Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-13
WARDS SATISFACTORY
Children Adopted From State
Institutions Seldom Sent
Back as Objectionable
PROPER TREATMENT ASSURED
PROPER TREATMENT ASSURED
Families Into Whose Care Children
Are Given Must Pass Rigid Investi-
CATION as to character-Homes
Found for Twin Boys at Soldiers
Orphans Institution.
Special to Times-Republican.

Des Moines, Aug 1S.-An Iowa far
mer has taken the twin boys from
the Davenport Soldiers Orphans
Home. The state agent, Miss Clare
Lubbock has been hunting for some
weeks to find the boys a home. A
young couple with 100 acres of 500
Iowa land, have taken them and they
will be made into farmers.
Contrary to all popular suspicion
on the subject, boys and girls that
are adopted from public institutions
no more frequently develop unfavor-
able traits of character than do the
children raised by their own parents.
Only once in a very great while, so
rarely that the state agents can
scarcely remember a case, do the chill
dren adopted into homes show traits
of character that are Objectionable
that seem to have been Inherited.
Since the state of Iowa adopted the
system of employing people to find
suitable homes for the children in the
state institutions there have been
scores adopted into families of Iowa.
The concern Is always to find a suit.
able family and when the family is
found there is never any trouble aft
.erwards. That is, the children do not
have to be sent back because they are
mot satisfactory
The other day a farmer of this
state who heard that there We're twin
boys for whom home was wanted,
wrote to the state agent saying he
could use those boys" He didn't get
them. An investigation disclosed the
fact that the chief idea, as with many.
was that the state was anxious to get
rid Of some of its wards at the state
institutions and that they were anx-
ious and willing to put them most
anywhere where family could make
use' Of them.
The idea on which the state pro-
ceeds is that the children are wards
of the state and that the state has an
obligation to them to give them the
best possible opportunity to be good
citizens. While they are expected TO
work like the children of every re-
Spectacle family, they will be placed
only where they will be properly edu-
Gated and taught. Many of them get
into the state institutions because their
own parents are not suitable persons
to care for them and the first concern
of the state is as to whether the fam
ily into which the child is to be
adopted is such family as Will give
the child every opportunity to be a
reSpecteGl citizen.
F. C. Graves, who for several months
has been dol g an extensive business
in "choice Iowa Seeds" was arrested
Yesterday by Deputy United States
Marshall Bidwell on a charge of using
the mails to defraud. The postoffice
INSPECTORS who caused Graves arrest
claim that he has swindled seed COM
panies in various parts of the country
out of thousands of dollars worth OF
seeds which he sold as choice Iowa
brands. Il In his advertisements Whlch
were printed in some of the biggest pa
pers in the United States Graves
claimed to control one of the largest
seed establishments in the west. Inc
New York World now has a suit
against him in district court for $500,
claimed to be due for advertising.
His scheme according to the postof-
flee inspectors was to I'LL his orders
with goods purchased from seed houses
In different parts of the country. When
the shipment arrived he would tele-
graph the consignor to release the bill
Of lading, promising to send draft for
the amount due. His request would US
ually be granted and then it is said,
Graves would forget to send the draft.
At the same time his customers sup
posed they were getting genuine Iowa
seeds, 1t Is said.
He waived preliminary examination
and was bound over to the federal
grand jury under $50 bonds. He sent
word to his mother at Baxter to come
to Des Moines and sign his bond.