Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-08-16
UNION PRINTERS HOME.
Further Development Advocated by
Printers international
President.

AN'AANaANs
The volume containing the reports
Of the officers Of the International
Typographical Union for the fiscal
year ending with May OF 1911, is just
from the press President Lynch
has this TO say as to the Union Print
ers' Home-that magnificent instltu-
ton at Colorado Springs, erected and
maintained by the International
Typographical Union:
] Reference to the report Of the
board Of trustees Of the Union Print
ers' Home will make clear the ma
ture OF the improvements that have
been made to the institution during
the fiscal year. The partial compile
ton Of the library addition by the
erection Of two additional stories,
not including the interior finish, runs
over the fiscal year and well into
July. The boiler house was consid-
erably enlarged, two new boilers in
stalled, and cOmmodious sanitary and
pleasant quarters provided for the
male employees in the second story Of
the heating plant and laundry build
ing, and other necessary improve
ments made in this connection The
library annex has been completed,
with the exception of finishing the
interior Of the upper stories. The
total amount expended for the i'm
proyements mentioned has beenS25,-
600. A beautiful and adequate in
stitutlOn has been further improved,
and in every way an effort has been
made to comply with the intention
OF the membership in establishing
the Printers Union Home so that 1t
shall be haven Of rest and cure for
our aged members, and those afflct-
ed with disease. A barren hillside
has been converted into a garden
spot, than which there is none more
beautiful in this country.
Future of the Institution.
The time has arrived, however,
when the future Of the Union Print
ers' Home must be taken into more
careful consideration. The old age
pension policy adopted by the Inter
national Typographical Union, and
successful beyond our fondeOt hopes,
has within the past year affected the
Union Printers Home, In that our
aged members are not seeking the
homes bounty In the same degree
that was true prior to the establish
ment of the old age pension. Our
older members prefer to draw the
pension and remain at home, with
their friends and relatives. They
are not now burden on their kin,
and, in many instances securing and
accepting light employment, they
are self-supportlng. Eventually, in
my Judgment the old age pension
viii depopulate the main building of
the home, which heretofore has been
used for the housing of the older res
idents. | believe that the home has
a new and greater career before It,,
and that II should and will be con
verted into a printers sanatorium,
where all the members of the Inter
national Union afflicted with disease
OF whatever nature may find q home
and possible cure. Indeed | would
go further than this and establish an
institution where our members who
are exhausted and run down by the
|
posing room of today may resort for
a month or two or six months In or
der to build up q shattered nervous
and physical system SO that they may
continue at their trade, useful mem
bers of society and supporters of fam
HES. Those who are blessed with
sufficient OF this worlds goods yearly
seek watering places and summer re-
orts In order that there may be re-
cuperation Of energy and ambition to
meet the coming ordeals of the social
season or business world. Why not,
then, the Printers Union Home con
yerted into great sanatorium and
rest-Cure, whore our enervated mem
bers and find that surcease from toll
and worrlment that will instill into
their systems energy and ambition,
and add to their years of usefulness
| II this project Is ever made effective
then there will of necessity have Ia
be an increase in the per capita for
the support Of the home, for It Is a
w~l-established fact that the pa
tients at the homo cost much more
TO maintain than the aged and indi.
gent residents, Under the plan as
outlined, the home fund should bear
the travelling expenses of the patient
to and from the institution. But
whatever the cost, the venture will
be well worth undertaking, and will
further rebound to the glory and
public laudatlOn OF the international
| Typographical union. That we will
be compelled to face a new problem
Ns to the homo Is, | believe amply
demonstrated by the facts that /
have set forth In the very near fu-
ture the number OF aged residents
Will be reduced TO q very few. Even
with the changed policy suggested
we can still care for such OF the
aged and superannuated as prefer
the home TO the pension. At this
writing, there are numbr Of va
cancies IN the main building. while
the sGnatarium is nearly filled. The
Union Printers Home has been a
great Institution, and | predict will
be a still greater institution if II Is
developed along the lines that l have
indicated.
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Il is published by Frank Bonville.
author OF the Ronyille System. and
compiled and edited by Euoch L