The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-06-23

pIished): "a trained educator is es-
sential to the proper management OF
the Delavan, GAINESVILLE, Waukesha,
Sparta and Green Bay institutions. The
Sparta school ought not to be school.
It ought to be nothing more or less
than a distributing station, taking
homeless children and putting them
into good homes. ANY detention in
Sparta more than is necessary to
transfer children into their new homes
is an error, and a trained educator
would recognize that fact. Then the
board should also contain a trained
penoIogist; man who has had prac-
teal as we'll as theoretical work with
the criminal classes. We have just
spent hundreds of thousands of dollars
in the Green Bay ref0rmatory and put
it in charge Of & man who has not
trace Of training for that work. The
Waukesha institution, as the late Or.
BlaisdelIs reports show, has not here
tOfOre made much more than pretence
at doing refOTmatOry work. On either
side of US in Michigan they have re-
fornat0ry schools doing splendid work.
We have not even the tact to copy.
With such q board as that, relieved of
the necessity Of a large amount of rOu-
tine work, which is simply thrown
away, a board created for the purpose
Of determining and directing the gen
eral policies of the institution with an
office staff to examine accounts and
compare statements and check up on
purchases and everything of that sort
which is in detail, is nothing but cleri-
cal work, and the board having full
authority and power and being unham-
pered in making appointments so that
they can appoint competent superin-
tendents and competent institution
staffs, Wisconsin would have an ideal
system. Each institution which has
girls or women within its limits would
have a competent matrOn to deal with
them individually, and I think it needs
no argument to say that after the gen
eral policy there need be no distinction
between men and women as a rule.
Where there are women who need med
zeal assistance there should be a woman
physician. Where there are women
who need reformatory work there
should be competent women to deal
with them"
Speaking of visitation by the board,
he said: II do not know much about
the habits of the present board in MAX
ing visitations. Mr.. Luling of Manlto-
woe and Mr.. Parker, the ex-lieutenant
governor, of River Falls, always seemed
to me to have the right idea of visiting
institutions. They would go to an in
stitution and stay there for several
days; visit each Of the departments
several times; inspect the place in COM
9any with the superintendent and in
company with the matrOn, and inspect
it by themselves. l do not mean the
'nosing around in prying way, but
simply as an owner Of a large manu-
featuring plant might come to his plant
and look it over in detail. 1t gave
them opportunity to sit down and talk
over the work of the superintendent at
leisure, al hour now and an hour later
etc. 1t gave them an opportunity to
become we'll acquainted with each men,
Der of the staff in an institution. They
saw him there in immediate contact
with his work, got definite idea to a
greater or less extent of the value of
his work. Each one of those gentle
men was thoroughly acquainted with
each institution. When the time came
for acting upon some proposed mOditi-
cation of policy or some change in man
agement, they were in position to
know exactly what the situation was.
Later on members of the board got in
the habit of running into an institu-
ton at 10 o'clock in the morning, say
mig, How do you do? to the superin-
tendent and running out again at IL a.
m. I am informed now that it is I'M
usual for a member of the present
board to spend more than a day at a
time at any institution. If that is true,
it is impossible for them to know the
institution sufficiently we'll to intelli-
gently act upon any proposed change Of
policy as to management; hence our in
situations cannot be intelligently
progressive. A woman of the kind
suggested would know better than to
undertake such a thing
The Hoards' Newspaper.
/. It is attributed to Ex-Governor Hoard
and his boys that in little Fort Atkin-
son such big property has been built
up. The "Dairyman" has an enormous
circulation all over the world and even
the jefferson county Union" puts out
800 papers a week. No paper has bet
ter developed its country correspond
ence" The Union has 1853 correspond
ents in as many towns and communi-
ties, and in some weekly issues prints
as many as 100 letters from them.
I was looking over Hints to Corre-
spondents," which H. L. Hoard copy
righted in 1894, and found many grains
of good sense, with a flavor of the min
gled humor and tenderness for which
his distinguished father is noted. Isn't
this good:
Don't get mad if items are left out,
names and places wrongly spelled, and
you will earn the enduring love of the
editor. Sometimes we run out of type.
more often we run out Of time; and,
IL be extremely frank, occasionally it
might take a Philadelphia lawyer to
read your writing.
Love Affairs-Do not make the love
affairs of your neighborhood subjects
of comment. Remember the old saying
that there is nothing SO pure and good
but that it can be destroyed by ridicule
Everyone understands this, and who
ever receives an injury at your hands
will likely vent his or her spite to the
- hot o,,I tIa