Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1914 — RALSTON MEETS PENAL TRUSTEES [ARTICLE]

RALSTON MEETS PENAL TRUSTEES

Proposition of Placing Institutions Under Direction of'State Education Board Presented. Indianapolis, Dec. 29.—The superintendents and trustees of seven state penal and correctional institutions and members of the board of state charities met in .conference with Governor Ralston this afternoon to consider the proposition of placing the institutional schools under the direction of the state board of education. Charles A. Greathouse; state superintendent of public instruction, also attended part of the session. The institutions represented included the Indiana School for Feeble Minded Youths, Ft. Wayne; the Indiana Boys' School,' Plainfield; Indiana Girls’ School, Clermont; Indiana Reformatory, Jeffersonville; Indiana School for Blind, Indianapolis; Indiana School for the Deaf, Indianapolis; Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home, Knightstown. After the conference, the governor stated that no conclusion had been reached. Some in the conference favored the'plan, others opposed and still others desired more mation before they expressed thenfselves. The governor did not give his views on the subject. It was said that the conference had been arranged by some of the institution heads who favor the idea. It is argued by those favorable to the plan that placing the schools within the institution under the same direction as the public schools would tend to raise their standards. It is probable that the proposition will be presented to the legislature for its consideration. Kind friends: let us take this way to thank' you for your kindness so far during Mr. Hartman’s sickness. We appreciate the way we have been treated by. our ‘kind friends and hope that we may live to return it and Mrs. Fred Hartman.