The Brunswick news., 1917-05-04
SOMETHING MUST sE DONG.

invite people and industries and cap
ital. The attractions are those that
the greatest Of cities lack. They are
pre-eminent to all other attractions
These attractions lie in the clean and
wholesome community life. They Of
fer more than logical place for de
yeloping products. They offer a place
Tor men and women to really live in.
More, they offer a place for real men
and women TO really develop from
childhood.
True, haphazardness is general
fault OF the people of the world, in
cluding America. But universities at
least have come to know the neces-
sity for teaching at least few prin-
ciples OF home selection and the best
type of men and women--the type
that Brunswick wants and needs
are those who follow the principles
OF judgment and selection.
What considerations guide let US
say a newly welded couple Of this
class in their selection OF a houle.
What questions do they ask about
their prospective domiclle? They
would like TO know what kind OF
neighborg they will have. will they
not? An indication Of this they will
find IN court house statistics. How
does the particular community rank
IN matter OF divorce? How in infant
mortality? How in literacy AID edu-
cational facilities? What social insti'
tutions are there? is there a public
library with adequate facilities? Is
there ovormrch crime shown by the
court records and the police Efforts?
Brunswick can pass such test and
stand among the highest of the best
in the land Inevitably
she win draw from the surrounding
territory the best of people OF all
races, beliefs and opportunities in the
future as she has in the past.
But to maintain her enviable rec
ord, she must pay the price in an
ever.alert and Jealous citizenry who
will guard against mistakes and ad-
verso influences in the community
and from without the communal fold
Such menace, grave and sinister,
confronts them now Growing by
leaps and bounds, the community
finds new problems, metropolitan
problems, arising. Divorce is on an
increasea sudden and large one
Unrest is maniresting itself among
workers in the large plants. Worse
than threat of Teuton invasion, find.
ings of the health department about
milk conditions alone spells disaster,
especially for the babies, and ac-
counts for the epidemic of stomach
disorder complaints of the past month
or so. National Indignation has been
stirred by some German fanatics to
poison water system OF q town,
Apathy only is manifest in face of
poisoning of tho milk by carelessness
or stupidity, Either health laws are
Inadequate or they are unenforced is
the uncontestapie charge made be-
lOro the world in the figures OF the
sanitary milk inspection report. One
shining ray of hope is shown in the
figures. Out of possible hundred
points score OF correct dairying. Inn
proyement is shown by some of the
lowest standing over March during
April, But the scoring system is not
right, else how is It that higher stand
ing milk producers in the milk test
show more bacteria per cubic cent?
meter?
Must we wait for crime to become
rampant also before something Il
done to meet dangerous develop
went of community life? Let no
war divert our minds from other in
portant matters.