Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-22

of Control has been recommending to the
legislature for some time Since the law
providing for sentencing inebriates to a
place where their inebriacy would be
treated as a physical ailnient such as in
sanity, there has grown up the custom
with the district court judges and officials
OF sentencing Migrants and tramps under
the inebriate law. Where inebriacy is
due to a physical ailment that causes an
excessive thirst for liquor It Is claimed It
can be cured but where It is due to a
shiftless life Il is claimed that 1t cannot
be cured. But the ofhcials send up vag-
rants to get rid OF them and the asylum
is In danger OF being filled with these to
the exclusion of persons who might be
redeemed TO society. The Legislature that
but recently adjourned, passed law pro-
vldlng that the district court judges can
exercise their discretion and send only
those showing signs Of probable cure.
Furthermore, II the court send an unpTom-
Using case the Board OF Control can
promptly release the same on the recon-
mendation of the superintendent. This law
also remains in the hands of the governor
unsigned Probably all of these laws will
be definitely decided upon next week.
No More Deep Wells.
For the time being, at least the state of
Iowa seems 10 have changed its policy as
| to deep wells. In the appropriations for
the Board of Control by the last legisla-
ture there Is an appropriation of $4,000 for
| the water supply at the Glenwood school
for the feeble minded. The state spent
thousands Of dollars endeavoring to get a
water supply for the Glenwood institution
| by seeking deep wells. Two or three were
failures. The 900 now appropriated has
| the provision that II is TO be spent in get
| ting water from the gravel beds Of the
| Missouri valley and providing further that
before It Is drawn the Board of Control
must file with the auditor of state certi-
| hcate that It is impossible to get suffci-
| ent supply from the deep well and further
| that the deep well shall not be sunk deeper
than 100 feet. Iowa has had trouble get
| ting water at other institutions When the
| sites for many Of the institutions were
selected scenery and political pulls had
more to DO with the selection than the
water supply, hence the trouble.
Hunting, Successor to Colonel Drake.
The State Board OF Control IL having
some diniculty in finding a successor 10 Col
| onei Drake as superintendent OF the Indus
| trial school for Boys at Eldora. There are
many politicians seeking the place because
| II pays q, 800 a year and all expenses ex
| cept clothing but the board Is not In poll
/ tics and IL not susceptible to political in
| huence. Vague stories are in circulation
as to the reasons for Colonel brakes leav
ing. but all are more or less incorrect
| When Colonel Drake was at Bonneville, No.
/ ne built the institution up from one build
ing to eleven. the brick for all OF which
was manufactured on the ground and this
work Of erecting was all done by the boy
in the institution. The institution was com
plete In every detail with underground tun
nels connecting every building. While Their
Colonel brakes wife died and while HI
was In one OF the tunnels with a workman
the tunnel caved In killing the workman
and all but killing Colonel Drake. Being
sensitive man he was unable to keep vi
under the multiplied troubles and suffere'
a nervous prostratlon from which he neve
fully recovered. He went from Bonneville
to Eldora at less salary In the hope that Z
change Of scene would beneht his health
but without the oscillations ot'his hopes
All sorts of political influences Is belnl
brought 10 bear on the board TO maxi
political selections for the new superintend
ent There are dozen or more applicants
and q good position awaits a good mar
| when he IL found. The board 10 hunting
for a man OF large heart and a taste for
teaching boys He must have a mechanical
turn for the boys are taught trades. The
hrst requirement that the hoard makes ID
that the man must be OF unqusstionec
moral character. The board IL hunting
furthermore for a young man IN the hope
that he win make the Eidora institution
his life work.
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