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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-03-30
BARRET SCHOOL
AT PEE DEE
Man Turns Up in England With BiplO-
ma From Barrett Medical College,
Pee Dee.

A few days ago Col. Fred }.
Coke received a letter from Prot.
H. M, Wagstaff, of the University
of North Carolina, who is spend
ing some time in London. Prof.
Wagstaff inquired as to the
status of the Barrett Medical
College" at Pee Dee, stating that
a man had turned up in London
with a diploma from this institu-
ton. On the diploma it was
stated that the college had 90
professors.
This seems to refer to the
school run by A. M. Barrett col
ored, at Pee Dee. When Barrett
started this schools it had pre-
tentious aims as a college for
colored people, and Barrett was
very successful in getting money
from rich and cfedulous northern
people. The schoolnever amount
ed to anything, and now only
teaches a few colored children.
1t has one small building. So far
as is known here it never made
any pretense Of teaching medl
cine.
It will be remembered that {
number of years ago Barrett en-
ticed a young English girl Of
yer respectable family to come
to this school under the impress
sion that it was an institution Of
standing. The matter was dis
covered by residents of Wades
boro and Rockingham before the
girl reached Pee Dee, and SHE
was rescued. There have beer
other unsavory incidents in con
nection with the school, and a
present Barrett is under indlct
ment for starving work animals.
! 1t is supposed that Barrett hal
some fake diplomas printed
somewhere, and is selling then
to people who wish to put some
thing across on their ownsAccoun
/ Here is the part of Protesso
Wagstaff's letter referring to tn
school:
please write me by return
post, or at your earliest con
venience, whether there is
!, Barrett College, Pee Dee, Ansol
County, North Carolina, said t
be chatered by the Legislator
of North Carolina in 1894 as
medical college and empowere
to confer degrees. There is
chap here in London, named I
III. A. Best, trying to get into s.
Andrews Medical College, Edir
borough, Scotland on the basis {
an M. D. from the said college
The matter was question, an
happened to be referred to me 9
: to the status Of this institution
e | took the stand that there is II
i such college in North Carolin
/ though | know that our State Ia
& from time chartered some jer
eIwater medical schools. He pr
( duced a prospectus of the COLES
# with a medical faculty containir
n some 60 names, the pamphl
d having its cover only Barre
e College, North Carolina, u S. A
Ie and no other address. When
v called attention to this he said
s was at Pee Dee, Arson Count
/ N. C. / still refused to belieN
d since | had never heard of t
Se thing, and in addition insist
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-03-30

GBLNEf

(0. 1920 Western NEWSPAPER UnIon'I
/ am confident that one of the chief
sources of social unrest is the envy,
not of the food the. rich eat, the
clothes they wear or the character Of
the roofs over their heads. but the
free and ample hours in which they
can do what they like.-Luther Quick.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-03-30
SOMETHING TO DRINK.

More insistent than the call for food
is the demand for drink. The sense
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-03-30

On sale every Saturday and
Sunday at Biggs Drug Store.
Phone your order today if you
want us to save copy for you.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-05-14

who could not walk. Their mother was
anxious to have them treated, but was
afraid of the father, who opposed 1t.
He wanted the children to be home when
he came back from work, although, ac-
cording to his wife, he stayed just long
enough to eat his dinner and then went
Through the cooperation of an Italian
officer of the Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Children the association
succeeded in getting the fathers consent.
The children were sent to the Metropolis
tan Hospital, where is was decided they
should all be operated upon.
The father refused and all the chill
dren were taken home with the excep-
tion of the youngest, which is now able
to walk. The family refuses to do any
thing more in the way of treatment
Occasionally there are cases when the
children themselves make treatment diff
cult. That was the trouble In the case
of Dolores r., IA, who had infantile
paralysis She had received some treat
IneHt, Dut ucT lecJ Teudlueu Nciy uo-
formed, and an operation was advised.
The parents gave their consent but
whenever a time was appointed for the
operation Dolores ran off to an aunt in
Brooklyn. When she went back to school
this fall she was told she could not at
tend, as she could hardly walk.
Dolores was told she must submit to
an operation, but even the threat that
she would be sent to an institute for
incorrigibles had no effect. Then the
school principal visited her and promised
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Vegetables Principal Food
of Homer's Ancient Warriors

tians, who raised affairs to It, Afterward
they made this strange god the first dish
in their repasts. The Greeks and Romans
-escribed to it the happy quality of pre-
serving from drunkenness and looked
upon 1t as sovereign remedy against
paralysis.
Alexander found the onion in Egypt,
where the Hebrews had learned to like it.
He had 1t cultivated in Greece and gave it
as food to his troops, in the belief that it
excited martial ardor. whatsoever wishes
to preserve his health, says an ancient
saw, should eat every morning, before
breakfast, young onions and honey! But
this does not sound like very tempting
preservative.
Asia is said to be the native home of
the asparagus. Yet the Romans culti-
waited 1t with such marvellous success
that the stalks raised at Ravenna are|
said to have weighed three pounds each,
and we are asked to believe that the|
African variety, grown in Libya, reached
height Of twelve feet
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ESEARCHES made by various
scholars indicate that the heroes
Of Hnmar nronar rod THAR food

IN ESEARCHES made by various
* scholars indicate that the heroes
Of Homer prepared their food
with their own hands. In the happy sim
plicity OF the Homeric ages the great
heroes who dealt such terrible blows,
leaving death and desolation behind them
when they reposed after their exploits,
partook Of blameless dish of beans or
plate of homely lentils
1t may be difficult to imagine Diomedes
in the act of peeling onions or Achilles
washing cabbages. But although the wise
Ulysses roasted, with his own hands, a
sirloin of beef, vegetables occupied the
most conspicuous places at all the great
banquets of ancient Greece.
Parsley formed the crown with which
Hercules, as conqueror of the Nemean
lion, crowned himself. Anacreon cele-
brates the plant as the emblem of Joy and
festivity. Fable makes parsley the food
Of coursers; the warriors of Homer fed
their chargers with 1t for battle.
The cabbage was adored by the Egyp-
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Campbell Cottage, White Plains, where
she is improving rapidly.
Then there was Peter l.. He was 8
years old, with right arm and leg para
lyzed. He had pneumonia and was taken
to Mount Sinai Hospital, where his left
leg became infected and had to be ampu-
tated. His mother took him away from
the hospital before he was discharged
and refused to return. When the asso-
cations nurse called he was crawling
about the floor like a baby, almost COM
pletely helpless. The family was very
poor, the father an epileptic and unable
to work regularly; the mother a janitress.
There were six other children. The nurse
induced the mother to take the boy to
the Hospital for the Ruptured and Grip
pied. He was operated on there, remained
four months and was sent home in a
brace leg. A visiting teacher was pro-
vided, so that the boy, after further treat
ment. will be able to take up his school
work again without too much to make up.
There was Bertha H., 16 years old, an
infantile paralysis case. 1t took months
of persuasion before her parents would
consent to the operation made neces-
sary by the paralysis, which affected
both her legs. The child was operated
on and kept at hospital for two months.
She returned home in casts, which she
bad to wear for three months more be-
fore It could be known whether the
operation had been successful When
they were removed Bertha was able to
stand without the aid of any appliances,
and now she walks easily.
There were three Italian children
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of these cripples ever reach high school,
and it is only through the work the asso-
citation has carried on that thousands
have been helped to obtain an education
beyond the lowest grades.
1t was through the efforts of this asso-
citation that the Board of Education in
1906 started it's first class for crippled
children. The association provided trans
portation for the pupils, none of whom
was able to walk to school. There are
now nearly fifty such classes in the public
schools, all of them specially arranged to
meet the needs of crippled children. Spe-
cially constructed chairs are part of the
equipment From 1900 to 1913 the asso-
citation continued to provide both trans
portation and nurses for the children on
the trips back and forth from school.
Then in 1913 an appropriation was made
by the city for carrying on the bus SER
vice. This was withdrawn last year,
leaving the association with an addi-
tional burden, for the demands of war re-
lief funds have been retarding its work
Some of the cures which have been ef-
fected through the associations activities
and the general improvement made in the
value of the children as potential citi-
zens have been nothing less than remark
able.
There was young julius R., II years
old. with a paralyzed left arm and an
amputated right foot. His case was
called to the attention of the association
by the public school he had been attend
ing. His arm was quite useless, due
mostly to neglect, for IL the boy had worn
braces when he was younger the arm
would not have become so contracted.
He was graduated from school when he
was 16 and the associations nurse took
him to the Institute for Crippled and Dis
abled Men to see what trade he might be
fitted for. He has been provided with an
artificial leg and has been taught tele-
phone operating. He is employed at the
institute as an operator and earns $12
week.
The case of a four-year-old italian girl
who had ricketts, affords an instance of
the difficulties encountered in the homes
of the children who require treatment.
The mother brought Amelia to one of the
district Offices to make appli-
cation for summer outing. This was
out of the question, as the child was the
size of an eighteen-month-old baby and
could not walk, talk or hear Examina-
tion showed there was no organic trouble
her condition was due simply to a pc
culiar form of ricketts,.
She was taken to the Metropolitan Hos
pital and placed on a special diet, but she
was no sooner there than her mother
wanted to take the child home because
she could not see her often enough. Ere
quent visits were arranged for her, but
each time she came to the hospital she
brought her seven other children with
her, because there was no one at home
who could take care of them for her
Amelia remained through the summer
and went home much improved. Then
one day the nurse CHANGED to visit
Amelia's home at the noon hour and
found Amelia eating red peppers for lunch.
IL looked then as II all the good work
which had been done would be undone,
and so application was made for con-
valescent care and the child is now at
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wv dignity for hilarious pastimes
no one pays any attention. But
when matrons and younger women of
society throw dignity to the winds and
go riding bareback and cutting capers on
horses backs just as do the spangled and
pimble beauties of the circus ring
every one is interested
Which is by way of saying New York
society meaning the members of the
coterie usually described as Of the elect.
are promising to stage a most anus
ingly undignified event to be called $50.
ciety circus" But it is not to be so much
for their own fun as for the benefit of
New York's crippled children.
A great deal has been said of this forth
coming event-the society circus and the
street carnival, to be given on Park ave-
rue beginning May 16--but not so much
has been written of the cause which in,
spired these festivities.
For more than twenty years-since
1900, to be exact-there has existed in
New York city an organization known as
the Association for the Aid of Crippled
Children. 1t has done its work quietly,
with little or no publicity, but that or
ganization has grown since 1900 from
one that conducted a class for fifteen
crippled children who were unable to at.
tend public school to one that obtains
medical treatment, convalescing care, ele-
mentary and secondary education. sum
mer outings, vocational guidance and
other help for nearly 5000 such children.
AS the work of the association has de-
veloped its most valuable service has
proved to be the one which leads up to
these other forms of help 1t has done
the work of scouting, of finding crippled
children in the city who need treatment
and of bringing them into the hospitals
provided by the CITY,
Neither the hospitals nor the munich
pal authorities have the facilities for
hunting up the children and It is re-
CURED that they report for treatment.
AS result thousands of crippled bows
and girls discovered by the associations
workers have been given the care they
needed, which would otherwise have been
withheld from them by suspicious or dis
couraged parents.
There is much distrust Of hospitals
and clinics, doctors and nurses among
foreign born people who know little Eng
fish, and who hear stories of brusque
treatment at the hospitals from their
friends. This attitude causes many OF
them to put off coming forward with
their crippled children at the time
trouble begins, and leads them to drop
all treatments after they are started, I'M
der the impression that no good is being
done
The association works to educate these
parents to the advantage of sustained
treatment and sees that the proper medi-
cal, surgical and nursing service is OBJ
tanned. A staff Of sixteen nurses is main
tanned by the association itself whose
duty It Is to make visits In the homes,
see that the right convalescent precau-
tons are taken and in general to follow
up all cases carefully.
The association estimates there are at
least $4,000 cripples in New York and
that about so per cent. Of these are under
16 years Of age. Thousands of them have
never been treated in any way. Very few
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Hickox. Mrs. Bayard Litchfeld, Mrs.
Thomas S. McLane, Mrs. Gardner Mil
lett, Miss Caroline Morgan, Mrs. Henry
V. Poor, Miss Elsie Schefer, Mrs. Eugene
Stetson, Mrs. Herbert Wilcox, Mrs. c. W..
Williams, Miss Dorothy Collins and Mrs.
William Gelshenen.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-05-14

Dolores new coat, which she needed
badly. That dH it. The operation was
performed, her feet are now in casts,
and when they are removed, the doc
tors say, she will have to wear brace
only short time.
Just one more case, which makes plain
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the necessity for such an
organization as the Asso-
citation for the Aid Of
Crippled Children. Mildred S.,
6 years old, was referred to
the association by the Board
of Health. She was COM
pletely paralyzed, blind and
almost deaf and dumb. After
a year of treatment practi-
cally no improvement was
perceptible. The mother said
afterward that If 1t had not
been for the encouragement
given by the associations
nurses she never would have
had the courage to continue.
The sight, hearing and
speech of the child have now
been completely restored. She
has begun to walk and she
has the use of her arms.
The present income of the
association is not sufficient
for the extension of its ser
vice to the thousands who are
in need of it, and it is for the
purpose of stimulating inter
est in its work and obtaining
adequate support that the
street fair is to be held this
week in Park avenue between|
Forty-sixth and Fiftieth|
streets.
The maintenance of the
nursing staff is the largest
item in the associations ex-|
penditure. Out of the $37,-|
010.53 that was spent during
the year ended November IL
1921, nearly $4,000 was used
for the salaries and expenses
of nurses. During the year
1920-1921 the sixteen nurses|
on the staff made 27,S11 visits
to the homes of patients and
2,443 more to hospitals and
dispensaries.
During the summer of 1921,
through the efforts OF a spe-
cial group Of contributors to |
the associations fresh air
fund, it was possible to main
tain a fresh air home, Happy
land, at Tenaf1y, N. j. An
average of twenty crippled
children wore maintained
there throughout the season,
most of them being kept there
for two weeks. A few cases
that required special open air
treatment remained there all
summer.
On the board of directors
of the association are: Mrs.
Edgar s. Auchincloss, Jr.,
president; Mrs. Charles F.
Bound, first vice-president;
Mrs. Walter Sullivan, second
vice-president; Thomas 8.
M c Lane, treasurer; Mrs.
Mark w. Maclay, secretary:
Mrs. Gordon Abbott, Miss
Margaret Armstrong, Mrs.
Henry B. Barnes, Mrs. Will
lam Barnes, Mrs. M. M. Bel
ding, Mrs. H. High Carleton,
Mrs. Charles g. Child, Mrs.
Frederick L. Collins, Mrs.
Samuel L. Fuller, Mrs. Ralph '
RS. Bayard Litchfield, Mrs.
Evening journal., 1922-05-08

have family"-hers Jack kissed
me-"we'd have to save on rent TO
spend on food"
Clothing, Is per cent. House
keeping. including laundry, cleaning
and any extra help, 10 per cent Gull
ture. meaning magazines and news
papers, health and recreation. chair
ties, is per cent; food, 20 per cent
and 10 per cent. for personal and
miscellaneous. my daily lunches for
example. But l guess we'll have TO
experiment a little. Pegginsl Taxes
have TO come IN somewhere"
Somehow housekeeping seerna
much more important to me, now I
have some fixed rules for spending.
But wish had suggested the bud
get myself. can't help feeling
censored" because Jack thought OF
Il first.
(To BE Continued)
Copyright. 1922, NEA Service.
Evening journal., 1922-05-08
&da@e,hqlnL
WLOuIS JOSEPH WANCENS ~

aisle OF shaded lights. he smiled in
turn, but with the muscles OF his
face alone. And looking from him
TO the flushed and charming coun-
tenance of the young woman on his
left, bending low over her plate 10
hide confusion engendered by Bells
latest audacity, Lucinda thought,
with a faint pang. more OF impa-
tience than OF Jealousy: He's in
love again.
with a small sigh Of animal delight
in the cares OF fur. and the chill,
sweet draught from the open win
dow upon her face. Lucinda Druce
settled back in the town-car. aware.
yet unmindful of the fluid nocturne
Of Fifth Avenue.
the Brook. alleging a rendezvous OF
one sort or another. safely masculine,
OF course. Beyond rejecting that
Bel was in all likelihood lying. Lu-
cinda had paid slight heed to his ex-
cuses.
Then, too, she was not ill-pleased
with having herself all to herself, In
this thoughtful mood which had be-
come hers since leaving the Sedleys.
Besides. Bel had been making too
free with the Sedley cellar. Not that
she was disposed to hold this a
grievance. thorough-going mon
daine that she was, saturate with the
spirit OF a day that was learning TO
look tolerantly upon intemperateness
as a fashionable form OF protest
against prohibition. No; It wasn't
that, II was the fact, established by
long observation, that Bel seldom
drank more than he could manage
gracefully unless on the verge Of
some new gallantry. Bel assuredly
didn't need anything to stimulate his
enterprise. She fancied It must be
because alcohol served as a sort OF
anesthetic for his conscience.
She had a smile transiently bitter,
Bells conscience The most feather
headed. Irresponsible OF phllander-
ers. the most incorrigible; between
while the most contrite
His fits OF penitence were terribly
real, when she caught him misbe-
having. Or was that. too. merely
part Of the game with Bel7 Was It
Just a conventional gambit TO make
believe repentance and promise
faithfully never, never to be naughty
again?
She discovered that the car was
already at a standstill. Immersed in
reverle. she hadn't noticed the turn
Off from the avenue.
As always, her home enfolded her
in It's comfortable atmosphere OF Sc
curity from every assault OF adver-
sity by virtue Of the solid wealth
upon which II was founded. that
formidable whole into which two
great fortunes had been fused by
her marriage with Ballamy.
In the library she fingered a long
minute. purposelessly searching the
Evening journal., 1922-05-08
you MAY BEGIN HERE

This odd pact between Jack
and Peggy to maintain individ-
ual freedom after marriage Is
not working perfectly. Because
OF Peggy's extravagance JACK
automatically has TO work out
Q budget system.
Jack didn't mean 10 leave me so
subdued this morning.
I'm never going TO let him know
how easily he can hurt my feelings.
For when he went into budget max
ing so solemnly II really seemed TO
me that he isn't quite satisfied with
me as a housekeeper.
We've been married only six
weeks and this day he proposed that
we make a schedule for spending
our salary. Am I a poor manager?
Does he think I'm a mistake as a
business partnerG
So many unexpected worries turn
up as soon as you're married! This
budget business tumbled from n
clear sky. I had run out OF money
and it's only Thursday, and had
epent every cent Jack gave me last
Monday morning.
He gives me $40 every week for
groceries and meat and this morn
ing II was all gone, all gone on ac-
count OF my luncheon for the girls.
And after had told Jack hadn
a penny 70 buy our dinner I found
that he had only $3.50 and that he
Intended It 10 cover all his personal
expenses until the first OF the
month-hve days away
ia never have known II hadnt
insisted. For Jack gave up his fiver
with the gayest smile. had 70 go
Evening journal., 1922-05-08
YOUR LAST NAME
Copyright 1920. by The Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
BY MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE

He was born in 1746 and became a
noted Indian fighter. With his Ave
younger brothers he entered the
Revolution and fought throughout
the war. His son. Joel Long, OF
Leesburg. Indiana. who was born IN
1897. was also a soldier. These
three generations OF Longs lived in
three centuries. all taking up arms
in the cause OF freedom.
In New England, distinguished
family OF Long was founded by one
Robert Long. who came from Dun
stable. Bedfordshire. England. He
sailed for the new world on the
Defence" with his wife, ten chill
dren and servant named Lucy
Mercer In 1895. They made their
home In Charlestown, Mass. His
children all bore good Biblical
names Michael. Sara. Robert,
Elizabeth, Ann. Mary. Rebecca,
Zachary. Joshua. Hannah. Ruth and
Deborah. The last two mentioned
we're born I'm this country. Many OF
the Longs OF this family have been
Harvard graduates.
Copyright, 1922. by The Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Evening journal., 1922-05-08

cinda. hoping she wouldn't notice
Anything and, if she did would De ,e
enough Of a sportswoman to let II
mass without comment
He found Lucinda seated on a
chaise-loDgue in her boudoir' run
ming through her mornings mail oy
way of preparation for the daiiy
balf-hour with her secretary wnich
n demanded. Posed with unfaihhs
grace in a negligee scarcely more
than a sketch in lace and RIBBON
with the light from the windows
seoDoinqIv drawn to a focus by hair
abundant. always rebellious, and the
hue OF ripe corn-silk. she seemed as
nrettv. as fair and fragile as a por-
celain fgurine. Bellamy needed only
TO see her thus to know stab OF
shame and self-reproach.
(Continued in Our Next Issue.l