County Government And County Affairs In Hoke County North Carolina PDF Download

Excerpt from County Government and County Affairs in North Carolina: Addresses Before the North Carolina Club at the University of North Carolina, 1917-18 Is there, then, anything for a county welfare officer to do? There is more to do that ought to he done than any ten such officers can do in any county. And fortunately so; it gives a wise officer a chance to call to his side and to involve as volunteers in his purposes all the civic and social minded men and women of the county. He needs them, and they need the wort, and in it they are sure to find the more abundant life that the Master came to earth to bring to the sons and daughters of men. Suppose we had in every county of North Carolina a body of closely integrated social servants composed of (1) the school board with its superintendent and supervisors, (2) an agricultural board with its home and farm extension agents, (3) a public health board with its whole-time health officer, its public health nurses, its clinics and dispensaries, (4) a public welfare board and its secretary charged with specific social concerns, and (5) a ministerial board composed of all the preachers of all the churches busy stamping every common effort with the ultimate values of life and destiny, time and eternity - suppose, I say, the civic and social mind of North Carolina were organized and federated in this way! If only it could be so and it can, then what an era of democratic wholesomeness and effectiveness we should enter upon, and how rapidly our beloved state would move to the fore in the new social order that is even now breaking upon the world. Man freely self-surrendered to his fellowkind and wholeheartedly given in organized effort to the common good is the dream we dream. Man dedicated to the state is Prussianise; man dedicated to humanity is the soul of democracy; man dedicated to humanity, in His name, is the last word in any kind of religion that is worth calling Christian. The Kingdom of Heaven doubtless means much more than this, but I am sure that it ought never to mean less. - E. C. Branson, an address before the N. C. Social Service Conference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.