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The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-09-05
MONTANA RANcHER
NOW BRITISH PEER

London, Sept. "a Montana
; rancher becomes a British peer
by the death today of Baron
Grey De Ruthyn in his Saith
year. The successor to the title
Is the baron's brother, Cecil
Talbot Clifton, of Northfields
ranch, Montana.
The dead lord was the gath
; baron OF his line. the first lord
of the am title having been
created in 1924. The title car
ries the hereditary right to bear
; the gold purse at the kings
coronation.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-09-05
BABY IS GIRL; FATHER
TAKES HIS OWN LIFE

Chicago, Sept. 3.-Disap-
pointed because his wife had
. given birth to a daughter, the
third, Frank Novak today hred
a bullet into his head, dying In
stantly. He had said he wanted
a boy.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-09-05
CALIFORNIA cow LEADS
IN PRODUCTION OF MILK

woodland, Cal. Sept. 3.-Riverside
Sadie de Kol Burke, a Yolo county cow,
is the first in the world to average
more than 100 pounds of milk a day for
six months This announcement was
made at the state university farm at
Davis Yesterday. T.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-09-05
COAL A SOLD.

st. Paul, Mimi, Sept. Fired q.
Lynch and Albert ]. Mason, Of st. Paul
and James E. Rutledge OF st. Louis
have bought lands lea Nokomts, Ill,
containing, 1t Is estimated 5000. O0t
tons OF coal. n-t
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-09-05
GLASGOW CELEBRATES.

GLASGOW, Scotland. Sept. THE
CENTENARY Of the launching of the first
passenger steamboat in European wa
tiers was celebrated today. Just 100
years ago Henry Bells Comet left
the slips on the Clyde and a great
review Of shipping was arranged to-
day in memory of the event.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-09-05
EMPEROR MUCH IMPROVED.

Cassel- Hesse- Nassau, Germany, Sept.
1.-The German emperor and empress
left Wilhelmshoehe castle today for
Berlin. Both their maJesties appeared
to be in excellent spirits. They were
accompanied by their daughter. Prin-
cess Victoria Louise.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-09-05
uNIoNIsT LEADER HURT.

Margate, England, Sept. 2.-Andrew
Bonar Law, the leader of the unlonlst
narty. suffered a violent shock In, a
motor car collision near this seaside
resort last night
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-09-05
BOLT KILLS s

Maydeld, KY. Sept. 2.-More than
1000 fAls were electrocuted when light
ming struck a tree that stood In a pond
near here.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17

tant part Of the country say South Da.
kota, where there is a keen demand for
labor
Inc farmer gets the child's services for
hothln&, Tor some years at least. He has
no material interest in the child. His
interest is primarily business one The
result in this case again is almost invari-
ABLY the perpetual separation of a mother
from her child.
Now, maintain that every child has a
natural right TO the support and compan-
lonSmp OF its mother and conversely
that the mother has a natural right to the
love ana companOnship of her child /
am speaking, mark you, of mothers who
are accused Of no wrong doing Every
argument drawn from nature and morality
will prove that these are natural rights.
The memory OF a mothers care and at
lectlon is the best possession that a child
can have in after life. 1t will make him
true to his wife and children and to his
obligations as a citizen
Our charitable institutions are produc.
ing children who have no conceptions OF
these Obligations The extent to which
the number Of these ''institutionalized"
children is increasing among the unskilled
IaborIng classes is startling and is not
realized by the average respectable citizen.
An institution grows strangely by what il
produces.
suppose that hundred dependent bows
are sent to an institution After thew
nave lett and grown up they will marry
ud have on the average five children
apiece. they are as a rule utterly shift
less reckless and improvident Mora
than half of them will desert their wives
as the burden of supporting the children
becomes severe. Thus $50 children win
be sent to institutions. They will raise
ESQ children Of whom half or SOS. will
be sent to Institutions
These in turn will provide a PROMOTION.
ate crop of dependent children. At this
rate it may easily be calculated that the
whole of the unskilled laboring population
of the great cities would in a few genera.
tons fall into the "institutionalized"
class. | cannot believe that that calamity
Will ever come to pass, for it would reduce
us to the rank of an uncivilized nation Of
shftless nomads
The Mothers Pension law has been
proved to be one practical stem on the
way to ayerfiug this calamity. Our task
now is to have similar law put in force
throughout the country. With this in
view | am sending information TO the legis-
latOrs in all our States explaining the
vital and unassalable moral object of the
law and its excellent practical working in
Illinois at present ! am concentrating
my energies on an appeal to the legisla.
tors OF New York, so that they may take
action at the coming session of the Legis-
lature
l appeal to the good citizenship of the
country to save the mothers of the poor
est laboring classes from lifelong and I'M
deserved misery and their children from
degeneration.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17

parent or parents at such times as SAID
order may designate the amount so spec1-
ned for the care of such dependent or
neglected child until the further order OF
the Court"
You will notice that this law speaks o.
parents, but from natural causes it is
practically always to the mother that the
money Is paid.
This law, which | and my associates
succeeded in having passed, has worked
splendidly Within a few months 1t has
saved hundreds of innocent mothers from
unspeakable torture 1t has saved over
thousand children from becoming institu-
tionalized and of doubtful value to society.
Cook County on July | was helping 327
mothers with 1900 children. The sum
expended was S6,963.96 for the month OF
JunA the amount paid to each mother
averaging $21.30 There was an average
of three and twOthirds children to the
family.
The total amount expended during the
year in the whole State will. it is esti-
mated, amount to 100000. In the follow
ing year we expect that it will come to
100000. The total amount, we believe,
will never be more than 100000 a year
for the State.
This method OF taking care of depend
ent children is not only an immense ad-
vance in humanity, it is a great saving
to the State. Charitable institutions are
everywhere extravagant in their demands
and methods. In Illinois the poor mother
will take care of her child we'll for about
half the amount the charitable institution.
asks for doing the work unsatisfactory
In Chicago we used to pay $40 a month
to an institution for taking care of a
child
New York is very liberal in it's allowance
for dependent children, and the results are
no more satisfactory that elsewhere New
York allows S2.75 a week for each child
which amounts to $11.91 a month In
addition, it allows seventy cents a day
for schooling and other amounts for med
ical attendance and other requirements
According to the last report | have 70
ceived, New York spent $l,089,6O9 on lie
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17

pendent children, of whom there were
S,S4S in various institutions at the close
of the year.
Not only does the city pay the large
amount mentioned to the charitable lnsti-
buttons, but the public also contributes
largely in the form OF voluntary subscrip-
tons. When this is taken into cOnsidera-
ton, the economy of leaving the child
with its mother is seen to be all the
greater
| have estimated that a mother coulG
take care of two children for the amount
paid by the City of New York to an in
stitution for one child, and still leave
Al cents per month of the taxpayers
money that might be saved
The institution is costly affair The
overhead charges for superintendent,
bookkeepers, nurses and all kinds of cost
ly helpers are very great All this is
saved when you leave the child with its
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17

LOT eXistence) had full and oo,,,,io.oo
char%" of tn little girl oo"lpiete
she lVed there for few months Tben
she was boarded out now bnro nen
there. Sometimes she went to school ~" n,d
sometimes she did not anu
Mother love, mother sympathy, mother
softness, entirely was absent from her ex-
perience In time she considered herself
Wronged by every one She could not
call her life her own. When she was df-
teen woman told her she must 20 to
work, She was large for her age and
they said she was strong.
lou must go to work. said this woman,
and Eiiie knew it was true, for always she
was ordered to do things. She had no
choice
The county had been paying $40
month for her board through the institu-
ton The court which had committed her
to this society concerned itself no more
about her. That is the law
Thus 1t went iog five ears Once she
escaped, but policeman caught her and
locked her in prison. Effe claimed she
was twenty-One, although the court rec
ords said she was but twenty and still a
slave to be disciplined by a policeman
In all these years she had no control OF
her own earnings She was large and
strong and had she not been held by an
institution she easily would have earned
from s. to IS a week doing homework
Finally a young man made love to Effie
and she ran away and was married At
ter she was married she received papers
giving her freedom for the first time in
eleven years There are many Effes in
Illinois, but they do not all end as well
as she.
The cruelty OF the system IS often
brought out by the pitiful struggles of
mothers to prevent their children from
being taken by institutions In Chicago 1
have known Of mothers who have hidden
their children of others who have fed
from the city, of others who have barr-
who have threatened to commit suicide
simply because they knew that charitable
institutions were seeking to take their
children from them. / do not wish to
dwell on morbid details, but there is no
doubt that many mothers have committed
suicide simply because their children had
been taken from them.
The humanity OF prevailing laws goes
even further than ! have yet outlined. In
Illinois there was a provision in the law
that when society found a home for a
dependent child, with adaptive parents
it must refuse all Information to the
mother or natural parents concerning the
whereabouts of the child II was a Grim
inal offense to furnish such information
The law, you see, deliberately planned to
effect the perpetual separation of mother
and child
In New York there are laws and rules
that are equally Objectionable. For in
stance, the city pays $40 to a charitable
society for finding "a home for a depend.
ent child In the vast majority of cases
the home" is with farmer in some dis
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17

from her children. Imagine a family CON
slsting Of an unSkilled laborer, his wife
and five children We are told that
healthy couple who raise a large family
are doing a service to the State. Assume
that this man and his wife are doing
the best they can for their family in
any case they will have no money to spare.
One day the man is killed by a freight
car he is going to load, an accident that
happens in his class many times a day
all over the country. The widowed
mother nearly kills herself in an effort
to earn some money and take care OF her
children at the same time. She is IN
equal to the struggle, Some charitable
society hears that the children are not
properly cared for The mother is hauled
up before a Chlldren's Court and ali or
most of her children are taken away from
her. probably never to be seel by ber
again.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17
By HENRY NEIL
Secretary of the National Probation L.,eu.

IN the United States when woman is
deprived of her husband by some &C
d cident we take her children away from
her and put them in an institution.
The mother is made miserable by the
loss of her children and is very often
driven into an early grave by her sof.
rows. The children are 'institutionaIized,
That means that they are stamped with
an influence that deprives them Of self
respect, character, enterprise and loyalty
to home and family They know neither
home nor family and therefore can have
NO love for them.
The children of the institutions furnish
a large proportion of our delinquents.
From the institution they pass on to the
reformatory-and then too often to the
jail OF four young men of the age of
eighteen hanged in Cook County early
this year all had been raised in charitable
or Informative institutions.
A significant fact | have discovered Is
that more than half of all recorded wife
deserters were raised in institutions.
This method of running families is be.
Ing followed practically all over the
United States. 1t is certainly the method
followed by ALL great cities In Illinois we
have departed from it, We have passed
THE Mothers Pension Law" which
makes a suitable provision for every
child whose mother, through no wrongdo-
ing of her own, is unable to support it,
the money to be expended by her under
the supervision of an agent of the Chill
dren's Court
This law. which went into effect on
July 1, 1911, reads as follows:
"If the parent or parents of such de-
pendent or neglected child are poor and
unable to properly care for said child,
but are otherwise proper guardians, and
it is for the welfare of such child to re-
main at home, the court may enter an
order finding such facts and fixing the
amount OF money necessary to enable the
parent or parents to properly care for
such child, and thereupon it shall be the
duty of the County Board through its
County Agent or otherwise to pay to such
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17

Thus in return for having tried 10 Wv
her duty to the State you punish nho.n nc.
by tho cruelest Of tortures. 1t is to pre-
vent this Kind OF tragedy that we nave
passed The Mothers Pension Law
can show that under our old system
of caring for dependent children we have
really established d t0"m of legalized child
slavery ! win tell y.u the story OF one
such child slave in Illinois.
When Ehie Smith was seven years or
age her mother was left a widow. The
father was killed at his work. Her mother
managed to live and support her daughter
and two younger ones for eighteen
months. Then she became so poor she,
was found starving and freezing on a cold
Winters day.
Charity helped her for a few weeks. 1t
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17
Remarkable
Economy and
Humanity of the
Illinois Law
Which Pays a
Poor Mother to
Raise Her Child
Instead of Paying
an Institution
to Do It

T HERE is a philanthropic movement
throughout the country to pension
- mothers. This means that a moth
or will receive from the taxes an allow
ance for each child she is unable to sup
port. The necessity of sending child to
an institution at public expense is thereby
avoided and a home is saved from dis
ruption
The advocates of this movement say
that children's institutions produce shift
less citizens, with no conception of civic
duties. A grave question is raised here.
The institutions may say that they are
better fitted to raise children than moth
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17

mother The mother asks nothing for
her labor
The mother will do her best for her
child for the strongest of natural rea-
sons have no patience with anyone
who argues that an institution can do
better for a child than an ignorant mother
The facts | have mentioned concerning
the unhappy careers of children raised in
institutions sufficiently disprove this ar
gument II any inducement beyond he
natural one were needed, we have pro-
vided it under the Illinois law, for the
mother must satisfy an officer of the
court that she doing her duty well in
order to secure a continuance Of the al
owance
Let me emphasize the inhumanity Of
the present system OF separating a mother
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17

was then found that she
could not work while she
had to care for the children.
In due course of time the
three little ones were taken
from her. Willie, the little
boy, and Grace, the baby
sister, were taken to institu-
lions, and so was Effie. What
became of the young ones
will not be told in this story.
Only Elites career will be
followed.
She was ommltted to an
institution by law. Under the
law this institution "a pri.
vate concern, depending up-
on charitable contributions
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-17

ers OF the destitute classes. often livtns
"a "a Sums. At any rate the Mothers
tension tension law has gone into effect in Il
.!Is. Henry Neil, who has been called
me father of the Mothers Pension law
ana Is working to have q, similar law
passed in every State in the Union, here
describes its objects and working:
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-04-12
Doctor. win Retain Licenses.

The State Board of Medical Examin-
ers was in session in Shoshone last Sat
urday for the purpose of permitting DR..
F. T. Carey and DR.. C. j. Baugh, to
show cause why their licenses should
not De revoked on account OF the recent
trouble due to illegal liquor selling. The
session lasted all afternoon and evening.
Dr. Carey was represented by -4rtorneys
Frank T. Disney and T. E. Bennett.
There were nearly a dozen witnesses
from Gooding and vicinity examined by
DIR. Carey's lawyers on his behalf They
all testified to the excellent reputation
and character of DIR. Carey and to his
being free from all bad habits; also
his faithfulness and qualifications as a
physician Several of the citizens of
Shoshone testified in like manner re-
garding DR.. Baugh. 1t is reported that
the Medical Board was divided on the
matter and that the charges will prob
ably be dropped.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-04-12
COMMISSIONERS GET sTUNG ON
DEMOCRATIC ADVICE

The board of county commissioners
convened in regular session last Mon
day and the meeting will last through
the week. The members of the board. |.
Messrs. Speakman, Dilatush and Nelson,
viii fight shy of democratic official
advice in the future. owing to the CEN
sure they have received for following ii
in the past. But when the taxpayers
of the county know that the commits
sioners were trying to save them mon
ey when they took democratic advice
there will be mighty little censure forth
coming. The governor and attorney
general advised them that a 2lz mill
school levy would be legal and to save
the taxpayers they made that levy.
mistake was made right there. The
governor summoned them with the au-
ditor to a state convention for the
benefit of the taxpayers. Judge Bulge
admits that 1t is the custom for the
several counties to pay their actual ex-
penses, but there is no law to justify it,
The commissioners employed the deputy
county treasurer TO do extra work in
the court house to save the taxpayers
with the understanding that it had the
sanction Of the county attorney. 1t was
simply trusting another democrat. The
taxpayers will take these matters into
consideration and place cir centure
where it belongs.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-04-12
"clean Up on Arbor Day.

Arrangements have been completed by
the Shoshone Study Club to bring to
Shoshone collection of original paint
ings, twenty five in number, every one
masterpiece of one of the famous
Chicago artists. Vedder, Jules Querin
and others are represented.
The pictures will reach US some time
In April, and will be shown at the
school house for two days. Notice will
be given later OF the exact date.
1t has been suggested by the Womens s
Clubs Of Idaho that Arbor Day be used
as a general cleaning up day in all the
towns of our state. Can we not use
the day to good purpose here in Shc-
shone, not only in cleaning our yards
but along the sidewalks and outside
the fences as well and by planting
shrubs and flowers. 1t has been dem
onstrated that roses will thrive in south
ern Idaho as well as in Portland and
the coast towns.
This is also a time to instill In the
children a pride for civic cleanliness
and beauty.
Attention is again called to the mat
ter OF parking in front OF the walks. II
this is done generally the appearance
of the town will be noticeably i'm
proved.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-04-12
OBITUARY

| Albert H. Williams was born In the
| township of Dunham, Quebec in 1896
and died in Shoshone, Idaho, April End,
| 1912
l. Going to Vermont at the age of four
fteen, he served apprenticeship to
Flearn the trade of blacksmith and wheel
wright and, after mastering the trade,
moved to northern New York where, for
many years he was in the employ of
various lumber and iron companies.
In 1859 he married Miss Lavinia Case
who died in 1874 the mother of five
children;s - Mrs. F. A. Case of Saranac,
New York; John E. williams of Hurley,
Wisconsin,; George A. Williams, deceas-
ed Mrs E. ]. Reed of Bellevue, Idaho
and Mrs. G. A. Steele of Rochester,
New York.
In 1861 he enlisted as a private and.
with the forces of the North, served
three months when he was sent home
on sick leave and was, on account Of
physical disability, unable to again en-
ter the service.
In 1915 he was married to Miss Eliza
beth NJ. Thompson and to them three
sons were born; David, Charles and
Platt, all OF whom survive him.
Coming with his family to Idaho in
1887 he made his home in Bellevue, Hal
ley and, for the last thirteen years. in
Shoshone. Retiring from business about
seven years ago, he spent his declining
years in peace, rest and contentment.
His end was peaceful. Enfeebled and
with the infirmatives of age, yet with
the knowledge of well spent life and
a serene confidence of the life to come,
ne passed out of this existence surround
ed by members of his family who
mourn his death and hold sacred his
memory as only those can who have
known the kind care. love and protec-
tion of a man whose home and family
was MS shrine.
The Journal and citizens Of Shoshone
join in extending heartfelt sympathy
to the berieved ones. May the peace
which passeth all understanding come to
them after the storm has passed.