Arizona republican., 1917-12-19
FAVORS BE TIER .TREATMENTFOR
 INCONPETENTS

Advocating a state 'nsutution for detectives. Governor Thomas E. Camp he'll in an address on the administra- ton of state institutions before the Womans club yesterday, declared that we were not getting very far in talk ing care of our people,
 He urged the club women to their mother love and big insight to help improve conditions.
 There would not be -s many defec- lives in our institutions if they were taken care of before they reached thcre,' he said.
 Furnishing interesting statistics, the governor briefly sketched the problems of the state institutions. urging con- strUctivc criticism which he declared Ntis welcome at an times.
 lie said the women could be espec- ially helpful in offering suggestions in treatment of young girls committed to tne industrial school.
 "Cau't you club women representing the best people in the community sug- gcst some way to take care of these cirlst It is a great question and a .pucstiun for women Co solve, for when all is said and done we are not getting amy place, any constructive place, with these girls and boys
 The chief executive said that he doubted if Fort Grant. the ideal spot for a sanitorium. was the location fol home for young peop--.
 on a recent visit there he could moi but compare the boys and girls witt mo one to see but each other guard, and teachers: with deer pacfns bacl and forth in an enclosure.
 At present there are A boys and 2l girls in the Industrial school. The ma iority of boys are McXicaus but th, girls are Americans, booked as incor Tigiblc and delinquent
 Our difficulty is with the girls tw, of whom are from the Phoenix higl school,
 The boys are there for everything. continued the speaker as he reNieWe, the various crimes that had been re sponsible for the commitments. "W have boys there too, who haven't don, anythiug but who have no place to go We have no orphan asylum fin this stat and no place to Feep these depcndan children and after they have once bee' i'm the institution very few people vii take them into their homes.
 He spoke of the school work whicl covers the ninth grade "All we teacl Is farming and most of the boys hay run away from farms to the city, h. dcplOred.
 In discussing the state hospital fo the insane he touched upon the numbe admitted and the few cures made des plte the efforts made, the nationalit and the occupation of tne patients.
 Less than per cent recovery not Withstanding the effort put forth sai the governor as he rccounted the mum Der committed from the different coun ties. "The number of those who pas away equal the number placed ther for their own good and for the good O society.
 The men patients WHo Tar Outnum per the women are laborers, ranchers miners the women housewOrkers Tn majority of the women are from tn country fully per cent are from tn rauches"
 Governor Campbell stated that tn cost of maintaining the institution wa Sl20,000 per year and S15,000 per yea for the improvements.
 In speaking of the state penitentiary the governor said that he would not g into the merits or demerits of prisol reform. He said that he was a believe in prison reform but the question re mained where to start in.
 You know what they say of idl hands and the devil" reminded th speaker as he pointed out that thcr was not enough work to keep the pris oners employed. "There is nothing fo them to do,' he said, as he told of tn