The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-17
DR.. DARLINGTON
LAUDS CONDITION
OF ARMS PLANT
Former Health Commission
er of New York Speaks to
Remington Foremen.

Nearly hundred members of the
F'oremen's Club of the Remington
Arms-Bnion Metallic Cartridge Co.
(Arms WorksJ dined at the plant res
taurant3 Tuesday night and afterwards
listened to, an instructive discourse on
hygiene by. DR.. Charles Daflington
ten years chairman of the New York
City. Board of Health, and one of the
original promoters of the federal pure
food and drugs act
There can be no greater authority
on sanitation and hygiene as they
apply. to Industrial and municipal in.
Stitutions than DR.. Darlington, and
last night he told some plain truths
in a very plain way and held his au-
diencc as if IN a wise for over
hour and a half He began with the
subject of fatigue and explained the
causes which produce it and how it
should be met and overcome He ex-
planned that all the energy of the
body is derived from food, ind that
when the brain calls for action on the
part of the muscles Of the body and
the energy is lacking to supply the
required force, the state of the body is
one of. exhaustion or fatigue. Food,
he said, supplied the prime motive
force to the body as coal does in the.
generation of steam. But as there Is
good coal and bad COAL and scientiff-
cally designed and well kept boilers
and CRATE bars to perfect combustion,
SO to there is good food and poor
food and well kept bodies and bodies
which are overworked and neglected,
and many whose care has been left
entirely to Providence.
A sufficient quantity OF nourishiJ1g
food is the first essential towards st1s-
tanning strength and warding off ia
tigue, but fresh air, exercise and
cleanliness, sleep, cfleerfulness of
mind and general. care of the body
are equally essential to the process of
converting the food into vital energy.
AS ashes and c1inkers must be re-
moved from the boiler, so must the
waste from the food be removed from
the body at regular intervals, or the
entire system will be eIogged and the
organs of the body will cease ito per-
form their functions.
Welfare, according to DR.. Darling-|
ton, can be turned into dollars and
cents and the larger corporations, with
active and far seeing minds, have long
ago recognized this fact and strive
to bring the efficiency Of their en-
ployes to a maximum by establishing
not only hygienic conditions in their
plants and providing the most approx
ed sanitary appliances, but by provid-
ing also hea1thfu1 recreations, and5l
clean, comfortable homes for en-
p1oyees and their families. The aim
is also to improve the race so that the |
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will be all the more efficient He
paid the large employees the conp1f- /
ment of attributing also a higher mo-
tive than that of dollars and cents in
the conduct Of welfare work. He rel
marked, however that company has
not the right to spend the money of
its shareholders for philanthropy, but /
if it can be shown that money spent
for any purpose will produce an ade-i
quate return to the investors, then the /
md TO
turns resulting from money spent in
welfare work have been more than |
justified.
The lecturer touched at length up
on such points of sanitation as the
washing of hands and the brushing of
teeth before meals; cheerfu1ness as1
an aid to. indigestion, and the useful
ness of water at all times and for all
purposes.
The steel industry. he said, had al
ready spent over $s5,ooo.ooo on well
fare work
DR.. Darlington also comp1imented
the Remington Company on the ex-
cellence of its sanitary and hygienic
arrangements. He spoke particularly
of the drinking fountains, the toilets,
1avatories, locker rooms, restaurant,
kitchen, hospital and fire escapes.
5 At the close of the lecture, which
was illustrated by estereopticon views,
DR.. Darlington was given a hearty
vote Of thanks.
During the dinner, the members
were entertained by Mr.. Frank Rou-
lands orchestra, comprising G. Cone, !
violin; w. Coe, guitar, j. SPAIN. banjo, /
and F. RouIands, piano. The soloistsi
were Aa-Van Slyke and B.. Duff.
President H. E! Wells presided at
the business meeting proceeding the
lecture at which it was decided to hold
the club meetings nightly instead
of once a. month as at present.