Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-26
BOARD OF CONTROL
APPROPRIATIONS ARE ASKED
CHANGES SUGGESTED IN
SEVERAL LAWS.
WANT MORE PRISON FARMS
Recommends Continuance Of the Half
Mill Tax for State Institutions and
Legislation to Define the Power of
the Board over Certain Roads.

Legislation to Define the Power of
1 the Board over Certain Roads.
Des NOTES.-THE biennial report Of
the board of control, recommending
to the legislature appropriations and
changes desired in laws, was filed
with Governor Clarke. The board
asks for s332,170 for fourteen state
institutions. 1t also submits to the
legislature recommendation for new
buildings and improvements which
are made by the superintendent Of
the institutions, without further m
dorsement.
The board recommends continuance
Of the half-mill tax for state institu-
tons under the board of control, leg
islation to define the power of the
board over roads at state institutions,
laws to provide what class of women
may be admitted to the women's re-
formatory, and provision for the cree
ton Of buildings on a site to be pur-
chased.
The establishment of three or more
custodial farms similar to the one
to be located on the Flynn farm west
OF Des Moines, is also recommended.
With regard to the epileptic colony,
the adoption of the colony plan is
suggested. Plans for the buildings
needed will be submitted in detail. 1t
is probable that twelve structures will
be needed from the start.
No new state institutions are sug-
gested, but the board asks for an ap-
preparation to establish industries in
the state penitentiaries to take the
place of the contract labor system
which is being abolished as fast as
the contracts expire. The present
half mill tax for state institutions will
not take care of this new need.
Either direct appropriation must
be made DIT the millage tax increased,
the board says.
Many Appropriations Asked.
The appropriations for the state in.
situations which the board recon-.
mends are: Soldiers home, Marshall
town, $4,000; Soldiers Orphans home,
Davenport, $1,000; school for the
deaf, Council Bluffs, $4,000; institu-
ton for feeble minded children. Glen
wood. $4,000 (includes $4,000 for
addition to west wing of administra-
ton building); tuberculosis sanator-
ium at Oakdale, $500; industrial
school for boys at Eldora, s19,450; in
dustrial school for girls at Mitchell
vile, $1,000; insane hospital at Mount
Pleasant, s7s,950 includes $4,000
for a railway switch and $4,000 for
sewage disposal plant); insane hos
pital at Independence, $4,000; in
sane hospital at Clarinda, s3s,500 Gin
cludes new laundry costing $25,000) !;
insane hospital at Cherokee, $46,50O
Gncludes railway switch costing $751;
O00); inebriates' hospital at Knox
vile, $4,000; penitentiary at Fort
Madison, $4,000: reformatory at
Anamosa, sSS,S20. The total is
s332,170.
State custodiaI Farms.
ING puiIhdSC Wy lHC oLdlC Oodiu vi
control of the Flynn acreage near
Des Moines for custodial farm pur-
poses marks a departure In the
states methods of handling its GRIM
inals. It is the doctrine of evolution
applied to the solution Of one of the
gravest problems confronting the
people and its application in Iowa is
due in large part to the efforts OF At
torney General George Cosson, who
has many good things to his credit.
1t Is the purpose of those who are
especially interested in the study Of
crime and criminals and the best
methods to transfer the criminal
from law violator to the law OBJ
server, with all the consequent bene-
fit to the commonwealth, to establish
four additional custodial farms in the
four sections OF the state, the one at
Des Moines making the fifth, Is the
plan proposed, and the approaching
session OF the legislature should
provide the means for doing It,
Efficiency and Reform.
The retrenchment and reform COM
sion of the Iowa legislature has
recommended that the administrative
power of the state ee actually vested
in the governor of Iowa rather than
scattered, as now, among a large
number of Independent department
heads each operating largely as he
sees fit and without sufficient coor-
dination of effort. At the governors
conference at Madison recently 1t
was urged that the governor of the
state ought to have the power to dis
charge for cause any inefficient state
employe. In other words there is a
pretty general drift toward the con-
centration OF authority so as at the
same time to concentrate responsi-
bility and thus make for greater eff
ficiency in state administration.
Gains Made by Cities.
The seventh annual report OF the
municipal accounting department Of
the auditor Of states office was is
sued by George Gallarno, chief clerk.
The SAL cities and towns Of the state
last year received $15.261,330 and the
expenditures for the same period were
$14,S30,622. OF this amount $11,777.-
2S9 was expended by 101 cities and
s3,053, 1886 by TAO towns. The valuation
OF municipal property in the state in
creased s2.233,567. There were TWEEN
ty-three new towns Incorporated in
the last year.