| Show overworking CHARITY the announcement this week by tto doard board of 0 county commissioners that no more charity patients can call bo be admitted to the county h b s rital Is the result ot of the publics overworking working a good thing sinea the hospital was vas established the county has tried to take care of dorthy cases who otherwise would have been unable to lo receive hospital hospital treatment arid and in this manner it has been a real benefactor but more arid and more people have pleaded poverty and been admitted PS es charlity chart ity patients on one pretext or another others have hav e gone into the hospital without any an arrange ments being made for paying when they were ready to leave arid and have R the burden to the county some of 0 them signing notes and making no efforts to pay them until tho the county hospital arid and the eident iE ent funds are worse than declet ed cd they are alre already ady much overdrawn before halt half the fiscal year has passed the commissioners are limited by statute as to the amount they ean can levy for indigent purposes and nith N ith a maximum levy for or several years past they have lacked more d more ot of marling the hie increasing demands mands le finally the point has been reached where the file auditor who Is charged with I 1 the billy ot of protecting the countes coun tys funds has called a halt and tit ane e i are backing him up v th hi the that there n tc no faiq calitr cases tho the conaty I 1 Is charged chang id with th lc ae al responsibility cl cf caring for bent but with its funds iwed 1 itoe and exhausted the file cammi on see no alternative altermat ive but the c I 1 11 n they aro are taking it has been c e le talief pro program ram t 0 daiv people have taken addan tal tai 0 it |
