Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 21 October 1924 — Page 3

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I Stopped From One Car Into Path Os Another (United press Service) Indianapolis, Oct. 21.—Mrs. Mattie Smith. 56, of West Alexandria,, O’, died here Monday from injuries recelv cd when she was struck by an automobile near Greenfield. Ind., Sunday. Mrs. Smith got out of the machine driven by her husband ami stepped in the path of a car approaching from the opposite direction. She was knocked to the pavement and iter skull was fractured. OAmethysts are a species of quartz.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21,1924. >

WSOH'DELUXE s3*ooo BM f ' ' »■ - e! Millions Are Spent and Reformatory Not Nearly ? Completed r FINE HOME FOR CRIMINALS & Cost More Than Finest High School. Orphans Home or Insane Hospitals * “The Prison de Luxe," as the new Bi reformatory at Pendleton is familiarx ly known. Is a fair sample of the ex £ travagance of the present state ad ” ministration of Indiana. No one man Si or official is to blame for this but all x the officials in the state house and the * members of the legislature who favorx ed the $3,000,000 grab into the public k i x treasury. ;• When this institution was started k four years ago it was understood by a the public that it would cost $1,000,- ! ! 000, half of which would come from x the sale of the old Reformatory at •t Jeffersonville, and the farms belong- " ing to it. All the first $1,000,000 was xi spent before any building had been x i completed, and only three or four of x i the fifteen or twenty buildings had been even started. Then the legislax ture of 1923 was asked for $2,000,000 x I more, and over the protest of the " | Democratic members it was voted » 1 after numerous Republican members x i had been whipped into line by the x ' Governor, by the state committee and x 1 by the entire state administration x I Not one man now running on x ' the Republican ticket, from the canx didate for governor on down raised x his voice against this $2,000,000 grab. « It went through after a long fight and x' with full knowledge that the money K was being wasted. These same men x ask four years more of control of pubx lie funds. • x Some Fat Fees x. Some fat and juicy fees were paid x out of the $3,000,000 of the taxpayers x money. An architect was hired at a x fee of per cent on the cost of the x buildings and his contract specifies ?. that he is to get this 4% per cent no xj matter how long it takes to finish all the buildings planned. Up to date “ this fee has amounted to about sllO,000, and it will be much more when the Reformatory is completed. This same architect was the architect for the state insane hospital at Madison, easily the finest and most pretentious of all state institutions. Hut he got only SIO,OOO for that job. Why should this job be worth ten or twelve times that much? Anpther fat fee was paid to the superintendent of construction, called the contractor, whose business it was to buy materials and hire labor and V see that the work was done. For this service he was paid three per cent on the cost of labor and material and this amounted to $75,000. These two fees to two men approximately, is more than the entire cost • e of the Penal farm, near Greenogstle, built under the Ralston administra w tion, and equipped to take care of 700 / prisoners. - Fancy Brick r» The face brick selected for the Prison de Luxe buildings were buff mat face, costing $27 per thousand. ~ The brick for the Epileptic Village, built at the same time cost $lB per * thousand, but these were not fancy enough for the fine-haired criminals - at Pendleton. The state of Indiana has a first class brick plant, that * makes a good face brick good enough for building at the Penal farm, and _ good enough for one of the nicest country clubs in the state, besides » other state buildings. These brick could be had for $9 per thousand While each prisoner at the Refor- ” matory will not have a parlor, bed 1 room and private, bath, yet more than * enough money has been spent to pro vide such quarters for them, it will - cost $4,000,000 to build the reforma tory, probably more, or about $3,500 » for each prisoner. If the prisoners were divided into families of five, that would make $17,500 for each family. ~ which would build a handsome steam heated home, with private baths par lors and all other luxuries. The cost i of the Penal Farm was about $350 per prisoner, or one tenth the cost of the Reformatory. At the same time the Reformatory was being tmilt one of the insane hospitals erected a brick and tile building at a cost of SGOO per inmate. Two factory buildings at the Reformatory with a total floor space of 48,000 square feet, cost $160,000. The binder twine plant at the Michigan J City Prison, with 60,000 square feet of floor space, and fire proof, cost 1 $25,000. But the northern prison didn’t have a SIOO,OOO architect, nor a $75,000 construction boss, nor $27 mat face brick. It was just a substantial factory building such as a business man would build. Expensive Dining Room The Budget committee of the 1923 legislature appropriated $7,500 to the Penal farm for a dining room and a kitchen for 600 prisoners. It is brick and cement and fire-proof, the prisoners doing all the work. That amounts to about $12.50 for each prisoner at the Penal Farm. The cost of the dining room and kitchen at the Reformatory, approved by the 1923 legislature, was $350,000 for 1,200 prisoners, or almost S3OO per prisoner. To l»ut it another way two dining rooms i

at tno Penal Farm would have cost $15,000 and accommodated the satn* number of prisoners as the Reformatory dining room that coat $350,000. Will somebody explain the great dis ference? Builders estimate the cost of build Ing by the cubic foot. The Reformatory has cost about 50 cents a cubic foot Some of the finest high schools In the state have been built the past > four years at a cost of 30 to 35 cents per cubic foot. Tax payers are asked to pay more to care for criminals than I to educate the youth of the state. Is that your idea? The legislature of 1923 approved the request of the Reformatory which asked for a $460,000 power plant The .Michigan City prison which is larger, haa more prisoners, many J more industries and needs much more power, asked for sloo,ooo for a' complete new power plant, and was refused. The last cell house built at the! Northern Indiana Prison cost S3OO per. Inmate. Including building, plumbing, cells, and all furnishings. The cell! house at the Re'ormatory will cost' $1,500 per prisoner, or five times as' much. Red tile Is used for roofs so as to 1 please the eyes of the aristocratic prisoners. Although the Reformatory has a foundry and enameling plant to make toilets and lavatories, a special kind was specified for the 648 cells and they were bought at a cost of $33 each, or $22,000. If the lavatories and toilets had been made in the Reformatory foundry they would have cost one-tenth that amount. But It is not reasonable to expect that those fancy prisoners should wash their hands in the same kinds of lavatories' and use the same kind of toilets as ordinary taxpayers. How Money Was Wasted A concrete exam ple of how money was wasted is shewn in setting these toilet fixtures. Last spring when the Reformatory run short of funds the superintendent of construction or contractor was discharged. Then Supt. Miles of the Reformatory hired a couple of plumbers and set the balance of the toilet fixtures with the assistance of inmates. Under the contractor it cost $9 per cell to set the fixtures. After the contractor was discharged it cost 75 cents per cell These figures were furnished by an official of the Reformatory. If this same method of construction had been used from the start the Reformatory could have been all completed for much less than $1,000,000. The methods now being used are the same as are used in building the Penal Farm and that are used al the Northern Prison. What It Means This extra $2,000,000 that has been wasted on the Reformatory means that hundreds of insane men and women must languish In county jails and 111-kept poor houses for want of room at the state insane hospitals. Crippled children must wait for lack of hospital facilities, because the state spent all its money on the Prison de Luxe. Not an orphans home in Indiana has the com* forts and conveniences that the able bodied criminals at Pendleton will have—steam heated sleeping quarters, warm and cool shower baths, fancy plumbing fixtures, etc. The state's other wards, such as the sick, the insane, the cripples and the orphans must wait until the administration spends millions of dollars to take care of criminals. Are you going to approve of this by voting four years more of power to the administration that wasted these millions? TABLOID SKETCHES OF DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES I Short Biographical Review ot Men Asking Support of People November 4 DR. CARLETON B, McCULLOCH For Governor Physician. Born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, in 1871, and moved to Indian apolis in 1888. His father was Oscar McCulloch, pastor of Plymouth Con--1 gregational Church. Indianapolis. Grad--1 uated from Indianapolis high school, I completed sophomore year at Rose Pootechnic, Terre Haute, and graduated in medicine in 1895. In his early j life he worked in a machine shop of 1 the Atlas Engine Works, was a carver i at the Emerich Furniture Company, j and was a stenographer. Was comI missioned Captain one month after declaration of war; was adjutant, Base Hospital No. 32; promoted to Major, and sailed over seas December, 1917. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel 1918; commanding officer Mobile Hospital No. 11; promoted Colonel Medical Reserve corps in 1920. Decorated with French war cross. Croix de Guerre I He saw service under fire at Mondidler, Argonne defensive. Member of ' staff St. Vincent Hospital and Methodist Hospital. Member Congregational Church. LEW M. O’BANNON For Lieutenant Governor Lawyer and Publisher of the Corydon Democrat. Born in Harrison county, Indiana, where he has lived all his life. Taught district school for nine years; served as county surveyor three years and county Recorder four years. For ten years was private secretary to the late Congressman William T. Zenor, who represented the third Indiana district. Member of the Indiana Historical commission since 1915. Member of the Corydon Christian Church, is a Mason. Knight

Illinois Looks Strong (United Press Service) Urbana, 111., Oct. 21 Althought critics have practically eonn-d'd the 1924 conference championship to Illinois, Coach Bob Zttppke, taking no chances, warned ills team against over- confidence In the hard games to I follow, and ne w plays will be h.-iti-lied tip for ■'Yletl” Grange. —. o Tiptoji For his good work In handiling Defense Day ami I'flling out bonus ’ apidientions. Tipton Veterans gave Maj. C. W. Mount a "Hell an’ Maria’’ pipe and a tin of tobacco.

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Cornerstone For Women’s I Dormitory At I. U. Is Laid (United Press Service) | Bloomington, Ind., Oct, 21- Women of Indiana universily were In charge iof the corner slone laying /■eroinonies iMonday for the new women's dormlI tory. t Alumnae and former student* from -all parts of th>> state wore expected to be present. Governor Brunch and! Mrs. Branch were expected for the ’ ! cernmonies. , Mrs. William Lowe Hi van, wife of t the president of the university, was to deiiver the principal address at I the exercises.

v DANCE K ™ at 5% ■ j K. of C. Hall m Thursday. October 23 U Brginner's dancing H $7 Class 7:30 ■ Assembly Dance 8:30 M Good Music Assured. Admission-- H Jents, 50c Ladies, 15c ■ 250t3 Committee