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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, January 10, 1947 m THE PILOT PUBLISHED EACH IFRIDAY BY THE PILOT. INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA JAMES BOYD Publisher 1944 KATHARINE BOYD’ - . . Editor DAN S. RAY .... General Manager BERT PREMO - Advertisino CHARLES MACAULEY - • • City Editob SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR - $3.00 SIX MONTHS . . SI.SO THREE MONTHS -• - - .75 ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE AT 60U. THERN Pines, n. C., as SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. THE NEW SECRETARY Americans have reason to feel disturbed over the sudden resig nations of two leading figures in the political scene, Bernard Ba ruch and now Secretary Byrnes. Though both resignations were expected by those in the know, they came as a shock to the coun try at large. It would seem that more thought by these gentle men on the effect on the public, not to say on the world at large, might have dictated better tim- :ng. There is, however, no reason to feel that the administration’s ship is sinking, and with the ap pointment of General Marshall as secretary of state, it may well be that it’s most important de partment will receive that firm over-all dfirertion for which many have been praying. On the other hand, it seems a great pity that Secretary Byrnes should leave just as his policies seemed to be bearing fruit. What the general will bring to the international scene is any mEin’s guess. In his dealings with the Chinese situation he has shown moderation and a willing ness to hear both sides; his ef forts, however, seem to have ac complished nothing. There is lit tle here to warrant enthusiasm over the appointment, and this is, as far as the public knows, the general’s only experience in diplomacy. anyone who does succeed in get ting out of some of his payments is apt to go around boasting of his cleverness. People envy him and congratulate him: It never^ occurs to his friends that what he has done is to cheat them. He I has managed to keep money in his pocket that should have gone into the common pool; in the end everyone else will have to chip in a bit more, or the pool, in which he also has a share, will suffer. If it does suffer, the tax be- grudger will be the first to know it and to complain, loudly. The highways are not being kept up, the schools have deteriorated, the health of the state is a dis grace. He will tell you that all this is the government’s fault. It never occurs to him that he is the government and that his failure to pay his taxes has a direct bearing on the things he is complaining about. It all goes back to the strange way Americans look upon their government, as a combination Santa Claus and Bogeyman. On the one hand they talk about the government, “giving away free’' all sorts of things; on the other, they accuse the Bogeyman of every sort of crime, from high way robbery on up, and preach that it is not only legitimate but the duty of every citizen to cheat the orge to the best of his ability. In the first place, the govern ment does not give away any thing free. Whatever we get from the government is paid for in taxes or in service rendered. Con versely, taxes represent the in vestment a man has in the gov ernment. Supposing a man has a hundred dollarg to investi He might buy some stock with it. In that case, if he was lucky he would get perhaps five dollars back in interest. Supposing that hundred dollars went into taxes. It is not thrown away or lost or stolen by the Bogeyman, as some would have us believe. It comes back to the citizen in roads, in schools, in policemen, in health clinics, agricultural services, na tional parks, in the protection of our armed forces, and it pays the salaries of the men who are ad ministering this great business Sa nd B OX BY WALLACE IRWIN The Need Of Additional Beds For Tuberculosis In North Carolina In General Marshall’s favor, however, is the outstanding fact that he was President Roosevelt’s constant companion at all the important conferences which the president attended. He knows the background of the present scene like a book, he knows most of those who are engaged in ne gotiations in all the countries, above all he must have Shared much of the former president’s belief in the United) Nations or ganization. From all these angles the choice of Marshall is per fect. General Marshall’s splendid character, his wisdom, his mod esty, his untiring devotion to duty have, ever since his entry into the public eye, received al most extravagant praise. His ac curate judgement of men, as shown in • his choic ■ of . subordi nate coimri^ders during the war, is unquestioned. Good men work well for him and he has the qualities to inspire a person al devotion that denotes the great leader. He has, of course, been mentioned as democratic presidential timber. As opposed! to this is the average citizen’s distrust of the military mind. Will one who has been brought up to prepare for war be able to change his whole point of view to preparing for peace? Many of our commanders have shown an understanding of the problems of peace and! have even called themselves pacifists at heart, in true sincerety. It is a question, however, if the re liance on armaments to keep the peace, rather than on internation- al cqoperation, will riot always be uppermost in the minds of men brought up in the army ser vices. for the stock-holders, the citi zens who elected them. As for the government being a criminal, if a man says that he is, in effect, putting himself in the dock, for both the Bogeyman and Santa Claus are the citizen himself. This adolescent form of schitz- This morn a nightingale woke me, singing out a rapture of praise for O’Suullivan, Ameri ca’s Number Ohe Heel. <Th,en her gilacious contralto burbled into a weU remembered song; “Nothing could be finah than to be in Caro-lina In the mawin’!” j Some things could be a lot worse, I reflected, shutting off the radio and turning my thoughts to real, unlovely things. “Nothing could be dippy as to wake in Mississippi In the mawnin’!’’ The farce-tragedy with its catchy title, “Bilbo/’ has played a long season, but it doesn’t seem to be played out yet. It has mere ly gone into a month’s rehearsal so that its collaborators can think of something louder, funnier and more (Disgusting to do and say. It is rather futile to try and add anything to the Bilbo discus sion. Every editor, with the ex ception of a few Bilbo-owned hacks, are now so busy throwing tomatoes at the Bad Man of the Gulf that our little pinch of sand would be lost in the whirlwind. Also, before this goes to press the nearly ex-Senator may die and be worshipped in every hill where the hookworm has crowd ed out the public schools. Bilboism isn’t so much Bilbo as a symbol—or a sympton. It seems to be a synptom of the disease that has worme<i its way deep into the Democratic Party; which, perhaps, has remained too long planted in one spot and has begun to rot in unplowed soil. It has infected the U. S. Senate, brought on violent attacks of filubuster’s throat, twisted morale, and raving delir ium. Gentlemen who have hith erto devoted their lives to hon est public service have been reaching into the grab bag for every shabby trick known to by Paul P. McCain, M, D. (Reprinted from The Health BuUetiri.) “The U. S. Public Health Ser vice and the National Tubercu losis Association agree that in or der to control tuberculosis in any co-iimunity it is necessary to have two beds for each resident death from tuberculosis. In North Caro lina during 1945 there were 1198 deaths from, tuberculosis. There should be, therefore, 3000 beds for tuberculosis patients. At this time there are in North Carolina only 2205 beds for tuber culosis divided as follows: In the three State Sanatoria 1080 beds, 690 for white and 390 for colored. In the three State mental hospi tals and Caswell Training School there are 212 beds for tubercu losis patients, 100 for white and 112 for colored. In 16 county san atoria there are 825 beds, 447 for white and 378 for colored. In the three private sanatoria around Asheville there are 88 beds for white private patients. Altogether there are 1325 beds for white and 880 for colored. On account of their inability to secure nurses two of the sana toria with a total of 52 beds have recently had to close. On account of the shortage of nurses and of other help also some of the other county institutions have not been able to run at full capacity dur ing the last year or two. Fortunately the Hill-Burton Bill, recently passed by Congress, which calls for the appropriation of $75,000,000 a year for five years for -hospital construction, specifies that beds for tubercu losis are to be provided as well as general hospital beds. The bill also specifies that one-third of the construction cost shall be paid by this Federal appropri ation. The North Carolina Good Health Association and the Exec utive Committee of the Stats Medical Society have approved , a program which calls for the ex ward polotics. No use wasting a - j i. *t„JP®n'iiture of four and a half mil- ophrenia in Americans accounts .OF THE PEOPLE January is the month when taxes are assessed. One might say therefore, that in January the citizens of the country take the most active part in their govern ment. One might say so, but one seldom does. In fact, quite oppo site are the sentiments with which most citizens regard this prime evidence of their citizen ship. People act toward taxes as if they were a kind of robbery to which they were being subject ed by the government. They pay them grudgingly and try in any way they can think of to get out of paying them at all. Large busi- for much of our political irres ponsibility which is liable to per sist until the people of our coun try accept the fact that our gov ernment is not only for the peo ple but also by and of them. When our highways and our schools run down, when Con gress behaves irresponsibly, quar reling like fish-wives or lolling about the business of governing. We may think we have elected the wrong men, but it is more likely that our fundamental) at titude is responsible. We have failed to identify ourselves with our government and our repre sentatives are not feeling the weight of the people behind them. We are neither demanding of them their best, nor inspiring them through a sense of our own convictions and our hopes. Every time we pay our taxes grudgingly, every time we carp and criticize destructively we are failing in our duty as citizens What is more, in this critical time when all forms of government are on trial, we are sabotaging the cause of democracy. filibusterer’s breath denying that the gent from Mississippi hasn’t been a very ripe egg in the cook- oo’s nest. Perhaps, though, he hasn’t been investigated long enough. Look at the Nuremburg trial, for instance. That took months and months, whereas Bil bo was only given time to dieny a dozen or so slightly criminal A GOOD CAUSE In an adjoining column is an article by the late Dr. Paul P. McCain, beloved physician, who lost hi^ life in an automobile ac cident early in December. As head of the State Sanatorium at Sanatorium, and a nation-wide authority on the disease, he di rected the battle against TB in this section. Dr. McCain’s artic'te was publliihed in the State Health Bulletin for No vember. It sums up concisely, yet with the detail that makes this a compelling picture, the sit uation in North Carolina today. It makes very clear that in our state’s Number I Problem of Good Health tuberculosis ranks high. The Pilot is privileged to re print this, the last work of Dr. Paul P. McCain, and in doing so calls the attention of all readers particularly to the closing sen tence. Here is a call to action is sued by one who has always led the way. May his words contiiuie to call the people whom he loved nesses employ lawyers whose sole duty is to find ways of avoid- [ and who loved him to action in ing the paynient of taxes, and this good cause. charges, to which the Govern ment’s witnesses testified. Ha, the Government! snarls Senator Phil I. Buster hoarsely. So the Federalists are tampering with States’ Rights again! How dare Washington tamper with Mississippi’s sovereign right to send anything she pleases to the U. S. Senate, whether it be a stuffed cucumber, a lame hippo- potomus or an electric eel? This is a test of States’ Rights, by golly, again confronting a wily foe who plans a dictatorship like Hitler’s, but with improvements. . . And so on, into the pale gray dawn. The Senators who support Bilboism along these lines arc doing as much harm to State,s’ Rights as Unionism is doing to labor through the portal-to- portal grab. Most of us who have kept our reason throughout this brawl will agree that States’ Rights should be supported in every legitimate way. But not by hoisting a rotten figurehead as the standard of a cause. Yes the Senate should be strong with representatives of every state. That’s what it’s for. But a sena tor must become a law-giver for every state in the Union; more than that, today he must be an active partner in the welfare of a whole suffering world. It is every state’s right, as, I see it, to elect senators who will be Senators, and! not chair-warming boosters for the local corruption and self-debasement they have gone to Washington to support. So the mess has fallen into the lap of Senator Taft and his pals. It would. Good old party lines- If you are a Republican, con demn Bilbo for what he is; if you’re a Democrat defend him for what he isn’t. Are we adoles cent,, as some pundits say we are? Are we just naughty school boys, putting nails in snowballs to maim the Third Avenue gang, merely because its members don’t live on Avenue A? Whoa. I’m getting riled up, too. I’m in such a temper this morn ing that, should I meet that sec ond cl^s vampire, W. Ahomy- mous Irwin, I’d pull up a long lion dollars for 700 additional beds for tuberculosis in the State within the next five years. This number will not bring our bed capacity up altogether to the two and a half beds per death reco- mended, but we are in hopes that by the end of the five year period the death rate will have faUen to such an extent that we will have this proportion of beds per death as recommended. We have already presented re quests to the Advisory Budget Commission for approximately two and a quarter million dollars for additions and improvements to the three State Sanatoria which will increase their bed ca pacity by 360. Since the counties as well as the State can get Fed eral aid for construction we are in hopes that some of the other counties will be interested in es tablishing their <)wn sanatoria, either alone or in conjunction with one or ore of the surround ing counties. If a State or Federal subsidy maintenance fund could be had, counties would be all the more likely to establish their own institution so that their pa tients couM have the advantage of taking the cure at home. If counties do not provide the addi tional 350 beds it is probable that the State will be asked to provide a sanatorium for Negroes somewhere near the central por tion of the western half of the State, and also a 50 bed unit at the medical school for teaching purposese. “Unfortunately, tuberculosis is largely a disease of the poor—of those who are poorly fed, poorly housed and poorly ediucated, and it is imposible ever to control the disease so long as those with ad vanced disease in the communi cable form continue to live in crowded and unsanitary homes and have to be waited on by members of the family who are untrained in sanitation. A great majority of people under such con ditions who develop tuberculosis have the disease in the far advanc ed stage before it is discovered, and even before the diagnosis is made they have likely already so badly infected the members of their households that many of them will develop the disease, and if they have to continue to live at home not only the pati ent but the whole family are likely to become county charges. “If diagnosed early tuberculo sis is a curable disease. Early di agnosis can also prevent the spread of the infection to the other members .of jthe family. Early diagnosis and the provision of a sufficient number of beds for the isolation and treatment of those with active disease will eradicate tuberculosis in human beings as Dr. William Moore, our State Veterinarian, and his as sistants have already eradicated the disease in cattle. By means of mass X-ray sur veys it is now possible to detect practically all cases of tubercu losis in the minimal stage. When large groups pf apparently well people are X-rayed approximate ly one out of every two to three hundred is found to have active tuberculosis and at least 65 per cent to 85 percent of those dis covered in this way have the dis ease in the early and curable form, whereas of those who are not diagnosed until they begin to feel sick or have definite symptoms of tuberculosis 65 per cent to 75 percent are in the advanced and communicable stage. Everyone really ought to have an X-ray of his chest. The Tuberculosis Control Division of the State Board of Health, in which Dr. T. F. Vestal is the Di rector, has six miniature X-ray film equipments and the Exten sion Department of the Sanator ium has one such imit. Five hun dred or more persons can be X-rayed each day with each of these units. A number of the county health departments are planning to install units for mass X-ray surveys and three of the counties have already purchased machines. •■‘Tuberculosis is such a tricky disease that it does not cause one to feel sick until the disease is well developed. It is estimated that there are approximately 10,- 000 citizens of this State who have clinical tuberculosis and ap proximately half of this number are not conscious of having the disease. They could find out the disease early before they infect the other members of their fam ilies and in time for them to get well if they would have an X-ray of their chest made. “Aside from the benefits de rived through the relief of hu man suffering the investment of sufficient funds by the State and counties to eradicate tuberculosis yields the best possible financial return. In 1915 the death rate from tuberculosis in North Caro lina was 156.4 per 100,000 and in 1945 it was 31.7. A low estimate of the cost to the community of each individual who dies from tuberculosis is $3,000. The reduc tion in the death rate as the re sult of the efforts already made to control the disease have re sulted in an annual saving of more than 4,000 lives and of more than $14,000,000. Won’t each of you who reads this article speak to your Legis lators and urge that the neces sary funds for the eradication of tuberculosis be provided? grees, a gain of 2.5 degrees above the norm of 44.3. The tempera ture range from 18 to 76 degrees included the freakish drop from the high of 76 on the 1st to the lows of 28 and 18 on the 2nd and 3rd. Winter entered on the 22nd, av erage temperature 45 degrees. Christmas Day was partly cloudy with an average temperature of 42.5 degrees. Long time Aver. Max Min average 1945 54.9 34.6 44.8 49.3 32.1 40.7 1946 60.4 34.3 47.3 HARRIS Electric Shop WIRING - PLUMBING HEATING OIL BURNERS ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES PHONES Residence 8592 Office 8591 Aberdeen. N. C. 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The ddvent of winter with its more often than not “Christmas Snow’’ left that gay holiday untroubled, leaf pine and! pok;e hinj with it, ^ Seventeen days of the month severely. , were clear and bright, nine days partly cloudy, five days cloudy and four days with rain. Total rainfall for the month was 1.41 inches of which the heaviest fall, 1.05 inches, was on the 20th. This was 2.04 inches less than normal, marking an excess of somewhat less than one inch over the long time normal expectation of 49.65 iniihes. Charlotte reports a de ficiency of 5.30 inches of rainfall for the year. Raleigh an excess of 3.46 inches. Nine days recorded high tem peratures ranging from 70 to 76 degrees, the high on the 1st. ■Twelve days had lows of 18 to 30 degrees, the low on the 3rd. Average temperature was 47.3 de- WE WILL HAVE ONLY 50 COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS BOOK A FEW OF THEM ^Will Be Autographed By Mrs. Burt First come, first served. All advance orders will be filled with autographed copies. This is Mrs. Burt’s best book since The Branding Iron which was an outstanding bestseller. The scene of this book is Colonial Virginia in its most interesting era. The time is the 1770’s when injustice to Colonies had fanned to a peak the flame which burst into 8 years of war. This book has the color and atmosphere of Colonial Virginia at its best. Filled with ad venture, romance, and the bitterness of politi cal controversy, it is one of the most entertain ing books recently published. I am asking you to buy it and read it, you will like it. CLAUDE L. HAYES
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