THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28. 1322
Carolina
HIE GASTON 1 A (N. C.) DAILY GAZETTE
''" North
'flic Story of an Industrial Comiminilv Where
Putting Human Values Ahead 'of Produetion
Has Created a Wonder Villaire
til-Mr Tt , Jf ir , : ;
.' 11 .i.-vfii.'.Sij ''fY-' STe-- ' ft- ! 1 ArtSAHv-
e arc Ilavo common :chools in '.I,"r4 Vi"f ff r?2'lulif "' ',! i --V-.K? KSS ' .Jf'C. &iG
community, ail housed in fin,. V , .?tfJi;S I C ; U, ?I P H - STC I 1 f .W .Vfe4fi
2ht a I C, Sl!H,i .innl -.Hi 5 2 K 1 ' M l f.. ' ' t JKA tJ ,-t JL,I
rcho! huiMinir To popular' . '' 'Vy-:-.r . C , ' . I .'V4 j '.
n a a 5o.ooa i n:
Thomr. More
HEN
topia. describing a land of
wrote way
Ther
unity, fclnndance, and Christian
rharity, l,e ha-l never heard of
North Carolina. Moreover, had
the paUant foH arnl romanticist
lueii a v .11 itifornitd concerning
the heart of I'ixk' a the overape
Amerkaii'. he prohably would not
have associated it with his mylhi-
(l rmmlrv of hanntne. Morel hiph
iikf'.y hi- ..uli1 have shared the
erase N'orthowei's tniwoncep
tion tf .the South, picturing it
k land then ever entirely to colo
r.ial' estate sith a hackgoiinl of
totton fit Id. and liepro I'it'ker
caroling Dixw nielodics.
So the fhai! of Sir Thc.roai
jor assuuimu fr him as close
an acquaintance With North i'aro
hna an that of the average Amen
caq would uudoubted'v giv
urt of" urrrise were ie in
formed that of all the rich and
happy section of the United
.States, the "land ob cotton" con
tains a community which probably
most closely resembles the tabled
Utopia.
Work Bal of Happiness
, The basis of happiness s work,
human experience ban pretty con
clusively ghown, and the happiness
of the community embracing the
two little cities of Rosemary and
Roanoke Kapid. North Carolina,
bears this out. It is not csst in a
conventional Hollywood "happi
neBa" setting of golf courses and
marble pools inlaid with, bathing
beauties. Odd as it may seem, con
sidering the normal mental reac
tion to the word "work," the up-and-coming,
spick-and-span, alert
and active community of Rosemary
and Roanoke Rapids is founded on
mills, workaday, humming, rum
bling mills. The Rosemary Mills
mabe cotton damasks, used for
tabl linen, and happen to be the
largest of their kind in the world.
The Roanoke Mills make cotton
flannels. All are operated by
Samuel P, Pottaoon, a man who
believer so strongly that this
the
hrirk
i -t ennu
terson
thou
would be better, so encouraged tfcej V
Funmrsion t,l a hnnj i)iie for a
, 'world' was intended to be a good
' place ta live in that he has made
" his own neighborhood that way.
' Id Rosfeinary and Roanoke Rap
ids there are about 7,500 people,
- . Mr. Patterson wanted them intel
ligent. .
Mills Give $450,000 Toward tSOV.000
. ." High School
Mr. Pstterson is not a college
man, but he has profound respect
for education schooling as one
of the surest and most satisfactory
l
run,
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Daughters of Employee ind Executive
on same team.
vote, the schooL ta cost $500,000 ucation should be a preparation
and the mills to nay all but f50,.
000 of its cost. The people, were
quick to recognize the munificence
of the offer und passed the bond
issue. Schools costing a half mil
lion dollars are not commoa In
communities of 7,500 people; nor
are its enrollment of 2,120 pupils,
and its faculty of 63 teachers.
School Fits Students for Life
As becoming a community which
believes in training intelligence,
this high Rthool is the center of
everything. It is in use night and
day, twelve months in the year.
Its auditorium, seating 2,000, -with
a stage large enough for the most
ambitious theatrical productions
and equipped with full scenic
equipment, i the center for lec
tures, concerts, theatricals, all the
cultural and entertaining factor
which are usually found only hi
cities. And naturally the rest of
the community feels an abiding in
terest in an institution where over
two thousand young people are
learning to et the lst. things in
'jfe, and appreciate them.
Air. Patterson's idea is that ed-
for life, and the lives of most peo
pie have more to do with measles,
cooking, housekeeping, carpentry,
farming, and the rudiments of
business than with Latin syntax
and solid geometry. Young men
or women in this community high
rcbool can prepare for a classical
toorse in college ifthey desire, but
.t i . '..r? i i ...
tuey cau atM equip wifunenrs vi
meet the problems of life on grad
uation from the high school. Em
phasis is placed on practical
things, as the big shining kitchen,
the long lines of Hewing machines,
and class rooms , for textile study
testify.
Tutors at Home for Old FolKs
There are eople in 'Ktriitary
and Uoanoke Kapids who in their
youth dirt-not have the advantages
their children have n.w. Somt of
them were middle aged, abd some
of them old, and they could not
read or write. The coirinnitiity
night school.-i have demount rated
that you can teach an old do new
tricks. Thei-e people now read and
vrite, and have had u whale world
of new interests opened up to them.
Shyness, diffidence concerning
TV,
their Ignorance, kept some ci the
older ones away from the night
school class rooms. Mr. Patterson
saw this, but did not conclude that
people provided night schools, and
who did cot use them, were not
deserving of education. He got the
point of view of these shy old peo
ple and tent teachers to their
homes to instruct thetiu Ore oid
lady, .Mrs. Rosa Lynch, 5- years
old, had a boy in the army and
couldn't write to him. Patterson
t!it a teacher to. her, and one uf
(he trophies which he values most
i a wry vreditKb'.e Jettrr written
) him by l.n thai. ;. him fur
enabling her to M-nd her Uiuutf!r.
to ikV hoy when he tei;ded them
mo.kt. There are 910 employees o
v!ih lo:-emary Mi!N, and . 800 ic
tin- -i.uiit,ke Rapids Mills, ar.d
tviiy one of them peaks Hnglish
and is a:i American citizen.
This process of mckiaa the
world a tietter place in which to
live, as practiced by Patter: on,
doesn't ttop with schools. Ten
is-
year tgo Lir. T. U'. M. I.'ing, em
uloved by" the mills, 'examined tlii
people of the coni,.iunity and found j cut
that 4ft.X per cent were ?iiflVt ir:g I feptii
from malaria. There were tui-1 wer
TBiv
of the evfl. Dr. Ing fought
mosquitoes with the assistance ef
Public Health Service experts,
using Panama Zone methods,
draining stagnant water and oil
iii;r what could not be drained.
With thir breeding pools-detrov-dd
there are no more uiosq n:i.e;,
and the 'la-it survey showed that
less than t;EV-U nth o? o:. p-r cen
o the population of Rosemary and
J;o;inok" llapiil; ha-i malarial
s'ymptcini u
Wipe Out Typhoid Fever
In Aup'i?'. rJlU. liiere were 2."?
casc.5 'f t yphi-iid i" the community.
Ti c " e ojrf . !rri! ii-ifi water
;". -.I;-. ' -hiti'"-." weil t iug 'siy in-
a sewnge rystetn, was fnund to be
the cuwac Xew wells were driven
to depths of hundreds of feet
lyypr of granite that
it tise surface water, and
tank-? for ewagn, disposal
in "tailed. There have been
large mnui'u '..resdinj? fwainp.-"
near the town, the source oi mo. t
tv.n i-,-ise. of typhoid of local origin
in the community since then.
But people will get sick. Td
cope with this a $75,000 hospital
was built by the mills in 101S,
with Dr. Long at the head, and five
doctors, two graduate nurses, and
1J student nurses to ar-sist him.
There are fifty bedi in the hos
pital. Eight hundred patient!
were admitted last year, with a
death rate of only three am) a half
per cent. Mrs. Patterson fuiiii.sli
10 the finest operating equipment
;btuinahl tnd there ha-j recently
been installed tomplete X-Kay ap
paratus. Radium m to cotnt- t.ext,.
por the Kervice if tlii.-i hospital iut
tbemselve und their f;iiiii!i.-i. iMeh
I.-lili employee , (lays ten et-mi u
wttk. Tile hospital i j.ilniinis
tered by the couniy ei.iiiiuiMhriM,
the mayor of Ro'anoke 'Rapids, :h
general wtanat i of the mills and
the doctors employed by the mills.
There is n deficit every year
which the mills make up. .
Recreation for Everybody
The high school bin a ilfty
piec orchestra, arid there, are mill
bands both at Rosemary and Ro-
anoke Rapids. The community '
ha. public .swimming pucl.-i, park,
and playground.. There are Boy ;
ano tiirl Scout Troops, uniformed
by the mills. Much of the seven,
churches stiieh had roiun for a
pip organ ua.- jirovided with una
ly Mr. Paiiersiin. A tomplete
cannery is maintained, with the
tine; equipment, to which house
holder, may bring 'their piud-ieo
ana preserve it merely fur lht
cost of the eans. "I'l.e houses of
the mill 'employees, owned by th '
company, are ii.,t the conven!)..,!!!
llli.l-IOW'j t pe. Must are of in
dividual design, each one has
J i"-r;.es
he.-t tiiiii,
S. The I'ef.t
luwiis aini maiden plot
are olfei.-i! ft.r tist-vegetabie'.-.
ai d rlowe
IS $l..'ui a WeiK.
"Utopian" is- a word ued to de
scribe ti:at which i pleasant, hut
impractical. The tle.sci iption of
Rosemary niiti Roanoke Rapids
souniij a little bit like Sir' Thomas
More'i dream of a happy country,
h:s mythical Utopia. And it is,
bat it is not impractical.
Good Christianity and Good
Business.
Mr. Patterson is an idealist, but
not a dreamer. He believes t.;,t
th things whir.h he i; !' urv
,! ("t'-isti'i'ilt"- nd t-f--..; ;
rie;.s. The ;ort of peojile v.-i,. ,,.-m
living in Rosemary and Roa-r...i:
Rapids, and want to stay ther.
the look in their faces- the sotit'd
limbed, keen, and briglit-iVced
children in the school yardV and
thu classrooms these tliii-.i, .".n-i
a gotid many others, inchne onu lu
the opininon that he ia riLL
REPORT OF CLUB WORK FOR 1022.
"r County Agents Altman and Pickens
hi.? sent in rpports to Raleigh; on c.l'ib
wrk'for the year as follows: A. total. of
153 members made n iinal report. The
nurt toiai ei lnemocrs r"2lniuiij tiis
work au not be ctated ince a correct en
roHdieut was never, given the County
Agents. These members had as their
projects; ealf, corn, cotton, pig and poul
try and were divided a follows:
IS Corn Club members.
0 Cotton Club member.
2 Calf CI ub niembers.
31 Hg Club members.
SO Poultry Club members.
A total of 153 club members.
Pfotu tho above it will be seen t bat
pealtry rlub worli has been the popular
prdjoet this year; -, -."', ':.; ,. ,
; The total valu?'of nil projects to the
rtsmbers tras -fl.6J0.52." The cost In
. feeding and carta i; for this work cost the
members JU.OiHi.SM givinu them a net
arning of bevides the prizes
which they won. ;
: tJiime members li.irp done outdtandinj
ly good -work while others have been less
efficient. Club work cannot be measurer
by. the earnings ns shown above. The
Ueji Is io educate and develop the mem
ber and incidentally to make money.
These demonstrations neattre1 :n tliey
are over almost the entire county serve-.is
lights to sbor ihat enn 1-e done and in
almost every instance has made the mem
bers money. .
Far instance in the . Corn Club lb
average yield for the Biemfcership -was 4.1
bnsheks. The cost peT hnthcl on an ever
age was 33 cents. In the Tig Club pork
was raised on the average for 52-3 rents
per pound. Cotton T-as raised' for 4
cent per ponnd, seed eotton, thus show
ing yrofite for everr phase of the wotk.
A segulsr monthly meeting has beei
keld with these members, nn annual cn
eaainment, judrriiip work et the Commun
ity Fairs, the founty Tair end the State
Fair and at all times the best informa
tion obtainable on these rubjeets has beca
riven the members.
An optstandinir result o fthis vork has
been the heln of the member in th-
fairs of the onntr. They took an active
part in xhibii their ware at these
faire an! as a result the fsirs were grest
Vv beneCtted and strcnethened.
Club Work at Clenmer.
Mr. M. 1 Strouoe, club leader for the i
ClficmfT Club pave in prizes to his clab i
members in 3C23- m lepistered Berk-
ihirpi2ar,d f 13.00 in cash. .
These prires were wen s follows: i
Com i
1st prire p won br Leoasrd Stroure.
p rire 2.00 Wn by Kenneth Fl
wtrdt. . -
5rJ prii 11.00 won hr Eft est Eel
1. Jr.
Poultry.
let pri 3.00 won by Virginia
rupe.
2jA i rLie 2.00' won by Edna Stroupe.
3rd prize $1.25 won by Velmn Linebcryr lamonp the conntj-'hoys and Rirls.
pjg j Thanks are herebv extended to Mr.
iStronnc-for his leadershin mid the ve-v
!r2.0rt won by Leonard lgeneroni donations as prizes to the
I worthy members.
THE OLD HOME TOWN
BY STANLEY
1st prize
Ftronpe.
2nd pm
3rd prize .
This was
1.00 won by Ednn St roup".
75 won by James Lineberper.
an unusual feature of thib
work this year r-nd was iu vogue only
in the Cloounor Club. These priitea stim
ulated rmite an interest: in club work.
The pri2cs were awarded on basis of com
plete year work
DR. CRAFTS DEAD.
- WASHINGTON. Dee. 27. Dr.
I Wilbur P. Crafts, for JS years .superiii
Jtendeiit of the International Reform
Hoveau which lie founded, nnd widely
and unusual work was I known lecnuse of hi iuMiritii mi lw-
half of prohibition and similar move
ments, died at a hospital here today of
pneumonia. He was 73 years old.
mi
HAWK BOYNTONS
.-.r-LEt STOHE
Z. MCt IAI.V cam--ieeo
- worrA-sT
ineeompliihed in this club. We f-cl that
jMr. 8tronpe has sot a precedent and has
stimulated the already interesting work
lunut' I tk
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NEAR THE END
OF THE YEAR
As the ol.l yi-.-ir near its end, but lie fore . h.-e, !in- 7!-ird Xidio-ial
r.:n:l; viishcs to express appreciation n i! . iisioinei v -! .'lieiiil.i i'ur
Hi,- l:i';i!"'i! eo nhfiTil ion leeeiveil from them dlili-.'; i'.t- : -1 !.-!v.
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And, io so doing, it dsireS to voice I he. hope t!;.:t : j ;,:ri' o da -.vn
nrnv be, for one and all. rich in Joys that a iv v.o::l, tli. v.;.;;.v :.ud
lii.e ! with possiliiiities that a humid i.i il.!-e. k.
"Our Service Makes Frienck"
or a lyuuunute-.jjun
dASTONIA. N. C.
SUBSCRIBE TO THE GAZETTE
E3f tst txa
On or about Jan. lOtlv we. will move to f
R Main Ave. . '
Tuor imn lrnr onct 'fvnTYi mil1 nvpcimf Trrr-
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tion, other side of street, second door from
C. & N.-W.-crossing.
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