The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
DIR. T. w. M. Long

DR.. T. W. M. Long, whose death brought a
feeling of personal loss to thousands in North
Carolina, combined rare qualities of leader
ship and technical training that made him an
invaluable legislator and physician.
The Raleigh News and Observer says OF
him: The state has lost a good citizen, the
medical profession a competent spokesman,
and the state senate a member whose exper-
fenced leadership would have been valuable
during the present session"
The News and Observer believes his loss is
.for the time irreparable as it will probably
be impossible for his district to elect a sue
cessor before expiration of the present
session." and pays him a fine tribute by add
ing: sIt will be many sessions before a legls-
lator will be found anywhere in the state Wno
will fill the niche which DR.. Long had carved
for himself"
The Rocky Mount Telegram declares the
state will sadly miss "a man who had repre-
sented his people wisely and conscientiously
a legislator who saw beyond the bounds
of his county and fought for measures whlcf
would benefit the whole state. -" The Teie'
gram gives us this, in summing up his charac'
t~eristics:
There's something about the medical
profession that seems to set it apart from
most professions in that you rarely find
a physician who doesn't possess an undylng
love for humanity and who isn't willing
to make great personal sacrifices IN order
to help improve the conditions OF his TEL
lowmen. When you place such a man IN
public Office you generally find IN him a
champion of movements to make easier
the lot of human beings and improve their
physical Well-being. Known as the public
health champion of North Carolina, DR..
Long labored throughout the time he was
in the Legislature for those things we have
mentioned. Witness, for instance, such
measures as those requiring persons de-
string to be married to pass health tests,
all expectant mothers to take blood tests
for syphilis and all children to be i'm
munized against diptheria. And in the cur
rent session, DR.. Long had introduced a
bill to add so cents to automobile license
fees to pay hospital expenses in automo-
bile accident cases as well as offering a
statewide malaria control measure.
From the Winston-Salam Journal We Gull
the following:
Always an advocate of progressive So
cial measures, his sound common sense,
his moral courage and spirit OF determl-
nation made him the leader in a fight to
restore sanity and safety to the institution
of marriage in North Carolina and place
this commonwealth in the forefront among
the states of the union in the war against
syphilis and other conta gious diseases.
The High Point Enterprise declares The car
RED a maximum of intelligence and courage
to the legislative end of the public health
featism. Senator Long, the law-maker, be-
lieved as Doctor Long, the practicing physi-
clan, believed that the state consciously could
do something about the ills affecting it
ingly."
1t is to his fighting qualities and fair-ninded-
ness that the Lunberton Voice directs atten-
ton in this except from it's
Any man who can fight for the interest
or causes with which he is associated
without becoming shortsighted and losing
sight of the interests of other groups, of
the best interests of the people as a whole,
is a man of great worth to the state,
and it was one of the distinguishing char
acteristics of DR.. Long that he had that
quality.
In the grief that blankets the state al his
passing, there is solace in the knowledge that
what he did for the health of the common
wealth is mot inferred with his bones,' but
live on through generations still to be born.