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Thursday. May 1951
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Our h um her One Health Problem
(Fmm N. C. Mutual Hygiene Society)
Mental illness is the number one health
problem of our nation, according to medical
authorities. Ye1, tlie mental health of each
citizen is as important to the future of our
nation as the soundness of 1he national econ
omy.
At present, the signs are not all good.
Mental illness is so prevalent that one fam
ily in five throughout the country will bo
affected by it. in mild or severe form, sooner
or later. One person in 20 will spend some
part of his life in a mental institution. Today,
hospital officials warn us that 700,000 pa
tients of the total 1,500,000 people who are
mentally retarded, and we readily see we
have a problem of direct and immediate
concern for each of us. as an individual, a
parent, or a citizen.
Governor Youngdahl of Minnesota put the
case accurately: “The care of the mentally
ill is the most accurate barometer I know
of our real concept of human values. Mental
patient are the 'lostlings" of society, a group
three times more extensive than the vie- j
tims of cancer, fifteen times more numer
oiis than the victims of tuberculosis. When J
the legislature convenes, the mentally ill
comprise the only social group without a
self-interest lobby to represent them.”
No lobby, perhaps, but their friends are j
increasing. This week has been declared by
mayors and governors throughout the land I
as Mental Health Week. “Our Children’s
Birthright — The Nation’s Strength” is the
theme of this observance.
The slogan aptly expresses the importance j
of mental health, which cannot be underes !
iimated in these troublous times.
Tired
Except those who hold tjieir own politics
above country, the people of this nation are
tired and weary of old scarecrows. They
are tired of hearing untounded charges that
the President is trying to promote war while
he works night and day for peac They
are tired of the repeated charges that the
government is destroying business while
industry and commerce are enjoying the
greatest prosperity ever known. The peo
ple are tired of hearing the repeated charge
that the government is going broke because
the Democratic Party recognizes the mass
es as human beings and would include them
in social security and other plans. They are
tired of having the administration condemn
ed for its every act before that act is given
a chance to prove itself. They are tired of
being told that everything the President
proposes is wrong just because ho advocates
it.
The people, remindful of the condition
tfce country found itself in in 1932 at the
end of twelve years of rule by discredited
individuals, are tired of hearing the hokum
generated by a group that has no policy of
its own and apparently with no other
desire than to get its snoot back into the
public feed bag.
Things are not perfect by a long shot, but
for a political party with such a record as
that possessed by the Republicans and no
announced policy for the future, to make a
comeback it will have to hitch its wagon to
something other than hero worship.
Rooaevelt'a Prophecy
Theodore Roosevelt was a prolific writer,
and a movement is under way to have
about 12,000 of his 150,000 letters printed.
In one of his letters the former President
predicted that if the Czars chose to resist
the growth of liberalism Russia would some
time experience a red terror which would
make the French Revolution look pale.
The then President said:
It is just as true now as ever it was in the
old days that every free people must face
the very difficult problem of combining lib
eral institutions and wide opportunities for
happiness and well-being at home, with the
power to make head against foreign foes. T
do not suppose this problem ever will he
perfectly solved.
Liberal institutions mean of necessity gov
ernment by elected representatives, who
must have a multitude of immediate and
pressing personal interests both of their own
and of their constituents to distract them
from the considerations of great and far
reaching policies especially foreign policies.”
Possibly it would be a different story to
day if the Czars had taken as much interest
in the welfare of their people as they did in
suppresssing them.
Tonn Martinas I n. Prmiire (.roups
Bv Ruth Taylor
The fundamental weakness of the demo
cracies is their vulnerability to‘pressure
groups, demanding special concessions or
special protection for their own interests.
Time and again we have seen the devastat
ing effect of these groups upon our political
and economic structure. In peace time, it
was anonving and aggravating. In war time
it is deadly.
Pressure groups breed intolerance both
from without and within, and intolerance
never won a war. For vitally important
months we wore held up by those who,
quarrelling with one group of our people or
another, sat tight declaiming that we were
“going too far". These same men are today
still obstructing our all-out war effort when
they work first as all too often they do for
their own constituency.
What we need are fewer pressure groups
and more town meetings. It is hard for a
pressure group to thrive in its own commun
ity, if discussion is open. There is nothing
so tongue tieing as the steady stare of those
who know you. And there is nothing more
deflating to the ego than the common sense
barb in a neighbor’s homely phrase.
The town meeting gives the opportunity
for men and women to hear authoritative
statements, to join in open discussion. This
is an American way of life, as opposed to
the pressure group which is the* personifica
tion of gang rule. This is the way to unity,
not to rifts within the house of the nation.
The Government may be the pilot, hut it is
the people who run the ship.
This is the people’s war—not people in the
proletarian sense—but in the ideal of de
mocracy—a war of all the citizens of the
nation, equal in the i ves of the law. In the
town meeting the people can talk out their
many problems, with all sides presented so
that men may make their own conclusions
and learn something of their neighbor’s
views. If men are free to talk, they can
more clearly crystallize their own thoughts.
They can learn to see their case as others
see it, and there is time for compromise and
change before the heat of combat.
Schoolmen on Spoils
The National Education Association lias
just put out a 100-page report on ‘‘Moral
and Spiritual Values in the Public Schools.”
It takes a dim view of sports on the cam
pus. And it probably would have been even
stronger in tone had it been written after,
rather than before the collegiate basketball
scandals which, apparently, have not yet
run their full course.
Schoolmen ought to go at least as far as
Ileywood Broun, a sportswriter, went in
1925 when he protested against that over
valuation of athlet'c prowess which blighted
not only the whole life of "the man who
dropped the punt,” but even a considerable
portion of the life of "the brother of the man
who dropped the punt.”
They might ask themselves whether it is
really wise to center more public attention
on the play of boys than will ever again be
centered on their careers. Said Broun:
To stumble in the spotlight never did auj
body any good, and if the man who fails
happens to be 19 years old he may j»et an
ego bruise which will leave him permanent
ly tender. And if he succeeds brilliantly he
may be no better off. The American com
munity is cluttered with ineffective young
men who gave their souls to learn drop
kicking and then found there was no future
in it.
Perhaps it is too much to expect the
schoolmen to relinquish sports to the pro
fessionals as Broun suggested. But they can
act in the spirit of their own report. They
• can take school sports out of the realm of
professionalism and return them to the
realm ol play.
They can stop hiring stars and glamorizing
them. They can stop putting on spectacles
to rival Roman circuses. They can bring
winning and losing back into perspective bv
deemphasizing championships, tournaments,
national standings and the rest of the para
phernalia which, in some places, has made
athletics considerably more important than
education.
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The patient in spirit is bettor than the
proud in spirit.—Ecclesiastes
CHURCF
NEWS
PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS
N. J. Ward. Pastor.
Sunday school at 9:45. Henry
Hoel, Supt.
Morning worship at 11:00.
Youth service at 6:30.
Evangelistic service at 7:30.
Mid-week prayer service. Wed-'
nesday night at 7:30
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CHRISTIAN
John L. Goff, Pastor.
I Bible school, 9:45. Classes for
all ages. The Philathea and Bob
Pee! Bible Classes welcome visit
ors. Morning worship and cele
bration oi the Lord’s Supper, 11
Sermon subject: "Jonah the Es
capist." The Albemarle District
CYF meets with the Hassell and
Oak City groups at Oak City at
3:30. There wdl be no meeting j
of the local groups Sunday even
ing. Evening Praise and Worship
Service at 11:00. Sermon subject:
"Concealed Glory." Pastor speaks
at both services. Monday, 6:00,
Christian Women’s Fellowship j
meet at the church.
Tuesday. 6.00, choir rehearsal. |
Wednesday, 6:00, Midweek
prayer and praise service in the
| home of Mr. and Mi s Winfield S.
Spruill, Jr , ai 101 Harrell Street.
; Subject for discussion, "Day and
j Night Journeying." A cordial j
welcome is extended to all visit
ors.
ROMAN CATHOLIC
Catholic services at the Ameri-j
can Legion hut. Mass every Sun-*
Jay at 11 o’clock.
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HASSELL C HRISTIAN
Olin Fox, Mimsler.
Sunday school at 10• 00 •George
Leggett, Supt.
Christian Youth Fellowship,
G:30 p. m.
Preaching every 1st and 3rd i
Sundays at 11:00 and 7:30.
Christian Women's Fellowship
Wednesday after 1st Sunday, at
7 Lid
OAK CITY CHRISTIAN
Olin Foy, Pastor.
Sunday school at 10:00. Ernest i
Bunting Supt.
Preaching eve y 2nd Sunday at
11:00 and 7 30.
Christian Youth Fellowship on
Thursday night after 2nd Sunday.
Christian Women's Fellowship
Wednesday night after 2nd Sun
lay.
'Cliim-li Of The A«lvent
(Episcopal)
The Iicv. Thomas Hastings, Rector i
Weekday (exc. Mon.) Morning
ind Evening Prayer, (1 and 5.
Sunday, May 6, Sunday after
\scension Day.
8 a. m., Holy Communion.
9;45, Church school and men's
Jihlc Class. ■
11 a. in.. Holy Communion.
Sunday Collect: “O God, the
<ing of glory, who hast exalted
hino only Son Jesus Christ with,'
treat triumph unto thy kingdom !
n heaven; We beseech thee, leave I
n- not comfortless, but send to i
us thine Holy Ghost to comfort
us, and exalt us unto the same
place whither our Saviour Christ
is gone before, who liveth and
reigneth with thee and -the same
Holy Ghost, one God, world with
out end."
E. R. Shuller, Minister
0:45. Church school. Fletcher
Thomas, Supt.
11:00. Morning worship
6:30, Youth Fellowships.
8:00, Evening worship.
Monday, Circle No. 1 meets
with Mrs. Mary Bonner'Gurganus
and the Wesleyan Service Guild
meets with Mrs. Ruth Williford
with Mrs. Jesse Sumner joint hos
tess.
8:00, Wednesday. Bible study,
followed with choir rehearsal.
HOLLY SPRINGS
10:30, Sunday school. C. L.
Daniel, Supt.
3:00, Church service. Sermon
ay the pastor.
Olin Fox, Paster.
Sunday school 10:00. Mrs. Rpa
ris James, Supt.
Christian Youth Fellowship on
Monday nights.
Preaching every 4th Sunday at
11:00 and 7:30.
Christian Women’s Fellowship
Saturday afternoon before first
sunday.*
Odar Branch Hanli-I
W. B. Harrington. Pastor.
Regular services will be held at
.’odar Branch Baptist Church
Sunday at 11:00 o’clock. All mem- i
>ers are urged to be present and
lie public is invited.
METHODIST
JAMESVILLE BAPTIST
W. B. Harrington, Pastor.
Regular services will be held at
Jamesville Baptist Church Sun
[day night at 7:45 o’clock. All
members are urged to he present
| and the public is invited.
EVERETTS BAPTIST
E. R. Stewart, Pastor.
10 a. m., Bible school. G. H.
Forbes. Supt.
7 p. m., Baptist Training Union.
P-:nt Director
7:30 p, m.. Thursday, Pi ay e/
service at the Church.
8:30 p, m„ Thursday, cottage j
service at the hoi,, of Mr. and!
Mrs. Joe Shirley,
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HAMILTON BAPTIST
E. R. Stewart, Pastor.
10 a. m., Bible school. II S.
Johnson, Supt.
11 a. m., Morning worship.
7 p. m., Baptist Training Union.
Willie Knox, Director.
8:00 p. m., Evening worship.
7:30 p. m., Boy Scouts meet.
8:00 p. m., Wednesday. Prayer
services followed by choir rehear
sal.
DISTRICT MEETING \Y OAK
CITY SUNDAY AT 3:30 P. M.
The quarterly meeting of the
Albemarle District CYF will meet
Sunday at 3:30 at the Oak City
High School building. About two
hundred young people are expect-.
ed to attend. After the program,!
refreshments and recreation will
be enjoyed by all in attendance.
Stale College Tips |
To the Honsewife |
By Ruth Current i
State Heme Demonstration Agent
Idle on the hark of many a1
kitchen range stands one of it- s
most economical, useful and con
venient parts — the deep well
cooker. Household equipment
specialists .suggest that the mam |
families who need to save on the |
cost of food and also electricity or »:
gas for cooking would he wise to 5
make more use of that covered t
kettle fitted into an insulated |
well. As a start they suggr'' |
reading about it in the booklet j
of directions that comes with the
range.
This thrift cooker is ideal for
such budget items as the less ten
der cuts of meat, dry beans, or
whole-grain cereals, which need
long, slow cooking. In the insu
lated well foods can cook to deli
cious tenderness with a minimum
of fuel. It is ideal for simmering
soups or for steaming puddings
The depth of the kettle makes it
convenient for steaming bulky vc I
getables like corn on the cob or §
kale or other leafy greens.
As long us a steady stream >d |
steam arises from the kettle;, sev
eral foods may cook in it together
without mixing flavors. To keep
flavors separate, don’t turn off
the heat until the food is removed
from the kettle. If the cooker
must be opened during cooking.,
turn up the heat for full steam
When heating rolls or baking
potatoes in the cooker, set Ihein
on a rack on the bottom and away
from the sides of the kettle
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