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PAGE EIGHT p Age two THE NEWS-JOURNAL, RAEFORD, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1944 The News -Journal Hoke County News Hoke County Journal Est. January. 1. 1929 Est May IS, 1911 By Paul Dickson By D. Scott Poole Consolidated November 1, 1929 Nonh Carulina flftSS ASSOCIAnoJJJ Published Thursdays At Raeford, North Carolina Subscription Rates: $2.00 Per Year In Advance For Servicemen $1.50 Per Year DOl'GALD COXE, Editor-Manager Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Raeford, N. C, under Act of March 3, 1870. Medical Care The Latest Southern Goal This month, Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer and Chairman of the North Carolina Hospital and Medical Care Commis sion, in an article in his magazine, compares the present movement for better medical care with the Southwide movements for better schools and better roads. The two great historic movements cf this cen tury, from 1900 through 1920 when the edu cational movement started throughout the southland, and from 1920 through 1940 when each of- these states adopted a program for the development of their highway systems. These movements brought great advances, they cost much money but they have proved their worth. "In the twenty years from 1940 through 1960" says Mr. Poe, "we must spend as generously for Better Health and it will be an equally good investment." The article continues: "That there is desperate and even alarming need for better health programs for all classes of our people this is abundantly shown by rejections t our irrry camps. For example, my own farm home is at the city's edge, and my younger son was sent to camp with 52 other young men largely from the city men, mind you, who had survived cr.e sitting by the local draftboard and yet 35 of these 52 were rejected! And we are told "The rejection rate is higher in rural areas than urban, due to the inferiority of rural medical, dental, ar.d hospital services. Moreover, draft re jecters sre highest in Southeastern states where in comes pre lewest anr. medical facilitts least ade quate. "In Rex Jarr.es' striking phrase: 'Modern Med icine as '.v bust of it today is an urban phenomenon. The ber.el.t- cf modern medical and hospital serv ice has scarcely reached rural America." "Take three tests in my own typical rural iW.v: 1. A generally accepted rule is that there should be ere vac-XT icr each 1.000 people but 21 rural counties here average only one doctor lor 5.297 people. 2. There should be 4 hospital beds per 1,000 population but 63 of our rural counties average only 1,3 beds and still fewer for Negroes. 3. The entire state has only 3 cancer clinics against 400 in the rest of America. "As the American Farm Bureau Woman's Sec tion points out, medical clinics are available to only 2 per cent of our rural population, and even at the peak of prosperity 80 per cent of our rural areas lacked adequate medical care and the per cent of doctors in rural areas grows constantly less. Farm people once longer-lived than city people are now shorter-lived, mainly due to lack of medical and hospital care and this in turn is due to the greater poverty. Thus in a New York City study there were 500 per cent as many baby-deaths in propor tion to numbers among families with less than $500 income as among families with $3,000 and up. The slaughter of infants all over the South because of preventable infant mortality and the shockingly high cieath rate of mothers in childbirth disgrace our Southern people. "It is time and high time to do something about these conditions. Doctors are gratifyingly active and cooperative. Our churches, followers of the Great Physician, should get busy. Governors and legislatures should act. Congress must help the states help themselves. "Already the South is showing a fine reaction to the startling revelations made by army rejections. Louisiana has entered upon a health and hospital program which has attracted national attention. In North Carolina Governor Broughton and the State University trustees have inaugurated a hospital and medical care program designed to reach and help all classes, both races, and all sections, with the in spiring declaration: "The ultimate purpose of this program should be that no person in North Caro lina shall lack adequate hospital care or medical treatment by reason of poverty or low income." "In Arkansas which has only 2.15 hospital beds against the 4.40 American average, we are told that Arkansas will vote November 7 on a $15,000,000 proposal to improve hospital care for the masses of her people by establishing 5 general hospitals, 70 clinics and emergency hospitals, and a research laboratory. "This is the sort of action it is going to take in all the states. Each state in 1900-1920 spent mil lions more for education and found it not a loss but a good investment. Each state in 1920-1940 spent millions more for roads and found it not a loss but a good investment. Now each state must begin to think in terms of millions for programs of hospital and medical care and will find it not a loss but a good investment. Meanwhile, such co operative self-help hospital-and-medical insurance programs as have been developed by the Blue Cross movement and the Farm Security Admini stration should be studied and will be discussed in our future issues. The next great campaign for rural progress and social service in the South must be to so equalize and distribute the costs of hospital and medical care for all classes as to make real a new ideal of democracy "The equal right of every person born on earth to needed medical and hospital care when ever and wherever he battles against Disease and Death." I hope you will help in this movement." fm mm i PK f 'organization has displayed extreme 1)111 ll U Mklll lV ; selfishness since this war began. It rUlLL J II LI L LI By D. SCOTT POOLE :s the duty of patriots to suffer de- privation for their country's needs, ; but when men being paid $1 or more I per hour, strike for more, shows pure dog. If the Gtrr.-. the last rr.an may te sc.T.t all ever, over ins and Japs fight to j .r.d the last dollar, it j ti.r.e yet before it is there. I rerr.er.iltr tr.e hard times of the Civil War. I had sweet milk and corn rr.usn :cr .ii-pcr nnb for break fast I h; ci ct rn hoecake, syrup and a s : i.t i: cutter. I read of an Arrtr'.vri key. who was visiting in Ger.r.ar.y '.vntr. :h.s war started. She told ot htr jre.iKlast the morning she .:n;ry. one ro.l, a cup ot srr.il alluwance of but v..s saving up for years .'. ur started. mile off. But it was I could true. not believe it.. let: that c. ten. and a 'er. Hitler be:', re th.s I got 01 rr.uer :':r rxc-pt the '. the pipers v.-nr and 1 cr..y did tr.e job printing dorstood. imless it was for the rea-whk-h came M my office: but I work- son the jail could not be kept sani d :rorr- 5 o'clock in the morning 1 tary. They might have changed until 11 at night, six days a week. that. I worked rr.y ow n garden, or we ; Old folks told me that a good part cf the area now occupied by the business section of Fayetteville used to be the best huddeberry hunting. 1 remember when Fayetteville streets were a chain of mud-holesin links. There were markets, fresh meats, in some of the departments of the oid market house the first time I saw it. Brother John, two years nIHp" tnlH mi thro w.i a flu. -If nn the top of the old market house on I Pioneer railroad conductor, had an which you could tell the time of d. Idea In A Carpet Bag This country has always done big things in a big way because the American people as individuals have never known anything but complete freedom. And though it may sound like a blast of hot air from the cham ber of commerce, the right to create and build a business or an industry and earn a reward for doing it, is an inherent part of Amercian freedom. If that right is taxed and regulated out of existence, the greatness of America and her freedom will become a myth. The history of the express business is typical. For more tha na centry. the word express has stood for speed an eight-page news rr.onths without help, :le Cockman girls fol-.ed . r rr.e. I solicited no In 1905. and the court house stood out by the Wilmington branch of the Coast Line Railroad, and I thought it was a nice building. Why anyone ir.ougnt it necessary to Druid a new and greater building, I would not have had one. The people of Hoke County, and the people of the United States, have suffered no deprivations because of Things in the minds of pros perous people are strangers to econo my. This state's business is open to criticism, because they do not intend to pay the state debt with the war. nor have we suffered the:an accumulated surplus of tax-de horrors of war, but our contributions in men and materials, anj suffering by our loved ones who are in the ac tual war service, in strange jungles and wild s-as, contending with skilled cannibals. I have seen strings of wagons a mile long going to Fayetteville on the old Morganton road, loaded with cot ton and other produce, many a Mon day and Tuesday. On Saturday they would be on the road going back home, and those wagons were heavily loaded with salt, iron in bars 20 feet long. The farm tools, horse shoes and the like were made at home those days. On farms where there were slaves there were blacksmiths and carpen ters among them. Many of these wagons were large, and were drawn by 4 horses and there were bells on the lead horses. Those which wote bells the team of four all stepped proudly. Brother John had been to Fayette ville the year before I got to go, and he never did finish telling me about the sights he had seen, and the next winter it was try time to go and John went too, and I was all the gladcer for we had a better time- The CIO it unpopular because that prived money, and that accumulated money will encourage extravagance. There are people who do not make much money, yet they live as well as any folks should. There are others who have an abundance of money who live poorlythey never get a satisfactory meal unless they get it away from home. They are con stantly wanting to eat away from home, because they are hungry, and stay so. Laxiness is an awful disease. It has brought more people to want than war, famine and pestilence. Most of you read in the news last Saturday of the blinding flash of light and accompanying thunder that frightened the people in four states, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. It has not determined what that was, but it is believed to have been a meteor. idea. He quit his job and devoted himself to the business of putting it to work. He became the world's first express messenger, traveling between Boston and New York by the fastest conveyances of that day, carrying a carpet bag. The carpet bag contained packages of money, documents, jewelry, gold and other valuables and never un-'aiiuies cmiunu iu a,c. us ually Harnden s express Dusiness ex panded. The carpet bag became in adequate, and in time a railroad car was needed to hold all of the things that people wante dhim to carry. That still was but the beginning. Today the Railway Express Agency main tains 23,000 officers scattered through out the United States. It uses more than 200.000 miles of railway lines, 13.000 miles of steamship lines, 45,000 miles of airlines, and 16,000 miles of motor truck lines in its regular daily operations. As an example of what such a service means to the war ef fort, it is sufficient to point out that in a single month of May, 1943, 253, 360 pints of blood were handled by express for the Red Cross. In this land of 3,000,000 square miles, new ideas are springing forth in men's minds every second of the day. Some of those ideas are the seeds of new industries which may one day benefit all manknd. No one could conceive of the future in store for the idea that began with a carpet bag. What we can and must do in this country is to save the right of the man with an idea to put his idea to work profitably. In saving that right, we are saving the meaning of freedom in America. In the first days of July. 1887, a heavy thundercloud came one even ing about S o'clock, and a heavy rain. It was still raining slowly at 9 o'clock. I was closing a window before retiring for the night, and there came blinding flash of light ning, accompanied b a deafening peal of thunder. There had been thunder and lightening for an hour before this bright flash an heavy peal come. Many people believed that to have been a meteor passing near the earth. I heard of this phenomenon for twenty miles west of Jackson Springs, and 20 miles east, and the same report cam efrom both directions just about as I described it The Farmer and War Bond Purchases Ly Charles V. Holman, Secretary The National Cooperative Milk Producers' Federation OPA Wages War On Black Market Amlkh'AN farmers have a great deal more at stake in purchasing War Bonds than aim. ply a patriotic urge to assist in nnancing me war so that it may be prosecuted to an early and vic torious conclusion. Modern war demands governmental exDendi tures far In excess of those which may be met by current revenue receipts. This means Government borrowing. If a large part of this borrowing Is through commeroial banks additional inflationary spending power is created through ine expansion oi credit. Un the other hand, if the borrowing is largely from individuals much of their excess funds are drained off. Hence, the pressure on prices re sulting from unusually large funds bidding for limited amounts of goods and services is relieved, and thus inflation retarded. A tremendously increased agricultural production and some increase in average prices received above those paid by farmers have raised the net income of all United States farmers from the 1935 39 average of $4.7 billion to M.J billion in 1941, $9.4 billion in 1942, and an estimated $12.5 billion in 1943. With available supplies of farm machinery re placements and building ma terials limited. Agriculture has a fund available for either debt retirement, savings read ily liquidated for future pur chases of machinery, build ings, etc., or for present in vestment in land. A marked decrease in farm mortgages in recent years indi cates that much of this fund has been properly applied to debt re tirement. However, activity in 'and sales and a very marked in ase in land values demon strate that farmers are probably diverting a large part of this fund into land purchases. From March 1, 1943, to March I, 1944, average land values per acre rose 15 per cent, with the larger part of the rise taking place in the last four months of the period. The in crease during this four-month pe riod was the highest on record, being 20 per cent greater than the average monthly rate of increase for the 1919-20 boom year. Aver age values per acre have increased more than one-third in the past 3 years. In the 1916-19 period the rise was about the same. It appears that an overcapitali zation of probably temporarily high farm commodity prices is in Erocess just as in World War I. arge mortgage debts incurred now, at high levels of income, will prove disastrous when both total agricultural production and prices fall. Land values are based on the net return to land. With the end of the war in sight and with the prospect that farm labor and other costs will require a relatively larg er return leaving the return to land less, the logical course for land values at present would ap pear to be downward rather than upward. Therefore, it appears that farmers would do well to in vest every available dollar, beyond that needed for debt retirement, in Government Bonds. These can be held against the day when neces sary farm replacements will be available and when farm land values will have become more stable. In this way the individual farmer may assist in hastening the day of return of his son, and also have capi tal available to help finance him in ventures of his own Choice. V. S. Trinity Dtptrlmnt Raleigh, Aug. 22 The A-ll gaso line coupon, which is now valid for three gallons, has already been ex. tensively counterfeited, Theodore S. Johnson, Raleigh district OPA direc tor, said today. OPA's special agent sinvestigaling countereiting have obtained ir.tor--mation from various sources th. f m large quantities of A-ll counterteiU have already been printed, distributed to peddlers, and sold to black market dealers. Some may also be in the hands of motorists. Acting on this information, OPA is making every effort to discover and arrest those who are trafficking in these coupons in order to prevent fis many as possible from competing with honest coupons for gasolir.e, Johnson said. Several types of A-ll counterfeits have been seized. Most of them we printed on bad paper, making them fairly easy to detect. Johnson emphasized, however, that the service station operator's best protection aganst inadvertently ac cepting counterfeits from mttcriits is still to follow two simple rules: 1. Be sure that every "A" ecupen you -accept is torn out of a valid ra tion book; and 2. Be sure that the motorist has en dorsed the coupon with the license number of the ca rinto which ycu de liver the gasoline. All A-ll coupons deposited in ra tion books will be carefully examined in the newly-established Regional Verification Centers, Johnson added. Prompt investigation will begun at ail points where counterfeits are found, and vigorous action will he pressed against those who have dealt in them. O The U. S. sweet potato crop .s 9 percent smaller than last year. Pro spective civilian supplies per capita are estimated to be the smallest in two decades. V v UP. -W'l 0 SCENE: First floor of the Hastings home TIME: The evening of August 1, 1944 II a a., ii I 14 w ,, t .JM l.WjaatMjgB ""' f: ii. mi "iCflla.. v- -if rjt . -"Tit 1 sp yero t . . . si 1. The desk at which Mr. Hastings opened hi monthly bills and wrote an indignant letter to the electric company, protesting their advertising that the av erage family gets twice a much electric iry for its money as it did 19 years ago. 2. The electric dock at which Mr. Hastings looked to see if he had time ta mail his letter before dinner. I 3. The family radio, with Junior ! parked close beside k, Gstening to "Jerry ' and the Jeeps." 4. The porch light which Mr. H. ' twitched on to guide the dinner guests. 5. The percolator, ready and 6. The electric range, filling the kitchen with appetizing odors. 7. The refrigerator, from which Mrs. H. was taking trays of tinkling ice cubes. S. The iron, with which Nancy was presaing'a dress for her date. 9. The back porch, on which Mr. H. paused to think things over realizing that his family old use a lot more elec tricity nowadays, and maybe the com pany was right after all! 10. The trash can into which be tossed his crumpled letter. pott wm mcTf(cmr just iicausi irt CrIIAf ANt ISNT IATIONIP! O Carolina POWER & LIGHT Company DOVT WASTE ELECTEICITT JUST BE CAUSE ITS CHEAP AND ISN'T RATIONED
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