The Saint Paul globe., 1904-11-02


When the. Recommendation was inserted
IN the report IN Question, il Was> Hnasli-
mouSiy agreed TO by ell of the then MEM
,rs pers OF the board Whether any OF them
nave experienced a change OF heart. L do
not know, but for one 1 esnsstill. Of the
opinion that law along the lines in ques-
tion would greatly assist in resajning old.
experienced nurses in Sthe service and
that without becoming sburdensome to the
state. F&sL
Newspapers. politicians. officeseekers.
each other % ReP s9Ps f @e ase
TOT those who nave become disabled in the
military and NAVAL service, and We ali say
,Am.en;;s- q; but hefer soldier who found his
deatn upon the battlefield or sailor = who
Hes with his silp Under the blue waters of
the Atlantic, showed courageSof a higher
orqeg, greater Patriotic devotion to coun-
Try. more noble Sacriflce of self at Sdsltv's
caI, than does the intelligent nurse who
DAY after day. year after. year suncon-.
pi.aiininely submits 70 the humiliating indig-
mites necessary In the care.s0f the. ne
and feeble minded Out with the stony
hearted sentiInentality that Would con-
sign a faithfD nurse TO the poorhouse
aITer lie spent IN such a canse,
cause l believe IN 1t. bring 1t up az this
time that the question as I view ff and
as the board of control referred to It. may
De 1a1riy considered on its merits not
weighted down with a proposition so ab-
snrdiy ridiculoesi as the civil service pen
sion system.
TomHnson Asks More Time
DR.. III. A Tomlinson. chairman of
the committee, to whom had been re-
ferred the subject OF pensions for old
or disabled employees, reported. asking
for further time for consideration. ana
there was no discussion of Mr.. Lea
vetts paper. DR.. Tomlinson also read
extracts from his forthcoming biennial
rawf
nurses in dormitories independent of
the state hospitals for the insane He
insisted that's discipline, a higher eff
cheney OF nursing and the elevation of
nursing to the professional plane
would result In the change from the
present system of having the nurses
in the hospital wards
The two. topics discussed by the
superintenGents and the board of con-
troll yesterday re1ated to the purchase
of supplies and economy in their dis
tribution. At the morning session DR..
A. +. kilbourne read a paper on
Purchase OF Supplies. Conservatism
of Quality and in the afternoon
Henry Wolfer, warden of the Still
water penitentiary. discussed Econ
omy In Distribution and Use of Sup
plies. Both papers aroused discus
sion.
LII J. DOWs VI l0c SCHOOL the
blind, Faribault, urged an expert
buyer for the state institutions War
den Wolfer declared that there had
been a great improvement in the quail
ity of goods in recent years without
any corresponding increase in the
cost. Mr.. Leayett asked why the
heads of the departments in each state
institution could not select geeds for
their own institution, and Supt F. L.
Randall, of the st. Cloud reformatory,
replied that they did not possess the
necessary technical knowledge.
DIR. Kiibourne questioned whether
or not a recent contract for 5000 bar
reis of flour was UP to standard in
quality. He cited the fact that the
flour was now being delivered to the
institutions in unmarked bags. There
is a difference of 40 cents per barrel
in two grades. and he feared the state
was being given the lower grade at the
higher price. Chairman. Jacobson as.
sured, him that if the -four was of in
ferior grade the contract would be i'm
meGiately cancelled, and Mr.. Leavett,
of the board, said that the reason il
was put" UP in unmarked bags was
that the manufacturer did not want
the wholesale flour merchants to know
how cheaply the state was buying the
flour