Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-06-30
ONE YEAR OLD.
Or. Gifford's Sanitarium Just Com.
pleted Successful Years Work.


Ten years ago, Andrew w. Edison. once
principal of our graded schools and nov
associate superintendent Of the schools in
New York city, said TO large audience in
/ Dubois Gays hall. 1.-THE people Of Ran
dolph know good thing when they see
IL. he was speaking then OF educational
interests and in appreciation OF what had
been done IN this community for the
/ schools.
This is true Of the schools. It is also
true OF other things. The people of this
community saw and knew a good thing
when they took measures for the Incor-
poratlon OF the village and began those
/ improvements which have placed il IN
the front rank. They knew and saw a
| good thing when they inaugurated the
water supply; when they arranged for the
system Of electric lights; when they re-
| sponded so heartily to the generous pro-
posal of Col. Kimball for the permanent
foundation for the library. And so on.
very likely we have missed some OF the
| good things we might have had il we had
known and seen them when they were
within cur reach. We are fortunate To
have recognized as many as we have and TO
have maintained and retained them.
The most recent good thing and one
whlch doubtless the community Is seeing
ana knowing as such is the sanitarium-
| "Dr. Gihord's sanitarium.n 1t is a wear
/ now since 1t was opened to the public.
Inc record OF the skill and success which
has attended its work during the year and
the amount and quality of that work JUS
tify both its establishment and the high
esteem IN which the institution Is held by
all who know 1t. We hope its prosperity
ana success may be permanent and in
creasing. The time seems ready for such
an institution among us and just recog-
milton OF Its value will certainly not only
De an encouragement to its founder an
inspiration 10 the assistants, who have
won unstinted praise from every one who
has shared their skill and care, but ii will
also make most generous returns to the
community itself and the communities
surrounding. II ought to be a source OF
pride and pleasure to us as a village to be
numbered among the few towns OF the
state most OF them much larger than we
are who possess hospital equal with the
best in the quality and character OF its
work. Without doubt hospital for every
considerable town or section OF towns Is
one OF the benefeent necessities which
our modern civilization will provide for.
IL Is calculated TO do a certain work which
cannot be done in any other way. The
multiplication OF these institutions in
convenient centers, here and there, bring
70 the people themselves and close at hand
the privileges that heretofore have been
enjoyed BY the greater towns and cities
only. We are glad to record the fact that
the people in this vicinity and in the
towns adjoining are taking so much inter-
est as they have in the work which DR..
Clifford has projected. We feel that the
cause and work merit all this and more.
Now that the sanitarium has proved
itself an accommodation which in value
seems wen nigh indispensable, and the
people have come to see by experience how
much OF good il means to them, il is q
good time for them to be taken into the
confidence Of its founder and 10 know that
in projecting ii he hoped 1t might come
eventually upon permanent foundation,
in whose interests others beside himself
should share, and in whose management
Others in and outside the medical profess |
sion should have responsibility.
V. NJ. HARDY.