Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-20
Such is Desired By Colorado
Representative For Child
rem and Animals
sHAFRoTH INTRODUCES A BILL
Plan Is to Appoint National Board of
Child and Animal Protection-Its
Duties and Place of Meetins-Enor-
nous Amount of Supplies Wanted by
"Uncle SANS" Printing Factory.
to Times-Republican.

| tive Shafroth, of Colorado, has tender
heart, as we know that all members of
congress have, but Mr.. Shafroth has
| had his heartstrings so wrung by the
cruel treatment of children and animals
! that he wants to throw the strong arm
of federal protection around these help
less creatures, and to that end he mas
introduced in the house bill providing
| for the establishment of board OF
protection of children and animals
This bill, which is now in the hands
of the committee on judiciary, the
craftsmanship of which, by the way,
has been changed from Judge Ray of
New York to Hon. j. w. jenkins Oh
Wisconsin, gives the president, Win .he
advice and consent of the senate, au-
thority to appoint board OF three
citizens of the United States, to pc
known as the national board OF child
and animal protection.
This board, when appointed, must
meet In Washington within ninety
days, and after that 1t is to be called
together whenever and wherever the
chairman may deem it necessary. Ihis
board will have secretary with sal
airy of 1900 year and travelling eN-
penses of So per day in addition to
TRANSFORMATION whenever he is travelling
on the work of the board. The MEM
bers of the board, however, are to act
simply from love of humanity, and are
to receive no compensation, but will be
allowed SIS per day travelling expenses
SY,o dd n TRANSFORMATIONS.
An office is to be provided for this
board somewhere in Washington, and
the government printing office must
give them $1,000 worth of printing per
annum.
The duty Of this board of child and
animal protection will be to obtain and
record information concerning the con-
dition of dependent, neglected, and
abused or viciously reared children and
of neglected and abused dumb animals
turnout the United States and its pos
sessions. Not only so, but they must
study the causes Of abuse In such cases
and record the conclusions reached;
and must suggest and urge remedies In
all such cases. This is, however, but
the beginning of the duties imposed
upon the members of this board, for
they must go out into the states and
territories and to our far island pos
sessions and work for uniform and eff
ficient legislation for the protection of
children and dumb animals. and having
prevailed upon these states, etc., to
pass such laws, they must secure the
enforcement of all such measures.
Other duties assigned them are the
urging of humane education of the
children in the schools, the education
of pblic sentiment concerning the
rights and the proper treatment of
| children and dumb animals. (Some peo-
! pie who have read Mr.. Shafroth's bill
with interest, suggest that he might
have incorporated q provision to in
struet children that grown-up folks
also have some rights.)
Mr.. Shafroth proposes also to have
| the national board of child and animal
| protection appoint such assistants as
! they may deem best turnout the coun-
| try to assist in the work outlined, but
such service must be rendered for the
| love of humanity.
| Provision is also made for the hold
1 Ing of a convention under the auspices
of the board at the exposition at st.
Louis in 1904. to which representatives
from all foreign governments are to be
| invited as delegates.
| Altho no salaries, except that of the
secretary are provided for, an appro-
priation of $4,000 is called for to meet
| the payment of the necessary expenses
of the board for the first year of its ex-
istence.
| The neWspaper correspondent who
asked Secretary Wilson If it was true
that the foot and mouth disease had
broken out in Washington, got his an
swer all right enough the other day,
when the secretary, with his good-na-
tured smile, quickly replied: II don't
know so much about the foot disease in
| this city, but ! a incumbent that the
mouth disease has attained such head
way that it will be impossible to stamp
| it out" And the genial secretary of
| agriculture hurried on to the cabinet
meeting, where he told the president
augurated for stamping out the foot
and mouth disease among the New
England cattle were likely to prove
effectual In a short time.
/ To person not familiar with the inn
mense amount of printing done by Un-
Gle Sans great printing factory in this
| city, the advertisement which Public
Printer Palmer has just sent out, invit-
! Ing proposals for supplying His shop
with paper for the year ending Jan. 20,
1904, will doubtless prove an eye-open-
er. In the matter of machine finished
printing paper Mr. Palmer wants some
body to furnish him 100000 reams of
3Sx4S inches; $500 reams of extra fine
printing paper; $4,000 reams of writing
1 paper of various sizes and weights;
| besides $500 reams of colored writing
paper and $500 reams of cover paper.
| Then he grows tired of wanting just
| reams, and asks for $4,000 pounds of
| best plate paper; 100000 pounds best
map paper; 100000 pounds superfine
book paper; 100000 pounds of bond pa
/ per; 10000 pounds of artificial parch-
| ment: 10000 sheets of cardboard; 81
| 100000 sheets of bristol board; 800
reams of ledger paper: 5000 reams sec
ond class ledger paper; 500 reams type
writer paper; 5000 odd reams of tissue
paper. Besides all this there are yari-
| Gus items too numerous to mention of
much smaller quantities of various
kinds of paper. Uncle Sam fortunately
/ does not require that any one paper
maker or dealer must furnish all of
this in q lump sum, but he will consid-
j err offers of only 1000 reams, and he
1 wants close bargain and all sorts Of