Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-02
BROKEN ARROW TO
LOSE AGGIE SCHOOL
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has come this proposition: TIE school
is to be abolished, along with a sim,
liar institution at Helena. In Alfalfa
county. In It's place we are to get
the state home for the aged and in
finn. which, in time. vii no doubt
become one of, # not the biggest
eleemosynary institutions in Okla
homa, a. il will take care of all the
aged end infirm from practically all
Of the counties of the state.
Means State Saving.
THE county will pay $40 a month
for each charge it sends to the insti-
tuition. As it now costs the counties
up to $50 per capita per month to do
this, 1t will be seen that a big saving
VIII be affected by the state taking
over these people.
The governor and all interested
are delighted with the manner in
which Professor Coffey has con-
Quoted the affairs of the school and
| am violating no confidence when /
say he has been offered the superin-
tendency of the proposed home for
the aged.
To Build at Once.
I'VE have prepared a bill which
will be offered as a substitute for
bill now on the house calendar and
giving the board of affairs authority
to locate and build the home. The
hill is patterned after the Massachu-
sets law on this subject. 1t makes
an appropriation of $50, 900 for pur-
chase of additional land remodelng
of present buildings. construction Of
a hospital and other improvements
1t carries S22,500 for maintenance for
each of the next two fiscal years,
with proViso that any balance may
be used for improvements. This
means that for the fiscal year of
1917-191S the entire amount for
maintenance will be available for
buildings grounds and landscape
work
"Out of the $4,000 appropriation
the sum of $500 will be turned over
to the Broken Arrow commercial
club as compensation for the lands
decided by them to the state and now
used by the school.
Ends Long War.
THE strife and worry of the past
caused by the constant agitation
against the six district agricultural
schools in this state will be eliminated
by the abolishment of the Broken
Arrow school. The appropriations for
the home for the aged will be ad-
mitted public necessities and the citi-
Zens Of that town will not have to
worry about Improvements for or
maintenance of the new institution.
1t will he the only institution of its
kind in the state, and it is planned
to make 1t n genuine show place and
real home for the old people of
oklahoma. All of Tulsa county will
no doubt take pride in it.
THE proposed substitute bill will
provide approximately s94, 1000 for ex-
penditures in Broken Arrow during
the next year alone. The institution
will mean much more to the mer-
chants of that city than does the pres
ent school, from a financial stand
point.
Tho sentimental phases OF the
project cannot, Of course. be over.
looked. Broke Arrow has been Justly
proud of Haskell school 1t has grown
of late by leaps and bounds. The
students have become boosters. They
will all hate TO leave But we are
confronted by cold facts and a situa-
tion that we cannot overcome.
I'VE are doing the very bost we
can under the circumstances. Senator
X. L. Davidson deeply deplores the
turn events have taken. but, like our
selves. has submitted to the ircvita-
bic and will do the thing that the
Broken Arrow citizens committee has
decided on after due deliberation."