The Yale expositor., 1913-05-29
FROM THE
STATE CAPITOL
COLLECTIVE BUYING FOR THE
PENAL INSTITUTIONS is
BEING TRIED.
PRAY LAW is DRASTIC ~ ITS
PROVISIONS.
Commission to Investigate Feeble
Mindedness In State Need Expert
Help and Wish to Employ Miss
Adele McKinnie.
[By Gurd NJ. Hayes.l

by Chase S. Osborn during his single
term as governor of Michigan, was a
central purchasing board to buy all
the supplies for the various state in
situations. He made this recommen-
dation to the legislature, but policy
was not adopted as the lawmakers be-
lieyed that it would pave the way for
too many questionable transactions.
However, the proposition is being
tried out in some of the Michigan in
situations on a small scale and is said
to be very successful AT least, board
members who have been in Lansing
recently claim that the present plan
Is superior to the old system.
Under the plan that has been adopt
ed by the penal institutions each pris-
on makes an inventory to determine
the supplies that are needed. Then
the order is punched and bids are Sc
cured on the whole order. BY pur-
chasing in larger quantities it has
been proved that much better prices
have been secured and it is said that
this has resulted in quite a large saw
ing.
Warden Simpson. of Jackson prison
announces that he is preparing to en-
ter a bid for the canned goods used
at the various state institutions. He
claims that he can sell cheaped than
other producers and that the state will
profit in two ways. The prison goods
will have a ready market and the 9th
er state institutions will gain by the
reduction.
At the present time and during the
next year extensive building operations
will be carried on by some of the state
Institutions and there is a deal under
way to purchase all the lumber in one
consignment, which it is claimed,
would result in an enormous saving.
Judging from the letters and num-
bers of reSHests for copies of the Pray
bill passed during the last session of
the Legislature, it has just dawned up
on the liquor men of the state that
the "drys' put through one of the
most drastic anti-liquor bills that has
been placed on the statute books of
Michigan in many years. AS result
of the passage of this bill which has
been signed by Governor Ferris and
will become a law August 10, drinking
in clubs in local option counties will
become a thing Of the past, as viola
tors are liable for a fine of $500 and
Imprisonment for six months, and it
is not thought that many will care to
run the risk.
In every local option county there
are clubs where members may have
liquor shipped directly to them and
served to them personally. This is
generally referred to as the locker
system, but lockers in clubs will cease
to exist when the Pray bill takes eff
feet.
So stringent are the provisions of
this bill that any person in a local
option county who secured a federal
license shall be deemed to have taken
out the license with an intent to vio-
late the local option law and is liza
BILE to prosecution. This, OF course,
does not apply to druggists who are
permitted to sell liquor upon prescrip-
tons written by reputable physicians.
1t is pointed out by the dry advo-
Gates that this bill will absolutely pro-
hibit young boys from sending to mail
order houses for consignments of
whisky. Howeverthe bill is operative
only in local option counties or places
where the sale of liquor is restricted
by law.