Robbins Talks On
College Growth
"Louisburg College Is a
Bridge between high school
and the big college", Dr. Cecil
Robbins, president of Louis
burg College, told members
and guests of the Warrenton
Rotary Club at their regular
meeting at Hotel Warren on
Tuesday night of last week.
Dr. Robbins was here in the
interest of, and to attend a
meeting of The Louisburg
College Fund, of which
W. E. Perry, Jr., is local chair
man. He also attended the
meeting of the Rotary Club
as their guest speaker. He was
accompanied by Mr. R. R.
Winkelmann, an associate of
the Development Fund Cam
paign. In a drive of which
Warren County is taking an
active part. The college has a
goal of $900,000 for new build
ings and equipment, of which
more than $150,000 has al
ready been raised, it is under
stood.
"All colleges have their
struggles", Dr. Robbins said,
"but we feel that Louisburg is
at the threshhold of its great
ness and ready to go forward
and give to the young man and j
woman the very best possible
instruction to be found in a
junior college and to prepare
them to meet the demands in
their junior and senior years
at the four year college of
their choice, he pointed out.
We are justly proud of the
fine academic record of the
college which has stood up
since the college was chartered
in 1787 until the present. Dr.
Robbin said that the college
was first a woman's college
but became a co-educational
in 1931. Last year Louis
burg had 552 students and
this year they expect 600, he
said.
An interesting part of his
talk was illustrated by slides
which showed the physical
equipment of the college in
cluding a new boys' dormitory
which will house over 90 stu
dents. This new dormitory will
be ready for occupancy this
September, it is understood.
Dr. Robbins, a former pastor
of Wesley Memorial Methodist
Church here, was presented by
W. E. Perry, Jr., who presided
over the meeting in the ab
sence of Troy Barrett, presi
dent of -the Rotary Club. Guests
included W. R. Drake, R. R.
Winkelmann and Duke Jones.
Letters To The
Editor
ANSWERS MRS. PERKINSON
To The Editor:
There was a letter printed
in the Letter to the Editor
column in The Warren Record
of June 1, 1962, by Charlotte
Story Perkinson which de
serves a reply by a member of
the medical profession. The
following is that reply:
It was stated, "the reason
doctors would not come there
to practice is because of the
economic conditions." Let me
reassure everyone that that is
not the reason. 1 came to
serve the community and the
county with the best medical
care we can offer. Although
the economic factor exists, this
was way down the list in the
consideration of coming to this
county. Also a new, young
surgeon has come to Warren
ton this month. Three new
young physicians in less than
two years refutes, in my opin
ion, the above statement.
DOCTORS HAVE COME!
Further in the letter is stat
ed, "the county is one of the
depressed areas." This has al
ways been true of any primar
ily rural county in late winter
when there is essentially no
farm work to do. I challenge
the writer to check the em
ployment scale in late summer
and autumn to arrive at a bet
ter conclusion about this point.
And anyway, what does unem
ployment have to do with med
ical care for the aged in our
county?
"No one in Warren County
pays exorbitant taxes and the
few additional dollars paid
into Social Security would be
negligible," she writes. True,
initially this would probably
be negligible, but within a few
years this will rise higher and
higher. Within the bill itself
there is the formula for an in
crease to 4 3/4 per cent in
1968 for employee and 4 3/4
percent for the employer, or a
total of 9 1/2 per cent in only
six yecrs How much higher
it would go after that, God
only knows.
Further, she stated, "it is
like putting money in the sav
ings bank to help yourself and
your family when Jrou can no
longer work." Dear lady, noth
ing could be farther from the
truth. "Health Insurance Ben
efits Act of 1961" or the King
Anderson Bill (H.R. 4222)
takes money from the working
person NOW to pay for ser
vices rendered NOW to some
one else who has paid nothing
into this fund. This fund (So
cial Security) is a TAX (and
is so stated within the context
of the bill itself) by the gov
ernment and the government
spends the taxpayer's money
only as it sees fit. As she so
candidly pointed out, this io
socialism for sure.
In a lengthy discussion
about the farm program and
parity (which has little to do
with medical care for the aged
except both are socialist in
their nature) she champions
the loss of freedom for the
individual. She asks, "Is all
this socialized agriculture?" I
"Sure it's paid...
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reply, yet, and suggest she
speak to any farmer on this
subject. I have, and have not
I heard a one yet who liked
what was happening to him.
It was very heartening to see
Mr. W. H. Bender's reply last
week from a farmer's view
point. She also suggests that
the King-Anderson bill "is for
the general welfare, the great
est good to the greatest num
ber." She is wrong! The ones
most in need (and I realize
there is a general need) would
not be covered by this bill.
In reality this bill is bad leg
islation for a minority group
as a poltical maneuver.
"Aren't there otber people
in Warren wno will support
President Kennedy or are you
afraid to speak out for fear
you will not be able to get a
doetoi if and when you need
one?" BOSH! The Warren
County Medical Society has in
vited comments and criticisms.
None have been voiced to us
from the citizens of Warren
County. Political opinions have
never influenced my practice
of medicine and never will in
fluence my relationship to my
patients as a physician. No
I patient, to my knowledge, has
ever been refused care since
I have been in this county and
this is irrespective of ability
to pay. The Warren County
Medical Society will stand on
its record on this point. Fur
ther, I resent this intimida
tion, for we have a fine hos
pistal here and anyone need
ing medical attention need
only present himself there for
care. This is available, 24
hours a day, seven days a
week, 52 weeks a year. Seven
physicians are on the hospital
staff at the present time to
provide medical care to the
citizens of Warren County. No
one need ever be denied care,
and certainly not from fear of
having wrong politics.
We physicians welcome com
ments and encourage opposing
viewpoints. I hope further
discussions will appear in this
column. In last week's edi
torial was an excellent truism.
"No man is wise enough to
know all the answers, and fur
thermore, the readers are en
titled to have more than one
side of. a question presented
to them."
I plead that we not travel
the same socialistic road which
destroyed the Roman Empire
and that era of history and
civilization. I would like to
think that we lov?K<)ur chil
dren and grandchildren enough
not to leave them with a dying
country and a wasted democ
racy that was founded to pre
serve and insure individual
freedom.
ROBERT S. CLINE, M. D.
THE KERR-MILLS BILL IS
NOT THE ANSWER
The Kerr-Mills Bill for medi
cal care for the aged is not
the answer for medical care
for the aged. It is operable I
only in 28 states. I under
stand you hav? it in North
Carolina and in Maryland but
not in Virginia.
Why should the richest
country in the world fail to
provide for its aged without
making them sign a pauper's
oath, which is what they have
to do under Kerr-Mills, saying
they cannot pay their hospital
bills and do not have any
children able to pay them.
In addition to the doctors
(some of them, not all), and
the insurance companies, about
the only people who really ob
ject to the King-Anderson Bill
are those children whose par
ents are so old that they were
not covered by S. S. and whose
duty it is and always has been
to look after their aged fath
ers and mothers. In a few
more years this condition will
automatically correct itself
through Social Security. Only
a few of those now under So
cial Security could pay the
high cost of medical car<\
Certainly a monthly income of
from $40 to S100 unless they
have other income could not
do it.
When I said "If this is so
cialism let's have more of it,"
I did not refer to medical care
but to the very great changes
in the farm picture since a
| farmer gets parity and since
there is crop control and
green fields instead of washed
out poor land.
Only a small percentage of
the people over sixty-five have
an income of more than $1300
a year, including S. S., and it
is estimated that medical care
under the King Anderson Bill
will cost the worker only $1.00
a month in taxes. Private in
surance costs about $4.74 a
month under Blue Cross, and
$7 a month under Blue
Shield. The conditions I, re
ferred to under the old crop
lien system, little better than
slavery, allowed a poor farmer
no chance whatever to save.
He worked all right and so
did all his family, but he often
ended up worse than when he
started. He could not live be
yond what he did not have.
Having been born in New
England, I know and have al
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ity tho point tkat't worth tho rnrttZm UA9TT UtTtl
ways practiced thrift. But be
fore one can save, one has to
have something to save.
I am sorry we have to have
such a large national debt, but
that is mostly for national de
fense, and very necessary un
der world conditions at the
present time, and while I
never liked the expression
"Charity Begins at Home," I
do think that before we send
too much money out of the
United States to help feed and
protect other peoples in need,
we should first take care of
our own senior citizens too old
to work.
The matter of having to pay
the first $90 under King-An
derson Bill is a safety valve.
It will tend to keep people
who are not really ill from
taking hospital beds which are
desperately needed by others.
That is one of the troubles
with private hospital insurance
now. Some who have it think
they would like to take a lit
tle rest in a hospital and often
find a way to get a doctor to
hospitalize them unnecessarily.
I once knew a woman who
felt that she should use her
thirty days hospitalization
once every year.
Really the only people who
do not have to worry over the
possibility of those huge hos
pital bills are the very poor
and the very rich. Those tn
the middle income brackets
and drawing S. S. are the
ones who worry over sickness
the most. In a city like Nor
folk the Welfare Department
sees to it that the indigent ill
are well cared for. Really I
can not see why that here we
need the Kerr-Mills Bill. Also
some of our wealthier churches
maintain a cot fund which
Warren Boy Shoots
In International
Match In Germany
A Warrenton boy who is
making a career of the army
has added laurels to his record
as a pistol shot.
Sgt. Sam Hunter, son of
George Hunter of Areola,
brother of Edward Hunter of
Warrenton, and a former em
ployee of the Citizens Insur
ance and Bonding Company,
was a member of the U. S.
Pistol Team which set a new
world record for the Inter
national Centerfire Match re
cently held in Wiesbaden,
Germany.
This was revealed in a re
cent postal card from Hunter
to Gordon Poindexter, presi
dent' of the Citizens Insurance
and Bonding Company, mailed
pays for a hospital bed for
any member not able to pay
his own bill. At Christ and
St. Luke's in addition to the
cot fund, to which people of
ten make contributions in
, memory of a departed loved
one, we also have a Relief
Chapter which looks into cases
of need not always members
| of our church. The church be
ing down town there are many
I calls for help.
As I said previously, I say
I again if there is any place in
the State of North Carolina
which needs the benefits of ]
medical care under S. S. it is
Warren County. You have no
very rich churches and your
welfare funds are limited.
CHARLOTTE STORY
PERKINSON.
Norfolk, Va.
from Biel, Swietzerland. Ha
said that he did "fairly well"
individually, winning the C. F.
honors and placing second with
the free pistol.
On May 17, members of the
U. S. team were guests of the
German Shooting Club on an
excursion down the Rhein Riv
er in the heart of the famous
Rhein wine growing district.
Hunter said that he was hav
ing a lot of fun but would be
happy to get back to the Unit
ed States.
Mr. H. M. Williams and Mr.
Mark Williams of Rocky Mount
visited their brother, Mr.
Graham Williams, in Atlanta,
Ga., last week.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Daniel
and Mary Elizabeth of Little-'
ton were dinner guests of
Miss Mary Frances Rodwell on
Sunday.
Mrs. F. B. Twitty and chil
dren are visiting relative* ill
Louisburg.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hall,
Jr., of Durham were here over
the weekend.
Dr. Rufus S. Jones
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