Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
DOMINATED BY EAST
SEVERE CRITICISM OF NATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES
AND CORRECTION.
STATE INSTITUTIONAL
HEADS ISSUE WARNING
Eastern View and Eastern Problems
Do Not Meet Conditions in West
East Can Not See That Anything
Good Can Come Out Of West-Much
Work Done at EpiIeptic Colony.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times publican.
Des Moines. June s.-Sharp criti-
cism of the national conference OF
charities and corrections were heard at
the conference OF Institution heads in
the office of the board of control yes
terday.
Katharine r. Williams, a member OF
the board OF control OF Wisconsin, de-
discussed many matter relating to in
stitutions-the employees, attendants.
dietary, architecture. amusements. eff
ficiency. etc. Among other things she
referred to a movement having its i'm
pulse with the national conference
looking to a codihcation of federal and
state laws relating to children. A COM
mlttee is at work preparing report
which will embody certain general
principles that should go into all these
laws of all the states and report may
be made at the Indianapolis meeting
next year on the subject.
1T is very important that this should
be done" said Miss Williams. There
is a great field here for the statesmen.
We ought TO revise our whole scheme
of treatment OF children in institutions
and in matters of delinquency. But
warn you that on the committee that
has been or will be named there will
be a majority Of people from the far
east. and the report will reflect the
eastern point Of view. Now. as a mat
ter of fact, the problem of the child as
IL presents itself in the eastern states
is something entirely different from the
same problem here What we ought
to have is the presentation of ma
tional point Of view. The situation as
we find it here in this midland region
should be presented as we'll as that of
the east. So. also, in regard to the
code of laws regarding women there Is
great need of a complete revision,
know that you cannot apply the same
rules to women that you can to men,
YOU can never reform women by the
same methods that you can men,
The discussion which followed
brought out the fact that the Iowa men
who have attended these national con-
ferences of charities and corrections
had the same criticism to make. name
ly. that they are wholly dominated by
the men and women from the east who
act as if they thought no good thing
might come out of the west.
DR.. M y. voldeng. superintendent Of
the state hospital colony for epileptics,
reports that a vast amount of work is
being done at the colony in prepara-
ton for the location and construction
of buildings.
The state architect has almost COM
pleted the working plans for the first
of the series of buildings to be erected.
The first work Will be to erect what
will be called the medical group Of
buildings as distinguished from the
cottages or dormitories and the build
ings which are to be solely for homes
for the epileptics The heating and
power plant will also be erected at
once When these two groups of build
ings are completed the colony can be
opened.
The construction of the medical
group shows something of the char
acter of the institution as it will be at
first 1t will make the institution cor
respond to the name, the hospital coll
ony" for epileptics The intent is to
make it a real hospital, to undertake
in a serious way to handle all those
cases where medical attention will be
Of value. and to develop here in Iowa