Kiwanians present at the summer served on the new hospital grounds Friday evening, subscribed $1,700 as the nucleus of the $20,000 which will be required to complete the new hospital now in course of construction. The Kiwanians have shown themselves heartily in sympathy with the movement to provide ample hospital facilities here, and their action was not surprising. The canvassing committee of which Mr. W.N. Holt is chairman, will proceed at once with plans for raising the rest of the amount needed.
Mayor J.A. Narron was the first to speak on the hospital Friday evening, and he made the statement that he was proud to have been mayor of Smithfield when it evidenced its generosity in subscribing$10,000 to the hospital. He spoke briefly on the benefit of a hospital to a town.
Hon. Paul D. Grady of Kenly emphasized the advantages of having a hospital close at hand. People in his section have been convenient to Wilson and have largely patronized Wilson hospitals. A hard-surfaced road from here to Kenly, however, will tend to draw that part of the county closer to Smithfield, and with a splendid hospital building and the best of equipment in the center of the county, the patronage will no doubt be divided. Mr. Grady’s talk was along the line of the value of a hospital in Johnston County.
Dr. W.J.B. Orr, resident surgeon at the hospital here, who has evinced deep interest in the enterprise backing his interest financially by subscribing a good block of stock, is delighted over the prospect of occupying the new building by the first of the year, and is anxious to see the drive for the funds now needed, completed speedily. “There are 7,362 hospitals in the United States,” said Dr. Orr, “and 120 of these are in North Carolina.” He is proud of the fact that Johnston County has one of these and that an A-1 nurse’s training school in the state. Of the number of hospitals in North Carolina, 105 are privately owned, in a number of instances owned by corporations similar to the corporation here. Dr. Orr closed his remarks by reminding those present of what John Hopkins, a Quaker and merchant of Baltimore, thought of establishing hospitals. SaidJohn Hopkins, “I wish to leave to my memory two of the greatest institutions in the world—one, a university, because there will always be youth to educate; another, a hospital because there will always be suffering humanity to relieve.”
Among others who spoke on the value of the hospital were Rev. Chester Alexander, Rev. A.J. Parker, Mr. T.R. Hood and Dr. C.C. Massey.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Tuesday morning, Oct. 20, 1925
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