The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-25
LOOKING THEM UP
State Board of Control Investi-
eating Private Charities.
Will Select Those Entitled to
State Aid.
PROBLEM A HARD ONE.
Chairman Bowman Says Cues
ton Is Difficult.
The Money Will Be Available on
July 1.


The state board of control has start
ed the investigation work of the pri-
vate hospitals, homes and other chari-
ties to select the institutions which
will receive state aid this year. Miss
Bertha House, charity clerk of the
board is devoting practically all her
time to visiting the various institu-
tions, which have applied for the aid
and the members of the board are also
investigating as they make trips over
the state to visit the various state in
situations.
For many years the legislature made
appropriations each year for various
private charities and hospitals as state
aid to these institutions. The amounts
varied from 500 to $500 year, accord
ing to the probable amount of charity
work done. The 1909 legislature provid-
ed for Al hospitals, homes and asylums,
managed by various religious and p-i-
waite associations The house of rep
reSentatives in the 1911 session decided
that no private charity should receive
state aid and refused to make an ap-
preparation. The senate insisted on
some provision and the matter was
finally compromised by appropriating
$15, 900 a year to the board of control to
be distributed to the various charita BILE
orga mutations as the board determined
were entitled to state aid.
The board is now visiting all the
dSSOcldl1OI1S, IlOSDlIdIS anu
homes managed by religious organiza-
tons and the private and non-sectarian
institutions that do charitable work to
determine the ones to which state aid
should be given and the amount each
should receive.
Problem Is Not Easy.
1--WE are up against serious problem
in distributing this money" said H. G.
Bowman, chairman of the board. The
state is interested in a good many
forms of charitable work and what in
situations to cut off and what ones to
put on the list is hard to decide. Now
the state does not do any general hos
pital work 1t has hospitables for the
insane and epileptic and schools for
feeble minded and incorrigibles. But
there is much necessary charity work
among the poor who get hurt and other
poor who are afflicted with disease.
Most general hospitals do much charity
work There is a burden which the
state ought to help pay for but how
much and where to draw the line is Il
question.
1.-The state has a home for orphans
but its capacity is limited and children
are accepted only under certain condi-
lions. There are children's homes that
need aid. The state has an obligation
there Then there are the rescue homes
and the homes for aged men and wo-
men, in which the state should assist
- oSSi9IoHSS 10 given any WHeTe. nov
to draw the line and distribute this
money is worrying the members of the
board a good deal.'
The money is not available until July
l. 1t is expected that the board will de-
eide that the money should go to homes
and hospitals that work along lines en-
| tirely different from any charitable in
situations managed by the board of
control The hospitals and homes will
be required to fulfill certain conditions
and do a certain amount of work to
secure the money