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PAGE FOUR-C %)our MENTAL HEALTH by NOMERT L KELLY, ». D. Director, Education Division M. C. Department at Manta! Heart* SOCIAL COMPETENCE As the poet wrote long ago, “No man is an island unto himself.” We all re late to and interact with many other people. How competent we are in relat ing to these other people is a good measurement of our state of mental health. In our relationship with others which are relatively enduring, we interact on the basis of what the so ciologists call social roles. That is, we relate in cer tain broadly defined ways which have become cus tomary in a given group or society. Each social role incorpor ates specific rights and obligations. Each is com plementary to another role being enacted by another person in a given interac tion or series of encounters. Thus, the teaching role and the student role comple ment each other; and when the teacher and student are together in the classroom, each knows how to act to ward the other. Each knows what is expected of the other. Each, therefore, acts according to these expectations. As we go through life, we all enact a series of roles. How competent we carry out our roles to a great extent depends upon how well we have been prepared to play them. If we have been adequately prepared for each major role, we have been helped markedly toward solving many of life’s problems and hence toward a real feeling of self - confidence and peace of mind. You can readily see that these characteristics are import- ' ant aspects of positive mental health. Again, then, competence in human rela tionships is correlated with our level of mental health. Air-Conditioned Taylor Theater ■DBNTON. H. C. Wed. and Thun., Aug. 27-28 (X) "THE BABYSITTER" (Pmoni Under 16 Not Admitted) Fri. and Sat.. Aug. 29-30 (G) Mothra, Godzilla, Rodan and Manda in "DESTROY ALL MONSTERS" Sun., Mon. and Tues., Aug. 31 . Sept 2 (G) Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave in "CAMELOT" Wed. and Thurs., Sept. 3-4 (M) "PRETTY POISON" anti* ™wear gasoline PURE FIREBIRD. CUTS ENGINE WEAR TO KEEP POWER UP Get better mileage, lower repair bills, a better-running car! Only Firebird containsTri-tane additives, proved to cut engine wear. «*£ UP WITH Winslow Oi Company J§T Hertford, N. C. vTjj BE SURE WITH PURE ||l Think with me for a , minute and help me name 1 some of the more signifi cant roles we all play and for which we should be fully prepared. What are the important functions we all perform as we go through life? We’re all students at one time or an other, aren’t we? Most everybody gets married. Almost all have children. We try to amuse ourselves. We should involve our selves in the affairs of our community. In other words, in the jargon we’ve been using, we all play a student role, marital and parent roles, recreational and civic roles. But how well were we prepared to enact these roles? How competent are we in those we are now carrying out? How well are we preparing our chil dren for these roles? Look briefly at some of the facts. Most children don’t know how to study— their major job is they are growing up. - A good half of our mar riages end in divorce, de sertion, annulment, perma nent separation, or con tinuing unhappiness. Perhaps twenty million people in our country are emotionally distressed and in need of some degree of psychiatric aid. Seeming ly, the bulk of this results from parents not being ade quately educated in par ent-child relationships. Par ents aren’t being prepared for the parental role. Boredom and loneliness and isolation from com munity activities are signs of our times. What pre paration has there been for the recreational and civic roles? Evidently there has not been enough. Give your child a chance toward social competence and good mental health. Help him get prepared for his major social roles. / PROMOTED Joe G. Johnson, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Johnson, Route 3, Edenton. was promoted to Army specialist four July 31 during ceremonies near Cu Chi, Vietnam, where he is serving as a mortarman with Company A, 2nd Bat talion of the 25th Infantry Division's 14th Infantry. THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY AUGUST 21, IM2. This Is Hie Law Continued from Page 3 ness be an adult? No. Although a person less than 21 years of age cannot make a valid will of his own, he may be an attesting witness to the will of one who is an adult. In North Carolina a per son competent to be a wit ness generally in this state may act as a witness to a will. Must the attesting wit nesses sign after the testa tor has signed? Yes. There must be a signature to attest before there can be an attesta tion. Until the testator has signed, there is no will to attest. Must the attesting wit nesses sign the will in the presence of the testator? Yes. The testator must actually see or be in a po sition to see not only the attesting witness but also the will itself at. the time the Witness signs it. The testator is not required, to look at the . witness, but his view must not be ob structed. Must the testator sign his name in the presence of the attesting witnesses? No.' In North Carolina it is not necessary that the testatpr sign his will in the presence of the attest ing witnesses, but if he does not do so he .must ac knowledge. to them his sig nature previously affixed thereto. Raw food cost for Vet erans Administration’s 166 hospitals was $45 million in 1968. According to the VA, the Making plans for the fu ture is often away to es cape work in the present. Need Tires Today? $'795 xsr Most sizes of Sears great tires IN STOCK | | BUekw » u f Excl ” T “ at your nearest A full 4-ply nylon cord body for strong, reliable resistance to Sears Catalog Sales Office rou * h . ro * d “"P"* L®** of “more-mileage” Dynatuf rubber. 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J |S' After teaching at various schools in the South, Mrs. Bethune opened a small school in a poor section of Daytona Beach, Fla. Five little girls were her first students. Poor neighbors shared their limited funds with the struggling school. Holder of 11 honorary degrees, Mrs. Bethune was an adviser to President Roosevelt on the affairs of Negroes and other mi nority groups. At her death in 1955, she left behind a brilliant record of service and distinction. m i * Mary McLeod .Bethune— educator, group organizer, White House adviser and United Nations delegate— was born in South Caro lina in 1875, the first free born child of ex-slave parents. She had 17 bro thers and sisters. •;y- ,y * In her teens, however, she was chosen to attend a Presbyterian seminary in North Carolina. Because she was a diligent student, the principal and his wife assisted her in getting a second tuition scholar ship—this time to Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Xrl ■ V «J| m In 1906, with a down pay ment of $5.00, she started building what was to be come Faith Hall. Mrs. Bethune cultivated the support of the city’s wealthier winter residents. Within two years after its opening, the school, which later merged with the Cookman Institute, had 250 students. At its 50th anniversary it was a fully ilM^college. Mary McLeod Bethune’s biography and others in the Leading American Negroes series of sound filmstrips * can be pur chased by educational organizations through the Society for Visual Edu cation, Inc, 1345A Diver sey, Chicago, Illinois 60614 a Division of The J Singer Company. Tl i jjE "uOMPJON n (SAKWIVAL STRANGE WORDS LIKE "(JAG MEM' (balloon VEMPoes)Awp’juice JOINrs"(LEMONAPE STAMPS') ARE ALL PART OF TO PAY'S CARNIVAL Slang, but actually, carnivals GO WA-AY SACK, THOUSANDS OF 1 EARS, TO ANCIENT GREECE AMP ROME WHERE STREET CROWDS WERE ENTERTAINER BY THE FIRST CARNIVAL performers ...the i SALE OF VALUABLE I I FARMLAND j The undersigned owner will offer for sale at public 8 8 auction at the Courthouse door in Hertford, Perquim- ! 8 ans County, N. C., at 12:00 noon on Friday, September 8 8 12, 1969, the tract of farmland situated in Bethel ! ■ Township, Perquimans County, containing 36.8 acres, ■ ! bounded on the south by N. C. Road No. 1339 (known 8 * 8 as Pender Road), on the north and east by woodland i ■ owned by H. S. Hofler and Sons Lumber Company, ■ 8 and on the west by the Felton property. This land is 8 * ■ in cultivation and has 7.15 acres of peanut allotment. ■ The high bidder will be required to deposit 10 per 8 8 cent of his bid at the sale, with the balance payable I ■on delivery of the deed within ten days. Owner re- ■ 8 serves the right to reject all bids at the sale. For map of survey and additional information, con- S ■ tact Dewey W. Wells of Leßoy, Wells, Shaw and 8 ! Hornthal, Attorneys at Law, 112 North Martin Street, 8 j Elizabeth City, N. C. ! 8 JAMES S. McNIDER, JR. OWNER Sunday School Lesson Continued from Page t boundless love of fellow man, to lead us, His people. To be really true, good Christians we do not ne cessarily have to be over bearing with our .beliefs. Personal example of Chris tian living, Christian con cern, quietly and unobtru sively performed can have more Impact on mankind, both on personal and na tional levels, than all the Hosannas and “Bible thumping” of the lustier types. A receptive ear, an un derstanding and forgiving heart, an act of positive kindness, quietly and un obtrusively performed, be comes mute testimony to the strength and beauty of Christianity an example that leads others out of confusion to deep personal convictions and values, both at a personal and na tional level. How Christian - oriented are you? your home? your Church? How fear less? How un-confused?
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