DENYING AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN

...When the law was enacted, the state recognized its obligation in the care of dependent children, and as an incentive for the county to take upon itself the burden of administering it, the state promised and agreed, if the counties •would advance the money in the first instance and administer it through their own officers, that the state would reimburse the county one-third of the cost to the county...

...This rock is inside the state prison grounds, near Carson City...

...While this worthy work is being thus carried on in the state institution, the unfortunate children passing through this school become in a manner institutionalized, and go out into the world lacking normal home experience and advantages...

...total, $14,000,-000...

...The "Auditorium" is the largest room in the world with the largest unsupported dome...

...he is led to the conclusion that the present policy should not be changed until the state finances are in better condition...

...It has for many years been far overcrowded...

...The expenditures for the Sparta School for the year ending June 30, 1926, were $244,509.05, which conies from the general appropriations of the state...

...The interior walls have been wonderfully ch^eorated by water and frost...

...During the past year, while the state agreed to pay the one-third, or $420,-724.04, it only paid the sum of $30,000, or in other words, only about two cents in place of the thirty-three itnd a third cents held out as an inducement to the county...

...The Governor in his veto message says that the bill would increase the state contribution to this worthy public undertaking from $30,000 to $400,000...

...It passed the Senate 19 to.9 and the Assembly 58 to 4. In spite of this large vote, and in spite of the fact that it provide<ka definite sum, Governor Zimmerman vetoed i* When the veto reached the Legislature, there was no quorum present—it could not be passed over his veto...

...It has been administered by the county, and juvenile courts of the state, with the aid and advice of three other persons appointed by the court if desired...

...Governor Vetoes Bill FOLLOWING the Governor's veto, I took from the table my bill appropriating a definite sum of $400,000...

...The cost of the support and education of each child in this institution in the past year was 57.31 per week or $31.32 per month...

...This law is one of the most humane pieces of legislation enacted in Wisconsin...

...Under the provisions of my bill, mothers' pensions would not cost the state as a whole-one cent extra tax, but it would have distributed the burden to those best able to pay...

...And yet Governor Zimmenr signed the Bank Tax bill relieving the banks $1,620,000, which was shifted to the gene property taxpayer, while my bill wTould have it-lieved the county property taxpayer of $370,000* Merits of the Law NOW as to the cost and merits of this law, ; » compared with institutional care, there <¦ be no question...

...My bill provided further that in case a mother receiving aid was forced to move from her home county to another county, that she could still receive aid, while under the present law she cannot get aid and is forced into the pauper class if obliged to move...

...Wisconsin was one of the early states to adopt such a law to make it possible that homes be maintained and children be assured of a mother's care and training...

...Under my bill, which the Governor vetoed, $400,000 would be paid as other budget taxes, from the general fund that is made up of taxes levied throughout the state as a whole, such as Public Utility and Railroad taxes, $7,000,000...

...The Wisconsin County Board Association, in its 1926 meeting, adopted a resolution recommending that state aid be paid in full as the law provides...

...Under this condition the law became mandatory upon the county...

...Instead of numerous passages, it has a series of magnificent rooms...

...During the 1923 session of the legislature, I introduced a bill appropriating approximately the one-third promised by the state...

...These incomes are largely from the wealth ©f the state...

...There are now over four hundred children in the School, while the normal capacity is 357...

...Thi Federated Clubs and many County Judges hav< written letters urging the full payment of it share by the state...

...There now remain only six states that have not enacted similar laws, and they are all in the South...

...For the state institution p< child, the average last year was $31.32...

...By HOWARD TEASDALE (State Senator in Wisconsin) T IS the duty of the state, through its various agencies, to provide and maintain an environment and training for the young that will tend to develop the highest type of citizenship...

...His bill was accorded the right of way, and passed the Assembly 73 to 3 and the Senate 17 to 9. It was vetoed by the Governor, mainly on the ground ofjthe indefinite sum fixed and because of lack of stats funds...

...Over 300 miles of passage ways have been mapped out but the cave hasn't been thoroughly explored yet...

...He leaves the counties to levy $370,000 extra in direct property tax, which is collected on the farms and homes of the counties, instead of one-third being paid from the general state fund, as the Mother's Pension Law provides...

...In 1926 the records show that the counties spent $1,262,-172.11 for the mothers' aid, earing for 5,299 families with 13,762 of this class of children...

...state share of Income taxes, $5,000,000...

...That all recognize this as the foundation of a republic is most clearly shown by the founders of this government, when in 1787 they set aside the sixteenth section in every township for school funds...

...and when Congress, in 1848, declared that schools and means of education should forever be encouraged...

...In the Assembly, Mr...

...This amount cared for over four hundred children, and sent them on the way for a useful life, insofar as it is possible for the state so to do, and it paid for the supervision of 375 children who have passed through the School and have been placed in good homes...

...The law leaves the child with its mother, the person who has the highest interest in the needs and future welfare of the child...

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...This was a most worthy object and the results to the State have been very beneficial to thousands of the poor children, placing them in clean, wholesome surroundings...

...Educate Neglected Children IN ACCORDANCE with this idea, Wisconsin in 1885, provided for the establisltnent at Sparta of a State Public School for the care, support, and education of dependent and neglected children, in cases of abandonment, or where the home was an unfit place for bringing up children...

...The Interim Committee on Taxation, in their report, unanimously concurred in the r recommendation of the County Board Association that the sum should either be increased t< meet the one-third, or the law be repealed...

...The fossilized bones of many pre-historic animals, among them mastodons, have been found in Nevada, but the state's prize exhibit is the print of a monster human foot in solid stone that must have been made by a giant...

...state share of Inheritance taxes, $2,000,000...

...Nelson introduced a "bill providing "a sum sufficient...

...That the Governor appears not to be in sympathy with the humane side of life seems evident in his veto, not only of the proposed improved Mothers' Pension Law but of the bill for the appropriations for the support of the Charitable and Penal Institutions of the state for the next biennium...

...The Mothers' Pension Law i quires fifteen dollars per month for the fii child and ten dollars for each additional ch in the family...

...he then says that the policy of aiding the mothers will not be hampered by his disapproval of the bill...

...The School has been a clearing house for hundreds of children...

...This was accomplished by the inserting of the clause "or so much as the levy pro-rated shall bring...

...The "Great White Throne" is a mam...

...Less Than One-tenth THIS payment of less than one-tenth of the amount the county should receive from the state has caused a very great dissatisfaction throughout the counties of the state...

...But the county, after the first year of its operation, has never been repaid by the state its one-third share...

...It seems a very serious mistake for the Governor to try to hamper its working or to force hundreds of thousands of dollars upon the direct taxation of the rural communities, now so burdened with taxes that they are obliged to desert and leave their homes...

...Such has ever been the policy of the state of Wisconsin, which made the schools free to all, provided for their maintenance, and by the compulsory school law required that all children between thq ages of seven and fourteen shall be regularly enrolled in some school...

...South Dakota's most prized natural curiosity next to the Black Hills is Wind Cave, which at times seems to throw out a heavy, but not a tainted breath from its entrance to the hillside...

...The State Board of Control report for 1926 urges the passage of a measure that will require the state to pay its full share under the law...

...They should be made to bear a portion of the burden now cast upon the rural communities as, for instance, my senatorial dis-" trict must now pay two and five-tenths per cent of the cost of mothers' pensions, although it pays only .2 of 1% income tax...

...Since the enactment of this law, there has been paid out for its operation, ending June M, 1926, $8,117,324.58, and 107,693 children have been cared for in 38,804 families...

...He thus in effect has published to the state that these poor unfortunate dependent invalids must look to other sources for support, since their much-needed requirements are, by the Governor's veto, to be cast aside for the time...

...Marvel cave in the Ozarks, near Garber, Mo., is said to outclass Mammoth Cave...

...Adopt Mothers' Pension Plan IN 1913 the Legislature, recognizing the obligations of the state in regard to children in homos of needy, worthy women, enacted the familiarly known Mothers' Pension Law...

...moth stalagmite of solid onyx, 80 feet high...

...Again in 1925 I introduced a bill levying the sum of $300,000 and this passed the Senate seventeen to five, but was killed in the^Assembly...

...This bill was killed by the Senate, eighteen "ayes...

...At the session of 1927 I again introduced a bill, this time fixing $400,000 as the amount, which was approximately one-third of the amount expended by the counties...

...There certainly can be no better way of administering the law, .except with the aid,, of many more inspectors and commissions...