The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-01
CHARITIES BOARD
FOR LONG TENURE OF
STATE employees
Also Recommends Parole Office
and Instructor for Night
School in Pen.

Parker, S. D., Sept. 26.-In its biennia
report, just sent to the printers by w
H. King, secretary, OF his place, the
state board of charities and correc.
tions recommends most urgently the re
moVal of administration of the state.
institutions from partisan politics.
OF the five recommendations of the
board, it is most insiStently urged tina
the Legislature enact a law fixing terms
or office for a considerable numberfo OF
years if not during good behavior, fol
all the officers and employees of institu.
tons Ii fixing limitations for theii
salaries. This alone. it is claimed, viii
end the 'pernicious influence of party
and factional politics. and make com
potency and faithfulness the test. Some
years 6 the present board adopted g
resolution that Sin the selection of Off
GERS for the various institutions Of the
state. competency and fitness to do
honest and honorable service are the
chief requisites to commend, and tina
political afllliation or opinion should in
no manner have weight" In this. the
board will surely receive the moral sup
port of Governor Crawford, who has
earnestly advocated civil service in the
states institutions.
A School in Prison.
The board suggests, also the creation
of a parole officer for the p~enitentiary
and training school, who will conduct,
at least part of the year, a night school
suggested by the efforts of several OF
the younger convicts to study higher
text Cooks in their cells.
IT is also thai a re-
formatory be created for the ing
prisoners and thai the principle of the
lndetef1n1nate sentence. which the
board holds to have Deer proved a
success nv nfhar sto toe Jo .lno&oJ
and that a law be passed prohibiting
n employment in any institution of
n member of the family of its man
aging officer.
The board, composed of D. c..
Thomas, of Watertown. VIM. NJ. Pow
ers, OF 1ankton, and w. E. Upton, Of
Mitchell, expresses pleasure with the
progress that has beeIi made in the in
stitulions in the past two years. The
board has never asked for a deficiency
appropriation. but OF the contrary has
turned back an u~neNpended portion OF
the regular appropriation. This year
the Aoard will return, of the monies
available for support, the neat sum
of $50. 046.5 So. OF this $5,405.25 is from
the training school fund, S39, 043.79 from
the penitentiary. $45l.5 50 from the hos
pltal for the insane. $2.625.6 g. from the
northern hospital, $3.S20.S7 from the
school for deaf mutes, IS. 560.36 from
the school for the blind, and $5,139.1
from the insurance fund.
Value of Institutions.
An appraisenent by the board of the
state institutions shows the state owns
In them property of the handsome sum
Of 81, sa21 ,o2e. as follows: Training school.
$lo6,3l5; school for blind, SSs. 500; school
Tor deaf, s73.3SS; ~penitentiary, s2S9,OSl;
state hospital for insane. s655. 900.
hospital for feeble minded,
S57. 7e2.
During the past year the total aver
age number of people cared for in the
penal and charitable institutions was
1890, as follows: Hospital for insane,
725; northern hospital for feeble mind
lS6: ~penitentiarv, 203: training
IS: school for blind. SO; school
for deaf. rs.
Most remarkable as a financial enter
prise is the shirt factory installed at
the state p~enitentiary three years ago,
at c cost of $4,000. The board reports
that the total net profit to the state
from this investment has been $43, $50. SO,
The shirts are made under contract for
large firms. SO the state is relieved from
the work of selling the product. The
prisoners receive pay after they have
worked a minimum umb Of hours
n In this way rave accumulated
quite a little in the way of savings,
besides generating in them habits of
industry.
The machinery for making Irvine has
all been purchased and is being in
stalled and the board declared the plant
to be the finest that could be built.
Silos have been erected at the hos-
pital for the insane, the hospital for
feeble minded. n the training school,
n at each a herd of Holsteins is
maintained. The silos were built from
savings and the herds save a large sum
supplying milk and butter. Elec-
trio lights have been installed at the
school for the blind. an important
change owing to the danger of fire from
lamps. Many thousands of
small trees have been see out at the
hospital for feeble minded.
In closing the beard expresses its APP
probation ri the faithful service az
the employees in the institutions and
felicitatcs itself upon the fact that
there has been no hint of corruption,
OF scandal, of cruelty, or inhumanity
in n of the penal o. charitable insti-
tutions of this state. while runners OF
wrong doing were rife N more than
one Of our rtcighboring states,
WISCONSIN MAN
ROBBED BY TRAMP
Huron, S. d., Sept. 26.-Tuesday
night. at Washington, John Dixie. Of
Sparta, Wis. claims to have been
robbed of $25 by Nelson Gibbs, a tramp.
Tw~enty-three dollars of the amount
to have been stolen, was found
on Gibbs person, when arrested. He