The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-02

other schools; condemn drinking cups
In one school and pass them up in an
other; condemn curtains in one dis
trict school and next day put his O.
K. on them in another; condemn flow
ers in one school and admire them
in another; condemn a new school
building for cross lights and approve
them in another; threaten to prosecute
trustees for not fumigating In some
cases and disappearing of 1t In other
similar cases. We want a health Of
ficer who will not condemn the crowd
ed condition of one township school
and threaten the trustee with suit, and
afterward when the trustee had taken
steps to build an addition, goes to the
township advisory board and tells
them in secret session to wall in the
upstairs hallway and make room for
the overflow, an agreement that was
later condemned by the State Board
of Health IS unsanitary, poorly venti-
lated, not enough llrht and a fire-trap
We do not want a health officer who
will come to the school one day and
object to the teacher having one win
dow open, insisting to open the win
dow is unnecessary and harmful to the
pupils and on the next visit to the
same room raise a racket because all
doors and windows are not open. We
do not wish to shirk our duty, howev-
er drastic the health rules are, but
we want a man who will call things
by their right name and has the abili-
ty and courage to conduct a uniform
and sanitary campaign over the entire
| county until Wayne county stands in
the front ranks of the counties of the
state.
DR.. King says: Il would not &C
| cept a reappointment to the office with
the understanding that | should pur-
sue any other course than what
have been"
Have Had Enough.
| Can you imagine anything so de-
| plorable or detrimental to the best in
terests of sanitary welfare of the
county than to have Dr.. King fill the
office of county health commissioner
for another four years and continue
! in his uncertain and inconsistent way?
! 1t is earnestly hoped by not only the
township trustees but by hundreds of
voters of the county that the county
commissioners will realize the true
situation of this important office and
! fill it by the appointment of a more
competent man than the present in
cumbent.
DR.. King says he experienced the
most trouble with DR.. StoteImyer of
| Jefferson township, and cited in
stances. DR.. King met the trustee
and advisory board of jefferson town
ship several years ago on the site of
the old dunkard school house. and
said he would prosecute US if We
opened school in the old building,
and would not consent for us to re-
pair the old building nor to build upon
the old site. We then took the proper
! steps to secure a new site and build
a new building near the old site AS
the doctor says. did buy two and one
/ third acres on the corner of the John
Stonebraker farm, paying with my own
money S317 for the site. 1t was
| bottom land. but was not ditched and
| had water standing upon il when the
official inspected it. and he would not
allow us 10 use it for school pur-
| poses. We then procured one and
one-half acres diagonally across the
| pike Of the William \. Stout farm.
| paying $3.50 for this site The advis-
| ory board was offered the first site
for the original price or S3l7 for the
two and one-third acres, but were not
allowed to use it. This did not anger
me, as / later ditched ii and other
wise improved it and sold it at fair
profit.