The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-31
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Head of OsawatOmie State Hos
pital Supports MOrgan's Plan.
DIR. F. A. Carmichael Protests
Against Destruction Policy.
OPPOSES RETRENCHMENT PLAN
Democrat Urges High Standard
in State Hospitals.
His Biennial Report Is Filed
With Malcolm Gray.

Pride of state and her institutions
makes impossible carrying out of the
radical program urged by the Tax
payers league and many Democrat
campaign orators, according to DIR. +.
A. Carmichael. superintendent of the
Osawatomie state hospital. A1tho DR..
Carmichael is a Democrat and was
first appointed under the Democrat
regime of Governor Hodges. he will
support w. Y. Morgan and the Repub-
lican ticket this year as a protest
against destruction of state institu-
tions.
The Bourbon policy, in the opinion
of DR.. Carmichael means the state
must abandon her efforts to maintain
adequate educational and charitable
institutions. With fear that the policy
of the Democrats is one of destruction
instead of advancement, DR.. Car
michael lines up with the Republicans
for adequate funds for schools and
hospitals for unfortunates. He de-
clareS that he favorS elimination of
any unnecessary state expenses but
views with suspicion the attack on
state institutions. In his opinion it
will be impossible to maintain present
state institutional standards and make
extensive reductions in appropriations.
Issues Biennial Report.
The biennial report of DIR. Car
michael has been received by NAL
colin Gray, secretary of the state
board of administration, and is now
in the hands of the state printer. In
the report the Osawatomie hospital
head takes a Wig orous slap at the re-
trenchment plan which threatens
present state institutions. He bases
his criticism on knowledge of institu-
tional needs.
Altho a Democrat for many years
DIR. Carmichael believes the need of
maintaining a high standard in state
schools and hospitals calls for a
higher loyalty than political party
affiliations. DIR. Carmichael is re-
garded as one of the most efficient
hospital heads in the middle west.
He was appointed to head the Osa-
watomie hospital in 1913 by Governor
Hodges. He was reappointed under
both the Capper and Allen admins,
trations because of his knowledge OF
hospital work.
In his report DR.. Carmichael says
in part:
Political campaigns conducted on
platforms promising reduction of state
taxes where no reduction of this COM
paratively negligible tax seems pos
sible, and imputing incompetency, if
not dishonesty, on the part of those
charged with state affairs, is both mis-
leading and reprehensible, promoting
unmerited suspicion and diStrust.
"Our public institutions, educa-
tional. correctional and charitable,
are the reflection of our pride of state
hood, and the choice is left with the
commonwealth of Kansas whether
they shall be fostered and nourished
until they can be pointed to with pride
by our citizens, or whether they shall
be neglected and discouraged until
they become reproach to the state"
He Defends Legislature.
DIR. Carmichael defends the action
of the last legislature which has been
so severely criticized by the Demo-
Gratis and Taxpayers League because
of its record-breaking appropriations
which increased the state taxes, and
thus aided in causing the general cry
for tax retrenchments.
1.-The Accomplishment of the 1921
legislature was an epochal indication
of the dawn of a day of realization of
the states responsibility, he said.
And it marked the beginning of
bigger, broader type of statesmanship
destined to supplant the politician
whose efforts are inimical to the in
terest of growth, progress and de-
velopment."
However, the head of the Osawato-
mie institution is not all praise for
the 1921 legislature. He thinks II
could have gone farther and made
bigger appropriations to meet the
needs of the institutions. In this con-
nection he says:
1.-The aggregate of our recommenda-
tions to the last legislature was $322.-
900. The various appropriations al
lowed totalled $152,000, or $4,000
less than the amount regarded as
necessary for required improvements
and requirements. NThe drastic prun-
ing of such appropriations as were
allowed however. necessitated the
work connected with the new con-
struction so that we have had our
hands entirely full in carrying out the
work contemplated with inadequate
funds
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