The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-01-27

male convicts in the penltentiary was
employed at fifty-two cents (52cl per
day.
Contracts now in force are as fol-
lows: Labor of $50 convicts at Csc
per day, 100 at 70c per day, 200 at zoe
per day, and 275 at 75c per day.
Jaiis and Aims Houses.
Many of the Jails and aims houses
of this state are positive disgrace.
The health and lives Of the inmates
are endangered because of unsanitary
conditions. In addition TO that the
rule among the several counties of the
State is to sell the contract for keep
ing our poor at the lowest price and
necessarily the man vino secures the
contract feels that he must so keep
the poor as to make a reasonable prof
ii. This system is wrong. We should
pay whatever is necessary in order to
pronerly provide for those who are un-
able TO take care Of themselves. and
we should not trust the keeping OF I'M
fortunate people to men who may
make a bad contract and then under
take to make good contract out of 1t
AT the expense of those who are en-
trusted 10 their care and keeping.
State tuberculosis sanitarium.
The legislature of 1911 created tu.'
berculosis sanitarlum and appropriate
cd $4,000 for the last biennial period
for the purchase OF lands and sup
port of the institution. The act also
provided that the site for this sanitar-
ium should. be selected by the State
board OF health and the tSate board
Of control. These boards after visit
ing different parts of the State pHr-
chased a farm of $50 acres in Preston
| county, two miles from Terra Alta.
This farm is located on the top OF the
great Cheat Mountain range, with an
altitude ranging from about $500 feet
at the lowest point to 5000 feet above
sea level at the highest point, and near
liz one-half of which is very fertile.
The men line OF the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad passes through the en-
rire-farm. On the farm are two large
and never failing streams of water.
Educational Institutions.
II am exceedingly glad to report that
cur State educational institutions have
had the most prosperous period In
their history. As Superintendent Shaw
key says in his report; 1T is a source
Eof no little qualification that the peo'
pie throughout this State are generally
loyal to their schools and favor the
most rapid possible Development OF
them"
Some Things Needed.
The West Virginia University should
have for its college of agriculture a
suitable building properly equipped,
and in addition to that must have
: more land if the efficiency OF the col
: lege is to he increased. The past two
years have been the most successful
in the history OF the university aud 1t
should be dealt with most libertlly'
President Hodges and his faculty IN
der the direction Of the State Board
tof Regents, have done much TO ill.,
crease the efficiency Of this school and
/ lit is now serving the people OF this
State as It has never done before. We
! sometimes hear complaints OF the cost
CT maintaining this institution, but II
: YOU will take pains 70 compare its per
capita cost with the per capita cost OF
similar institutions In other States
Win will find that we have not been
as liberal with our university as we
should have been. This school should
j also have law building and hope
tho day is not far distant when an ap.
preparation will be made for that pur.
pose. The farmer can not get the best
results unless he has proper tools and
machinery: the lawyer is not success
4 ful unless he has an upto-date library
and it is too much 10 expect the
schools of our tsate to produce the re-
suits that they are capable OF prodnc'
ing unless we furnish them with the
means and equipment with which TODD
the work. I hope that YOU will be: lib:
.iaral in your appropriations q moneys
ito be used IN sgrisldtu sion
\ Normal SCHOOLS! ~