The San Francisco call., 1907-02-19
WOULD PUT A CHECK
ON ABUSED CHARITIES
Measure Prepared Which
1t Is Believed Will Be
of Great Value
PROVIDES INSPECTOR
officials Duty VIII Be to
Visit and Look After
Orphans
PROVIDES INSPECTOR
CALL HEADQUARTERS,
1907 EIGHTH STREET

'lGOloO4C pOIGOn OF lne SOUO,OUU eX-
pended annually for the maintenance
OF dependent children is wasted, de-
mands the enactment of law to pro-
vide an absolute check on this charity.
and which he believes will result in
saving many thousands of dollars to
the State.
Gillett is not to be satisfied with
single economy to be haunted as a
record and sounded as a political
tom-tom. The Governor is going
down the line in an attempt 10
inject real business methods in the
handling of the States money. The
latest freak to be hunted out by
the Governor is in the dependent chill
dren fund. He has had prepared and
turned over to Chairman Estudillo Of
the ways and means committee for in
PRODUCTION a bill which he believes will
be OF incalculable value TO dependent
childhood as well as TO the State The
Governors bill provides in outline for
the selection of an officer TO be a mem
ber Of the State Board of Examiners
,stah and Immediately responsible to
the Governor. It shall be the duty Of
this inspector to visit all orphanages
participating in State appropriations, at
least once each year for the purpose
Of insuring that the State gets what
IL pays for and no less. A further and
even more important duty assigned this
inspector will be the placing of de-
Esndent children in proper private
homes, thus relieving the State Of all
expense for their care. Governor Gill
lett said today:
CHILDREN ARE NEGLECTED
we are expending about $500 600 a
ha of ant rh
and have absolutely no knowledge of
what we are getting for it. This money
is divided between some forty private
institutions and the several counties
Under existing law there is no way of
checking up the expenditures. We do
not know whether the statements sub
mitted by the institutions and the
counties are right or wrong. Neither
do we know whether the children for
whose maintenance we are supposed
70 pay are Of the age contemplated by
the law or Of any age. The children
and the State are entitled TO protec-
tion-
There is no disposition to interfere
vz-sefz Elao ,a-c or the children by pri-
vate institutions or TO make any change
beyond insuring that both State and
children get value received. It is quite
useless to attempt to deny that there
has been altogether shameful waste of
the States money and mistreatrnent of
the children in more than one instance.
Why. in this county the children were
found eating with their fingers. be-
cause they had neither knives nor
forks. They were dirty. suffering from
skin disease, and the place in which they
were housed was infested with vernlin
It has been corrected because the good
people Of the county Strengthened the
situation out when IL was brought 10
their attention. California Is woefully
M.ka
Of its dependent children and as
result both State and its wards suffer.
one competent man at a small salary
can work big saving"
JURY OFFERED A PRESS
Assemblyman Richard Jurys failure
TO secure a press costing $500 and sold
by State Printer Shannon for $400 at
what Jury considers bargain price,
$1,000. has not discouraged the Assem-
blymsn. who thinks he may yet have
chance to get snap In mechanical
equipment for his own printing office
Jury has accepted an invitation to visit
Grass Valley, where another one of
Shannon's castoh presses was sold for
$500. he has also agreed by letter to
take the press at 5000 II it is in any
thing like as good condition as the
press he tried TO buy for $1,000 at Oak
Park. Jury told The Call last week Of
his failure 10 buy for $1,000 a press
which an Oak Park publisher secured
for $500. In the same article The Call
mentioned the fact that W. F. Prisk
had at about the same time got one Of
Shannon's S40O bargain counter presses.
Jury received the following telegram
from Prisk today:
GRASS VALLEY. Cal. Feb. I5-Just read
your interview in The Call regarding presses
sold by State Printer Shannon. and beg to offer
vou press sold me st price paid for same (four
hundred dollarsl, plus freight and expense of IN
sfalistion (about two hundred dollsrs), on guar
chased from State Printer. Consider price paid
state fair, and trust you win accept my offer
-eot wrong impression conveyed by your inter
view regarding value Of press sold me.
Jury sent a hurry call for stem
ographer and got of the following ac-
ceptance. lest the next mail should
show a change of heart on the part of
Prisk:
Dear Sir: Your telegram Of 18th inst did not
reach until this morning owing TO the fact
that 1 had been absent from Sacramento since
Ybossible. and II / find your press IN anywhere
nsid tor yours I win take az the fg1Ire Won
expense Of installation, 500, OF total OF $500.
II you VIII read carefully the interview with
readily realize the fact that aid not mention
ANYTHING about your press, but do admit that
have seen the press WITCH u low IN TIE once
II the Oak Park Ledger. snd also admit that /
offered $1,000 for the machine which offer I
stand ready 70 make good The only similarity
ie tie fact you paid the exact amount. as / un-
6ersfand IL paid by Mr.. Oeg for his press To-
WIT. 500 But as ] said before, II your press is
snvg.ilere near the condition that Ar. Ogg's ma
chine IS in I viii gladly accept your offer
viii try 70 be there within the next week
r. q JURY
GREENyVELL's STATEMENT BRIEF
one Of the most concise statements
Of a question of personal privilege ever
made to a legislative body was sub
rnftted by Senator Greenwell, who made
his first appea rance in the Senate to-
day since the publication of the charge
that an ira1e husband at Bakersfield was
holding part Of the Senator's ward
robe as prin1a facie evidence Of the i'm
proper relations alleged TO exist be-
tween thez Senator and the bailee's
WifeNf GreenweIl said:
ise stories llaye been circulated
about me- At the proper time I shall
prove to the satisfaction of my friends
that I am innocent"
fo~ ~lo n hands