The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-12-02
STOTELMEYR STYLES
DR.. KING "ERRAT|C"
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attack on the various trustees. One
charge against DR.. Stotelmyer was
that he attempted to have a new
school house in Jefferson township
built on a tract of land which DR..
Stotelmyer a short time before had
purchased.
DR.. Stotelmyer replying to this
charge stated he could prove by his
advisory board that he purchased the
land with the full knowledge of the
board to protect the township from be-
ing held up" and that DR.. King later
rejected this site and compelled the Sc
lection Of another strip Of land, pur-
chased at a much larger figure.
Reply Of Trustees.
The trustees reply to DR.. Kings
charges, made by Trustee Stotelmyer.
follows:
Trustees Statement.
DR.. Kings defense Of his admins
tration is great deal like his admin
istration, evasive and devoid of facts.
He seems to think that his admins
tration has been too drastic to suit
the trustees Of Wayne county This
statement by DR.. King does not in the
least represent the objections to him
on the part of the township trustees
I do not believe there is a township
trustee In Wayne county who does
not realize the importance of thor
ough and up-to-date sanitation of all
schools and school premises, as we'll
as all other matters within his town
ship, and has stood ready to assist
and to do all in his power to promote
and bring about the best sanitary con-
ditions possible. The fight taken up
by the trustees against the reappoint-
ment of DR.. King, is not a personal
matter at all, based not on enmity to-
ward him, but promoted by the fact
that the county health commissioner
is irregular, erratic and incompetent
What the trustees want for their
townships or for the county as a
whole. Is health commissioner who
has ability. Judgment and moral cour-
age to do for each and every town
ship the things that will best pro-
mote the welfare and absolute SAM
tary conditions Of Wayne county.
What Trustees Want.
We want a health commissioner who
will work in harmony with us, and
when he finds conditions that should
be improved, or that are bad or de
plorable," to tell us frankly and in
struot us as to the best methods to
bring about the proper conditions, and
not, as has been the custom in many
instances, hurrytng to his office and
giving out long interviews to the press
which, when read by the trustees,
would be their frst knowledge and
often only knowledge of this official
inspection
We are opposed to his methods of
condemning a school building and
threatening the trustees if they at
tempt to hold school in the old build
ing with prosecution and afterward
when the trustee and advisory board
construct new building inform the
taxpayers that he never condemned
the old building, but that the new
building was constructed and a tax
put upon the people because the trus-
tee wanted a new school house during
his term of Office
Want Accurate Reports.
We want conditions reported as they
are, not so exaggerated and colored
that persons who later visit places so
reported could not identify his lurid
descriptions. We want county
health commissioner who will act
consistently, and not condemn
crowded school house in one township
and wink at the crowded conditions in