Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-11-25
ONLY TWELVE IN
YAVAPAI ARE ELIGIBLE
from Saturdays DailY.l


J. D. Bethune, superintendent OF
the Yavapai county hospital, said
yesterday that he was much inter
ested in TIE interview in the Journal
Miner Thursday, given out by w. A..
Cregmiles, OF Dougles, with refer
ence to the socalled mothers pen
sion law.
1T is comprehensive and to the
point" he said so far as the Yav-
apai county institution is concerned,
we have forty-six indigents under
our care now and there are only
twelve eligible to receive the fifteen
dollars per month provided by the
new act. The rest would be inelig-
ible under this law, and it seems to
me a heartless thing to turn these
people out OF house and home and
set them down on the streets with
no means whatever to provide for
themselves. Among the ones | men
ton as ineligible is one who cannot
hardly feed himself. Aside from the
bad business policy and .the loss it
means to the county. there are many
reasons why this law should not be
permitted to take effect
Does Away With Home.
Since the law referred to has been
the subject of discussion. one OF the
prominent attorneys OF Prescott has
declared openly and above board
that it will do away with the Pion-
GERS Home in this city, state in
stitution which at the present time
has thirty-live inmates, all old pion-
GERS, who have lived in the state
twenty-five years and are at present
wards of the state. The Arizona
Pioneers Home is the only institu-
ton of the kind in the United
States, and it has been a pride to
the state ever since its benehcient
results have been matter OF public
knowledge. Recently the state made
provision through the bequest in the
Parsons will for the addition of a
womcn's department, and after this
would have been builded there would
DC room for nearly one hundred in
mates, every one OF whom are I'M
able to provide for themselves, yet
are people who have IN the past ma
terially contributed to the growth
and upbuilding of the state. The in
| stitution is very valuable from a
money standpoint, and if it is de-
cided that it must be sold with the
county almshouse, the state would
not be able to realize one-tenth what
it has cost, and those who now
have comfortable homes there would
DC compelled to accept the pittance
OF fifteen dollars per month as the
maximum amount which the state
or county could provide under the
law.
The lawyer who holds that this in
stitution comes under the provision
of the act referred to is none other
than Leroy Anderson. who says that
there is not the least question of
doubt as to his opinion, stating that
he bases the assertion on the law
defining almshouses, and that there
is no way on earth to perpetuate
the Pioneers Home if this is to be
the law OF the state. Another man
in Prescott who is acquainted with
Bert Davis, who stands sponsor for
not only this law but number of
other freakish initiated measures
which bid fair to place Arizona on
the list OF crazy states of the union,
says that he knows from CONVERSE
tions with Davis that he had the
Pioneers Home in mind when the
drew the law.
Thus, little by little the real con-
dition OF Arizona with reference to
where it was drifted by the last
election, IS being made known, and
the more the ball is unraveled the
dccper-dycd becomes TIE proverbial
Scnagambian in the woOdpile.