Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-12-20
me BLUFF
ROGRESS
R0SPE RITY
INJURIOUS TO PINE BLUFF.

The G:a.hic has made no "unwar-
ranted'S c, iticism of DR.. j. IL. Hut
Crimson, the city DOCTOR 1t has,
not criticised his n:e..od. of IN str
gati..s ~, the III -. affairs OF
Pine Bluff aid IL shall not do so jlsl,
50 Ions DIS he continues to co riDct
his personal examination into depart
mental y oJk and the city's. finances
on the high plane that has character
lied his Inquiry thus far. The Graph
ic docs rot wish to be understood as
being oppt sed to the survey that is
being made under the auspices OF the
City Besu;:ful Club. 1t has stated
repeatedly that ii such a survey
Would result in lettering the city's
financial sondition and Improving de-
partment work it. welcomed it hear
tily. 1t will aid DR.. Hutchinson in
every way possible to accomplish his
work here and has given publicity
to his criticism and suggestions
daily sinc-. his arrival.
DR.. Hutchinson is likewise being
shown every courtesy by city Off
Gals and the employees of the various
departments.
But whet the Graphic. did criticise
was DR.. Hutchinson's statement that
babies had died by the hundreds in
Pine Bluff during the summer months
because Of the inability of the city
health department officials to inspect
milk sold here, under legal regula-
tions that are provided in the state
board of health rules. This statement
tended to do Pine Bluff much harm
If it was allowed to go unanswered
or corrected. The statement was not
true. There were no such deaths
recorded in Pine Bluff, as iar as the
public knows, and to create the i'm
preston that Pine Bluff was permit
ting the sale of u1wholesome milk or
any other impure liquids or foods
would have tendency to cause I'M
Favorable comment outside OF this
city and might retard the city's pro-
su,ess. IIomeseekers do not usually
fancy living in city that is adver-
tised to the outside world as being
unhealthy, or where babies are dying
at least 'one hundred a summer.
Pine Bluff is known far and wide
as a healthy city, where the death
rate is smaller than dozens OF cities
of It's size in this country and as
small as many of the smaller ones.
DR.. Junius Jordan, superintendent
of the Pine Bluff public schools, is
authority for the statement that Pine
Bluff public schools have the lowest
death rate Of those of any city in Ar
kansas and that it's record in this re-
gard compares most favorably with
many of tlNe cities of the country.
DR.. Jordan says that last year there
was only one death among the public
school clildren-a colored child
and that thus far this year only one
death has occurred among the school
children. CTR two years preceding
1912, there was not one death among
the public school children OF Pine
Bluff-bo.h white and colored. There
are $3.50 school children in Pine
Bluff, the average enrolment being.
$500.
DR.. Hutchinson has not been IN
pine Bluff long enough to know the
health conditions and he admits him
self that there is no record OF Deaths
upon which he might have based MS
abatement. To surmise that there
we're 100 deaths among children IN
Pine Bluff slast summer and publish
such . statement to the outside world
IL most Injurious to the city's welfare
Any defense Of such a statement Is
VI justified. ,s