The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-03-14
OSWEG0 AND BAKER SCHOOLS
VISITS MADE YESTERDAY AND
MEETINGS REGARDED AS
HIGHLY SATIsFAC1
TORY.
Miss Parott, Head of Home Demon
stratiOn Work in State, Makes In
structive Talk at Both Places-She
and Secretary RcardOn Discuss
County Health Survey.

community welfare meeting was held
at Oswego and Baker school houses
yesterday. which were well attended
by the pupils and patrons of the
schools.
Miss Edith PARROT, of Winthrop
College, head of the Home Demon
stration and Domestic Science work
of South Carolina delivered an elo-
quent and instructive address at each
school, touching upon the import
ance of proper sanitation in the
homes. and told of the connection be-
tween domestic science and sanitary
science.
She stressed the value of the pro.
posed county sanitary survey, and
stated that results which would De
OBTAINED would be supplementary to
tho domestic science and home DEM
cnstration work being conducted in
this county.
MISS Parrott. who travels the entire
o'ate year after year, told of The
great benefits of the Greenvi,Ie co,n-
" heaith survey as seen by her dur
ing and since the sanitary survey in
GreenVille county. Miss Parott poin.-
ed out in strong term the advantages
OF educating the people, children PAR
ticularly during the formative per-
'iods of their lives, in the best meth
ods or preserving their health, and
the home is the best place in which,
to begin this physical preservation
work land the school the next most
important place.
| One Of the main objects of the
domestic science work is to teach
cleanliness and sanitation, as we'll as
economy In the home, and she
thought teaching people about the
preservation Of health, which means
elimination of unnecessary and avoid
able diseases and premature deaths
the best and most sensible scheme Of
econmy In the preservation of physical
strength, and maintenance of earn
ing power, and industrial efficiency.
The strictly sanitary survey teaches
many things which sandwich in we'll
with domestic science, but which can
and should be taught only by pro-
fessional and trained sanitarians,
versed in bacteriology and other
branches Of sanitary science. She
hoped that Sumter county would grasp
the opportunity OF a lifetime offered
In the proposed county health sur
vey.
Secretary E. I. Reardon of the
sumter Chamber of Commerce fol-
lowed Miss PARROT in an enthusiastic
endorsement Of the proposed county
health survey from an econmic as
well as humane point of view. He
explained the objects Of county
health survey, and pointed out where
IN lives will be saved and much un-
necessary sickness prevented if the
people are educated how to protect
hdiVidual and public health. And
SAID that every boy and girl has a
"oa given right to an education and
the education which teaches them the
principles Of self preservation, the
first law of nature.
ne denied that any considerable
number of intelligent white men and
women of the rural districts arc on
posed to county health survey. and
CANNED that the statement broadly
circulated by a minority opposed to
this health survey that "the people
OF the rural districts are overwhelm-
insly against a health survey" while
perhaps unintentionally so, is none
the less an unjust and unwarranted
misrepresentation Of a majority of
sumter county's rural white popula-
tion' and is reflection on the intel
iigence, culture, and social environ
ment of the white men and women of
the rural districts to create the i'm
preston that they are so unprogres-
siVe and prejudiced against clean
i'ne's and improved hygienic condi-
tions that they oppose the efforts of
'he government to improve sanitary
conditions In their sections.
The speaker affirmed that no man
claiming that any considerable num-
D'r :" "hite men and women are
against progressive measures for i'm
proVement of social, or sanitary con-
ditons In the rural districts, has taxi
on the time or trouble to find out
what percentage Of the masses of the |
people are OOpOSed IN - countv booltb |