South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-02-26
FEBRUARY %, 1910.
INVESTIGATE HEALTHWIN! BUT WHEN?
IS IT TO BE "WHITEWASH" BY DELAY

ID II TO BE "WHlTEWASH" BY DELAY?
Mr. Stuart MacKbbin. county attorney is going 10
make a thorough investigation OF Healthwin-some-
time Meanwhile he must first spend few days in In
dianapois then has private law business to at
tend TO over in Michigan which he will be ready
TO take this life death" matter Of those tuber
cuiar patients out the four-mie bridge He cannot
afford to give his private business entirely ne says
Tor the $500 year that is being paid him by the
county.
II listens rather od-fashioned lie was made county
attorney last June, succeeding P. J. Houlihan who
seems also to have semi-inclned not to give his
sole time to the county business particularly it ap-
pears. when it came 10 Lincoln Highway matters in
consequence Of which another attorney named Graham
"A q. Graham,-was put work on his Job Mac
kibbn. when appointed, was very wroth that such
should have the case. Graham stood accused Of
being paid by the county doing HouIihan's work
exorbant fees, and without proper legal authority.
MaeKibbin wanted week or two to get onto the run
Of things and then he ditch case to try in La
porte. and then he going after the recovery Of
those Illegal fees. once he announced that in Just
seven more days" he would be ready to take up the
Graham case.-but that six months ago and he
hasn't started yet.
We expect TO see Mr. MacKibbin's Indianapolis. and
Michigan drag just about the same as his
getting onto the things that Iaporte ditch
case and the everlasting seven days have ORA ged
on In the Graham matter. II we guess Alright il is
about the first big splash the white-wash brush
designed to delay the investigation people for
get IT, The fact that people are going down 20 their
deaths Healthwin, improper or lack of treat
ment. doesn't matter. 1t doesn't count that $40 600
annually OF the peoples money is being squandered on
that supposed health resort while tubercuar patients
tor whom It was built treated like criminal con
victs. some of them. with even less con
sderaton as to the quality quantity of food
the inmates Of the penentiary receive 1t is no pub
lie concern, suppose, that patients unable longer
10 tolerate the Healthwin treatment and surroundings
are permitted leave the place without fumigation
and take with them wraps and clothing. in no sense
treated for disease germs: turned loose upon an un-
suspecting public 10 further spread the plague
An, yes the county commissioners say HeaIthwin
is to be investigated to the bottom there
anything more important TO be done right now? 1--WE
have put to the county attorney. they say: yes
out after ne has added around down at Indianapo.
while and attended some legal business over in
Michgan-snd all the witnesses to the tragedy have
died. To tolerate any such delay the county commits
sioners become party IT, just as the board of d
of the institution parties 10 the inefcienc
II there Is any, by their disposition shield W,
have talked loud uproarously the past year bout
the mhumanity of German prisons. purposeb
laden with tubereular germs. but as war idocy
were they much worse-uumbers and purpose con
that from Healthwin2
And the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. society, II should bear il
mind when j; comes around begging again next year
that lot OF people going want to know wher,
its interest in humanity lies the mere appear
ance of humanitarianism? When the people of St Jo
seph county took interest the building Of an anti
tuberculosis hospital it fight white plague
and fight il humanely, not provide pIaything fo
little social aristocracy autocracy
20 be maintained public expense. Or. Cobb and III
Healthwin. there 20 serve the patients
enjoy themselves the poorest boy girl mar
woman in the county is deserving OF just as mucl
cere and considerations though they were million
aires
IL Is 20 the county commissioners order invos
tigaton and order now; the county attorney
convenience People dying and going from bad G
Healthwin The commissioners themselve
should sit judges the investigation too an,
il should DE open and above board-not smeared owe
with secrecy and vvhitevash." though It expos
some bad blotches on certain OF the "eminentIy re
spectacle" the thing cleared up. and a re
organization II due, putting the institution back int
pebble usefulness