Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-01-31
STATE BUILDINGS
IN AWFUL SHAPE
Senator Thomas Presents a
Terrific Indict-
ment.
STARTLING CONDITION
Schools Without Books and
STARTLING CONDITION
Schools Without Books and
and Without Any
Money.

OKLAHOMA CITY. Jan. 3O.-The
educational and eleemosynary institu-
tions of oklahoma are inadequate,
bankrupt and in a state Of decay, ac-
cording to }. Elmer Thomas of Law
ton. chairman of the state committee
on appropriations.
The truth of the situation came out
the other day when Senator Thomas
was called on to explain his reasons
for filing an adverse report on the
house bill appropratlng $4,000 for
an Oklahoma building at the San
Francisco exposition.
THE Durant bill" said Senator
Thomas, carries an appropriation
for public building. 1t Is my opin-
ion that we had better look after
our public buildings at home before
appropriating money for a building
at the fair"
Terrible Condition.
The senator went on to enumerate
how the various school buildings
were crumbing, inadequate and un
supported. In substance, here is
list of the startling conditions that
he pictured:
Because Of lack of other facilities
the state is keeping GAL patients in
a private asylum at Norman.
The Vinita asylum must have a
S26, 900 deficiency appropriation to
carry 1t on until the end Of the fiscal
year.
At Fort Supply the insane are
housed in wooden buildings, fire.
traps, while some of the main struc-
lures are in ashes. Some OF the pa
tents are In mere shells, shacks.
The wayward girls Of the state are
kept In a rented building.
Two hundred eX-Confederate SOL
dlers are crowded in the state home
at Ardmore
At the home for the feeble
minded at Enid 212 are confined,
with more than four hundred appli-
cations for admission on file.
At Sulphur there are 2l5 deaf and
dumb persons and double the number
who should be there
or 191 blind children at the state
school for the blind in Muskogee,
only 6S are in building owned by
the state. while there are 500 asking
admission to the institution. The
Muskogee school, Senator Thomas
saws. is built on a rocky site, for which
the state has not appropriated sulfi-
Client money to remove the rocks,
through which the blind children
must grope their way.
The orphans home at Pryor is ask
ing money for a school building.
At the Cornish oprhanage, one
hundred are confined in an incom-
plete building
School Without Books.
The state board Of education says
Of the buildings at the Taft negro
school that they are so old they are
beyond repair. The school Is with
ont books and without library
There is no auditorium at the Tah-
lequah normal school
Edmond needs a heating plant.
Buildings at Weatherford normal
arc falling into decay.
Alva normal has fallen behind
$500 this year.
Unable to secure a state appropri-
alton the Ada normal Is trying to
secure private means for building a
dormitory.
A science building is needed at
Norman. An auditorium ana class
room also are necessities Twenty
thousand dollars for tempory class
rooms must be appropriated.
Tonkawa preparatory school mas
building i'm ashes.
Claremore preparatory school races
deficit.
The roof of the Wilburton school OF
mines is not paid for.
Two buildings OF the saltwater
A & NJ. college are in ashes.
Students at the Goodwell second
airy agricultural school live In dug
outs.
At the Lawton agricultural school
buildings are not paid for.
The training school at Pauls VAL
lev has a deficit.