Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1911 — POOR MANAGEMENT [ARTICLE]

POOR MANAGEMENT

Of Orphan’s Home Seems Due to J. L. Peetz, Former Editor of Monon News. ' The state board of charities investigated the Hadley home for orphan children, at Hadley, Hendricks county, a few days ago and revoked the license of the Children's Home Society of Indiana for conducting such a home. The conditions found there were something fierce, to use a slang expression, and it was shown that while over $9,000 had been collected for the home in the last T l /* months, one-half of this sum had been paid for salaries alone, including the Indianapolis office. While there .were no charges of real cruelty towards the inmates, the sanitary conditions were unspeakable and the 72 children were crowded into quarters fitted to accommodoate about half that number, ill fed, half clothed, neglected and dirty.

J. L. Peetz, formerly editor of the Monon News, a "lame duck” let out as state statistician by the last democratic landslide in Indiana, was made superintendent of the society and the conditions complained of seem to have grown up under his administration. He has an office in the Law building in Indianapolis, where his wife who was his chief deputy in the state statistician’s office, is his assistant. Peetz placed a new man in charge of the home after he became superintendent of the society, and his inexperience in such work did not fit him or his wife for the custodianship of .the home.