The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-26
The Dairy Inspector.


spector and boosting the chances of a favorite APP
plicant. Those who started this story are fit sub
jects for the Annanias club because there is not
q word of truth in it. The Palladium has neither
opposed nor advocated the appointment of any
one man. 1t has stood for principle.
And this principle is the result, not Of guess
work or of prejudice, but of a careful investiga
ton of the whole field A member of the staff
spent the greater part of month studying the
matter. He made two visits to the State Board
of HEALTH he spent one day at the Dayton board
of health, he wrote to the health officers of some
thirty more Indiana towns, consulted with sew
eral experts visited number of dairymen and
made careful study of large number of books
and government publications.
1t was this investigation which convinced us
that the dairy inspector should be trained
veterinarian and that he should not be local
man. We have no quarrel with any local veterin
arian, would not oppose the appointment of
single one of them personally, but we are per-
suaded it will be for the best interests of the
health of the city and the interests of the dairy
men to have veterinarian from out the city.
There are two good reasons why local man
already with private practice is not desirable
One is that he wouldn't have sufficient time
for the work. 1t is surprising what wide range
Of duties lie in the province of the inspector. He
is here compelled not only to look after the dairy
inspection but also to considerable extent to
help in food inspection If he does his work as it
should be done he will be obliged to devote his en-
tire time and energy to it. Richmond is too large
a city to have giving his spare hours to so
important function. And the position is too re-
sponsble, too vital to the interests of local peo-
pie to be made the side-line of anybody.
Thp thor fOr ha1yir fr11t at
erinarian is that he cannot otherwise deal salts
iactorily with the dairymen. If he is in private
practice the dairymen will feel constrained to
give him their work He will have enemies
among the dairymen themselves and will not be
able to get them to cooperate, thing that is es-
sential to efficiency in the work. It is not fair
to the dairymen or to the other practicng veter-
inarians Of the city. 1t gives him an unfair ad-
vantage over them. The darymen have so ex-
pressed themselves.
One local man has been working vigorously
Tor him. He has been recommended as a good
man, as local man, and as needing the money
Is it not surprising that after all that has been
said by citizens of this community about eff
cheney in administrative offices man would
dare to ask for a place on these grounds? Does
man put up any such plea when he applies for
place with some private corporation?
Imagine blacksmith coming to you and say
ing, Let me operate on your sick child Why
should you pay a surgeon hundred dollars for
doing 1t. ! will do it for five And you saw to
him, What are your qualifications ?" He replies.
Il am good man. How long would it take you
to bow him out? 1t is an excellent thing a nee
essary thing for man to be good but being good
doesn't qualify anybody to do work that requires
special technical skill.
Or imagine a man coming to you and saying,
LET me build that house for you You saw,
Are you an experienced architect?" He replies.
80, no, | am book-agent" "Wen," YOU ask.
what are your Qualifications" He answers.
why am Richmond man." Merely to state
the matter thus reveals how absurd it is
OF course, if man is in position to do the
work and is qualified for it it is better that he be
local man but if there is not local man to be
had to fill the bill, wisdom and business sense
demands that a man be secured from without
The pastors or seventeen churches got special
lst from Chicago to manage a revival for them
local factory recently went outside the ctv to
get a manager. Business men everywhere recog-
nize that it is perfectly justifiable thing to do
The third point, that he needs the money
needs no refutation. A large number of US might
claim position that basis
1t is not, however, that local veterinarians do
not have the necessary skill, because thew do
every one of them; but it is that they are not in
position to give adequate service
A graduate veterinarian recently out of
school can be secured, have been assured over
and over by those who know, for 81 200 or 81. 300
The inspectors salary is 81 900. But if the