The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-02-27

officials in the discharge Of duties, and
We recommend the adoption OF the
concurrent lesolution that we pro-
pose and that will follow this report.
State Park.
In the judgment Of the committee,
based on the great preponderance Of
the evidence adduced during the in
vestigation, the State Park property is
ideal and admirably adapted to and
for the uses and purpose for which
i it was purchased, and ought to be
and should be developed as rapidly as
the State can afford to do so, to the
end that the great congestion now eX-
listing at the State Hospital for the
Insane may be gradually and COM
pletely relieved.
1t is our opinion, based upon the
testimony, that all patients OF the
classes which will be mostly benefited
by TIE quiet ard pure air of the coun-
try should be first removed thereto,
and those classes only which can be
most advantageously treated IN the
present quarters in this city be re-
tained.
There is now modern and spIen-
did building completed at the State
PAX, which should at once be equip
ped and occupied, relieving as much
as possible the distressing congestion
now so universally deplored in the
State Hospital in this city-giving
more and better room to those who
are removed and to those who are
unfortunately left behind-and acting
as a double blessing.
DIR. EIeanOra B. Saunders.
Your committee went fully and
minutely into the complaints, insinu-
alton, inuendoes, inquiry and charges
against Dr.. Eleanora B. Saunders. We
find no evidence to sustain any of
them. Sac is not guilty of any wrong
intention or wrong doing. There is
no breath Of even suspicion as to
her character-none against herETD
her moral cnaracter-none against her
professional reputation and conduct
and career in her ethical department
and in all of her conduct in Or out of
the institution-the State Hospital for
the Insane. The few and insignificant
acts on which complaints were based
were the direct result of requests from
the superintendent-her superior Of
fcer-and were executed in the dis
charge of duty to sufferirg humanity
and are to be commended and praised
rather than condemned
Her work and labors in the State
Hospital for the Insane bears eloquent
t.ibute to the remarkable initiative,
aided by tireless energy and domi /.
mated by the womanly woman's over
fiowiag love for unfortunate human
ity, which love, energy and tireless de-
votion is manifested by her every
movement, of which she has been the
main spring and which is SHOWN in
the result in every department of
work, which she has touched and
which even her critics in almost every
instance have admitted.
We condemn the method of trial Of
DR.. Saunders adopted On December
18th, 1913, and hope that the records
OF the State will never show a repeti-
tion of such procedure.
We refer to this merely to call the
attention of the members of the gen.
eral assembly to the necessity of pro-
viding against any repetition of such
a proceeding in the future, as under
proper and logical system of rules and
no such proceeding could
have obtained. irresponsible power
is that power which is exercised with
out rule or reason and from which
there is no recognized method of ap-
peal There should be no such power
ves>ed in any person or persons in the
Safe CT South Carolina, and there
should be rules carefully prepared,
adopted and passed to prevent another
such occurrence.
DR.. j. w. BabcOck.
We commend the stand of the su-
perinteldent, Dr.. ]. W. Babcock, in
this acute exigency and throughout
the subsequent aftermath, when he
championed the right, not only of his
loyal and true subordinate and staff
officer, DR.. Eleanora B.. Saunders, but
Of a woman, whose every instinct is
shown to be for the right, the inter-