Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.), May 26, 1932 (page 3)

MAY 26, 1932 NORMAN THOMAS IS NOMINATED Socialist Candidate in 1928 Will Again Bear Colors of Socialist J Party. Maurer Named as Vice Presidential Candidate. Milwaukee, Wis.--Norman Thomas of New York Sunday was nominated Socialist candidate for President. His campaign, he assured the socialist na tional convention here, will be a re lentless war against Republican and Democratic parties and against "the kingdom of poverty." Thomas, also the Socialist candi date in 1928, was chosen by acclama tion to lead the party through an other campaign. James H. Maurer of Pennsylvania, for sixteen years president of the Federation of Labor in this State, was named the party's candidate for vice president. Thomas was nominated after he had defeated overwhelmingly a spir tied effort to commit the socialist party to a policy of confiscation of the principal industries of the nation as a step in establishment of a so cialistic society. A group from Cali fornia tried to insert the theory of confiscation into the platform. May Obtain Bulletins To Aid in Canning During the year 1931, more than three million cans of surplus vegeta bles and fruits Were filled by farm women who are members of the home demonstration clubs in North Caro lina. Many women canned according to a budget and provided enough such food for their families during win ter. Others canned a surplus and sold the surplus on curb markets. "At any rate this revival of can ning last season did much to overcome the effects of poor prices for farm products last fall and in many in stances provided excellent food when actual want might have existed had it not been for this canned material," says Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon, assist ant extension director at State Col lege. "We are issuing a call for more j canning this summer. Our home agents will aid in community canning, and, trained leaders among the women will aid those who have not had suf ficient experience in canning a quali ty product. It is my hope that every woman with a garden will save some vegetables to supply the family's need for food this coming winter." To aid farm women in their can ning problems, the extension service has reprinted its circular number 114, "Canning Fruits and Vegeta bles," and copies of this circular will be supplied free of charge to citizens of North Carolina as long as the sup ply lasts. The extension service also has a good supply of extension circu lar number 113, "Jelly, Preserves, Jam and Pickle," and copies of this publication will also be sent free to those desiring them. Those who wish to have copies of these two publications should send in their requests early. Each home agent in the State will have a supply and will be glad to distribute these to club women. A letter or card to the division of publications at State College asking for either of the two bulletins will also receive prompt at- tention. Twenty-five crop rotation demon strations are being conducted by good farmers of Alamjance County this season in an effort to find the best working combination of crops. WANTED TO RENT--Furnished cot tage or apartment for first term of Summer School at Boone. Lena Mae McEachin, Parkton, N. C. 2tp BAYER ASPIRIN Unless you see the name Bayer and imitations. Millions of men have the word genuine on the package as proved that it is safe, pictured above you can never be Genuine Bayer Aspirin promptly sure that you are taking the genuine Bayer Aspirin that thousands of Necntis physicians prescribe in their daily Neuralgia practice. Sore Throat Lumbago __ Rheumatism Toothache The name Bayer means genuine Aspirin. It is your guarantee of No harmful after-effects folteeo 3s purity--your protection against the use. It does not depress the heart. Scenes and Personages in the Lindbergh Tragedy If lE# /f' Map shows where the. body of Httle Charlie Lindbergh was found, by William Allen, a Negro, five miles from his home. The circle device was signed to the ransom note left by the kidnappers, who said the money should be given to whoever showed that Dr J. F. Condon gave $50,000 to a man who produced the baby's sleeping suit,* but the baby had been killed before that The pictures of "Lindy" and "Anne" are the last ones made before the kidnapping. Formal Opening Last Sunday of the Elegant New Banner Elk Hospital By ALISON B. STIRLING Banner Elk.--On Sunday, May 22, the new Grace Hospital at Banner Elk was formally opened to the pub lic with a dedication service on the lawn in charge of Rev. Marion Mur ray, and an "open house" period which Was attended by a large crowd. This hospital among the mountain peaks of Avery County is the largest medical hospital in America in a town the size of Banner Elk and refutes the generally accepted theory that a large hospital requires a large city population for its support. Avery County, being a border county, and the present good roads a contribu tory element, Grace Hospital draws its patients from nine counties in the states of North Carolina and Ten nessee, a radius of fifty miles with a population of 100,000. Avery is also the county "having the highest mean elevation, the highest courthouse and the highest railway station east of the Rockies." The new Grace Hos pital, built of unpolished pink gran ite of the neighboring mountains, by the men of the mountains, in a moun tain setting, surrounded by mountain trees and shrubs and with a staff drawn largely from the mountains, is carrying out the slogan of Edgar Tufts, the beloved founder of the three-fold work at Banner Elk "In the mountains, of the mountains, for the mountains." With the stone buildings of Lees-Mcßae College asj a background, the hospital has Grand father Mountain and Hanging Rock to the south, while to the north the Beech Mountain keeps watch and ItVard, like an eagle with outstretched wings. In this mountain setting, the new Grace Hospital stands as solid and substantial as the mountains, but with a beauty of line and proportion that makes it one with the beauty of the mountains themselves. Beautiful Architectural Style Mr. D. R. Beeson of Johnson City, Tenn., the architect of the building, says of it: "The architectural style of any THE WATAUGA DEMOCRAT--EVERY THURSDAY--BOONE, N. C. building should depend largely upon its location and setting. This is espe cially true as regards the case of the new building for the Grace Hospital at Banner Elk, N. C. Stone is every where in evidence and is certainly the material for the exterior of the structure, it having, more than any masonry, that appearance and feeling of permanence embodied in the ever lasting hills that surround this out post of relief. The stone that faces the outside walls is a pink granite, native to this locality; no quarrying is necessary, for it can be picked up in abundance in the form of boulders and broken up for use. No cutting of courses, cornices, arch blocks, etc., was possible, hence the style is neces sarily simple, relying for beauty upon the texture and shades of the mason ry and roof and the mass of the building as a whole, though the de sign in general is adapted from the early English. "The roof, one of the exterior features, is of dull terracotta tiles of rough surface, scored to give the effect of the old-time weathered roof of split wood slabs, --the original of our Wood shingles. Four-Story Building "The building, four stories in height, 147 feet long and 42 feet deep, is of fireproof construction, as all hospitals should be. The stone masonry of the outside walls is I backed up with hollow tile, the floors and supports are of reinforced con crete, and inside partitions are of gypsum tile construction. "The general plan of the interior was the result of careful study of conditions and requirements in or der to secure the greatest efficiency of operation and administration to all departments, much of the detail being the result of long research by the Duke Endowment. "The electrical equipment, the best obtainable, includes beside the light ing system, complete signal system from the bedsides to the nurses' and superintendent's stations and an in terphone installation for all service and administration rooms; a very complete X-ray and flouroscopic de partment. The sterilizers are electri cally operated as is also the laundry. The kitchen is wired for electrical equipment which, with an electric elevator, will be installed later, when sufficient funds are available. "The building is heated by steam of the vacuum type with pump and is noiseless and efficient, --a very important part of the equipment as few realize the severity of.our high land winters. The furnace room is a unique feature as it is cut off from the rest of the hospital by solid Walls and has its own outside entrance." Elaborate Electric Equipment The elaborate electric equipment is made possible by the hydro-electric plant, which is part of the Edgar Tufts Memorial Association's estab lishment. Situated on the Elk River, there is a fall from the dam to the power house of 190 feet, a distance of 3,200 feet. The plant is modern in every respect, with an automatic governor and other automatic con trivances, and supplies not only the buildings of the association but the surrounding territory. Approaching the new hospital from the highway the waiting room is reached from the main entrance, with the business office adjoining. On the same floor are the offices of the two doctors in charge of the hospital, also dental office, and eye, ear, and throat department, with a dark room for sinus examination. Here is also the laboratory; the X-ray suite of six rooms with lead insulation be tween the gypsum block partitions. The general 'kitchen, jliet kitchen, nurse's dining room and laundry are also on this floor. Capacity of Sixty Bed* On the second and third floors are the wards and -private rooms; rooms for colored patients with their own entrance; and contagious ward, com pletely isolated and self-contained. The hospital has a rated capacity of sixty beds, but would care for seven ty-five patients in an emergency. The walls are of plaster tinted a cream color, making an effective contrast with the wood work of oak from the mountains nearby. The doors are of one-piece black gum with a narrow inlay of black. The main and minor operating rooms are on the fourth floor and are floored and wainscoted with green mat tile and are equipped with the latest ap pliances. Comprised in this suite are the nursery, surgical wash rooms, and nurses work room, the latter with •commodious cabinets for the neces sary dressings. At each end of the second and third floors are the sun parlors, com manding such wonderful views of mountain and valley that one is tempted to believe that a stay in one of the hospital's attractive rooms, with the clear air and sunshine of the everlasting hills would bring healing in itself. It is well that provision has been made for expansion in the architect's plans. Last year 929 bed patients were discharged, with 6,150 office calls and total bed days of 9,689 and though open only two weeks, thirty four of the beds are in use and on last Sunday not only were the fifty chairs in the waiting room occupied, but thirty people were standing, bid ing their time to see the busy doc tors. History of the Hospital The new Grace Hospital is the third to be built on the ridge "in the once remote valley of the Elk." In 1900 a young man, the Rev. Edgar Tufts, "with the eyes of an angel and the jaw of a mighty man of valor," came to make his home and to give his life among the moun tains he so dearly loved, having spent his vacations here during his semi nary course at Richmond. He was a builder born; not only of buildings, but a builder of souls, and of minds and of bodies. His first building was his little frame church at the east end of the wooden ridge that now carries the massive stone structures of the Lees- Mcßae campus. Then to house the children whom he had been teaching around his own fireside, he built his schoolhouse, and a dormitory for girls, further along the same ridge. Then the need of the mountains for doctors and nurses called to Mr. Tufts. He felt that the rural doctor was bound to disappear. With the ad vance of science, doctors flocked to the cities, and it was becoming in creasingly difficult to induce the young men just graduating to settle in the sparsely settled mountain re gions. The solution of this difficulty lay in the establishment of hospitals in strategic points in rural communi ties. First Hospital Built in 1907 So in 1907 at the other end of the ridge on which the church was built, he erected his rough frame hospital and doctor's residence, calling Dr. Charles Reed to take charge. Dr. Reed could only stay two years and then a young pioneer made of the same stuff as Mr. Tufts, came to his assistance. Dr. W. C. Tate had just completed his medical course when he brought" his bride to Banner Elk and took up the work which has grown to such large proportions. The hospital had no accomodation for bed patients, so day and night through summer storms and winter snows, he rode his horse up and down the mountain trails, operating in the homes in three counties and carry ing his medical and surgical kit in his "tow pack" saddle bags. Before long two beds Were provid- I ed and an operating room and labo ratory added, and for two years Dr. Tate carried on this work alone ex cept for the help of Mrs. Tate until a trained nurse was added to the staff who had to be responsible for both patients and office calls during the doctor's necessary absences. Capacity Increased Rapidly Soon the capacity of this hospital, six beds, was reached, and the calls for service were so insistent that a new 25-bed hospital was planned. Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins of New York, who had helped make the orig inal hospital possible, came forward with a gift of $22,000 and in 1924 a fireproof brick hospital, named for Mrs. Jenkins' sister, Grace, rose on the site of the old hospital residence, Dr. Tate an<j his family having moved into a comfortable home of their own provided through the generosity of Mr. W. W. Fuller of New York, a life-long friend of the school. In 1925, Dr. R. H. Hardin of Boone was added to the staff, he and his family occupying a home similar to Dr. Tate's on the other side of the hos pital. Dr. Tate was director of the hos pital and in charge of administration and general surgery, Dr. Hardin hav ing charge of the medical, obstetri cal and X-ray departments. A nurses' training school was also added. This first Grace hospital, which was con sidered over-large when it was built, soon grew beyond its capacity. Two and three patients had often to share the private rooms and even the halls and bathrooms were sometimes util ized, while the sun parlors from the very beginning were turned into three bed wards. The waiting room was almost never vacant and frequently the lawns and walks surrounding the hospital would have groups of those waiting for treatment who could not find room inside. The New Grace Hospital Here again Mrs. Jenkins came to the rescue and with other friends of the hospital, made possible the rais ing of $40,000.00 to meet the $35,000 offered by the Duke Foundation. Ground was broken for the new building on August Ist, 1929, and in April of this year the imposing new 60-bed Grace Hospital was opened and the patients transferred from the brick hospital on the ridge which will be used as the training school for the nurses' home. There are now nine graduates of the nurses course, with twenty in training. Dr. Tate and Dr. Hardin are still the only two doc tors in chai'ge of this great work, Dr. Tate having the financial respon sibility as well. The Edgar Tufts Association Mr. Tufts had dreamed dreams and seen visions, but he was not to see the complete realization of dream. In 1923, the Work at Banner Elk suf fered a crushing blow in his death. "God takes the workers but the work goes on." In 1924 the Edgar Tufts Memorial Association, "carrying on" in the spirit of his father, while Dr. Tate is in charge of the medical de partment. As the building was dedicated Sun day, to the glory of God and the help of suffering humanity, the hearts of Banner Elk people held close in af fection and regard these two pioneers, one gone to his reward, but the other still having his visions and making them come true. Edgar Tufts and William C. Tate, hiding themselves behind their work, and losing themselves in service "even to the least of these." 27 YEARS AT LEES-McRAE When any of the old pupils come back to Lees-Mcßae, were they two years ago or twenty, their first ques- s®),/ 1 Telephone £sLg?...Mrs. Green j "Mother says to hurry as it JfjjjflKT sounds like an important Mk\mm I'l "Tell her that I'll be over _ L- as 80011 88 I can take the _ \tßSy wV- dinner out of the stove." BSs/ V Do you use your neigh- W fvxLt~ orß e l e ph olle Think 111 how much better it would 'il be to have one of your own. 1 Then you need not bother anyone, and your friends can call yon without em barrassment. The entire family will find many uses for the tele phone, with the added comfort of knowing that in emergencies the telephone is always ready to sum mon aid. You, too, can have a telephone of your own for only a few cents a day. In fact, the service is so low in cost that it really doesn't pay to try to do without it. Southern &ell Wephon. Co. tion after noting the improvements and alterations that have taken place since they left is always, "Is Miss Taylor here?" When the friends from Banner Elk come across the campus, very often their question also is: "May I see Miss Taylor?" And when the friends from the mountain around Arbordale come down, usually with the loveliest flowers or the most at tractive evergreens in their hands, their question almost always is: "Where can I find Miss Taylor?" Miss Fannie K. Taylor came to Lees-Mcßae in 1904. Taking the lit tie narrow-gauge railway from John son City, she was met at Elk Park by the school conveyance, it having started in the early morning so that !the horses might be fed and rested j in order to get back to Banner Elk I before dark. This trip now takes sis- I teen minutes of leisurely driving by I motor over Route 194. I She found an unfinished dormitory, j a school building and a church on the ridge naer the valley where the "Elk rushes by to the sea." These build ings were all of wood, heated by wood stoves, lighted by kerosene lamps and with the water for the dormitory carried in buckets from the neighboring wells. There were three teachers at the schol: matron, music teacher and primary teacher. Miss Taylor has remained at Ban ner Elk to see many changes--a well paved highway from Banner Elk to Johnson City; to see the old wooden buildings pulled down one by one and replaced by the beautiful stone struc tures of the Lees-Mcßae campus; to see the medical work inaugurated un der Dr. Tate, as he carried his hos pital in his saddle bags, grow into the widely extended influence of the beautiful new sixty-bed Grace Hos pital; to see the old light and heat replaced by electricity and a steam heating plant and the old bucket bri gade supplanted by the artistic water tower at the east end of the campus, with its 25,000 gallon tank which distributes a copious water supply to all the buildings. She has seen sorrow come to Lees- Mcßae, when her friend, the beloved founder of Lees-Mcßae, passed on to his reward, and he has had the joy of seeing his son and daughter, her pupils in many classes, step in and steer the course of their father's work as his hand slipped from the rudder. She has seen the small Sunday school on the mountain grow into the attractive church at Arbordale, with a growing congregation that loves her as embodying the ideals of the Master whom she has followed, 10, these many years." Miss Taylor is still teaching French and Latin at Lees-Mcßae, surround ed by the love and care of everyone connected with the work here. In 1930, after 25 years of loving service to Lees-Mcßae, Miss Taylor was presented with a gold loving cup by the trustees, the heads of the de partments of the Edgar Tufts Memo rial Association, and the faculty of Lees-Mcßae College, as the students sang in the dining room: "O, here's to Miss Taylor, ain't she grand." REVIVAL MEETING COMES TO A CLOSE AT ROANS CREEK A revival of great interest came to a close Sunday night, May 22nd, at Roan Creek Church near Shouns, Tenn. The services had been in prog ress for two weeks, and the church and community were greatly revived. Thirty-three new members were bap tized on Sunday morning and several others will be received later. Rev. R. C. Eggers, pastor of the church, was assisted in the meeting by Rev. E. C. Hodges. THREE