The Elbert County tribune., 1905-10-05

OF the Colorado Federation of Women's
/ Clubs, Mrs Churchill, turned the chair
| over to the chairman of the committees
in charge The morning session was
| in charge of Mrs, Fred Dick, with tne
brightest of Colorados educators on
lhe platform. Miss Katherine Craig, the
superintendent of public instruction.
made ran able address, which was fol-
lowed by addresses by James H Baker
president of the University OF Colo
rado; o. X. Snyder, president OF the
State Normal School; II. A. Buchtel,
president of Denver University; W. f.
Slocum. president of Colorado College;
V. C. Anderson, president of the School
of Mines, and B. A. Aylesworth, presi-
dent of the Agricultural college.
The afternoon was devoted to a dis
cussion conducted by Ellis Meredith,
chairman of the state institutions com
mittee; a talk on Child and Animal
Protection" by e. X. Whitehead;
Trade Schools by f. l.. Paddleford.
president of the State Industrial School
at Golden, and a round table confer
ence conducted by Mrs. Sarah Platt
Decker
DR.. Mary L. Bates reported on the
state Home for Dependent and Neg
lected Children.
1.-The great need,' said DR.. Bates, is
larger appropriation. The Legisla-
ture of 1905 appropriated the same
amount of money for the biennial term
following that the preceding legisla-
ture gave TO the home for mainte-
nance.
THE Fifteenth General Assembly
achieved the distinction of having Grim
inally crippled all of the state insti-
tutions for the vain glory of the poll
ticians, the profit of the corporations
and the favor of the mighty.
Compel your men to go on record.
indelible record, before you vote for
them and place them in power where
they can squander the taxes which this
great state contributes in ample sup
ply to make of our institutions models
of modern institutional achievement.
Make the state institutions an is
sue. The State Home for Dependent
and Neglected Children needs develop
ment far more than we need new fish
hatchery; more even than we need a
new $4,000 north door, or gilded
figure for the same price on the top of
our capitol. or $4,000 for coyote
scalps."
A report of the Girls Industrial
school was read by DIR. Josephine l..
Peavy. DR.. Peavy made an appeal to
the federation in the following words:
81 want to appeal to you women to
make that Institution a credit to the
state. a real industrial school and a
home for these girls, who are so sadly
in need of a home and of training to
fit them for life. This is a work worthy
of the federation. If you will only see
that the girls have as fair a chance for
making women of themselves as the
boys have of making men of them
selves, visit the two institutions, com
pare them carefully and then set to
work, not to do less for the boys, but
more for the girls. The girls of this
state should be our special charge.
Undoubtedly the problems met with
in dealing with the girls are greater
and more perplexing than those met
with in dealings with the boys. and
yet one inexperienced woman after an
other has tried her hand as superin-
tendent of the girls school only to fail.
See what is being done, make sug-
gestion, know personally each girl
committed by your court, and be ready
when a girl is eligible to parole to
help find home for her. so that she
may not go back to the old environ
ments and temptations. Help your leg
sage of t maintenance law establishing
school on an equal footing with other
institutions.
IN closing. let me emphasize this
thought: These girls are our helpless,
sick sisters. They are committed to
our care, and we shall be held account
able for them
The chairman of the committee on
state, county and city institutions said
in part:
"Of the educational institutions, from
the State University to the School for
| the Deaf and Blind, we have only
words of praise and appreciation. Next
| year there will be specific things to do.
| So far the one recommendation that
can be made now is to work for con-
stitutional amendment permitting the
university to hold its medical school in
this city-which is done in almost all
the states where the university is not
located in the principal city. trust
the day viii come when the state will
see that there is no reason for placing
! the blind and the dumb in one school,
save our poverty and their misfor-
tunes. There is every reason why
! they should be separated and none why
they should be put in one school, save
lack of funds.
I'm the case of the reformatory and
the penitentiary, we feel that the war
dens are doing all that they can,
cramped for room and lack of means
There are crying needs at the peni-
tentiary, but we must wait for the con
vening of the Legislature to answer
most Of them. In the meantime. there
is one thing we can do. The state
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