PINEHURST OUTLOOK
Published Erery Saturday Morning Daring
the Season, Noyember -My, at
Pinehurst, North Carolina
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Saturday," lctiiilnr 15, 1Q17-IM
THE Is! IV Ell VII MT CHAPEL
Bide You a Hearty Welcome to
All It Seivlcen
SUNDAYS.
Holy Communion 9.15 A. M.
Children's Service 10.00 A. M.
Morning Prayer and Sermon 11.00 A.
M.
Among the first arrivals in the village
this year as every year were the Eev. and
Mrs. T. A. Cheatham. Under his charge
not only has the chapel become the centre
of the useful and purposeful life of our
little community, but the Juniper cottage
is the headquarters whence radiates a
helpful spirit felt over the whole Sand
hill region. In the face of the resound
ing alarms of war, and the hectic and
dramatic activities on links and track,
among dances and rides and tournaments,
it is well to remember that heart to win
the war, and the only permanent basis of
our teeming community both centre be
fore the altar. And that our minister
and the old residents of the community
the substantial men and women that have
given the village its character, are at
present planning to make Christmas a
day of plenty and of good hope., and
simple faith to the neighborhood, white
and black. The chapel doors stand open
to all its welcome is as broad as the
Christian religion, without dogma and
without limit. Its support is your duty
as well as your privilege.
Whore Democracy llaa Failed
War, bloody and cruel as it is, has one
obvious compensation. It reveals the
weak points in the nation. It is the final
acid test which brings out the sore spots
and lays bare the flabby flesh.
The critics of our National Life and
the calamity howlers have been astonished
and ' rebuked by the unexpected vitality
and energy exhibited by our "useful an 1
supposedly soft population. Thero
a community in the land that has failed
to respond to the call to battle with vigor
and almost spartan hardihood. For this
we rejoice.
Nevertheless the great test has devel
oped some apalling defects in our civil
ization and in our ways of living. The
most alarming is the discovery that our
philosophy and the administration of de
mocracy has signally failed to produce
men. Wealth beyond the dreams of
misers we have obtained. And with
it manifest a spirit of sacrifice and
service, born 6f the will to be independent
and a love of justice, which gives the lie
direct to those critics who have assumed
that our soul was lost in a wilderness of
profits. .,
But our system, has given little con
sideration to the welfare anu ..fining of
children has totally neglected the sci
ence of the making of men. The conse
ijuence is tin-, discovery that 3es than one
third of young Americans coming of age
are physically and mentally fit for any
thing. The examinations for the army
demonstrates in cold ' figures that less
than this proportion can qualify for the
very least definition of a man or even a
normal animal. The majority are thrown
out as unable to walk any required dis
tance, or unable to see, or unable to hear,
or unable to understand a few elementary
orders. That is to say, they do not meas
ure up to- the breeding tests of ordinary
Missouri mules.
Contrary to the popular. idea, this con
dition of incompetence has been found in
the recent examinations for the army to
be from 7 to 20 per cent worse, in the
country than in the cities.
Dr. J. A. Nydegger, in charge of the
Public Health service of the United
States has plainly stated the cause of this
waste of manhood and vital National
energy.
It is that the health of country chil
dren is not only neglected but positively
injured by the prevailing conditions in
tiie public schools. He says
"Defective eyes, ears, teeth and
throats among the youth of the rural
communities have been found to be due
largely to conditions in the rural schools.
Improper desks and seats also have
caused much spinal curvature, leading to
other faulty conditions. These conditions
ought to be corrected at once, and school
children all over the country should be
examined because defect) arising at their
period of life as a rule cannot be over
come later.
The Itemed j
Obviously the coming of prosperity and
the building of a great government and
the progress of arts and sciences and
even the dawn of "social and industrial
justice" and international civility are of
no avail if meantime we ourselves degen
erate. It is a waste of time to organize
business and breed pigs and potatoes and
build libraries and universities and
dreadnoughts to defend them, if mean
time the children of the land are to grow
up without eyes to see or ears to hear or
the brains and spirit to use and appre
ciate them.
It is abundantly clear that the Federal
government will eventually have to as
sume this most essential of all duties,
and provide a vocational education for
every urchin in the land and even more
to the point, medical attention and cor
rection to every scholar. A careful sur
vey of the problem in this district has
conclusively shown that two public in
stitutions are indispensible. One is a
big public boarding school comfined to
the boys and girls of the district, in
which not only elementary " book-learning'
' is thoroughly taught, but farm
work, military drill and household econ
omy are actually practiced. Such an
institution of itself goes just half way
towards the solution. A public commun
ity hospital and clinic is not only a nec
essary adjunct, but the most important
of the two.
What Are We Doing- About It
Under existing circumstances the es
tablishment of such institutions where
they are most needed is a very difficult
matter. There is no governmental agency
for such a purpose. And the country dis
tricts where our men are made, anl where
the demand is greatest there is of course
no private capital sufficient for the pur
pose. The coming generation of the
greatest value to the republic lives along
the rivers and valleys, on the plains and
on the tide waters of the Atlantic while
the money of the country is concentrated
along the asphalt pavements of the
metropolis.
This Pinehurst neighborhood, one of
the poorest in worldly goods of the South,
has recognized this primary duty that it
owes the nation, and has undertaken to
establish such a school and such a hos
pital. The school The Sandhill Farm
Life School is training a hundred and
fifty country children in right living.
The hospital adjunct, named the James
Rogers McConnell hospital after the
famous aviator, is the headquarters for
the examination of every child in the
Sandhills. As a simple mathematical
demonstration of its life-saving func
tions we note the fact that one-third of
the defective children found in the sur
vey have been treated and their troubles
corrected there already.
What You Can Do About It
These two absolutely essential plants
for the making of men are established.
They should be the very first concern of
an efficient government. But they are
not. The country people here simply can
not pay either for the proper buildings
and equipment, or maintain them at full
efficiency without an endowment fund.
If you are concerned with the future
of our race with the demonstration of the
only final answer to our rural problems,
or with the welfare of your neighbors in
this immediate vicinity, take the occa
sion to ride to Eureka and ascertain that
we have understated rather than exag
gerated the facts, and then give your
check to J. R. McQueen, treasurer for
the rebuilding of country life in the
Sandhills, the South, and .the United
States of America. That is unless you
prefer some better cause. When you dis
cover that, you are invited to call our
attention to it.
Cold In Florida
Stuyvesant LeRoy who is off on a short
visit to Clear Water, Florida, reports
that if anyone is looking for warm
weather this week he will have to go on
to the Tropic of Cancer or join forces
with his majesty below.
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EUGENE G. MILLER. Manages
Pinehurst Jewelry Shop
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Jewelry Notions and Silverware
Repairing and Engraving
IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS
Bethlehem Country Club
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18 Hole Course 6020 yards .
Modern Club Hou?e
Steel Lockers Showers
Two Clay Tennis Court.
Clock Golf and Putting Greens.
Bethlehem has 30 Hotels
Their guests have the privilege of
the Club
Ask Mr. Abbe,
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BELLE TEHEE NURSERY
English Violet Plants $1.50 per 100
Belgium Iris Bulbs 1.50 per 100
English Ivy Plants 3.00 per doz.
Will add beauty to your grounds
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