The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-07
Min sterial Association Find Many
Defects That Should Be
Remedied.
OFFICIALS ARE IMPOSED UPON
Tell Of Santa Claus Visit for Which
50 Automobile Charge Was
Made and Paid.

Nv tii's uUiIS.
Having been requested by inter
ested parties to make some investi
cation OF the conditions at the
county poor farm and of the
county expense. for the care of the
poor, the Ministerial association Of
the City Of Cairo gives to the public
the following statement.
We visited the poor farm in a
body and investigated conditions
there as best We could in a shor,
time. Every Inmate questioned,
told rs that they had plenty OF
Wholesome food and were comfort
aalc in every way. This much we
are glad to say to the credit of thu
management. Still there are many
things there that in our judgment
casht moi to be. The whites and
lacks car in the same room at tho
sams tine; the sleeping apartments
for the two races may be side by
side, or at hest, just across narrow
halfway from each other and
whites and blacks must cengregatf
in the same setting room. In our
opinion there should be a separate
building for each race.
.~zs.a,has. s.eieaaliaess Of the nfaes was
not 80 Immaculate as TO be invitina
TO any. but the extremely unfor-
tnnate. We were informed that
each inmate was expected 10 care
for his own room. The room
themselves showed every Indication
of this method; they were clean oy
dirty in accordance with the spirit
of the person that occupied them.
One room which We were told was
occupied by demented inmate was
extremely offensive, both in appear
ance and odor. Another room was
occupied by two colored inmates OF
opposite sex. We were told that
they were suffering from venereal
disease in an advanced state and
We're confined as protection to tho
other inmates. We do not criticisa
in any charitable institution should
require the confinement of persons
OF opposite sex in the same room.
The cooking for the fourteen in
mates was being done by two wo-
men. one giving her age at fifty.
nine years. and the other though
young, an invalid from childhood
and able to walk only by the aid of
two sticks. The cook stove was re-
ported, both by the cooks and the
superintendent, as a thing impos-
sible. They said, "It will not bake, >
and IL looked 1t. Ministers ar,
usually good feeders and not overly
fastidious ordinarily, too, they can
appreciate comfortable lod ging:
hut no man in our company felt the
rematest desire either to take a
meal or spend a night In the coun.
sy's greatest benevolent institution
At the county clerks office we
were informed that there is an an
annual charge Of approximately 81.
QUO for the care of the poor. OF
this amount only about one hall
goes to the poor farm, the balance
being used to care for the unfor.
tunate in infirmaries and private
homes, the burial of the dead and
other emergencies that arise in car.
ing for those who are worthy of the
county's help.
Tho county farm has two hundred
acres of fine land broken to the
plough. It owns six mules, some
COWS and hogs and the necessary
implements for cultivating the
farm, and yet the information gath
cred at the office of the county
clerk would indicate an annual cost
TO the tax payers OF some $4,000 in
excess of. the farm products. The
hooks in the office of the county
clerk show charge of s2,20G
against the county farm for the six
months ending March 1st, 1918
or this amount sse2 went to the
repair of the buildings, leaving a
hasoace of 1854 to the ordinary
expense of maintaining the institu.
tion. This we are informed is ap-
nroximately the normal charge 70.
that purpose. In other words i,
tConcluded On Rage SKI