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To'i V!. THE JOHNSTONIAN—S5TJN. SELMA. N. C. What Tonsil Clinic Means to Selma Folk WASHINGTON RENDEZVOUS OF AGRICULTURAL EDITORS (By Mrs. R. A. Ashworth) "With Compliments of Selma Wom an’s Club Let us consider together just what a tonsil clinic means at a time like this when low prices for produce ■and unemployment have brought about a lamentable economic condi tion. Men who have heretofore met their obligations are unable to meet them today, and with Kipling, ■we would say, we are facing the ^'trail of common things.” Bride does not vanish with riches men and women shrink from ^^king 'Charity and too have been painfully conscious during the past months that their children’s health ■was being impaired by diseased ton sils. Children have gone wheezing and sniffing to school and the health ■officer has advised that their tonsils be removed. They have gone to their family physicians and they, too, have given the same advice, but here it stopped because funds were lacking. In this distressed condi tion there rises a promise of re lief from over the seas—Dr. Wade H. Atkinson hears the call and back from the continent comes this public j?pirited son of Johnston, Nationally known and universally loved—a good Samaritan whose philanthropy is known from coast to coast, who says to these suffering children and dis tressed parents: “I will give the ■needed relief.” ■ Dr. Atkinson is not strong and ■is still recovering from a recent ill- ■ness, but this opportunity to help suffering humanity was too great to return a deaf ear. He not only re sponded but brought with him a staff of noble men and women, and at once the public spirited people of Selma and surrounding communi ties gratefully added their assistance and co-operation. Despite threaten,- ing communications from the editor of “Southern Medicine and Surgery,” and professional opposition the good ■work has gon on. Monday of last ■week- thirty-one children were by the riew suction apparatus relieved. (This apparatus is the own inven tion of Dr. -Waring, the specialist in charge, who urged all interested to come in and view it in its perfection while in operation.) Tuesday found ■fifty-five anxiously awaiting relief, Wednesday forty and Thursday twenty-five, making a total of one hundred and fifty-one. 1 only wish I could go further in to details and take a backward glimpse of the first clinic held in cur community and prove to you the great benefit derived from Dr. At kinson’s first visit to us from an educational standpoint. The first effort was a decided fail ure—parents misinformed and chil dren ignorant of the need and bene fits. ’Tis true when Dr. Atkinson paid his first visit two years ag". much hard work had to be done thr.iugh coercion and persuasion, but after these months of benefit crowds gath ered to hear Dr. Booker tell thiem of the good tidings that soon another clinic was open at their very doors. Dr. Atkinuson has done so much for the Corbett-Hatcher School, sit uated as it is in the vicinity of his old homestead, where lies the heart of his boyhood days. His services are at the disposal of this communi ty, so much so that our, very hearts cry out for more such men, who can truly say “this is my own, my na- ■ live home.” i ' With a total of between three and four hundred children relieved we render to this noble citizen our heartiest appreciation. Without his work the majarity of these cases would have today been suffering. Under present conditions and such a large number clamoring for re lief it would have been impossible to get such a volumne of chairty done locally. 1 Dr. J. H. Fitzgerald, tonsil spe cialist, has done much charity work but the demand is too great, in fact it would take most of his time to do it all. The clinic is in answer to the de mand of the times. Dr. Atkinson has proven to us his deep sense of gratitude and this debt he feels can best be paid in restoring our boys and girls to health. His debt to his State is being paid at the University with the “Campus Beautiful.” With Udward Bok he voices, “Let me leave the world more beautiful than ! I found it, and while not in chimes but in happy voices of children made happier through a strong mind and body.” We will never know how fine and far reaching his work un til: “The stars grow old And the sun grows cold ■ And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.” Agricultural college -editors from 32 States held a four-day meeting in Washington last week which proved to be the largest the organization ever held. In one of the final ses sions the association voted to hold its annual meeting in Oregon next year, as guest of the Oregon State Agricultural College. Closer cooperation between the State agricultural college and the U. S. Department of Argiculture in the disti-ibution of information is antici pated as a result of the meeting just held this year, according to M. S. Eisenhower, Director of In formation in the department. This and numerous other matters affect ing the duties of the editors were discussed during the meetings. Attendance by J4 representatives from the States and by nearly 100 from the Department of Agriculture made the meeting the largest in the history of the American Association of Agricultural College Editors. E. R. Price of Blacksburg, Virginia, was elected president for next year, Rog er DeBaum of New Brunswick, New Jersy, vice-president, and C. D. Byrne of Corvallis, Oregon, siecre- tary-treasurer. ■ Sweepstakes prize for exhibit of the New York State College of Agriculture of Cornell University. Other States which placed in the informational material was won by exhibit contest include Oregon, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Kan sas, Missouri,. New Hampshire, West Virginia, Colorado, Tennessee, and New Mexico. The exhibits on display during the meeting were praised highly by the Judges, DeWitt Wing, associate edit or of the Rural New Yorker; Byron Price, chief of the Washington Bureau of the Associated Press; and Lincoln C. Lounsbury, managing editor of the Guernsey Breeders’ Journal. In its report the commit tee emphasized three important trends brought out by the exhibits: The speieding up of news; recogni tion of the' departmentalization of the modem newspaper; and the wider use of news pictures. Following is a list of States whose exhibits ■won ribbons: New York—first place on radio material; first on circular letters; first on poster; second on technical bulletin; third on syndicated press ervice; third on county agents’ de partment. ( Oregon—first on news story; first on publicity for a single project; second on syndicated press ser'vice; third on published feature story; third on paragraphs to weekly pap ers; third on poster. North Carolina—first on technical bulletin; first on weekly service of short paragraphs; second on feature stoi-y; second on radio material. New Jersey—first on syndicated press service; first on. periodical; third on circular letter. Ohio—second on periodical; second on publicity for a single project; second on poster; third on news story. I New Hampshire—first on feature story; second on popular bulletin. Missouri—first on county agent news department; second on circular letters. Kansas—first on popular bulletin; second on county agent news de partment. West Virginia—second on news story; third on techincal bulletin. Colorado—second on weekly service of short paragraphs; third on pub licity on a single project. Tennessee—third on periodical. New Mexico—third on popular bulletin. ISO DANGER OF OIL SHORTAGE AL SMITH FOUND IN RAIDED BOOZE JOINT THURSDAY, SEPT. 11, f930. THINK HARD TIMES BROUGHT ON BY FOES For many years estimating the amount of our available petroleum resources has been a favorable di version of statisticians. However, every estimate has been proven wrong in the light of later discover ies. Now it is said that the discovery of new fields and of deeper sands in old fields make it necessary to agin revise our ideas regarding the sup ply of oil we have in underground storage. There is no danger of a shortage, and those who forecast de pletion of our supply by 1930 or 1935 will have to guess again. This is encouraging news. Oil is vital, not only to industrial and social progress, but to our existence. And the United States of tomorrow will pnquestionably find new uses for great quantities of petroleum products we know nothing of today. But, no matter how large our re sources may be, theer is no excuse for wasting them. Whether we have fifty billion barrels or oil or five, the supply is definitely limited. It cannot be replaced. It must be used sanely and economically. The major oil producers, aided by the Federal Oil. Conservation Board and other public and private agen cies, have been waging an intensive fight against the menace of over production. Now, with the inaugura tion in several important fields of the unit system of production, by which supply and demand are equal ized and waste outlawed, it begins to look as if success was in sight. An invaluable national resource must be conserved. Anbany, N. Y.—A posse of pro hibition enforcement agents swooped down on Saratoga resort on Satur day night, August 23, and staged one of the biggest raids of recent months. Among the places raided was “The Brook,” so-called fashion able and exclusive joint, where sev eral thousands of dollarsi of booze of various kinds was found. This place had to be broken into by the agents of the la^, the barroom be ing heavily barricaded. According to the officials, former Governor Alfred E. Smith, in formal evening attire, was among patrons in the dining room of The Brook when the raiders entered. FRANCE FIRES HEARST J do not believe the present ‘stag- rration in business is either natural or normal, but that leaders of Rom anism and the wet interests in uni son are s ieking to destroy business so they chri discredit the present ad- ministration at Washington and % more easily win out im their next attempt to elect A1 Smnh, in 1932. In Mexico, during the recent strug gle between popery and that govern ment, Roman ^Catholics tried to make the government yield by calling a boycott on all business. That was publicity acknowledged. I believe they are secretly using the same methods here. I wish there were- some way to uncover the facts. R. 0. P.4YNE. Broadwater, Va. Dairymen in the Zebulon com munity of Wake County are buying cows from the drouth-tricken area of Virginia. William Randolph Hearst was ord ered out of France—and he went. The objection against Hearst was based upon criticisms of France in his newspapers. If the same method of treatment was applied to Hearst by the Gov ernment at Washington he would likely find himself excommunicated from his natice land. But only France is capable of us ing its Government in such a petty and ridiculous manner. Hearst treated the performance 'as though jt were a joke, and if the French officials had any sense of humor at all they would have realized that they hurt themselves a great deal more than they did the pro prietor of America’s largest string of volcanic newspapers. It was a very Frenchy sort of show. Vaccine was used by County Agent J. W. Sanders to control an outbreak of fowl typhoid in a stan dard bred flock o'wned by A. J. Cheek of Vance County. WHERE WILL IT END? M. T. Clark of Pittsboro, route 2, Chatham County, says he will make a bale of cotton to the acre over his entire farm this year. He dust ed the crop with calcium arsenate. A cigar chain-store system has started a new scheme. You deposit 50c a month and the company picks a new, popular novel for you. Mass buying enables them to sell at the cut price. But it is just another . example of how easy life is being made for us. We get everything done now without having to even do our own thinking. Food is put up in neat and convenient cans; our clothing comes ready-made; our ideas are furnished us by pulpit, radio and press. Paid sportsmen furnish us thrills while we sit in a grand stand. Combines cut, thresh, meas ure and sack our wheat, and, electric current freezes our ice, pumps our water and opens the garage door.. In fact, this thing of living has be come so easy that the average Sel ma citizen has but one worry left in the world now. That is how to get the money that pays for these things that make living so easy. T. A. Brooks of Beaufort County hat 110 hogs in a fine corn field harvesting the grain and adding weight for future sale. \ w _ . ^ that is mildef and • • r"' Mn ILDER, YES-BUT SOMETHING MORE. Chesterfield offers richness, aroma, satisfying flavor. BETTER TASTE—that’s the answer; and that’s what smokers get in Chesterfield in full est measure—the flavor and aroma of mellow tobaccos, exactly blended and cross-blended. Better taste, and milder too! ) 1930, Liggett & Mvers Tobacco Co. ■\T □86En & MYERS TOBACCO CO- ^ '35'^.
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