis too intricate great an outlay for a small place to cope with; with such thte central orgamzation should deal, he organization as a whole is re- Red Cross headquarters has ap plied a number of times for informa tion on home conditions of either dis abled soldiers or men in service who are asking their discharge. This is one form of the service due from the Red Cross to the government. As there are only a few of these cases here, your chairman has not felt it necessary to appoint a special chair man for that work but hlas handled it hei^elf or through the assistance of a branch chairman. We have a life saving chairman, Mr, Ad&ms, of SoutliGm Pines who has promised to tell us of his work a little later in the year This is an im portant activity, considering the growing interest in swimming and water sports and the opportunity for them in the county. Of the contributions th^t poured m to go to the suffering people of the Florida and Mississippi disasters I need hardly refer. Good publicity was ^ven this work and our chapter may be justly proud of the part it played in the relief given, the splen did work done in the branches and the generous response from every place. In closing I should like to make one t^® suggestions for the grejater efficiency of this organization. You need a more active president, one who wll not only see things to do but do them. If I had had strength to do one half the things I planned I would be much bejttersatisfied than at present. As I intimated above, the branches need to be more active. I believe much of their trouble is mis- unerstfmding of their part in the or ganization. It seems to me tiat a branch of our organization might well be part of. any. local organiza tion such as a committee of a club and winter, and they are getting the goods. THE PINEHURST WAREHOUSES Have a call for enough furniture of a High Quality that we have that High Quality all the time and in Quantity and Variety. There is where you gain when you buy Furniture from the % store that has the trade big enough and good enough to! get into the high class goods. The Pinehurst Warehouses always get the pick of the furni ture factories. At This Season you need A Little Paint, a few odds and ends of Brick, Roofing, Hard ware, probably some tools, a bit of late seed, or a dozen other things that you can find at the Pinehurst Warehouses. That Display of Dishes. While you think about it that handsome display of dishes and table equipment is still offering at the same low price at which it was started. Buy yourself a Christmas present and have your Christmas table make the turkey glad he came. You can use it for Thanksgiving, while you wait for the big holiday. Pinehurst Warehouses Pinehurst, N, C. THE HEADQUARTERS FOR THE THINGS YOU LIKE TO HAVE.
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