The Penn's Grove record., 1916-03-24
BOARD OF HEALTH SCHOOL
Physical, Mental and Moral Cleanup
Desirable On Reasonable Lines

Friday evening with all members pres
ent.
1t being time for the annual meeting
Edward s. Harris was reelected presi-
dent; Prof. ]. Harry smith was r~e-elect-
ed secretary, succeeding Harry L. Blohm.
). j. Hurff and w. A. Summerill are
the other members.
Prof. Smith, who is principal of Ped
ricktown school, has vacant time on Sat
urday and during vacation and will de-
vote much time to the health affairs of
the borough.
The Sanitary Code was passed, making
minimum fines of 81 and So. 1t will be
published later.
An ordinance to regulate privies was
passed second reading. A notice is pub
lished in another column that it will be
presented for final passage April It'll. 1t
d%ispenses with the can system which is
expensive and impractical, but will re-
quire fy-proof out houses and a frequent
cleaning, SO as to avoid the carrying of
disease germs by flies.
IMPERIALISM VS.. DEMOCRACY
During the past year Penns Grove has
grown from a quiet country town to a
cosmopolitan city. Thousands of men
have ceine from all parts of the earth,
1t is estimated that we have 1900 Ital,
ians, 500 Jews mostly from Poland, 300
Greeks and a few Chinese.
While the natives had little fear of
contagious disease, because they had not
been educated by experience and had lit
tie book knowledge, the DUPONT Company
employed sanitary engineers, because
large companies must look after the
health of employees, because of the liza
bilities law, in case of injuries or sick
ness caused by water or food furnished
by the company. Visible local conditions
led the sanitary engineers to believe SER
ious results would follow because such
had occurred in other places under sim
liar conditions. Consequently, from a
sense of fear, the State Board of Health
was called in to help put on Penns Grove
citizens a condition through the enact
ment of a local ordinances or laws that
were made impractical because of the I'M
necessary burdensome expense, to do a
sanitary act like the DUPONT Company is
having done in their boarding camps.
Those in authority there fail to com.
! prehend that the dupont Company has
been able to get unprecedent profits for
powder, made necessary for urgent de,
Tense against burglars, thieves and muir
derers. The sanitary engineers nor
State Board of Health do not consider
expense. They are taxeaters and not
taxpayers. They fail to comprehend that
thoe living in the DUPONT Village and
camps are living under industrial feud-
alism and military rule as strict as the
German war machine.
ponuc Gpoua oifizanS aro LIVING undpr
Democracy, with free thought, free
speech and a free press.
Some month ago the Record said that
Penns Grove was not living under I'm
perialism, by the enforcement of which
King Charles /, lost his head. The
Democratic principle is not to cut the
mans head off, but his official head and
replace in Office a head with different
ideas and actions. 1t is not the physical
man that is offensive but the wrong
ideas il his head and the actions there
from.
Archdeacon Cunningham, of England,
in his christianity and Politics." says !:
Modern rulers, who disregard the warn
ing which the people gave the Stuart
Kings who proclaimed divine rights and
make fresh attempts to coerce free per-
sons for the common good, would do well
to assure themselves that the particular
project at which they aim are really for
the common veal and that their action
will be recognized as really publicly
spirited. They have also need to be sure
that the agents by whom the pressure is
brought to bear are honest and tactful.
"If they fail in either respect their
schemes are sure to be subjected to crit
-icism.
"a free people can only be led, and
cannot be successfully driven. 1t is the
aim of leadership to convince the peo-
pie that some scheme of policy is really
for the common good, so that they may
be willing to comply with it in spite of
the sacrifice it may entail"
PSYCHOLOGY OF CHANGE
There frequently are mental catychism
when new occasions bring new duties
TO an old conservative people who give
little thought and study to the desira-
bility of a change in personal habits of
living in domestic and religious life, also
in public affairs. Three years ago when
the Editor of the Record fathered the
proposition to bond the borough for $780,
600 with which to erect a high school
building there was a mental catyclism
that crushed it by a vote of six to one.
Two years ago when we presented the
, proposition to BOND for $4,000 with
(, which to buy six acres of land for school
purposes and the new school building
there was another stampede against US
for public Office and the proposition.
Well, the building has been erected,
the high school has been maintained and
some who could not see the necessity of
six acres of land for municipal purposes
for. $4,000 which would have provided
school ground, dumping ground, play
ground, sewage disposal plant and a Dor
Ough hall ground, and tabernacle ground,
are not now kicking against paying ST.
100 for a quarter acre n the raising
Of $4,000 taxes in one year.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SAM
TATION