Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1915 — ENCOURAGES PLANS FOR COUNTY HOSPITAL [ARTICLE]

ENCOURAGES PLANS FOR COUNTY HOSPITAL

Jasper County Girl at Head of Aurora Institution Says It Will Prove Valuable. Aurora, 111., July 6, 1915. Rensselaer Republican, Dear Mr. Healey: r A After our little conference the other day I gave some thought to tne Rensselaer hospital project. There are so many advantages it is not easy to give proper emphasis to any one of them. In the first place a hospital, like schools and a library is a mark of civic progress. It is a commercial asset to the community, for the thousands of dollars that go to physicians and hospitals in the city remain at home, passing through the hands of local business people for drugs, laundry and the wages of employes. If the hospital is under good management it stands as an educational institution, as well as a means of restoring the sick to their respective places in the scheme of life. It educates nurses in the scientific care of the sjck, and by means of competitive service stimulates the highest efficiency from the doctors. They will be more liable to organize fnedical societies for the mutual benefit of the members and incidentally they give the real benefit to the public. Physicians will be made inclined to visit famous clinics in the medical centers of this country and the old world and come home imbued with a new spirit of scientific service for the sick public. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth and I am sure every one in Rensselaer thinks they have their feet on top of the ground. Rensselaer possesses wealth, influence and a spirit of progress, so theYe is not one reason why Jasper county could not build a new modern hospital, either by a beneficent group of people or by direct taxation. A co-operative group of people can accomplish almost anything they set out to do, if they possess 1 the qualities in my formula for success: clear vision, fine shades of decision, and continuity of purpose. I hdve a personal interest in your project for my people live in your community and there are many people whose acquaintance I made in a professional way and whose friendship I prize very much. We are completing a magnificent new hospital here and every one in the city is pointing with pride tp one more wonderful civic improvement. If I can h’d you in organizing your proposition or in tne detail* planning of your building, I shall be glad to do so as an honorary member of the Rensselaer Booster Club. Most sincerely, NETTIE B. JORDAN.