The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-05-09
DIR. OSCAR DOWLNING.
His COmmendation by the San An
tonic (Tex) Light.

Naturally WIFI I1le lllCOIIllllS du-
ministration there must follow
changes in offices which will dis
place many individuals throughout
the State, appointees of Governor
Sanders Of this number is DR.. Os-
car Bowling, who has conducted a
sanitary cOmpaign seemingly mar
velOus in its effects and which has
attracted the general attention OF
all the States of the Union.
It is true that DR.. Bowling has in
Cured the displeasure of many in
dividuals he has compelled to obey
the law, but he has never flinched
in the impartial discharge of his
duty.
Now and then his removal is dis
cussed by his friends, but such an
apprehension is suggested by their
regard for him.
1t may be said that men of the
type of DR.. Bowling are not circum-
scribed to political limitation. 1t is
and has been his right to express
and to exercise his views political
as becomes a free citizen of Louis
lana and in the consideration of his
continuance in the good work he
has accomplished it is only neces-
sary to guage him from the cOmpli-
mentary notice of the San Antonio
(Texas) Light:
'Louisiana has one institution, or
rather one individual, that Texas
could we'll afford to import. This in
stitution or individual is Or. Oscar
Bowling, health commissioner of
Louisiana. He is one of the men
who does things, and the State backs
him up in what he does.
"When Health Commissioner
Bowling goes into a city and sees a
total lack of sanitation in its milk
supply, he informs the dealers and
the town that things must be reme-
died right away or he will close the
dairies and compel the people to
bring in milk from the outside.
Then he walks around in the bak-
cries and where he sees that bread
is being made in the midst of un-
speakable filth he does some speak
ing himself, and that particular bak-
cry makes bread in a proper man.
ner thereafter, or it does not make
bread at all. Then he looks after
the restaurants, and they do things
as they should or the health com
missioner does things to them.
when he is not making things
lively for the minor offenders
against clean living. he pays little
attention to the cities. He tells the
mayors of such towns as are below
the standard of cleanliness that they
must clean up or there will be trou-
BILE, and they clean up. He looks af-
ter the sewers, the water supply, the
disposal of garbage, and when re-
form is needed he puts it through.
I'm other words, Commissioner
Bowling is simply an intelligent,
faithful and hardworking official
who knows his busienss and attends
to it. There are plenty OF men in
Texas who could fill the position in
this State so ably held by Commits
sioner Bowling in Louisiana, but for
some reason or other they are not
put on the job.
"Some day we will awake to the
fact that dirt and unsanitary condi-
tions are an active expense. 1t is
cheaper to be clean than to be soiled
and it is vastly more creditable
and more comfortable"
And the Light could have re-
marked incidentally and in paren-
thesis such a gentleman being in
dispensable to the general welfare
of Louisiana, will unquestionably be
continued in his office, which he
has filled creditably and admirably.