Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-01-17

army call was maze On the states Tor |
nrompt and vigorous cooperation.
There are 1853 townships in the
state. Under existing law, the town
shin trustees constitute the board of
health. and the township clerk be
comes it's secretary. The health Off
GERS are employed at a salary which
will not average much in excess of $25
per year. The service is let by COM
petitive bids, and I need not appeal
to your imagination in order that you
NAV understand the reasons which in
many instances would prey ent compe-
tent physicians from participating in
this competition.
A great many cities in this state
should be compelled to employ
health officer who will devote his en-
tire time to the position No matter
how remote the place, nor how
sparsely settled the section, if on Ohio
soil, it should be part of health juris-
diction, and the officer in charge
should devote his full time to the
public health. 1 see no reason why
in the county of Cuyahoga, for in
stance, the county commissioners can
not legally be given the right to en-.
ter into an arrangement, the wisdom
of which is patent to ALL and under
which the townships and municipah-
ties outside of Cleveland can be
joined into single sanitary district
with that city. The apportionment
| of expense on an entirely equitable
base would be a simple matter, and
accruing benefit would be both rural
and urban, because health cOntamina-
tion is of more than local concern.
The same could be done in other
counties or groups of counties.
The survey which we have made
| finds advocates of the county plan,
| and others who favor the apportion-
ment of the state into from II to 15
| districts.
State Correctional Institutions.
The executive budget as presented
for your consideration will carry
$500 900 in this biennium to continue
the erection of the new prison on the
state priscn farm at London. BY mid
summer it is hoped to have measur-
ably we'll completed the underground
construction and foundations for the
walls and buildings.
The law creating the board of ad-
ministration and passing under its
control the asylums and correctional
institutions was not only wise and
| humanitarian in its conception, but
its practical possibilities accumulate
with time. It cleansed public life and
permitted the furtherance of welfare
work hand in hand with the practical
results of economy. 1t made possi-
BILE the policy inaugurated in 1913 of
a modern prison system under which
was vitalized previously idle human
energy. Additional lands were ac-
quired for state institutions on the
theory that many inmates suffered
only temporarily from mental all
ments, and that employment in the
open would be helpful and in many
instances curative. Practical men
were employed, expert through suo-
cessful experience, in industrial cl-
gineering, farming, horticulture and
gardening, and live stock manage
ment Three hundred and sixty acres
are now in orchards, 1921 acres in
vegetable gardens, and the total acre
age in tillage is over 1000. This last
item is being added to rapidly through
clearing and drainage.
Canned products for the year are
100000 gallons, forage in the shape ot
corn, rye, wheat. alfalfa and ensilage
45,545 bushels, milk 8,154,365 pounds
and butter 181, ,549 pounds. The state
has devoted itself to building up ths
best stock possible under the circum
stances of substantial basic bloot
lines and scientific breeding. Th'
state now has 1,48S cattle, most O
which are mich cows-many of then
registered thoroughbreds, while tn,
others are high grades. On the stat'
prison farm now the dairy herd i
looked after by prisoners, the super
intendent alone being employed fron
free labor 1t is producing for tn
| institutions in Columbus almost 800
t pounds of milk day, or 600 gallons
But the work has scarcely begur
t We shall begin erection in the earl
spring of -four mill as a part of tn
: new prison unit, with a capacity c
i 100 barrels daily. We plan to pay
S through economies effected, for tn
S plant the first year.
4 The woolen mill last year turne
| A. #
v a large supply of mattresses, mop
: ETC., 5000 yards of woolen goods an
$4,000 wooden blankets. OF this nun
/ ber $4,000 we're shipped to the Re
III Cross and used for the comfort
# soldiers overseas. One hundred an
Il ten thousand garments were mad
n 10000 pounds of cotton yarn wei
: turned out, 1000 dozen garments
t underwear, 5000 dozen pairs
S hosiery, 100000 pounds of soa
d 325,O00 pounds of roasted coffee an
C $4,000 tons of quarried stone.
l. The state has been beset with CO
l. troversies unnumbered through IL
old system of letting through col
petitive bids the supplying of aut
mobile tags. Within the last fe
le months this work was turned in
g g the prison, and 100000 sets are no
Ie complete. The cost notwithstandir
= the unprecedented advance in stet
u has Hee" hrt : cents per set of ta
- - to the state. and even under tn
~ price the state, since the first of la
= September, shows a sufficient Gle;
: profit to pay for the plant.
IN Prohibition Enforcement.
At the regular election. Nov.
z 1918, the people voted an amendme
a. to the state constitution which pl
er vides: "T1Ie sale and manufactu
ne for sale of Intoxicating liquors as
re beverage are hereby prohibited. T
Mt general assembly shall make laws
e. make this provision effective No
M ing herein contained shall preye
ir the manufacture or sale of such
he qrors Dn medicinal, industrial sci,
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