Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-04-27

training and by extending this train
ing, shis education, to hundreds and
thousands Of the residents of country
districts who could not and would not
receive it under any other system, is
an action meriting the highest praise
and commendation.
The Good Roads Law and the New
School Laws are worth every dollar
that this legislature cost and more
than make up for all it's sins of omis-
sion and commission.
The investigation of the Red Wing
Industrial school, while unsatisfactory
IN many respects, developed a condi-
ton that was a disgrace to the state
and made it impossible for such con-
ditions to ever exist again.
Increased provisions were made
for providing for the numerous state
institutions but not nearly as much
additional allowed as was needed. A
thorough reform in practice is needed
onr hospitals for the insane. All that
can be done at the preesnt time is to
give the inmates collective treatment.
The nurses and attendants are worked
In twelve hour shifts. The wages paid
are not large enough to secure the
best character of attendants. Suhici-
ent appropriations should be made
SO that each inmate of an insane hos
pital could be given individual treat
ment. The highest class of attend
ants should be secured and their
hours of service lessened It is sim
ply inhuman to require nurse to
work more than eight hours at
stretch in an insane ward. Every per-
son under forty years of age on being
admitted to penal institution for
the first time should be submitted to
thorough examination by medical
experts, for it is now well establish
ed scientific fact that very large
percentage of crime is caused by dis
ease and deformity and that large
proportion of the inmates of our pris-
ons are fit subjects for hospitals ra-
ther than penal institutions. When
ever a criminal or an insane person
can be cured by treatment it is not
cnly cheaper but much more humane
to cure him than it is to confine him.
There were many other measures of
real merit passed by the present leg
islatllre. It's membership individu-
ally was of high class. It did fail
somewhat in team work but that was
the fault OF conditions rather than in
dividuality.
In every measure enacted into law
there are always more or less defects,
things that are bad The critics of
the present legislature have sedulous-
ly called attention to the bad things
and overlooked the good. The true
measure is to determine whether or
not the good preponderates over the
bad, if it does, it is good legislation.
Measured by this standard every
measure of the present legislature. ex-
cept one or two, is good legislation.
| The fact that the lawmakers failed
J to pass multitude of new laws is
rather to their credit than otherwise.
| The state is not and was not suffer
| ing Tor legislation. If after the Dunn
bill and the school bill was passed
and appropriations for the state in
stitutions had been appropriated the
| Legislature had adjourned without do
ing anything more the state would not
have suffered in the least.
| If the legislatures for the next ten
years would simply meet, appropriate
money for running expenses and ad-
journ within week after assembling
! the state would be all the better off
for such action.
The time has come for me to bid
the readers of these articles good
bye, at least for the present I can
only hope they have enjoyed reading
them as much as have writing them.
IF. NJ. Eddy.
BUD oG HlLsEN MOVES TO NEW
FOLDEN
| The Bud og Hilsen, weekly, Nor
wegian paper that has been published
at Crookston for the past Is years
was this week moved to Newfolden.
The paper is edited by Samuel Tun-
helm, and has circulation of some
thing like 1000 Newfolden can now
boast of having two papers going out
of the post office; which ought to sup
ply the people with plenty of litera-
ture. Newfolden Review.
/ Sprinkle, sprinkle, little cart,
How I wonder where tnou art,