Evening journal., 1913-02-05
NEMARK ANn sEMERS.

TT the arguments that have been advanced by those
who oppose the installation OF a system in
Newark had been permitted TO prevail in the official
councils and the public mind of the cities. and towns
in this and other countries our world by this time
would have been little better than pest-spot in the
universe Fortunately for the wel-being of the peo-
pie OF the earth, there has been such widespread
ceptance Of the principles of scientific sanitation that
year by year the mortality rate is being beaten down
to figures that not dreamed Of century
ago
II is unfortunate that thriving town like New
ark, the seat Of Delaware's prominent insttu-
ton OF learning and the prospective seat Of the Anil
lated State College for Women, contains many per-
sons who have yet 70 learn that sewers. matter
what they cost cheaper than pestience and death
Il is Of the utmost Importance that a growing town
shall have a reputation for healthfulness. That is
doubly true Of a college town. It certainly is not
good advertisement for Newark, any other munich
pality similarly situated to have the sent
broadcast that Il has within It influential eemeut
that seeks stand between and the taking OF these
fundamental sanitary precautions that represented
by adequate system.
Newark, not long ago. passed through a distressing
experience due to outbreak Of typhoid The extent
Of that outbreak may have been exaggerated in the
public prints and the public but that It
listed cannot be denied The that It was ty-
phoid centre heraded far and wide Many per-
attributed the outbreak 10 deficient sewerage.
There is telling what harm was done to Newark
by that undesred, but deserved pubnclN Ohe Woulu
think that such an experience would have made the
people who ought to be interested in the future OF
Newark unit in the determination to have
all the sewers needed to guard against ty
phoid and all other diseases that arise from
an improper disposal Of waste matter Seemingly,
however, there are ethose,'who rather would take
chance with death than pay slightly higher taxes that
would result from the negotiation of a sewer loan.
The wishes OF such unwise and short-sighted per-
should be overridden by the progressive citizen
ship Of the town. and that progressive citizenship
should carry the fight TO Dover and win IT,
Every man. woman and child in Newark has right
demand protection against pestience and possible
death Every parent in the State who has boy at
tending Delaware College has a right to demand that
municipal protection. BY the token. let it be,
said that every parent who purposes giving to his
daughter the educational advantages of the proposed
State College for Young Women has right to in
sist that before that college is built Newark shall
provide the ordinary municipal sanitary safeguards
that should surround such institution.
town Of the size and commercial and educational
Importance of Newark that lacks the sound and
feeling Of selfnterest necessary to impe it to guard it,
self against epidemic by that most ordinary Of all
means the installation OF sewers should be
selected site for State College for Young
Women any other public institution.