Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-16

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for a wing for new custodial building at
Glenwood. 1880 for cottages for patients
at the tuberculosis sanatorium and $4,000
for kitchen, dining room and quarters for
help at the same institution; $4,000 for a
hospital building at Eldora; and $4,000 for
the purchase of land at Fort Madison. The
recommendations for legislation are as
follows:
lions to Legislature.
The federal government pays to each
state maintaining a home for soldiers and
sailors 800 per annum for each soldier and
sailor kept there who served in the army
or navy iL any of the wars. An act OF
congress May %, 1908, forbids payment to
any state in which the pension money of
the members of it's home is withheld for
any purpose. The law found in Section
26O6b and 26O6c Code Supplement of 1907 OF
this state providing for holding pension
money in certain cases is in conflict with
the federal statute and If enforced will de-
prive the state of 500 per annum for each
member of the class referred to. The re-
peal of the conflicting state law is recon-
mended.
1t is also recommended that authority be
given the commandant to endorse and COL
lect checks, certificates of deposit and
other papers left in his hands by members
of the home who die intestate without
known relatives, and to seal the personal
property and pay the proceeds into the
! state treasury.
/ 1t is that each child COM
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held and treated as a ward of the state
to be placed in new homes when In the
judgment of the superintendent approved
by the board of control, that 1t shall be
for the best interests of the child. If that
plan were adopted certain abuses now eX-
listing would be prevented.
1t is also recommended tnat the practice
which has existed in some counties of max
ing private CONTRACTS with persons respon-
t the home 50r i bS WIPE S6R9pr eo3 on saH are to S9 be- r 60
lmbursed for their share of the expense, be
forbidden.
The average attendance at the school for
the deaf has become so small that the per-
capita allowance of $22 per month for each
pupil for nine months in the year is not
amount was fixed when the average school
population had been PSI for more than ten
years. 1t is recommended that the proper
officers of the state be authorized to place
to the credit OF the school the sum of
5000 each school month when the aver
age school population is less than 275.
1t is also that the laws
be so amended that no child under the age
of ten years and no dependent or neglected
child not guilty of any wrong shall be
committed to either industrial school.
The methods of paying claims against
the state provided by the law relating 10
the state hospital for inebriates are I'M
recessaIialy numerous and complex. Gre ter
simplicity and uniformity are recommended.
The acreage of land owned by the state
was increased by 49, acres during the
biennial period and the state now owns
7.133 acres.
The average daily population of the fiji
teen state institutions under control Of the
board increased from S.312 to S,426 in the
two years.
The total expenditures in the two years
for these fifteen institutions was 50, 754. T6S. o.
OF this 81, 042,O 4S.5S was for salaries, 81, $40,
1925 for support, and $S72, 2S6.SS for speciaI
purposes.
During the period the losses at institu.
lions amounted to $12,275 by fire, 1900 by
hail, $40 by lightning and $50 by wind.
The board of control asks again to be re-
lieVed of any connection whatever with the
educational institutions Of the state. Their
examination shows that these institutions
cost the state as follows: State university,
81, 139. 9S0.3l; Agricultural college, 81, PAS, 032-
80; Normal school, $464, 1927. p; total, $2,S49,-
334.47.
The annual report Of F. G. Robinson,
grand secretary of the Elks OF Iowa,
shows 2 membership in Iowa of s.629,
aside from a new lodge at Shenandoah
not yet fully organized. There are thirty
! lodges i'm the state, Des Moines having
the largest and Sioux City next. Nearly
all the lodges have new buildings
erected.
Annual Iowa Dairy Meeting.
The coming week the Iowa State Dairy
association will meet in Waterloo, COM
mencing on Wednesday. ii. r. Wright,
state dairy commissioner, will deliver an
address and refer to the progress in
d~airying in Iowa. The president is w.
B. Barney of Hampton. The state as
ISOLATION will make active effort to Sc
cure larger appropriations for developing
the industry in the state,
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