The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-06
Here's What Your County Ought
to Do.


No county In the South is doing
what it ought to do for it's people
unless it<employs a competent sup.
printendent of health and a com
petent superintendent of schools
TO give their entire time to the
work. 1t ought to be regarded
as lust as essential and funda-
mental a iduty for the county to
provide men to look after the
health and the training of the peo-
ple as to provide men to register
deeds and to arrest criminals.
The whole South is too back
ward in the great educational and
governmental reforms that are
0uickening other sections into
new vigor and activity. We need
a little more Insurgency inside
our party lines in the South to
make the party machiery more re-
sponsive to needed reforms just
as Republican insurgency
among Western farmers has made
that party there more progressive
than it would otherwise have
been. Let us get behind our
county officials and see to it that
the county government becomes
more efficient. And the first
thing to do is to see that your
county has a competent school
superintendent and a competent
superintendent of health-men Sc
tected because Of their ability and
not for political considerations.
We are moved to say these
things by the recent action Of the
Alamance County, N. c., commits.
sioners in electing a county sup.
erintendent of health at a salary
of $4,000, to give his entire time
TO the work. The following com.
ment by Editor Mebane Of the
Catawba County News is right tc
the point, and expresses u OWL
views exactly:
"No more enlightened action
has been taken in the State in an!
line than that of Alamance Coun-
ty in electing at a salary OF $2,GJ,
a wear a superintendent of health
who is to give his entire time te
the public. Nothing in ou1
scheme of things, absolutely moth.
ING. is so important as health and
not another department of gov.
eminent is so abominably neg
lected and ignored. S~uperinten'
dents of health get practically
nothing in the counties for then
services, and hence they can dc
practically nothing. Public build
ings, schools, etc., may be culture
beds for disease without a single
precaution being taken. A re
cent estimate shows that almos
all the school children have defec
tive teeth, and this with other all
ments operates to hamper devel
opment mentally and physically
Many a child is mauled about TO
being dull when the truth OF tn
matter is, that some affection o
other that child could be RENE
died under civilized health regu
lations is the cause of the dull
ness.
eve note with pleasure tina
the Alamance superintendent, ID
George W. Long, is to e tina
all school buildings and ground
are sanitary before they shall b
permitted to be used as such, an
each child is to be examined a
to the condition Of it's eyes, ear
nose, and throat, and for intet
final diseases. This is a distlnc
advance and every county shoul
follow the example. The supel
intendent should be paid hant
somely and required to devote h,
entire time to it. 1t would say
far more than i! costs.
"And while we are at it, W
have the same thing to say abor
the superintendent of educatio
in the counties. AS a rule, b
gets about what a middnng gro
cry clerk gets, and yet he is SUI
posed to give every day of h
life to the development of til
educational interests
u E1.os Ovor Five Towns