The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1908-11-26

| S4o.UUO appropriation dS UIlG WIN P4O
crossed, and that the Building Com
mittee secure the final Sl6, 200 on Its
personal responsibility and ask the
legislature Of 1903 to appropriate q
sum to cover this deficiency.
The other members Of the Building
Committee, Senator T. G. Barrett anc
DR.. Z. t. Gallon, approved the plar
and generously agreed to share the
financial responsibility with me.
l went to Baton Rouge and sub
mitted the plan to the Superintend
ent of Education. He approved ii
and went with me to the Governor
who also approved 1t.
Senator Barrett and l then went tC
the banks and they agreed to furnish
the money on our personal security.
l then submitted the matter to the
Board Of Administrators, and the
Building Committee was authorized
to let the contract and complete the
building. This was done, the build.
ing was completed and occupied last
January. The legislature of 1908 was
asked for an appropriation to coverthe
deficiency and promptly gave SIT, 2OC
for that purpose,
The creation of the deficit was not
criminal negligence" 1t was a de,
liberate plan, approved by the State
Superintendent of Education, the
Governor, The BuildingCommittee and
the Board Of Administrators and rec
ognized By the General Assembly in
the appropriation made for it.
1t gave to Louisiana, at the moment
of her urgent need, adequate faciIi-
ties for supplying trained teachers to
the public schools; and it gave to the
State, certainly two years earlier and
possibly many years earlier, the larg-
est, handsomest and best Normal
School building in the Southern
States.
2. THE PERSONAL ENTERPRISE,
Governor Sanders charges that ]
except herds of cattle and swine on
the State property, fed them the pro-
ducts of the States Farm, and sold
milk to the dormitory as a personal
There isn't any State Farm or any
other kind Of farm at the Normal
School. own two farms few miles
from the school, and the products
from these were fed to the stock on
the Normal grounds. The Normal
lawn were moved and the bitches and
roads hoed out several times a year,
and all the grass long enough to be
raked up was hauled to the barns and
fed to the COWS, horses and mules.
The cows belonged to me, the horses
md mules belonged to the Club.
For some nine or ten years kept
COWS on the Normal grounds and fur
1ished all the milk used by the
boarding club. But it was never a |
personal enterprise" if that term
means private business conducted
or profit.
In the winter of 1897-98 there were |
| number Of cases of typhoid fever in
he boarding club, recurring frequent |
Y in spite of stringent sanitation on |
he grounds. DR. J. S. Stephens, in |
5harge of many of these cases, con-
;luded that milk was the source of |
Infection. The milk came from sew
raj places and one or two of these |
II turn bought part of their supply |
rom neighboring places
At that time | owned three Jersey |
ows which | kept to supply my |
amily with milk and butter. At DR. |
stephens request gave all the milk |
rom my COWS for use in the Club, |
nd cut off the part of the outside
upply that he considered most suS-
,icIous. The typhoid invasion stop |
Ded, there was not another new case,
nd the doctors Judgment as to the
ource Of infection was confirmed.
On his advice | bought more cows
nd undertook to supply al! the milk
hat date to the end of my admins
ration there was never case of milk |
Infection in the Club. The COWS were
thoroughbred, in perfect health, and
ed and cared for properly; the milk
vas of the highest food value, handled
n my own home and kept absolutely
rec from contagion 1t was sold to
he club at rs cents a gallon, the same
rice we had been paying for the in
ected milk.
For four years the investment
rought me no personal gain. Eight
lonths of the year it returned prof
!, but the four months vacation were
dead loss. ! could not consistently
FL milk off the grounds, yet the COWS
ad to be fed and cared for in the va
alton months at just the same ex-
enSe as when the school was in Ses-
on. For the years when the school
as In session all the time / had a
lir money return for the outlay.
tut the return that l sought, and
hich never failed me, was in the
inc years freedom from typhoid in
'ction.
This was no personal enterprise, :,
was a life and death matter to the
Of girls put in nv care by
he people Of Louisiana.
3. THE VOUCHERS.
The Governor states that "there is
ot a voucher Of any kind or descrip-
on in existence"
In giving out the report of the
ank Examiner, the Governor, mad
let US believe, omitted the
rSt two pages of Mr.. Young's report.
hey are as follows:
Natchitoches, La, Sept. %, 1908.
on Jared Y. Sanders,
Baton Rouge, La,
Dear Sir:
Following your instructions through
T. Charles Fuqua, Private Secreta-
:, beg to report that / have made
l examination into the affairs of
le State Normal School at Match
oches, Louisiana, and beg to sub
1t herewith my report of the said !
/ checked the Treasurer's account
} to the point where the books were
st examined and approved by the
nance Committee of the Board of
administrators, which was on Nav
, 1908. The following is a correct
py from the above date to and in
lding September 10, 1908.
RECEIPTS. i
rs. O
ay ID BY balance, as approved by p
Finance Committee. 22.97O ~ | n