The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-12-04
HE BLAMEs PROBATE JUDGES
n. C. Bowman of State Board of Con-
troll Says Law Enforcement
Beats Eugenics.

1t is useless to talk about scien-
tif1c, eugenic marriages, Harry G.
Bowman of the Kansas board of con-
troll said in his address before the
Kansas conference of charities and
corrections at Lawrence. But the
probate judges of the state, he added,
can Help by more rigid enforcement
of the state law forbidding the marri-
age Of epileptics. insane, imbeciles.
and feeble minded.
1.-THE juvenile courts accomplish
considerable good" Mr.. Bowman said,
'fbut the county and city jails seldom
accomplish any permanent reforma-
ton, and often do positive harm. The
juvenile court system is intended to
keep children out of jails and institu-
lions for delinquents, while jails are
for the purpose of furnishing adults by
confinement, and to deter others by
punishment"
That the number of insane and
feeble minded is increasing in start
ling ratio was pointed out by Bow
man.
There are more insane in institu-
tons in the United States than there
are students in the colleges and uni
versities," Bowman said, though it
is true this condition does not apply
to Kansas, where we have more col
1ege students than insane and feeble
minded in institutions. The census
shows that in the six years from 1904
to 1910 there was an increase of 25
per cent in the number of inmates in
the insane hospitals, and an increase
of only IL per cent in the population
of the country"
New Church for Usage City-The
First Methodist church of Usage City
laid the cornerstone of handsome
new $4,000 edifice recently. DR.. R.
C. Crosse is the pastor Of the church.
The ceremonies of laying the stone
were conducted by DR.. Wolfe of To
peka, district superintendent of this
district.
Build New Wichita Home-The
Bell Telephone Company will build at
the southwest corner of First and
Market streets, Wichita, a five-story
modern office building at once. The
building will be so by 14O feet. j
Willis Gleed, general attorney for the
cOHpduY, Has OCOA (ACAC q won PSA
fecting details.
Set Fire to INTERPRETATIONS
Sutton, years old; Clarence Barn
hart, IA, and Norris Nelson, 8, foune
a bottle of nitroglycerin in a turniI
patch near Hutchinson. They set firt
to see what it would do They found
out. Both Sutton and Barnhart prob
ably viii be blinded for life
Pension Five Observation-Disclosures
pensions of $40 to SIS a month were
granted to five women by Sedgwicl
county commissioners recently. Ths
examining board reported favorably
on seventeen applications for pen
-sions This number staggered th'
commissioners, who decided to aware
five after much discussion. Thi
makes a total of ten mothers pensions
now in force in that county.
X
Postoffice Inspector Quits-J F
Eiston, postoffice inspector, with head
i quarters in Salina. has resigned. H
was promoted to an Oklahoma point
but refused to leave Salina. Elstoi
did considerable work in Kansas Cit.
and worked up several importan
cases between Kansas City and Den
yer.
x x
Killed When Car Upset-John Wall
er, a farmer near Norwich, is dead
following a motor car accident tn
other night. He was found the mex
morning pinned under the machine.
x
Miners Hand Blown Off-A1exaI
der Richards, a strip pit worker a
Skidmore. lost his right hand and sui
fered 3 severe injury to his right lie
when a stick of dynamite he held i
his hand was exploded. The eiectri
shot firing device at the pit was az
cidentally set in operation.
Fatal Auto Aecident-August MeiE
hardt was killed recently when his MI
tor car overturned between Paxico an
Mcfarland The engine died on hi
and the car ran back into dee
ditch.