The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-01-24
DISCUSSES BOARDS ACTION.
H. ]. REARDON ASKS THAT PLY.
sICIANs TAKE UP COUNTY
HEALTH SURVEY PLAN.
Says Public In Interested In Matter,
but Unwilling to Take up a Matter
They Know 50 Little About -
wants Public Meeting to Discuss
Plan.
Editor Daily Item:

~o you' Il nave waited patiently
bur In vain. for some other citizen O,
Sumter county to accept your kline
invitation to discuss In your colum n.
the action OF the board of count,
commissioners in refusing to appro.
pirate tw thousand dollars to supple.
ment four thousand dollars offered
from the Rockefeller Foundation and
the State board Of health for a com.
plets county health survey.
The fact that no one has expressed
himself or herself, however, in your
enterprising paper is not due to lack
Of interest. I assure you. Permit me
to Inform you that your two very
interesting and logical editorials con-
dsm,ing the rejection OF this oppor-
tunity OF a lifetime aroused unusual
interest, IL ! am to Judge by the num-
oers Of Sumter men and women who
have come to my Office or approached
me on the streets to agree with what
: you wrote. And to urge me to keep
up the fight for that county health
survey and the two thousand dollars
necessary to secure sama
But the average man and woman
naturally loath to enter into the pub
hr prints to discuss public matters
with which they are more or less ig-
nofant. Few Sumter people, compar-
asively speaking. understand what a
complste county health survey means.
what Il viii do for humanity. Hence
the hesitation on the part Of the gen.
sral public to take issue. with the
county supervisor and county COM
mIssio,,ers.
Then again. Mr.. Editor. you mus.
consider that any man or woman at
ter having read what you had to say
In your two editorials must have felt
as I did. and do now. that there re-
NAMED absolutely nothing more to
be said. You had expressed the
truth and the sentiment so clearly
foreibly. and feeiingly that IL SUI
pervisor White didn't feel that II was
worth while calling his county board
together In special session for recon-
sidsratien Of the proposition. there
was nothing that any one else could
write. say. or do that would cause
the county authoritiss to change their
1' - -
= 1AUls q somUthing. however. that
has occurred to me. I noticed in to-
ddys Columbia State where the Or
anseourr County Medical Society has
gone after the two thousand dollars
necessary to secure four thousand dol
lars for a complete county health
survey for their county.
II seems that the Orangeburg ply
siclans woke up rather late as they
have just sent a delegation to Colum-
bia to try to get their legislative dele
cation to appropriate two thousand
dollars In order to grab that four
thohsand dollars to save human lives
and human health. But II Is better to
awaken late than not to wake at ali.
Doubtless learning late OF the splen-
did opportunity that was being Of
fered they fastened to try to get O
county health survey that would save
hundreds Of human lives we'll worth
more than two thousand dollars each
to their county.
It seems to be my tough luck to
have Oran geburg get what couldn't
induce Sumter county to accept. Di-
verging for the moment from human
lives to livestock life and health, /
want TO say that succeeded In get
ting DIR. Long of .iemson College to
give Sumter county the first chance
at that packing house proposition
that orangebug accepted in two
hours But Sumter turned down the
offer. and Orangeburg got the bacon
Now the connection between the two
opportunities Sumter rejected and
Orangeburg accepted. just wish tc
say Is that I am quite certain II
there was an epidemic Of great pro.
portions occurred among the hogs
cattle. or horses and mules OF Sum.
ter county and DR.. J. A. Hayne had
said that four thousand dollars would
be appropriated to stamp out the epi
demic and save the lives and protec
the health Of Sumter county hogs
mules. and cows. provided sumtc
county appropriated two Thousand
dollars. II Is n cinch that the tw,
thousand dollars would have beer
Forthcoming I'm a hurry
And furthermore. Mr.. Editor, 1
the public spirited ladies of the Sum
ter Civic League. and tho two poo