Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-31
Editorial Comment.
The State Board Of Charities.
(EVening EXpress.D


OF the proposition to create State
beard of charities in Maine, that II
will save money for the State. is enc
which will need TO be demonstrated TO
men who are not fully convinced of the
fact and who are not perhaps SO far
sighted as some of these who have
made a study Of the question and be
licve that they can see where waste
could be prevented and money used
to better advantage than 1t is To-Day
one of the speakers at last even
irg's session OF the conference, demon
strated pretty clearly to the minds OF
his hearers, that in the state OF IN
diana this STATE board had been abie
to save from the peoples money vast
~ more than enough to pay for all
the expense created by it. 1t does not
follow as matter of course that the
same conditions would obtain here.
The county system of government III
Indiana is very different from our
township system in Maine, and the
possibilities of waste were much
larger there under independent action,
than would be likely to be the case
where the unit of government is SO
much smaller.
1t is by no means certain that mon
ey is wasted in our State institutions
where charity work is done. There Is
nc reason to suppose that single
board Of charities having supervision
of all the institutions would be any
more careful Of the public moneys
than are the boards whose duty 1t Is
t. supervise the financial affairs OF
single institution. These trustees OIL
our state institutions have all been
carefully chosen and if single board
were to be created. the probabilities
are that il would be composed entire
" Of men who have secured their en-
perience and demonstrated their ht-
ness for this work in the public ser
vice as trustees of some OF our many
institutions Of this character.
Anonymous Letter Writers.
(Rumford Falls Times.)
1t seems that the dvnamiting cpl
sode in Los Angeles has given an ldea
TO some law breakers how to get rid
of Rev H n Pringle. An anonymous
letter writer threatened that If MI
Pringle did not cease his actlTltleS
against the pool rooms i'll Augusta
that his .'esta blishment would be
blown sky high with dynamite. MI
Pringle does not take the communica'
ton at all seriously and says that
threats from anonymous parties are
bv 10 means uncommon with him.
Editors receive many anonymous
letters. a large portion Of them Of the
threatening kind. Last week. the
Times editor received two letters OF
this kind One was from Ridlonvilie.
and STAGED that if the business men OF
Mexico and Rumford did not mind
their business and leave the writer
alone they would get into trouble.
The writer stated that he had spent
twenty weeks OF his life in a bug
house" but that did not give the peo-
pie any right to trouble him. He
signed the initials sc. B. B., president
Of the Dirty-Seven Club"
The other letter was mailed at Sc
attic. Washington, and stated that a
Mexico man (whose name we shall
not publish) had been captured by
bandits and taken into the recesseS
Of the mountains and killed, An In
vnstigation showed that the writer is
a lady formerly living in Mexico. who
has become insane. On hearing that
her father was on his way to Seattle.
she wrote this crazy letter to the
Times.
This illustrates why a newspaper
invariably demands that all communi-
cations be signed.