Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-16
Sup't. Applegate Strongly De
tends the Mount Pleasant
Hospital For Insane
CHARGES BEING INVESTIGATED
State Board of Control is In Mount
Pleasant Today-AppIesate Charges
Editor Of physical Culture" With
Having Depraved Mind and Sol
fish Motive for Profit
Special to Times-Republican.

Op0Cldl 10 1lulcS~INCpuOAiSeLis
Mt. Pleasant, Nov. 16.--Superintend-
ent Apologize, Of the hospital for IN
ments regarding the recent articles, the
Physical Culture" today. He has just
returned from an extended trip east.
The News will contain the following
this evening.
1T Is not my custom to give atten-
ton or time to considering such abb
surd, trashy, yellow, journalistic ar
ticles, as appeared In Il recent issue of
the Physical Culture, and | am sur
prised that so many papers would care
to copy such stuff, when on the face OF
the articles 1t is meant to be sensa-
tional and could only be very produc-
tive of harm to our patients and their
relatives. An article such as appeared
in McFadden's Journal could emanate
only from mind depraved, and with
a selfish motive for profit. II the writ
or of this article were truthful, would
he have witnessed the abuse and ne
eject OF the patients for so many years
and In SO many institutions, and now
at this late day play benefactor, and
at time when all his actions are
questioned by fair-minded people?
Il believe McFadden wrote the ar
ticle himself, as no attendant would in
this day and age call nurses and at
tendants guards" or make such alb
surd charges At best there must have
been some selfish motive for profit to
some one as sensational articles some
times materially increase the sale Of a
magazine or newspaper. Our irlstitu-
lions have changed from the custodial
asylums OF the day of McFadden, to
hospitals where each patient is indi-
vidualized and nursed and fed as his
case demands. Much good may be done
by printing the truth concerning our
hospitals and the care and treatment
OF the patients, and much harm may
come from such an article as appears
in McFadden's Journal.
For your information and to show
your readers that those concerned in
the care and treatment Of our patients
the kind Of man who usually writes
such articles as McFadden has written,
and do harm in other ways, I attach
the following from a Chicago paper
showing that McFadder is not q man
in whom we may place confidence.
Trenton. N. j., Nov. 11.-Bernard
McFadden. editor OF Physical Culture,
who was convicted Of violating the
postal laws by sending obscene litera-
ture thru the mails, was sentenced by
Judge Lanning to serve two years at
hard labor in the Jersey state prison
and to pay fine of $4,000
''The board Of control is asking Nc
Fadden for the evidence upon which he
based the article. In conslusion / de-
sire to say that we know our employees
are kind to the patients, and that they
do many acts Of kindness and show
charity and forebearance which never
occur to the minds Of some people who
are ever ready to accuse them Of
wrong doing"
The state board of control Is In the
city today, Investigating the charges
made in the recent. magazine article
regarding the cruelty to the patients
at the state hospital here.