The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1916-05-12
70 THEPuBLIC- SPIRITED MEN OF
GREENWOOD.

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I feel Il my duty as Leader of the Kings Dauph-
tiers % crlng & message to the voters of Greenwood
With all the earnestness of my soul and try. if / ms
sioly can. to convince every citizen Of the great
necessity Of a new hospital. / wish it were possible
for me to give you a little vision OF the true mission
OF the Kings Daughters. We do not boast of the
work We are doing in our community, but il is with
grateful and humble hearts that we note the pro-
usefulness.
ITO bind earth's broken hearts and sore.
To tread the way Christ walked before,
To know Thee better, to serve Thee more,
We wear Thy cross our Lord and King"
While we are giving our time. energy and
strength, with ali the love and loyalty of faithful
daughters, Yet we are doing it In His Name" for
you' for the betterment and uplift of our city and
county.
May the King of Kings guide US with His blessed
spirit into the accomplishment of all our plans and
purposes. and give to us our much needed new hos
pltal; we have come to you with a plan that will
about results. The plan is this: for the city to give
$lO,O0O, and the county give $4,000 and the King s
daughters give the same amount. The Board of
Supervisors will issue bonds for the $4,000 if the
city Will: SO the City Commissioners have ordered
an election on May 10Th, for the voters to decide the
question as to whether or not we will have a new
hospital or close the one we have; so it's up to you,
as under a new nurses law, we cannot give to the
girls In training a diploma that will be recognized,
unless we have a hospital with not less than 20 beds.
and we could not afford to run a hospital without
these girls; besides we think training them for a life's
work Is one OF the best things we do.
Our present quarters are now so full and run
nlng over that the nurses have had to give up their
rooms and sleep on the back porch. We are also
having the fror porch upstairs screened so we can
make the patients comfortable there.
1t has been said to the Kings Daughters: Aren't
you trying to get your hospital in an easy way?
Don't you think it best to make a personal canvass
and raise your money by private subscription?
FIRST, l will say it is not our hospital; 1t is Greenwood
and Leflore county's hospital and for the use of
every citizen, whether they are rich or poor. Second,
that If you issue the bonds and the taxpayers are
taxed for the amount, which will not have to be paid
for five years, it will be equally divided and no one
Will ever miss the little amount; whereas. if by pri-
yate subscription, the burden would rest on just a
few of our people.
Now, my fellow-citizens, if you do not vote for
the New Hospital | am going to tell you what will
happen. A private sanitorium' will be erected at
once, without any charity wards. These charity
cases, and there will be some if you do your duty
to your unfortunate ones, will have to be paid for
by the city. The physicians who have always given
their services willingly and gladly to the charity
cases, will put in their bills also, and the medicine
furnished costs no little. / believe that every fair
minded and public spirited man that has the interest
and the growth of the city at heart, and the welfare
on next Friday, May 10th, and vote for the bonds to
be lssued-fOr the erection of a modern new hospital
that will not only be a credit to our fair CITY, but a
monument to the charity and generosity that has
always characterized its good people.
..There are four things that a man must do
If he would keep his record true
To think without confusion clearly
To love his fellowman sincerely,
To act from honest motives purely
10 trust IN God and heaven securely"
MRS. j. L. GILLESPIE,
Leader of Kings Daughters.