The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-31

Iteration Of II educational and chart
table institutions, instead Of too ex-
travagant. And just SO long as we
have to contend with the demagogic
! INSTRUMENTATION OF men who Will
make any sacrifice or promise to get
Nolitical preferment-just SO long
rhay we expect, II they are to be lis
tened to. to have stagnation and ret
aggression in our state, which renders
1t undesirable to live in for want OF
plpper educational facilities and also
fpr the want Of proper farming facili-
tics and road accommodations
The last is the fundamental
which must come before results will
obtain that will give to US a measure
of success in our states development
Which will assure the greatest returns
as well as the most successful econo-
milo administration Of u states az
fairs.
Then, gentlemen, If my conclusions
areyright, we must in the future spend
more money instead Of less money.
Today our state highway department
is expending just enough to keep the
head Of the department in existence.
Maryland expended out Of its state
treaHsry $4,000 0 for its public
highways last year. 1t expended
$142,00O on its health department out
side Of the city of Baltimore. West
virginia expended $4,000 last year,
and previous to the fiscal period Of
1913 1t expended nothing. We did not
have a department Of state health or a
laboratory, as is nov established at
our university, Notwithstanding we
have annually approximately $4,000
cases of typhoid fever, a disease al
most wholly preventable. and 1000
deaths from tuberculosis annually,
with an expenditure beginning with
1918 OF $780, 900 annually, at the tuber-
culosis sanitarium located at Terra
Alta, with a capacity Of 12O persons
and a waiting list o fas many more.
Are we going to retrench In this
work that means so much to the con-
servatioIl of human life, or are we
going forward battling for its exter-
mination, which can be accomplished?
What shall we do with our educa-
tional institutions? They have been
overcrowded for years past, and the
first relbeG came after the new reve-
nues were made available at the sec
ond extraordinary session of the leg
islature. There is some prospect that
our university will have a farm, which
it has needed since its beginning, as
well as an agricultural building, which
department. now being conducted in
part in a harm at Morgantown. Shall
we retrenGh or go forward in this
work, as we'll as in providing dor
mitories for the accommodation of the
student body Of which we have none
at the present time other than what
are rented? Shall we provide addi-
tional room for the work of teaching
at this institution. which is so much
handicapped at the present time? /
want to say to you, gentlemen, that
the men connected with the faculty Of
the institution are not there because
they car not find other fields Of oppor-
tunity that aue more interesting and
lucrative. 1t is because they are, in
the great majority, native SONS Of
West Virginia and it is their hope that
there are better conditions in store
for the future Of the institution, and
this is necessary If we are to take
care of the deman.5 made upon us.
Shall we give to the boys and girls
who are asking for an education and
who should BE- encouraged. Just as
good as can be had in the land in the
way Of facilities at our Owl univer-
sity? Or shall be retrench?
The same is applicable to the nor
NAL and high schools of the state.
/ am loath to believe that the DEM
agogism that we hear so much Of In
the press and from some individuals
will make an impression upon the
great masses Of the citizens Of our
state. What can be said Of them COM
mandatory, especially IL they be ma
tive sons, when they take the position
which means rettogression instead Of
progress? The people will give the
answer, in my hubble judgment, when
the issue is submitted to them.
Cry Of Extravaganza.
MY administration has been accused
of being e%xtravag;lnt on many sides,
but an Investigation Of the records Of
my accusers is efficient to condemn
tbam and render false their state
ments.
AS a sample Of extravaganza in our
state institutions: Two able-bodied
young women haya charge Of sixty
female insane pati@ts, many OF whom
are bed-fast and he kpless and have to
be looked after like they were infants,
while others r violent, dangerous
and even homicldaL These nurses or
attendants receive fhe meagre COM
pensation of from 922.50 to $25 per
month, and work twelve out OF twent-
ty-four hours.
This is the ratio 90 one employe to
thirty patients. while all competent
authorities on this subject agree that
the proper ratio is one employee to ff-
teen patients.
Male employees In Hospitals for the
insane working TWELVE hours per day