Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-10-07

nIembers-whose sanity, nnselfishness
and patriotism may be depended upon
in questions affecting national or inter-
national integrity and adjustment"
Says the Bucks Did it.
Brigadier General L. d. Tyson OF
Knoxville, Tenn. made the speech at
the Thirtieth Division reunion in
Greenville, that appealed to the rank
and file in attendance upon the re-
union the most, according to Kip
Woods of Yorkville, former member
Of the 11Sth Infantry, who attended
the reunion. Tyson told an audi
ence at Textile hall in Greenville,"
said MIR. Woods, that it was the en-
listed men-the guys with packs on
their backs and who slept in the mud
and rain absolutely unprotected and
with no special favors shown 'en, who
are responsible for the record Of the
Thirtieth. General Tyson went on to
say that he could not have made that
statement as long as he was In the
army bat he was now a private citizen
again whereas Major General E. M.
Lewis and Brigadier General Samson
l.. Fayson were not and he could say
whatever he pleased. You can just
bet the boys in attendance on the re-
Union were strong for Tyson"
A Man and His Hobby.
. Mr.. r. B. Babbington. Of Gastonia,
was in Yorkville last Thursday on
business, and had time also to shake
hands with some of his many friends
here. Down this way Mr.. Babbington
is known mainly as the general mana
ger of the Piedmont Telephone COM
pany. That he knows all about how
10 manage a aitelephone system no one
who knows him will for an instant
question, not if he has any regard for
his own reputation for ordinary knowl-
edge of men who know how to- do
things, and what such men are doing.
Mr.. Babbington knows how to give
good telephone service, and he knows
not only how to get about all out OF
the business the traffic will bear; but
he knows how to keep his patrons in a
sood humor about ii. AS well known
as Mr.. Darlington is as a telephone
manager, he is still better known up
in Gastonia, and throughout the state
of North Carolina as philanthropic
humanitarian. His hobby is an .un-
usual one, and unusual as it is worthy.
AS much as he thinks Of telephone
management Ne thinks still more Of
the great good to be accomplished by
an Orthopaedic hospital on which he
has been working for more than ten
years, and for the erection Of which a
s125.0c0 contract has just been let.
What is an Orthopaedict hospital? or.
course not one, reader out of. twenty
could tell about the institution under
that name. That word "orthopaedic"
does not mean anything to them. But
Iii every day English, especially with
few appealing explanations from Mr..
Eabbington, orthopaedic becomes a
word that goes deep down into the
souls of all who. like Ben Adhem,
love their fellow men. DO you
know" asks Mr.. Babbington, "how
many crippled children there are in
South Carolina, who are denied abso-
lutely the right to usefulness in the
world simply because of their infrm!-
ties? 1 cannot give you the number,
but there are hundreds of them. There
arc moro than you have any idea OF
right here in York county. More fire.
quently than otherwise, the trouble is
congental, & club foot, deformed
arm or leg or other shortcoming that
spells incapacity for that child during
the balance of it's days, simply because
there is no way Of providing prompt
and proper treatment We have inst!-
tutions for our blind, for our mentally
deficient, but we are doing nothing
for our cripples. Why there are
around us crippled children, many Of
them with as good minds as Woodrow
Wilson, who, if they had proper treat
rlent. could enter into lives Of useful
ness TO themselves and the world who
cannot even be sent to school. In the
case of a large number of these some
thing like S5 or 80 per cent. Of them,
they could be cured in just II minutes
if VIC only had the facilities-thc
necessary hospital and the necessary
specialists, and most of those that can
rot be cured can be taught only If
they have the opportunity to be
fought" Mr. Babbington commenced
thinking on this subject as the rcsalt
oi certain activities of the Masonic
order of which he is most worthy
member, some ten years back, and his
thinking was not long finding eXpan-
sion in action. Hc has made q number
Of liberal subscriptions and donations,
and he has talked the subject into
hundreds of friends and acquaintancos,
until he has raised altogether $4,000
by private subscription and the NCrth
Carolina legislature has recognized the
cause to the extent of $4,000 appro-
priation: bat of course this was only