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Four THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, Nbrth Carolina Friday, September 18, 1936- Care and Training the Answer To Many ^Feeble-Minded Cases Miss McQueen Cites Examples of What Can Be Done For Indi(2:ent Chiluren Resettlement What and Why Record Enrollment in Cameron School On Winter Schedule Southern Pines Library to Be Open Mornings and After noon After October 1st The winter schedule at the Southern Pines Library will be re sumed on October 1. Beginning with this date, the library will be open daily from 10:00 to 12:00 in the morning and from 2:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon. On and after October 1, a sys tem of particular advantage to new members will be in force. New memberships will become effective at once, and will continue so for the balance of 1936 and throughout 1937. This means that prompt ac tion will bring full library privi leges for 15 months—October 1, 1936 to January 1, 1938—upon pay ment of the membership fee for one year. This item should be of especial interest to newcomers, and to those who wish to make their vacation memberships per manent. By MIm Flora McQueen We frequently read articles by ad vocates of birth control, sterilization and other reforms, sounding a note of pessimism in regard to the com ing generations of our country. These articles tell us that the low type fam ilies are on the increase, that the feeble minded groups are multiply ing by leaps and bounds and that something must be done about It, pre sumably birth control or whatever measure is being advocated. This is not meant to take issue with these articles or their writers, who, armed with a staggering array ' of statistics, have achieved a pos. ition well nigh invulnerable, but ra-1 ther to ask a question, prompted by a recent experience. The experience ' was the close connection with an in- : stitution for undernourished children, ■ which served several counties. Are ^ all the vast numbers of children in-1 eluded in the statistics of the re-' formers and permanently feeble ^ minded, is the question. | The children in the institution came mainly from indigent families. After ^vished we could give them one as a about two weeks of regular, well parting gift. One Jittle boy cried planned meals and regular hours for. nigj,t for weeks after he went home, rest in the day and sleep at night. vVg he loved us, but we felt with hardly a single exception, these that a few of those tears were shed children began to revive like wither- jjj joying memory of the single bed ed plants that have been given much |jj corner | We were not jealous, needed water. | gad eating habits are not common I have in mind one particular child to the indigent alone. A friend was that was sent to us. James was thin, telling me recently of an artist—a sallow, wore his mouth open con. highly saccessful one, too—who had stantly, dawled with his food, and, in j a family of four pathetically under general, seemed a hopeless case .The nourished children. The parents sel. staff felt that something had been dom eat with the children, conse- put over on them by the health au-1 quently, the children eat when, what thorities of the county from which and if they choose. A nurse who had James came. They had sent us a feeb- been in the family for years- fran- le minded child, a thing which the tically con'iciod to my friend that home strictly forbade. A caucus was she simply couldn’t get those child- held. Should the child be returned to ren to eat. while one of the boys re- his home at once? I was all for it. lated triumphantly, the different It was not fair to the other children ways he disposed of his food while to have such an one among them. The , nurse wasn’t looking. Still another superintendent w’as inclined to give one of the boys, my friend affirms, James a trial and her bent in this' is "not all there” mentally. Is it any direction finally won the entire staff | wonder ? over to her way of thinking. go, the simple deduction. If we Happy Reunion ! wish to reduce appreciably the num- At the end of the third w'eek of bgj. of feeble minded children con- his stay, James’ mother came to see tained in our statistics, the ignorant him. She was amazed. The improve- ^ and less fortunate must be taught ment in him was not so apparent to their children and the us who had seen him daily, though importance of a sufficient number even we had noted his changed ex- of beds. The learned and financially pression. It took a long time six secure must be enjoined to eat often months, to be exact, to bring James with their children, who gain from cheeks to the right shade of rosiness their parents ideas of eating just and to his eyes that brightness, which as they form ideals of honesty and is every child’s natural heritage, but uprightness. These things accomplish, the day came when the attending i ed insofar as it is humanly possible, physican pronounced James fit to go ' many oT the apparently stupid child- home. Really fit. I think I have nev- ; ren will disappear from the lists of er seen anyone so happy as his older, the feeble minded and develope into brother, who came for him. I can self-supporting American citizens. hear him now as he grabbed tames ^ by the shoulders and giving him a brotherly shake, exclaimed. "Jim I You’ve grown a foot- Good gracious alive, boy. We haven’t a place big (Continued rrom r>age 1) enough to put you. informal meeting in the Wilrik Six weeks l;(ter, James entered, Hotel in Sanford Tuesday night, at school. He led his class during that i which both of North Carolina’s Sen- school year and at the close his teach- ators, Gubernatorial Nominee Clyde er said of him, “James is a different' Hoey, Mr. Lambeth and several oth- boy. He used to be so stupid and he ers spoke, gave so much trouble that I dreaded ! him. Now he is so thoughtful that he is a favorite with the other children, I The history of James is the his- , tory of practically every child who entered that institution. Along with physical fitness came alertness. These | two assets grew commensurately. | Almost anyone on a statistics hunt | would have pronounced any child in i the gi oup subnormal mentally, upon seeing them when first admitted to the institution, but these figures! w,ould have changed at the end of even three weeks of training. I use ^ the word training advisedly, for it, took patience of a courageous var- i iety to train these children, first of , all, to eat at all and to eat every- j thing, as the rules of the table re- ! quired—that was a task. The child. ' ren from indigent families were in- ! dined to eat too mu'^h at first, but even they often had strange idaas about diet. Some of them had a de cided distaste for milk and butter, some hated vegetables and so on- The few children who were from more fortunate families wanted sweets only. The problem of getting these various tastes into the habit of a balanced meal is patent. In from two to three weeks, however, the appetites of all had been reduced to the same level. All were ravenous. They gobbled everything in sight. No further persuasion to eat was neces- ary. They Have To Leave Another contributing factor to phy. sical and mental health building was separate beds. Most of the children came from homes far too crowded to ever dream of a bed all their own- How they loved itf And we always Editor’s Note—This is question eight of a series of questions and answers about the Resettlement Administration which are being published each week in The Pilot. Is the Resettlement Administration moving families in large groups from one part of the country to another? Answer No. Projects for the resettlement of families are set up as near to the area from which the families are to be moved as it is possible to obtain good land. In most cases the families i do not have to move from the coun- j ty in which they were originally lo- ' cated and only in the rarest instance do they move to another state. The only change for the farmer will be that he is living on good land rather than poor land. Otherwise he will [ have the climatic conditions he has been used to, he will raise the same sort of crops and will live in that part Figfures Reveal 295 in Elemen tary Grades and 135 in High School Cameron School opened Monday i morning, September 7th, with an en rollment of over 400, the greatest number of students in its history. The principal address on this occasion was made by Rev. M. D. McNeill, a former teacher, who taught the first school in Cameron. In his Impressive way he listed the qualities of a good student and urged all students to do their best- Prof. R! F. Lowry welcom ed the students and visitors and In a few well chosen words explained the ' school spirit which all good pupils have. Following is a list of teachers for of the country to which he is accus tomed. I Next week’s question; “To what ex- I tent is the Resettlement Administra tion benefittlng labor. this school year: First grade. Miss Mary Hunt and Mrs. R. F. Lowry; second. Miss Ellen R. Jones; third. Miss Minnie Muse; fourth. Miss Margaret Gilchrist; fifth, Mrs. M. D. Mclver; sixth, Mrs. M. P. Snipes; seventh, Miss Nellie William son; High School, Prof. Lowry, His. tory and Mathematics; Miss Jean Simpson, History and English; Mrs. Pete Phillips, Science, and M. P. Snipes, French and English. Alabama has an Association of Ex- Slaves. The members met in annual conclave this week, swapping stor ies of Civil War da; till M. H. FOLLEY Lumber, Millwork and Builders’ Supplies Aberdeen Hemp ThU Double-Quick paste~~giv€8 you REAUY WHITE TEETHi • Tooth paita only partially effective can’t keep teeth realljr white. Don’t waste time witb them; use Dit West’s DoiMt- Quick Tooth Paste. It cleans over twice as fast as some le brands, yet cannot scratdi ( For i^te te^ try it today. DrlUesfs ^"DuuMl - / ^ \ TOOTH PASTE ■lo rnmm Pilot Advertising Pays. •BOB” REYNOLDS ENTERTAINS DEMOCRATIC RALLY HERE Guifihic OutiineA ofKlifcrw V H. G. M? 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