The Journal - Patriot
INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS
Published Mondays and Thursdays at
North VVilkesboro, North Carolina
JULIUS C HUBBARD?MRS. D. J. CARTER
Pnbllahere
1932?DANIEL J. CARTER?1041
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year $2.00
(Im Wllkee mad Adjoining Conntiee)
One Year .. $3.00
(Oataide Wilkes and Adjoln'ig Conn ties)
Rates to Those in Service:
One Year (anywhere) $2.00
Entered at the postofflce at North Wilkee
ooro North Carolina, aa Second-Claae matter
. udei Act of Mareh 4. 187t.
Thursday, September 15, 1949
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How Not To Get
More Doctors
One of the most absurd arguments used
in support of compulsory government
health insurance is that it would help to
e
cure the doctor shortage.
A 1948 report of the World Medical As
sociation discloses that the United States
has more doctors in proportion to popu
lation than any nation which has adopted
socialized or regimented medicine?and
in most cases we lead by a very wide
margin. Furthermore, we have more doc
tors in proportion to population than any
other nation in the world save for little
Palestine, where there are great numbers
of refugee Jewish physicians from Central
Europe.
It is true that even this country needs
more doctors?there are serious short
ages in some sections, just as there are
shortages of other desirable services and
facilities. But it is impossible to see how
placing the medical profession under what
would amount to political domination
would do anything but make the situation
worse. It takes ten years or more of ardu
ous and expensive training to become a
doctor. Would young men find the profes
sion more attractive if they knew they
would occupy much the same status as
civil servants, that advancement would
largely depend on political favoritism,
and that, in time, they might actually find
themselves part of a completely socialized
medical system? The obvious answer to
that is an unqualified "No."
Measured by either the qualitative or
the quantitative yardstick, the medical
standards of the United States are un
equalled in any comparable nation.
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Give The Baby
A Chance
The North Wilkesboro Junior Woman's
Club is raising $600 in this community for
the Children's Home Society.
The following editorial in the Winston -
Salem Journal gives some pertinent facts
which show why the movement should
have support of the public:
"Every year in North Carolina hundreds
of babies are born to parents who are un
able to care for them adequately, many
to mothers who are unable to keep them.
"During the past five years over 8,000
white babies were born out-of wedlock in
North Carolina. What happens to these
children? Who care for the unwanted
child?
"The welfare and relief agencies main
tained by local communities and the State
carry part of the burden, of course. But
there has existed in North Carolina for the
past 50 years an organization, operating
on an entirely voluntary basis, which has
performed a remarkable service in behalf
of homeless children. This is the Children's
Home Society of North Carolina.
"The work of the society, which was
organized in 1903 and is now one of the
oldest and largest of its kind in the Nation,
is well illustrated by figures which reveal
that it has taken over 5,000 homeless
children who otherwise would have had
little chance in life, and given them a
home and an opportunity to develop into
good citizens.
"During the last five years the society
has helped 646 babies, provided tempo
rary shelter for 401.
"The society helps mothers keep their
children if it is practicable. When it isn't,
it endeavors to find good homes for them,
thus preventing in many cases the transla
tion of the homeless or unwanted baby
into a juvenile delinquent and criminal.
"Thus, the value of the service per
formed by the Children's Home Society to
the State and Nation is immeasurable. It
is preserving and developing social values
which lie far beyond the scope of statis
tics.
"But, being a purely voluntary organi
zation dependent upon the contributions
of sympathetic, humane, warm-hearted in
dividual givers for its support, the society
has never been able to care for all the
babies it has wanted to help and who have
needed help. The scope of its work has
been limited by its resources.
"Those who are well acquainted with
the society contribute generously to its
cause and give it their moral support,
knowing that it is efficiently managed and
that it is performing outstanding service
for the State. But there are myriads of
North Carolinians perhaps who have nev
er heard of the society, and know nothing
of its great work.
"This year the Junior Woman's Clubs
of North Carolina have selected the society
as their State-wide project, with the aim
of securing new memberships with in
creased funds. Their endeavor should re
ceive the widespread moral and generous
financial support of all North Carolina
people who are possessed of the broad
mind and the understanding heart.
"What of the unwanted child? Let's
give it a chance!"
? THE
EVES V DA V
COUNSELOR
By Re?. Herbert
Sp&ugh, D. D.
THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR?
Good can be found in most of the cir
cumstances and conditions of life, if we
seek it. Recently I was talking with a
friend who has considerable deafness in
one ear. He told me that it had advant
ages as well as disadvantages. He said
that he had to be more attentive to the
conversation of others in order to hear.
Then he said that there were many things
which bothered others which he did not
have to hear. In the day time he turned
off his attention. At night, when outside
noises disturbed his sleep, he turned over
on his side and put his good ear in the
pillow.
Many of my deaf friends have told me
that their affliction brings to them certain
blessings which they might not otherwise
have.
Nature has a way of compensating for
a deficiency in one of the senses by
heightening the others. Those who have
difficulty in hearing usually are better
readers than those with normal hearing.
What we see with the eye registers more
than what we hear with the ear. Compare
the attendance at motion picture shows
with that at sermons and lectures.
But physical deafness is dwarfed by
spiritual and psychological deafness: un
willingness to hear those things that we
don't want to hear, which if heard and
taken to heart would make us change our
lives.
It is said that the deaf often hear things
said in their presence which they aren't
supposed to hear, and don't hear some
other things which they should hear. This
is by no means limited to the physically
deaf.
Many times I have heard some man or
woman comment on a sermon and say,
"Didn't that fit, So-and-So. I wish he
could have been here and heard it." All
the while the one who said it needed to
apply it much more to himself, but it
bounced right off.
The ears of the mind and soul are far
more important than the ears of the
body. It is what we hear in our minds and
apply in our hearts which determines our
happiness and destiny.
The Prophet Isaiah plead with his peo
ple to see the national degradation about
them and the coming destruction of their
national life, but he said that their "ears
were heavy." And so their land was ravag
ed and they went into exile. Prophets to
day in the land are making the same ap
peal, pointing to national decay of morals,
neglect of the Lord's day and the Church,
but our ears are heavy.
Remember, it is far more important to
hear the voice of God than the voices of
men. Which do you hear?
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IN THI ?
?.JURCH
Q[y2?3lZ5sfcL
Miss Kate Cooper, of Atlanta,
Georgia, missionary in Seoul,
Korea, reports that missionaries
and Christian ministers are now
working for the rehabilitation of
women prisoners and ex-prison
ers from the infamous West Gate
Prisbn. Formerly all released
women convicts were for long
periods under the strict surveil
lance of the police and were oft
en rearrested for slight deviance
from the straight and narrow
path. Now increasing numbers
of them are being released to
Christian workers, and they are
directed to the church and to its
organizations as a means of re
habilitation. Some of them have
been so influenced by the
church and its teachings that
they have asked for membership,
Miss Cooper says.
Amazement that so few Amer
ican women are active in politi
cal life while Buch great oppor
tunity for it is theirs was ex
pressed by Frau Dorothea Groe
ner-Geyer, of Wurtemberg, Ger
many, recently after she c<
pleted a two-month's visitation
to American communities under
the sponsorship of the United
Council of Church Women. Frau
Groener-Geyer is the founder of
the "Fellowship of Protestant
Women for Political Affairs" in
her home state of Wurtemberg;
its aim is to bring church women
and women active in politics to
gether for mutual understanding
and exchange of ideas, and for
the building of world peace and
order. Certain rights of German
women, now written into the new
constitution, were first advocat
ed by the Fellowship. German
women, she says, are becoming
more and more effective in poli
tical and social affairs, and she
oelieves more American church
women should also be active in
these fields.
Half a century ago, a lonely
young English lad, Sydney Walt
er Robinson, became associated
with the Hemenway Avenue
Methodist Church, Evanston, 111.,
and was befriended by a young
Sunday school teacher, Mrs.
Myra L. Thomas. The lad return
ed soon to England, became r.
noted builder, was elected to
Parliament, and was knighted.
In 1932, Sir Sydney erected a
church in Ilford, Sussex, In honor
of Mrs. Thomas who was then
still living. She died in 1942.
Now Sir Sydney is providing a
stained-glass window as a me
morial to her in . this same
church; and three of her chil
dren will be in England this sum
mer to see it dedicated. The cen
tral figure is that of the Good
Samaritan. Mrs. Thomas never
saw the English church erected
to her honor.
Rhodes Rites Held
Tuesday Morning
E-lkln, Sept. 8.?Funeral serv
ice for Mrs. Alevia Elizabeth
Rhodes, 78, was held Tuesdav
morning at 11 o'clock at Pleas
ant Hill Baptist church. The
Reverend David W. Day and
Joe Wright officiated and burial
was In the church cemetery.
Mrs. Rhodes died at her home
here Sunday after an illness of
one year.
Survivors include four sons,
William Rhodes of Ashland, Ken
tucky, Quincy and Barney Rhodes
of Elkin, Crommie Rhodes of
Perryville, Maryland; five daugh
ters, Mrs. J. M. Bell and Mrs.
Clifford Norman of State Road.
Mrs. Ira Stamper of Wilkesboro,
Mrs. Morgan Handy of Moxl'ey
and Mrs. Marshall Soots of El
kin; four brothers, John Felts
of Wilkes county, Jake Felts of
Mountain View, Will Felts of
BrookB Cross Roads and Harri
son Felts of Cycle; two sisters.
Mrs. George Combs of Mountain
View and Mrs. Glenn Blackburn
of Kentucky; 44 grandchildren
and 15 greatgrandchildren.
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