Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-08-13
CONFERENCE FOR
THE COMMON GOOD
First Session Held at Columbia Last Week Well
Attended-Prominent Speakers Made Splendid
Talks and Growth of Work Inaugurated
Will Bring Results that Must Make for
The Common Good"


Good" at it's first session, held in CO.
lumbia last week, was largely attend
ed by representative men from all
over the State, and prominent men
joined heartily in the work Of the
first session Of this body. The COu
rier regrets that it cannot give a
fuller resume of the proceedings
synopsis at least of each of the
good speeches made on wide range
Of subjects, but this is imp possible.
There are, however, many who will
agree with us that possibly the great
est factor in bringing public good to
the people of the State is a better
understanding Of sanitation and hy-
giene, and as this subject was
brought to the attention Of the con-
ference forcefully by one Of Oconee's
foremost citizens
DIR. r.. "A. Hines,
Of Seneca we give space to his re-
marks in full as reported by The
Columbia State Of the 7th. 2 The
statements made by Dr.. Hines and
the recommendations put forward by
him are well worth serious consider
alton. We quote from The State:
"Health and the Home"
was the subject Of an address de}iv-
cred by E. A. Hines, NJ. d., Of Sem
eca, secretary of the South Carolina
Medical Association, at the "Perma-
nent Homes session of the Confer
ence for the Common Good, held last
night in the Columbia theatre. DR..
Hines remarks are given here in
full:
The Health Conditions y
Of the home and the home life in this
country, owing to our freedom of
thought and action, have given sani-
tarians the most difficult problems
they have to face. The mans home
is his castle and his rights sacred.
In far too many instances such a
man considers the health officer an
invader of his rights and privileges
rather than as a guardian angel.
Nauy Times .nc home 3rcsunts Che
weakest link in the entire ohai, Of
preventive medicine. wharnls-s. E..
should be the strongest.
Indeed ne very touuCa.iuu % mu-
nicipal sanitation is the home, and
the same is true in great measure in
the small town and rural district. 1t
would be Of intense interest to trace
historically the intricate relationship
between the health of the individual,
the State, the nation and the home.
We would find this edifice frequently
to nave been built upon the sands of
igorance, blinded prejudice, and mis-
guided judgment rather than upon
the solid rock of the unselfish recog-
milton of the truths Of sanitary sci
ence. John Howard Payne had in
mind the ideal when he penned his
immortal poem, Home, Sweet
Home" and for more than half a CEN
tury this lofty sentiment has inspir-
ed our Southland with romance, leg
end, song and hospitality. We o. the
South have thus a glorious Inherit
ance, but this is not all that mas been
handed down to us. Unfortunately,
mingled with the refrain of Home,
Sweet Home" we discern especially
the discordant notes Of typhoid fever,
t,,h nCio la n I'M
disease, malaria, diseases of child
hood, and diseases sociologic in their
nature.
Any one of the maladies mention
ed could easily engage our attention
for the time allotted me. The great
white plague, tuberculosis, is pre-
eminently home-borne disease. Lis
ten to the words OF Sir William Os-
ler: "In four hundred homes Of this
country there is lamentation and woe
tonight, husbands for their wives,
wives for their husbands; children
for their parents, parents for their
mere repetition Of yes
terday's calamities. And If the ears
of your hearts open, you can hear,
while | speak, the beatings Of the
wings of the angels of death to the
four hundred appointed for to-mor-
row"
Causes are Social.
1t augurs well for the future of
our beloved State that we are here
this evening to reason together on
this highly important subject. Most
Of the ills from which we suffer in
the domain of preventable diseases
are due to social rather than indi-