Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-18
|CONN|E HAS A KICK
Board Of Control Finds Fault With
Law About County support
Of Orphans.
Homeless Children Sent TO Reform
School to Relieve County Of
Expense.
CoWnie Says State Should Pay For
Care of IlsaneThe Laws
injustice.

4 sDeClal 10 IlU1eS-t1eUuDilGuIt.s II
Des Moines, June 1S.-The board of
control has discovered another shame
4 ful abuse existing in the counties,
4 growing out of the law which makes
a the counties pay for the support of
Il children sent to the orphans home.
i while those sent to the reform school
S are supported by the state. There
4 ara in the reform school, said John
4 Cownie, OF the board of control, many
4 innocent little children or years old
& who do not belong there, but are sent
4 there by the counties because if they
Il We're sent to the orphans home. where
: sthey belong, the counties would have
to pay $40 month each for their sup
& port we. find that children who have
u committed no crime and who are not
y bad children, but merely have no home.
no one to take care of them and are
i running wild, are sent to the reform
:, school on various pretexts. SO that the
County may avoid the expense of pay
q ing for their support in the orphans
!, home Only the other day man cape
q Into this office to present case to tde
Il An old soldier had died, leaving six
small children and a young wife with
out property and wholly unable to take
care of them. He asked us what should
be done with the children. i told him
!, they should be sent to the orphans.
= home, as the father was an old soldier
a and the children belonged there under
a3j5the circumstances. The man was hor-s
: rified at the idea. for it would cost the
county $50 month. He proposed
). sending them to Eldora. l asked him
lif the children had committed any
! crime, and he said no, but he guessed
/ they could be sent there as being in
t corrigible or anything of that sort and
n the county wouldn't have TO pay for
S their support. Another case happen
e | to know Of A colored man died. leav
f ing his wife and three small children.
i Pretty soon another colored man came
k along and said he would marry the
q widow il she would get rid OF the chill
n dren. because he would not support
y Eanotfer man S children. This woman
It went before the court and sWore that
It the eldest boy about years old. was
in the habit of stealing everything he
II could lay hands on and that she could
not break him OF it,. That the second
II by had assaulted another. boy With a
knife and She was afraid he would
Is commit murder. The third child, about
: years old had tried to set the house
l.. on fire. OF course all this was false.
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3;
s Ihere is announcer lhlng Mnlch Is as
I, pld PAD or even even worse, ana mat Is ehe "a IA !" "
"a q whlch5 requires persons VINO nave prop
N ertN TO bear the cost OF maintaining
themselves or members OF their farni-
lies at the hospitals Tor the insane. Nc
II matter now much q person may nave
contributed IN taxes TO the support OF
"A the insane, II ne becomes insane hiT-
d self OF If a member OF his family, foi
n whose support ne ls responsible, be
4 comes insane the last cent OF ms prop
. efty may be taken py5 ne county 10 pa!
the cost OF supporting that person u
the state hospltal iof the insane.
nave known several instances Where
~ persons havlnS httle property nave
been sent to the hospital for the IN
= = sane. re'nained there several years ant
IS then dlscnarged .onls 10 IND that az
their property mad been used up 3.
mismanagenent ma l;i ana by the cost @
MAINTAINING themselves IN the insti
tutlon they nave heiped 10 pay for
!. .'' Not lons SO man was dlscharget
ae from the hospital at Clarinda afte
haNins peene ,here nearly ten years
Mheh ne Went IN ne had a good I'M
~ !, proved iafnl OF 10Y acres. his wife an
~ 'Mhfee M chiidsen had dieo Within shor
- - .line ana this caused ms INSANITY. H
- - mad no relatives TO look after his inter
- - ests, me court appointed guardian
=, ana When ne was discharged from tn
~ ans ..osl'ieai ne louHd enat lhere was Jus
90 soo coming 70 MN, His 1arm had beel
taken away IRON nm ps PAD manage
ment ana the COS. or supporting Mn
IN tne nospltal. me otner day poo