The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-13

Taters Too much politics had I'M
haired the usefulness of the coilege-
The name of every avallaoie man IN
+ha nation was considered for presi-
IL. If the institution. MIR. Waters
thnueb a born Democrat was chosen
hv Republican administration he
- ,,,ore than made good. This insti-
+,,tion has become the Digest anu
tes+ AGRICULTURAL college in the worio
ond president Waters has fairly won
national fame 90
s,a,,1d he made secretary of agriculture
~ washington would be the nation
gain.
The State Penitentiary.
THE state penitentiary with all its
tragedies and human horrors was
new problem to me. Ihe state owes
On debt of gratitude for his counsel
and advice in the reorganization Of the
prison. ,.,,.a
,,oIi+icians in Kansas, who wanted 10
he warden. stated to me that he couid
control the politics of Kansas with
tba patronage of that institution. War
den Codding was pressed into the SER
VICE against his will and wish, and has
changed the prison-to use his own
vrords-"From crime factory to
human repair shop Humane treat
noent better food, cleaner beds night
schools, giving the prisoners freedom
to relax out of doors every oay' VIII
rieid discipline, stopped the ravages of
tuberculosis, reduced the tendency to
n1utiny and insanity, improved the
rooraI and physical condition of the
men beyond description and made the
shirt of the institution credit to
our Christian civilization instead of
disgrace
sound business management, toget1-
err with the improved spirit and con-
dition of the prisoners, doubled the
output of the brick plant and the prod
net of the farm, and increased the
herd of cattle 500 per cent The prison
coal mine has been moderniZed, and
the safety to human life increased
hundred fold. The output of coal will
be increased a thousand tons a month
by the new tipple and other improve
ments Just now completed. The Irvine
plant was practically wreck four
years ago. Last year it sold four mil
lion pounds of Irvine and earned
direct profit to the prison of $4,000
and saved the farmers of Kansas more
than 100000 by lowering the price of
Irvine. The physical condition of the
buildings. plant and property has been
% per cent.
With the knowledge and experience
gained in the past four years, a con-
business management can result in still
create improvement in the succeed
ing four years.
Proud of the Banking Department.
The work of the bank commission
er's department and Joseph n. Dolley
are known throughout the civilized
world. Practically every state in the
Union and many foreign countries are
sending representatives or writing for
about the blue sky law,
the guarantee law, the civil service
rules of the banking department, the
new system of bank examinations, the
successful campaign to drive the bank
robbers from Kansas, and other details
of the constructive work of this de-
partment.
The blue sky law has aroused the
American people and the investing
public in foreign countries as to the
Investment of their moneys and saw
ngs; it has been discovered through
his agitation that an army of hum
lreds OF thousands of agents and pro-
has been robbing the people
n the United States annually of prob
IDLY six hundred million dollars.
The blue sky law is the first law of
is kind ever enacted, and If properly
lmended by giving an appeal to the
public utilities commission, and the
administration continued on the pres |
mt basis, it will save the people or
his state more money every year than
he entire expense of the state gov
There has not been one dollar lost |
o a depositor in the nine hundred |
tate banks, nor in the fifty-nlne |
building and loan associations during |
he four years of my administration.
The state charita BILE institutions I'M |
Ter the board of control are recog-
lized by the best authority in the |
mi n6 eyiy
in service for the lowest
ost of any institutions of their kind |
n the country. During the past four
ears, with five hundred and seven
y-nine more inmates to feed, clothe |
nd shelter. and higher cost for food. |
material and labor, the appropriations
or these institutions were one hun
red thousand dollars less each year
han the appropriations were four
ears ago. or a total decrease of four |
hundred thousand dollars during the
our years.
The tuberculosis campaign under
he direction of Doctor Crumbine and
he board of health, reduced the num-
er of deaths from the great white
Hague in Kansas last year about three
hundred. The free anti-toXin saved
bout two hundred children from
cath by diphtheria, and the admin
stration of the pure food and drugs
NV, together with the diligent and
igid enforcement of the weights and
measures law throughout the state,
ccording to a careful estimate pre-
AIRED by DR.. Crumbine, has saved
yer a million dollars annually to the
consumers of the state.
Prof. Dyche Not Politician.
In the old days of machine politics,
he fish and game department was
ne OF the most powerful organlza-
ions in the state. Under this admin
stration this department has been alb
removed from politics and
nder the direction of Fish and Game +,
Warden L. L. Dyche has been placed
pom a basis that in future years the
treams, lakes and ponds of Kansas
an be fully stocked with a variety