The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-09
Gov. StubbS Lays Down Law to
Heads of Institutions.
State to Give Them Only Such
Fare as Inmates Have.
NEW EMPLOYEE RULE.
Only Use Those Who Are Abso'
Iutely Necessary.
Revision of the Salary Schedule
Is Suggested.

The state board of control has sent
out to the nine state charitable institu-
tions letters of Instructions which con-
tain new and rigid rules. Governor
Stubs, while a member of the legis-
lature, drew up the board of control
law, and now that he is in the gov
ernor's chair, he is deeply interested in
the administration of these state insti-
tutions. Among the reforms contained
in the new rules is one relating to the
bill of fare. The superintendents and
employees shall hereafter enjoy the
same menu as that provided for the in
mates. The governor also holds that
it is not necessary to pay the maximum
salary in every case to the employees.
The budget for the institutions recent
ly approved by the governor called for
$284, 500 and his excellency frowned
over this large amount for some time
before placing his o. K. on the sheet.
The letter sent to the institutions in
part is as follows:
First, the number of o,--->'o--~~ pro-
vided for by the schedules shall not be
employed unless absolutely necessary
for the proper carrying out of the OBJ
ject and purpose of each institution.
The full amount for each position or
shall not be paid unless it is necessary
to do in order to get competent per-
sons.
Second while the salaries to be paid
in each grade of the service should be
uniform in similar institutions, yet the
services of different individuals in the
various grades may be worth different
values to the state. To illustrate, fiat
scale of SIS or $18 and board and lodg-
ing for the laundry help would pay
thew and
would not pay ~.--ers as much as they
earn and there would be no inducement
cause a person to do his best service.
This applies to every line of the ser
vice Each person is to receive pay ac-
cording to his or her service up to the
maximum amount as fixed in the
schedules. No one is to be entitled TO
the maximum amount for any reason
other than as compensation for SER
vices performed
Third. the board of control law of
1905 provides that officers appointed
by the board may be permitted TO re-
ceive food supplies for their faml1es,
but onIy from the supplies furnished
for the patients and inmates of the in
stitutions, the intention of the law be-
ing that the state institutions are sup
ported by the people of the state Tor
the benefit of the patients and inmates
and that out of the supplies furnished
for this purpose you could be permit
ted to receive supplies for your fanl-
lies Prior to the passage of the board
of control law, fruits, deiicacies and
other supplies were purchased for the
officers and employees that were not
purchased for the patients and in
mates, and the object and purpose or
the board of control law was to pre-
vent this Governor Stubbs being the
author of this law. wishes it distinct
" understood that the same must re
rigidly enforced. If the officers and
employees want food supplies other
than what is purchased for the pa
tients and inmates of the state hos
pitals for the insane and epileptfc and
feeble-minded institutions and the stu
dents of the ChiIdren's home. the in
dustriaI schools and the schools for
the blind and deaf, they will have to
buy the same out of their own
money