Beside a rural filling station six miles west of Clarksburg, W. Va. one day last week, some 200 public officials and plain citizens gathered around a square little building with slanting roof and shiny coat of white & orange paint. A driving windstorm had kept many a countryman from attending the ceremony. A storm of public ridicule had presumably made the State Health Commissioner and an Assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. cancel their scheduled appearances. Occasion was the dedication of the 100,000th sanitary pit privy built by relief workers in...
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