Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-10

FIFTY ACRES SET ASIDE
FOR EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
Strong Feature Of Bill Presented by
Senator SpauIdne, Of Poweshiek-
Parole Board Given Power to Select
d Prisoners Who Shall Be Assigned to
Agricultural Section of Penal System
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Feb. 1o-very close re-
lationship IS proposed between the
state college Of agriculture az Anles
and the state farm, or state custodial
farm" to be a part Of the correctional
and reformatory system OF Iowa. The
bill, as prepared and introduced today
gives TO the board Of control the duty
OF designating fifty acres Of the 1000
or, more in the custodial farm TO be
used by the state college for expert
mental purposes and to be made use OF
by the college for experimental work
with the labor of persons on the farm
under direction of the college author
tiles.
1t is this coupling up of the agricult
ural educational work and the duty OF
helping men to a better life that is the
feature Of the bill for the Passage OF
which Senator Spauding and others
are enthusiasts. The senator from
Poweshiek, just a plain, hard headed
business man, is deeply in earnest re-
garding the measure.
The bill describes this custodial farm
: as for the detention and employment
r convicts and detectives The farm
hall consist OF not less than 1000
acres. 1t shall be centrally located and
convenient as to transportation. A
commission consisting of one appoint
sed by the governor, one by the presi-
dent of the senate, one by tee speaker.
=, a member Of the board of control and
the attorney general, will buy the land.
When the farm Is II working order,
and the equipment will be modest, the
:, board Of parole may se'ert persons at
Anamosa and Fort Madison who can
be sent there and the board Of control
shall direct how many shall be trans
ferred. Then any judge may sentence
men over Is years of age, convicted OF
felony and not previously convicted 70
the custodiaI farm. Those convicted Of
murder, treason, rape, arson or rob-
berry are not eligible to the Farm under
any circumstances.
The bill provides for extensive and
intensive farming, dai:yins. grain
growing, stock raising, poultry raising,
etc.
The plan IS not to locate it too far
from the college at Ames, SO that rom
the faculty there men may be deslsnat-
ed to take direction Of affairs as tar as
farm operations are concerned and TO
carry on agricultural scho il WORK IN
thorough manner. DESTINATION Of Z
part Of the land for experimental! WORK
will give the college people a cHance
to develop something decl1e0!y useiu!'
The bill carries out the Ideas deVet-
oped by Attorney General Cosson ana
his associates as found in the report o.
the prison commission.
The better schools commission has
g. q
members OF the legislature showing
comparison between typical townships
as to school statistics and those town
Sims where the modern method OF
consolidation has been effected. Fig
,,res are given showing actual school
attendance in the dozen or more
schools maintained under the old way
and also in the centralized schools. The
: Garfield district in Clay county is Civ
en- as an illustration Of what can De
done for school betterment. They have
a large building, teachers are palo
good salaries, the enrol!m ent ana at
tendance at school are increased, ana
two years Of high school WORK ID done.
Senator Weber will introduce bill
IN raise the maximum OF municipal
Taxation for general purposes so that
a city may levy more than 10 mlil
tar It Ia declared in OttunWa, that
since the saloon licenses have been
cut off, 1t Is an absolute impossiniiify
TO raise enough money with only ~
mill levy to carry on the business OF
the city. The bill will Immediately
raise the larger issue OF readJustment
of the assessing and taxing system OF
the state.
y, Representative Klay withdrew the
hill to penalize men for not voting
and to assess to them q tax not charged
to those who cast their ballots. He
$ explained that it is found that such
a scheme is in violation OF the con-
stitution and it need not be considered.
II The Doran bill to fix the number OF
persons who must be employed for a
train crew is causing a great deal OF
worry to the railroad men who de-
clare that it is not workable plan.
But it is meeting with especial favor
s.sfrem those who are interested in STOCK
shipments and II. may become the
law.
During the past few days in the leg
sis,ature there has been a great deal CT
work done toward passing an ehec-
tive loan shark bill. The Kane bill
in the house is not sufficient. SO the
labor men say, since 1t does not pro-
vide a penalty. The Allen bill in the
senate gets at the trouble without de-
prtying needy persons Of some oppor-
sStunity to borrow money. Professor
Houghton, of Sioux City, appeared be-
fore committees to explain the work
fngs of the system devised there for
public loan agency. and to point
out that It would be unfair to enact
1eeisIation that would prevent just
euch organizations from doing ousi-
ness.
preliminary consideration OF the
] ssvorkmen's compensation bill is to COM
mence tomorrow by the committees.
senator Clarkson, chairman of the
state commission which drafted the