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ANDREW J. CONNER. PUBLISHER "CAROUNA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER* * SUBSCRIPTION PER ANNUM $ 1.00 l UME XXXVII RICH SQUARE, NORtHAMPTON COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928 NUMBER 51 OPPaSHS BUILDIKG HOSPITAL lost Too Much --Already Hospitals In Easy Keach-Would the Hich Patronize it? Editor Roanoke Chowan Times, Dear Sir: FollowitiK your ideals of im partiality and fair dealings, you invite discussion on the question Oi estabiishioK a hcsoital in the R /anokf-Chowan Countses, v z; Rertie, Hertford and Northamp ton. This statement in your editorial o: December the 13ch. gives the best reason for NOT establishing such an institution: “Oar good roads have shortened diststices considerably, we can now travel, in a few minutes, distances that formerly required hours, and with greater ease.” For it one will look at- a map, the reason for the non establish ment. up to this time, is apparent. At Suffolk, Virginia, there is a splendidly equipped hospital, the same is true of Washington, Tar boro. Rocky Mount and Roanoke Rapids, all in North Carolina and nearby. These, with the magni ficient hospital accomodations to gether with the high type of sur geons in Norfolk, Richmond and Baltimore preclude any oppor tunity of ever developing any but a losing proposition along this line in this area. The idea is magnificent and shows the world tnat the Roanoke-Chowan Times has a heart, and that heart beats in sympathy for suffering humanity and wants to bring nearer the relief. But is the idea a wise one? Being a layman, there are many technicalities about which 1 am ignorant, but there are manv common place questions entering into the hos pital idea that must be answered by cold, unsympathetic figures. A hospital is an institution in which the sick or injured are given medical or surgical care at any and all times. Now what does the ability to render this medical or surgical care, at any and all times, re quire? First of all a fire proof build ing with a large number of rooms and wards, for the separate ac commodation of the two races of people in this section. Equipment: The domestic equipment of this plant, with dishes, silverware, cooking ap paratus, general and special, table linen for the employes and patients, furniture of special type and design, mattresses and bed linen in unlimited quantities, toweling and so on ad infinitum; the maintenance of a laundry; the scientific equipment, lighting system, electric ovens, bakers, Xray machines, a laboratory, with special and particular equip ment, the modern instruments for verification of diagnoses,com prising a startling number un familiar to the layman; the phy sical equipment of water, hut and cold, the well, the engine, the tank, the closets, the piping, the disposal and many other ex penses too numerous to mention, are all items of cost and must be had. Personnel: From the profes sional standpoint there must be a well established and recognized group of medical and surgical men in whom confidence must De absolute, there must be interns and assistant-ti, there must be- a C0(ps of DO-r.ses unde:- a superir- tende; t, locally, iher ■ wcu’d have t'' be nurses of poih racss and orderiies, waiters and sen! liorsK. yaid and gaiden men, elc '.ricia?.cump uito. mech anic plumber, fi emeri arid lab orers; then amonv the higher trained employes comei the ex pen Xray operator, the techni clan, dietician, druggist, book keeper, housekeeper and many others. This will give some idea of the cost necessary to main tain a hospital, and the cost must be met by the income re ceived from patients, whether from the patient himself or from B'me agency sponsoring him, such as a county paying for its i' digent population who may be sent there. It must also be re inembered that hospitals do not take tuberculosis or insane pat ients. nor contagious cases where It is known the case is contagious, obviously all other patients, who could, would leave. Now come back to the human in us Are our richest citizens, except in the direst emergency, going to this hospital or let their family go if it is possible to get to the noted and tested surgeons of the largest cities? Are the people who can and will go to this hospital able to pay the prices for a protracted illness or operation? Are the counties go- inj? to be willing to pay the price for its indigent poor who have to be sent there? Cost: Costs are always based on the entire costs of an institu tion. and are known as overhead and are fixed charges. To meet these there must be a certain nfimber of what are known as hospital days at so much per day. Now the question arises what will be the cost of a modern hospital building and equipment such as we all would demand? What will be the cost of opera tion? What will be the deprecia tion and lossage, the cost to maintain the standard that must be maintained to have any re cognition? With a two race population and the nearness to similar institu tions. as W8 wish to establish, it seems to me there is but little hope ahead, unless such an in stitution be helped by an addi tional tax which, I think, the citizenry of these counties would object to paying. With these ideas about it, and they are not imaginary, I have given the mat ter much thought, I am of the opinion that the establishment of a hospital would be a losing proposition, and 1 offer this so lution. If each county niust have a hospital connection, and it ought, let each go to its near est hospital and make an ar rangement for the care of its in digent patients at so much per day, or by some other plan, such as an endowment, or lending a certain sum of money to add ad ditional physical space for such county, such money to be paid back in charges for patients. There are manv wavs by which this could be arranged and I' for one wish to say I had rather try to strengthen some nearby, well established institution than to try to raise a weakling in our midst, for I surely think such a venture would almost die aborn ing. Citizen. ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CHARGES- “THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS” Snake Eacts I The ideas that a venomous ! snake can strike its full length or more, and that it can not i strike excapt from a coiled posi 'tion, are popular but erroneom beliefs, biologists of the U S, Department of Agriculture state Most of our poisonous snakes, when irritated, can 'strike from any position, and the greatest, length of stroke is about three- fourths their own length. White Slavery, Theft of Automobile, Store-breaking, Transporting Liquor, Uriving While Drunk Last Thursday morning at eight o’clock two white men, Ernest White, 30, married, five children, and his brother Benny White, 17, of Hopewell, Va., were placed under arrest near Rich Square under the charge of transporting liquor and operating an automo bile while under the influencs of liquor, but this proved (^rily a beginning of their trouble. Be fore they could be given a pre liminary hearing in court iirh-^r more serious charges were lodged against them—store robbery, the theft of an automobile, snd a violation of the white slave act by Ernest White Their trouble here began when they had tire trouble just after leaving town and they sent Nor man Jones, a colored man living near town, to town to purchase an inndr tube and gave him a jar full of pennies to pay for it. This aroused suspicion. While the officers were considering what to do Mr. H. L. Fayhe, of Roanoke Rapids, arrived and informed the officers that Ernest White, of Hopewell, Va., who had been charged with violating the Fed eral white slave law had. left Roanoke Rapids early that morn ing for Roxobel in search of the woman who had left Hopewell, Va., with him several days be fore, going North, and finally leaving White in Baltimore, so Mr.Fayhe and Mr. J,T. Cullifher, who was at work here and had known White in Hopewell, Va , went out with Officer P L. Grant to where the Whites were wait ing for the inner tu,be and placed them under arrest. Liquor was found ia the car and the Whites had imbibed freely. A large quantity of canned goods, candy and other things were found in the car. a new Ford, that had been run about five hundred miles. In the car was found a csrd from the Ford dealer in Hopewell, Va., to G. G. Miller of Hopewell telling him that as his| car had been in use 30 days that it would be well to bring it back to be looked over. Officer Grant phoned to the Hopewell dealers to know if they ha,d sold a Ford of a certain number and was informed they had sold such a car to G. G. Miller but that it had been stolen the night before, Mr Miller came over for his car and with him Virginia officers with warrants. In the mean time the office of the United States District Attorney had been informed of the white slave charge. The Virginia officers were very anxious to relieve North Carolina of the keeping of the Whites, but in the meantime Ofificer Massey of Pleasant Hill township with Mr. Rash came over and claimed the goods found in the Whites’ possession and the jar of pennies were stolen from Rash’s store the night be fore. , The Whites were held by Northampton authorities under bonds of $500 for Ernest and $200 for Bennie, but should they be released from these other warrants are in the possession of officers. Woodland Bazaar a Success The Baptist Missionary Society of Woodland church wishes to ihank ail who shared in making the bazaar a success. It realized $140 00 profit. The more trifling the man the more patent pencils and fountain pens he seems to carry around in bis vest pockets. After go)ng st'ong for twelve moiiih-:, the Woodland Communi ty Ciub held its twelfth meeting Thursday night of last week and by the forty odd members pres ent, it was oronouncud one of the b-'sr, if not the best meeting of the whole year. Dr. W. R, Parker was the unanimous choice for president and so he was reelected to this nnsitino for the ensuing year. E, G Griffi.i was reelected vice president. W, V. Harrison was elected secretary. After r umerous item? of busi- ne-.-;. it was announced that the or.;gram committee had succeed ed in gectingour own townsman, Ser.ator W. H. S. Burgwyn, to make a talk. If the Senator is better ut one subject than anoth er it certainly must have been the timely and current subject which he took, ‘‘The True Spirit of Christmas,” for he handled it in a most appropriate and beau tiful manner. So many people fail to get the real true spirit of Christmas, it was very fitting that the club should be reminde.d right at this time of the many apt illustrations referred to by the speaker. Nothing more clear ly illustrated his idea of the real spirit of Christmas than a little incident which came under his observation in Bertie County some months ago. He was re turning from the town of Wind sor on Christmas eve. He had occasion to stop at a little coun try store, and while there en gaged in conversation with the proprietor, whom he had never seen before. He found him a fine gentleman. The conversa-^ tion drifted from one subject to another and finally about Christ mas and different people. The store keeper inquired of him if he knew a certain man of Bertie, and when he informed him he did and that he was very fond of him, the stranger said, *‘I think he is one of the best men in this whole world,” ‘‘Just one year ago today,” said he, this gentle man rode up to my store and in quired if there wsre any widows in the community who needed help, or if there were any chil dren, who would be overlooked by Santa Claus. When I assured him of numerous poor people in the community who were greatly in need of food and clothes, this great big hearted gentleman said, ‘‘Make up a list of groceries and articles of clothing and send to every one in the whole commun ity whom you think need help, don’t tell them who sent them, but send me the bill and 1 will pay it.” While the Senator spoke for more than 30 minutes, this little Incident so clearly illus trates his big idea running through his talk about the true spirit of Christmas, and because time and space forbid, we shall forgo further reference to his talk. At the close of Mr. Burgwyn’s talk it was suggested that mem hers of the club make it a point to give something to some poor person, white or colored, this Christmas Every member pres- ,ent signified by standing, that they would make some unfortu nate person happy this Christmas by giving them something. S. N. Parker and E C. Parker, Potecasi, were present and joined the club. E. C. Parker made a splendid talk along the same line as Mr. Burgwyn did. This was greatly appreciated by the club. The delightful dinner served by the Thursday Afternoon Club could not be surpassed. The dec orations, suggestive of the sea son, were very beautiful. D. H. B. School Closed The Rich Square public school was closed last week by the County Health Officer on account of an outbreak of influenza in an other part of the county, it was stated. Local physicians gave it as their opinion that there was no need for the closing, and pa trons and local school authorities wanted it continued, but had to yield to the powers that be. Rich Square has a nine months, term, one month of which is paid by a special tax, and every day that the school is closed now de lays the closing in the spring when many farmers need their boys to help with the crops. The closing order works an unneees sary hardship and accomplishes no good. The theaters and churches are rbt closed. Music-Literary Club of Severn Mrs. Earl Bryant of Boykins, Va., was hostess to the Music- Literary Club of Severn, Friday evening, Dec. 14th, from 7:30 to 11 o’clock in the home of Mrs. J. J. White of Sevfern. A Christmas program of sto ries, jokes, stunt, game and music was enjoyed by all. During the social hour two very interesting contests were engaged in. Mrs, H. W. Mad drey won first prize and Mrs. G. A. Pruden the booby. Each guest was' presented a “popper” after the explosion of which, was found to contain caps to be worn and a fortune to be read. Mrs. Bryant, assisted bv Misses Una and Evelyn White, served a two plate luncheon. This being “Pollyanna” night, Santa Claus made a most wel comed visit to the club, bringing a filled bag from which he pre sented each club member a love ly gift from her Pollyanna, This brought forth a real Christmas spirit and much excitement as each package was opened one at the time. In January the club will be en tertained 'by. Misses Johnson. Long and Updike of the Pendle ton school faculty in Pendleton. Mrs. W. E. JeuKins Entertains Roxobel, N. C., Dec. 13—Mrs, W. E Jenkins entertained at a bridge luncheon on Tuesday, December th.e 11th, for the mem bers of her bridge club. After a two course luncheon, a salad course, and a fruit gelatin couise both carried out in colors yellow and white, bridge was played at three tables. Mrs. T. F. Nor fleet received prize for high score a pair of hand painted candle sticks. Yellow and white bask ets filled with the yellow and white mints, were given as fav ors. The house was beautifully decorated with potted plants hete and there. Roses were used in profusion, Mrs. Jenkins’s guests were Miss Jamie Norfleet, Mrs. H. R. Paschel, Mrs. E. R. Tyler, Miss Floyrette Peele, Mrs. Cling Barnes, Miss Annie Norfleet, Mrs. W. M. Norfleet, Miss Mary Lee Capehart. Mrs. T. F. Nor fleet, Mrs B. F. Burkett, Mrs. G. B. Spivey, of Roxobel; Mrs A, Ruffio, and Mrs. Stephen Nor fleet of Kelford. Appointed Game and Fire Warden Mr. Edgar Bracy has been ap pointed district Game and Fire Warden to succeed P, L. Grant, resigned. Mr. Bracy will have some deputies to serve under him. His special tern'to'y will be between Rich Square and Rox obel and the Roanoke. This is a good appointment. We believe Mr Brscv will do his duty *0 best cf hir SEABOARD NEWS Sctiooi Closed-Crops Aboot all Gatb- ered-New Buildings-Personal Items Rev D. P, Harris, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rugglee, Misses Edith Bradley, Sarah Alice Harris, Dorothy Maddrey and Mr. E. B. Maddrey attended the Christmas cantata “The Lord’s Anointed’^ which was presented at Mur freesboro Baptist Church Sunday evening. . Mr. Alexander Davis, a stu dent of U N. C.. Chapel Hill, was the guest of Messrs Alvab Bollock and Crocker Maddrey a few days the past week. He left Sunday for Norfolk to visit his sister, Mrs. F. C. Weaver. Mr. Wm. Proctor, of Raleigh, was the week end guest of his friend, Mr. Matt R. Stephenson. Messrs. W. R Vick and A. H, Hubbard spent Thursday in Ral eigh on business. Miss Mary Long of Pendleton school faculty, arrived Saturday to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. M F. Long. Rev. R. R. Grant and daugh ter Elizabeth, accompanied by Miss Leona Harris, spent Friday and Saturday in Durham. His daughter Minnie and her friend,. Miss Webster, accompanied him home Saturday. Mrs. C. R. Kee and daughters Irene and Alma and Mr. Dallas Kee spent Sunday and Monday in Norfolk visiting and shopping. Mr Paul Spencer and family spent Sunday and Monday in Norfolk. Mrs. J. L. Harris and daugh ter Vera Scott spent a few days in Ahoskie the past week, guests of her mother. Mrs. Jesse Boze man. Miss Edith Bradley, of Louis- burg high school faculty, arrived home Saturday to spend the holi days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. R, Bradley. Mrs. C. H, Griffin and son Les lie spent Saturday in Norfolk shopping. Messrs Vernon Gordie, Bruce Jones and Howard Parker, stu dents of U, N. C.. Chapel Hill, arrived home Friday to spend the holidays with their parents, Mr. James Harris spent a few daysin Chapel Hill the past week. Mesdames J, L. Taylor, S. V. Edwards and son James Taylor and Mrs. A. J. Crocker spent a few days in Norfolk the past week. Miss Gertrude Harris, a mem ber of Callaway high school fa culty. arrived home Friday, her school having closed on account of the flu epidemic. Messrs H. R, Harris Jr., T, J. Stephenson Jr,, and Crocker Maddrey arrived home Thursday to spend the Christmas holidays with their respective parents. Mrs, G. Fenton Crocker was hostess to the high school facul ty Wednesday evening at six o’clock at a three course dinner after which they enjoyed playing bridge until a late hour. Miss Elizabeth Dennis Harris, of Lawrenceville high school fa culty. spent the week end with her father, Rev. D. P. Harris. The Woman’s Missionary Soci ety of Seaboard Baptist Church held its December meeting in the Sunday School rooms of the church last Wednesday after noon, The annual report of the society exceeded the expectations of the most optimistic. At the conclusion of the business meet ing the membership was invited into an adjoining room where a, beautifully lighted Christmas, \ • - -J-** w A J •» V a-’ *'!»
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