Sees New Day Dawning
For Rural America
By <T)B. CAUL V. REYNOLDS,
North Carolina State Health Officer
..TI U > old oaken bucket,
T}l «> iron-bound bucket,
moss-covered bucket —”
- I ; gcrm-coye-ed bucket.
Ti.-u hangs in the well." ,
it most likely is, unless the
' of the'well is concreted and
! -niiervious to those little trick
„ome froai pplutid sources
‘u,, 1 ' ruins,* to tb'd their way into
thereby oec >nnn e a menace
, "health of those w.io drink
h<? V matter of 'net. there ought not
ho r.v 1 -eket a ad. as romantic as
! i hut a pump It is obvious that,
1 lhere is o bucket somebody has
V ' , nv ,he water, and to lo this they
I' ; rUl dle the ch i v which, when
'’bucket is at the bottom of tb»
\ partly un ?>r water. Now,,
'jj.' jf these, hands are germ laden ’
The answer is plain.
mve For Country Inherent
People do not lei*e the country
t, < use they b L-c it. They
din search of labor ss via ; devices,
drudgery and modern conveni
ence. .all contributing to less labor,
fiiorc recreation, more pleasure, and
i '"more abundant life.” The tenant
farmer as well as the land owner in
tho -hi" house”, desires better living
conditions. Replace these inconveni-
ence . W jth modern conveniences and
tomorrow there will be an influx to
the farm, and the farmer will be the
envied man.
The farm house, or rural home,
should oo thoroughly screened. This
will go a long way toward promoting
the health of the inmates, to say
nothing of the comfort it will bring
in protecting them against pests, for
even if flies and mosquitoes were not
unhealthy, they would still be pesky
things. It is highly probable that
manv country housewives who loved
their homes have welcomed the oppor
tunity to move to the city simply to
te rid of i-ch things; but these can
te eliminated in the country, through
proper sanitation and screening.
Not only should the well-to-do rural
home owner protect the water supply
cf his own family against pollution,
bu also the water used by his tenants.
Laws are made for the lawless —not
the law-abiding citizen. Legal action
should be the last resort. It is law
that the property owners in the city
shall provide sanitary conveniences
for themselves and their tenants.
Why, then, should not the rural prop
erty owners be subjected to a similar
law? Law should apply to all and
special privileges to none.
Expanding Water Protection
A study of the water situation in
the United States shows that, While
in 1932, only 31 per cent of the urban
population was tributary to sewerage
treatment plants, there was an in
crease of 70 per cent in the following
five-year period, which means that
more than half the urban population
now has protection. While an expen
diture of? 500,000,000 would be re-
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quirqd to put throe-fourths of the esti
mated people of the United States in
to the safety zone by 1941, yet this is
i small sum' when compared with the
benefits it would bring and. with the
vast sums, -that are being spent on
i non-essentials. •
While cur rural population may not
have the same kind of water systems
and disposal, plants that are provided,
y city bond issues, yet they can have
pure water and can keep it from be
ing polluted., The modern privy is ; a
long step in the direction of protec
tion, and in the location of privies and
stables, with relation to the well, our
rural people can exercise judgment
that will bring them approximate prq-
yection.
With protection against those dis
eases that can be prevented through
proper sanitation and the elimination
of insect pests, rural America will, be
come a veritable, paradise.
What. Electricity Can Do
The extension of rural electrifica
tion already has worked wonders.
This benefit is, in my opinion, des
tined to play a still larger part in the
development of our rural life and in
checking the disastrous exodus of our
rural population to the cities which,
in many instances, they hav,e caused
to be over-crowded, adding to local
health problems.
A New America
A. new day is dawning. We can
see on the horizon signs of a new era
in America—an era of really happy,
healthy country homes, where men
and women can follow that, age-old
instinct to abide amidst the works of
nature, without handicap to health or
pleasure-
Precautions in favor of health are
often pleasant as well as helpful. Take
the matter of refrigeration as an ex
ample. With the extension of electri
city to the country home, this can be
had to the same extent as it is en
joyed by the city housewife—and, in
addition Js o the iced dainties that
come from the electric refrigerator,
it can be used to chill milk, to keep
food at a temperature that will pre
vent it from spoiling, and for other
helpful and sanitary purposes, taking
the place of the old spring house
which, in the days of yore, served as
a refrigerator as well as being the
family’s source of water supply.
Rural Pleasures Reasonable
Electrification also means modern
radio, as a means of entertainment,
and more easily-operated farm ma
chinery, with the assistance of gaso
line, while the motion picture is with
in a few minutes of any farm house
in this age of perfect highway sys
tems.
The younger generation is demand-*
ing more attractive homes, with mod
ern conveniences. Is it not wiser to
satisfy this reasonable desire than to
lose them in the city?
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PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Rocky Mount at Durham.
Winston Salem at Charlotte.
Asheville at Portsmouth.
Norfolk at Richmond.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland at New York.
Detroit at Washington.
Chicago at Boston.
St. Louis at Philadelphia.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York at Pittsburgh,.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati.
Philadelphia at St. Louis.
Boston at Chicago.
Ann Harding, actress, born at San
Antonio, Tex., 33 years ago.
Trojan’s Mentor
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JOHN CAMERON
Louisbyrg, Aug. 7.—The new coach
and director of physical education for
men at Louisburg College is John
Cameron,, former Elon College basket
ball star and member of a state high
school basketball championship team.
He succeeds Coach “Dave” March, the
Trojan mentor for the past year.
Camerqn was coach and teacher at
the Jonesboro high school last year.
He was a member of the Jonesboro
High quint which won the State
championship in 193.
At Elon College he played basket
ball four years and was captain of his
team in his senior year. He also
coached intramural basketball at
Elon for four years.
At present Cameron is director of
athletics at Camp, Sagamore, Milford,
Pa., a summer recreational center.
Coaching School
At University to
Draw Very Good
Chapel Hill, Aug. 7. —Indications
point to a large attendance for the
University of. North Carolina’s 16th
annual Coaching School for athletic
directors and coaches, to open Mon
day, August 16, and continue until
Saturday, August 28.
Inquiries concerning the school and
requests for reservations have been
received from coaches and athletic
directors in widely scattered sections,
E. R. Rankin of the University Ex
tension Division, secretary of th»,
school, said today.
The members of the. Uunvercity of
North Carolina’s regular coaching
staff will make up the staff of in
struction. Robert A. Fetzer, director
of athletics and head of the Depart
ment of Physical Education here, will
serve as director. Instruction will be
given in the coaching of football, bas
ketball, baseball, track, boxing and
wrestling, and in athletic training and
conditioning.
COMPLETE SHUTOUT
GARNERED BY LEWIS
South Henderson and Lions softball
teams divided a doubleheader yester
day afternoon at Pine Park in South
Henderson, with Hubert “Red” Lewis
pitching a no hit, no run game for the
Lions in the opener, the civic club
w.nning 3to 0. Lewis was the victim
of a 4-2 victory of South Henderson in
the night cap.
Terrell and Wortham caught for
the Lions, while Williams handled the
pitching for South Henderson with
Rose behind the bat.
Interest in these games at Pine Park
continues to mount, and the Southsid
ers are expecting to have a team
scheduled for every day next week.
Pans are invited to witness the con
tests .
PIEDMONT LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
Asheville 68 38 .642
Portsmouth 61 47 .565
Norfolk 60 47 .561
Richmond 51 51 .528
Charlotte 55 51 .519
Durham 53 52 .505
Rocky Mount 50 57 .467
, Winston-Salem 23 84 .215
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
New York 65 29 .691
Bston '. 55 37 .598
Chicago 57 41 .582
Detroit 54 39 .581
Cleveland 43 49 .467
. Washington 40 51 .440
St. Louis . 31 62 .333
“ Philadelphia 27 64 .297
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
: Chicago 62 34 .646
‘ New York 57 40 .588
St. Louis 51 44 .537
i Boston 46 52 .469
j Cincinnati 39 55 .415
.: 39 55 .415
| Philadelphia 40 59 .404
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PIEDMONT’ LEAGUE
Durham 12; Rocky Mount 6.
Norfolk 12; Richmond 6.
Asheville 8; Porthmouth 7.
Charlotte 10; Winston Salem 8.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 7; Chicago‘3.
Detroit 10; Washington 3.
■ New York 7; Cleveland 6.
' Only games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 12-6; Boston* 6-2.
New York 6; Pittsburgh 3.
St. Louis 10; Philadelphia 7.
Cincinnati 3; Brooklyn 1. „
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Depressions Have Roots in
Times Far. Back of Their
Explosion
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Aug. \ President
Roosevelt seems to be a victim of na
tional economic recovery.
For an administration to be the vic
tim of a depression is no new thing.
President Hoover’s administration
was the victim of one, which I never
thought it was responsible for. I
think the war caused it. It was due,
as an aftermath of the world conflict,
and it chanced to set in in the midst
of the Hooverian term. True, Presi
dent Hoover had pot foreseen it, as
probably he ought to have done. He
imagined that we were living in a
new era of permanent prosperity.
The time for preventive measures
to be taken, so far as this country
was concerned, was in the early days
of the big struggle. Even if we had
not gone into it we should have felt
its subsequent backwash. Almost
more than human wisdom would have
been required to hit on the necessary
measures, at that stage of tlie game,
to save us from suffering from its
effects.
Who Could Have Acted?
Anyway, Hoover was caught by a
depression resulting from conditions
long ante-dating his period in office.
If any president primarily was to
blame it was Woodrow Wilson. Per
haps President Harding or President
Coolidge should have foreseen what
was coming, and done something—
heaven knows what! But the country
would not have permitted it, at that.
It thought it was living to the tune of
an eternal bloom.
President Cleveland’s second admin
istration also ended to the accom
paniment of a fierce depression, in
the early 1890’s.
Cleveland was accused of causing
that. Yet the late President Melvin
A. Traylor of the First National Bank
of Chicago, a great economist and
financier, once told me that he con
sidered that smashup the last thun
derclap of the war of secession, a
third of a century ahead of Cleve
land’s presidential time.
In fact, it is notorious that the
farmers bawl out the administration
if the weather is unfavorable and
they have poor crops.
Tins Is'Different
But for prosperity to handicap an
administration? That is another prop
osition.
Nevertheless, itis the situation
now.
Hitherto, when an administration
has come in on a depression anej.,
prosperity has ensued, that adjntfii
stration has claimed credit jfrr' it and
“cashed in”. , '
Normally the administration should
proclaim, with pyrotechnics;
“We did all this!”
And, indeed, it does.
Also, however, it insists:
“We want to KEEP it so.”
The idea is the prevent any FU
TURE depressions.
The widespread response is:
“To heck with FUTURE depres
sions! Let’s not rock the boat
RIGHT NOW.”
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HEALTH SERVICE IS
AN INVITING FIELD
Dr. Carl Reynolds State Could
Use Prepared
for Preventive Work
Raleigh, Aug. 7.—There are vacan
cies which could be filled with trained
men, if these were available, it was
announced here today by Dr. Carl
Reynolds, State health officer, who
said: ‘We would like to contact doc
tors under 35 years of age of out
standing personality and professional
fitness who would like to take up pub
lic health work as a specialty and not
as a stepping-stone to curative medi
cine.” By this, he said, he meant
young physicians who wished to make
this form of service their life’s work.
He added that he had appealed to the
medical profession, asking its
ation in this important matter and
calling attention to the fact that for
the training of eligibles funds are
now available, and that two special
courses are now given at Chapel Hill;
each year for the training of public
health specialists, the next course to
begin September 20. The public
health field is one that not only af
fords an ample opportunity for serv
ice but it is often remunerative.
1840 —Adolph F. A. Bandelier, Ame
rican archaeologist-explorer in the
southwest, Mexico and South America,
born in Switzerland. Died in Spain,
March 18, 1914.
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