The L'Anse sentinel., 1919-03-07
THE OPEN FORUM.
TOWN KNocKER
(By DR.. Won Zellen.)

(By DR.. Won Zellen.)
In this issue I will expose some
more lies Of Westphal. When such
a man will lie and lie again to dis
tort and defame another mans char
acter and then lie to distort the dis
tortion to make the first distortion
good, he is not even fit associate
for swine. AS l understand it, swine
were his chief companions last sum-
lmer.
| Westphal's charges that my flu cas-
es were not properly quarantined is
deliberate lie. Every influenza case
l attended was properly and ade-
quately quarantined. This includes
even the first cases in September 1918
where ! was the only health officer in
the state of Michigan who at that date
quarantined for the influenza and
fumigated after the same. 1T was
two months after this date the state
of Michigan ordered quarantine. Take
notice we others that the Lough cases
were also properly handled, notwith-
standing backbiters and mudslingers.
was told to my face that I did not
properly quarantine Mr.. Lough's
home. Anyone telling my informer
this is nice big juicy liar, because
! the,quarantine was enforced as far as
circumstances would allow.
The assumption of Westphal that
did not endeavor to procure nurses
and did not exert all in my power to
do so is another deliberate lie. He
must realize that / was busy at the
time and that it was impossible for
me to stand at the telephone all day
appealing for nurses. Oftentimcs !
had not slept for ytwenty-four hours
taking care of those siek-how could !
be in the telephone booth at the same
time. suppose if Westphal had been
the doctor he would have sat in the
seat of his trousers with folded hands
bemoaning the fact that there were
no nurses to be had. Did not he re-
alize that the more nurses had the
lighter my work would be? It shows
that he has screw loose somewhere
The Red Cross was appealed to and
telegraphed to, as was the State of
Michigan, but could not procure nurs-
es for several weeks. Two weeks af-
ter our last telegram the Red Cross
sent the practical nurse, Mrs. Hickey
of the 500. In the meantime l had
procured the services of a registered
nurse from the copper country. /
considered the two capable registered
nurses acting in the capacity of visit
ing nurses as sufficient, and therefore
II released the practical nurse, Mrs.
Hickey. After this she went to the
O'Connor home, where she received
for two weeks services $4,000; this
makes something like $500 per day
plus railroad fare both ways, which is
ample for practical nurse as the
public will know. Supervisor Nilsen
informed Mrs. Hickey that if she was
not reimbursed for her railroad fare
he would see that she was. What
more could be done for Mrs. Hickey /
do not know. In the practical nurse
Hickey's deposition concocted by
Westphal and sworn to before Euclid
LeDuc, / notice that nobody met her
at the train when she arrived. Let me
ask how in the name Of common sense
and competent reasoning could we
know when this lady was coming,
when she came after two weeks de-
lay. Were we supposed to travel to
the depot every morning or would it
have been more businesslike for Mrs.
Hickey to have sent word that she was
arriving on the a a. m. train, which
she must have been aware of before
she left the 500? Why did not West
phal at the height Of this calamity
run his sinful body to the depot ev-
cry morning at a a. m. to meet this
nurse instead Of lazily sitting on his
hiitu Shu vihAyhS ahu iinuiiiE lduiI
with those who labored increasingly
to save human lives. In this last ep-
idemic Westphal was great hind
rance for the proper handling Of cases
and it was wonder to me that some
strong, alert, honest young man did
not escort this yellow menace outside
our village limits and eternally leave
him there.
When Westphal has the audacity
and nerve and the i'll breeding to be-
little the visiting nurse, Miss Stein
bach, by saying "She dragged herself
from place to place." and otherwise
belitthng her in the public, eye. it
shows what besotten misery this
human mistake is Everybody
knows that Miss Steinbach did heroic
work in this community and we
should congratulate ourselves for be-