The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-01-14

| lions have been paid promptly as, pre-
scented.
Extra Demands Met.
This administration hasf been Gale.
, upon to pay many extraordinary obi
! gationA aside from the usual depart
mental expenses, among which wa,
over $4,000 for building ana equip
ping the temporary capitol. 1t wax
constructed in the latter part of 1912
but was paid for in 1918. Again WI
paid more than 100000, out Of the
general revenue to meet certain road
claims in twenty-five or twenty-six
counties which had been vetoed by the
governor preceding, but which were
just obligations resting upon the state
We paid out of the general revenue
fund large amount of money in Civ.
! ing special aid to schools adopting the
teachers training course and rural
high schools, also pay~to ex-confeder-
ates and for the Panama-Pacific expo
sition, all of which amounted to a
sum in excess Of $450,OO0. The state
has been able to meet these extra de.
mands and render the people an en-
larged and better service without the
increase in the rate of taxation, solely
by the able, economic and efficient
service in every department and by
each of the various departments Civ.
ing larger net financial return. The
fact that these things have been done,
these obligations met and paid, these
extra services rendered. is the best
evidence Of the way and manner the
states finances and business have
been managed.
Management Of State Institutions.
Some Of the state hospitals for the
insane have industrial training depart.
ments and are conducting same with
benefit and profit. Each institution
has improved its system and apparatus
for treatment Of patients, and has in.
creased the per cent of benefits. Tie
institution for the feeble-minded and
epileptic at Marshall is just compler. /
ing new cottage for patients, thus
adding another unit to the system. Dr.
Wilson, the superintendent has Sc
treated the patients and managed the |
institution that he has been able 10
reduce seizures over so per cent. This
wonderful change for bettermen:
brought about by DR.. Wilson is phe.
nomenal. and the colony in this re-
spect is the equal of any institution o!
like character in the country. rec.
ommend to the legislature that it ap-
sufficient money to build an.
other new cottage for patients, to the =
end each biennial period may con
tribute a separate, new cottage to the
colony until the full scheme of build
lngs, as originally planned, has been
and the colony able to ac-
and receive all the feeble. l.
minded and epileptic of the common,
wealth entitled, under the law, to ad-
mission.
The state hospitals for the insane
have been we'll provided with buildings
md repairs. and in my judgment reas-
'nably ample to care for all patients. ,
There has been some agitation about ,
establishing one central board of man. :
cement, or control Having consid.
red these questions for two years, and 6
laving visited the institutions and
aving given the subject my best
bought and consideration, I am con-
inced central board of management q
r control would prove a failure. and .
end to initiate against the efficient :
system and treatment .
ow in vogue in these institutions and .
'ould prove to be one force pulling .
gainst another force. Each separate y
can be better managed by y
ne specific board, superintendent and h
Ulcers having the management of that =
lstitution in charge. Each state hos -
ital is very large institution and its a
usiness is voluminous. Under the :,
Nv, the state board Of charities and -
DIRECTIONS must also visit, examine -
nd make reports about these institu- :,
ons, and perform many valuable SER .,
ices in relation thereto. =,
State Purchasing Board. r,
/ will suggest, however, that splen- ~
ID service can be rendered the insti- =.
ltions and the state by having state r.
lrchasing board for all institutions N,
I'd departments. II this legislature 4,
i'll create such board of three men. W
1t more than two Of whom shall be of =,
e same political party, and require Z,
is board to purchase all the supplies n
r the state, even for the departments Z,
executive, legislative and judicial. 4,
well as the institutions, lean save, n,
the very lowest estimate, 100000 q
It per annum. The good which it can .,
} will be two-fold. First; it will re- =,
we each institution from the labors :,
keeping posted as to the prices OF =.
ticles and in transacting this class -
work, and enable the officers and s.
nployees to devote all their time and
tention to the management of the in ~
buttons and the service to be render. :,
the inmates, thus increasing the :.
rvice and care. Second; there will A.
j great financial saving In buyingi q