Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-20
.H[RR|O1I ABLE PAPER
superintendents Hear Frank
Herriott's History Of Iowa
Institutions.
Warns Against Unqualified Ac-
ceptance Of Board OF Control
Recommendations.
The May Report on Finances Of
State Institutions.-State's
Prison Figures.
Special to Tines-Republlcan.

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Des Mones. June 2o.-The quarterly
conference of the superintendent and
beads of state institutions with the
hoard of control which ended yesterday
noon was declared by many of those
present to be the best ever held 1t is |
noticeable that the persons attending |
tack greater interest in tnse conferences
the more of them are held and that they
appear TO secure more good out of them.
They are becoming recognized as one of
the most important of the novelties in
troduced by the state board of control. |
These conferences declared state
| c.iicial who has been only an observer.
have done more to make effective the
| work of the board of control than any
| other thing. The heads of the institu-
| tions get together here and considerl
matters of mutual interest, they learn
/ of the methods employed by each other,
they learn TO make Improvements and
| they are broadened out Wonderfully by
| contact one with another" There was
| in attendance at the conference just
| closed about fifteen persons and their
| discussion of the papers read was quite
| as valuable as the papers themselves.
| The paper by Frank l. Herriott yester-
Gay was warmly approved by the super
4 liEtendents. 1t was an exhaustive his
tory of the institutions and the financ-
ing of the same. He commenced with
the first little appropriations. as for in
stance, the gift of $4,000 by congress for
q library in territorial days and the ap-s
4 preparation to establish militia system
L no
start was made for state institutions by
j a movement for penitentiary at Fort
4 Madison. Governor Lucas urged the
| legislature to memorialize congress for
ar appropriation. Afterwards provision
vas made for pententiary and 100000
secured. With the reckless ABANDON of
those days the territorial Legislature
4 started out to spend $4,000 and accepted
plans for the use of s55,oOO. The next
step was to provide for three normal
schools - at Andrew. Oskaloosa and
/ Mount Pleasant The saline lands were
fist appropriated for building luna
tic asylum. In one way or another the
Estate has gone on 4eXpending money for
Institutions until no state in the union
i has made a record to equal it. In fact,
the development of Iowas educational,
slleformatory and penal institutions has
been contemporaneous with the growth
|sof modern ideas Of the care of the un-
4 fortunates and criminals and the edu-
cation of the masses.
What Iowa has done is shown by the
fact that whereas in the budget of the
decade of the sos the expenditure for
institutions was but IL per cent of the
4 entire budget, while in the last decade
q it has been over Is per cent of the en-
tire budget This Is aside from the
i large sums received from collateral
] sources for the state institutions. Here.
sitter. under rula of the board of con-
troll, there must be an accounting of the
4 r.oney value of all the produce raised at
the different institutions and consumed
4 there and Of the manufactured products
/ used by the state Then ii will be posi-
BILE TO know the exact expenditure of the
state For instance the state account
ant shows that for one year at Mount
Pleasant there was used of products
from the farm $3.50 worth OF stuff. and
4 Of manufactured products those to the
\ value of Sll.so2.
4 A warning note was struck by Mr..
/ Harriott in his talk before the superin-
1 tendents. in the matter Of recommended
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