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SUNDAY MORNTXG, FKBnUART 2,1. 1023. THE LOUIS STAR ow The St. Louis Star? upport of Public, Won Poor house Campaign V.iE ST. L'JJI5 STAR With Clippings From Star Showing How Poorhouse Campaign Was Carried On Example of Power of Press to Serve TEST OF STRENGTH FOR STATE FARM BLOC THIS WEEK General Welfare 22 PAGES.

PRICK TWO CENTS ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1922. iVOL. 37 SO.

54 Legislature Still Under Control of Whitaker and Bales Anti-Frat Bill Passed. Measure Permitting Counties To Group in Construction of Almshouses Has Passed Both Houses and Will Be Signed by Governor. Ur First-Hand Evidence of How Missouri's. Indigent Poor Are Fed Like Cattle SUPERS OF STONE COUNTY SUBSIST ON GARBAGE FOR FOOD 1 it II ICAIIUY T. liHCNDIIHiK.

The campaign of 'The St. lxuia Star to better conditions in county poorhouses throughout MiKaouri which culminated successfully Friday when the house of representatives in the state legislature passed The Star's pourhouHo bill, exemplifies the power of a metropolitan newspaper for public tt i it'. The overwhelming majority given the measure illustrates in a pleajohgr manner how news of The undertaking spread to the far 'corners of the ptate, creating a sentiment which re-acted Friday" when the vr IHT8 pitr wm tkm liir'nt rain -flinty poorhouse lnil up to r6" clerk of the houae of representatives called the roll. eire their noondT mel. THrf limn eeh dy, bni enrbil i nmg, thfT lfT thir hntie and tnidgV to wuidow of the kilchi-n in tne rip'nntfB'l- Poor Farm So Bad That Superin- tendent Deserted It County Judge Representatives in 9 Counties Named in Inquiry Favored Bill cava aaawwvua --fe Idiot Roams Poor FFRS0N COUNT1 rntv at Night POOR EKE OUT itr.

Wail ii Clair County, EMBER 13, A GRA VEVARi "Allison of Maries "Armstrong of I'ulankl "Aeotfdty of Jackson Down the long list of names he i tad and the great chamber echoed with a chorus of aye. Only twice was this broken and the final count disclosed a vote of 124 to 2. Swiers of Christian County- and Far-ris of Polk County cyist the dissenting votes. The measure had previously passed the senate by a unanimous vote. PuMio Sympathy Won.

From the outset of The Star's campaign, which had its inception in the last days of November, public sympathy was with the venture. Without the co-operation of individuals organizations throughout Missouri the campaign would have failed. And so the thousands who rallied to the support of the undertaking mny, feel proud of what has been accomplished. The first article, dealing: with the nhameful conditions found in the Stone County poorhouao brought UeiUi" j0 special A mveo ri Pflftl Has Io for the Sick. Ity a suiir c-tiulcut.

JKKKKltSON City. Fob. 2 4 With only sevt ntt t'ii more days left of tho si-vent v-da ession of the tt.jte legislature, that body concluded Us week's work tonixht with preventative I of Shannon t'ounty, '-mocrat. and Uepi escntati Vhit-aker Hickory County, Kcpuldicwn, joint captains of the house farm bloc, still in command of the lets-lative sdiip. A final showdown on the ftrencth of tne rtiral is i-x-locted during the week, when the remainder of the big appropriation bills coijle before th house.

There have been Indications several timen during the week that the two miht part company and 15alc return to the party On several occasions ouch has yelled ominiously al the other across, the hall, hut the alliance toil ay appeared as firm as it wag at the start. The Temooratie house cmii'iis this week to try to er-t Ihi'es and his iJemo-cratic followers Into line for the appropriations and revenue bills did not accomplish anything. If Hie present alliance continues, the Democratic legislative pro.snun will be shot to 'pieces this session by the Keputdican minority. No like situation ever has. arisen tb.

Missouri I-eislal me. on explanation for the unusual strencth of the farm bloc Is that Hales and Whitaker ate among the few experienced l'Rislators In the house and that there are few important bills before the legislature Outside of the tax and revenue questions there- are no big issues pending. I'nder thewe circu msta roe it has been easy for the hunc lobby here to work upon inexperienced legislators. One of the most Important pieces of legislation at the hctdnninif of the icssjon wa.s to put the I per ent loan companl" un Jer 'ricter regulation for the protection of small investors. Since the Hcwdon t-pened tho cu pilot has) swarnifd with hddjyists for these )reaiiiza-tiotiK.

The reMiilt Is that regulation cf these concerns Is now so tangled up Jthere Ih Utile likelihood of any Mil 'that ill help th. nitualioa b-eomlnif a law, The same jrit nation exists with reference to a workmen's compensation bill. Ivibor Interest are Viow hacking a bill with monopolistic Kf'itc Insurance uhicb the 1 ninlnv- iwov There- mm mm cash i er SUif Correspondent. The Star, in its campaign, disclosed the shocking conditions which existed In nine (bounties, as found by a staff writer. The counties were Laclede, Dallas, Stone, Vernon, i Jefferson, Iron, Mississippi, Pemiscot and Iwls.

It is interesting to note that despite the fact that rural newspapers in these counties condemned The Star's campaign and In many instances charged the articles were untrue, the representatives from each of the nine voted for The Star's bill. These were Black of Iron Count, Doerner of Pepsiseot. Cockrum of Tewis. Coodnight of Jeffersoon, Mitchell of Mississippi, Powell of Stone, Jackson of Vernon, Severns of Dallas and Donnelly of Iaclede. of Horrors twin.

r- 'Ht DUTY ntr 'ton Result l-aism. it rPlUhea in auKn i it UP some ct H. wn 1U'i Sle Borf. li A PAtTEB If be- oor ti. KUr WHKX Model Poor FarTZ ader of The WM" County poor use Ct or letters to ine star.

he days passed and the plight of but in Saline County Nets Profit of $1,500 pauP" ooupera in iviciecle, innas ana er- Csunty lu "'Hfli Hudson, Miracle Man, Keeps Patients Oc-j in ror tatm Th 'r. ua's ied With Congenial Work, and Makes AfouTi: Jr" to Jir. crops and Dairy Pay All Expenses. 1 1 Will Ht i i i Don. time tnristian Com 4 STAR'S Hfrt tiarv munihj ill arm co n'aymc narrmu or ihr rh tl fk, Sr.r Ml hirTJlM0 OVU'B Like Junk.

.7 Use: I County ohnases at Jc. tlr 'i Mir i known hi, Tnor Are Chained Missouri i 1 virtu.liy lo glos. over ke ana pll to It parUcuUrly an i.e.--- c-edwn- i1. vnei in from countien r.er ru me Film. methods were suggested, but it was Attorney General Barrett who outlined the most feusit)le ilan.

Barrett joiggfi-ted that if ai law were passed permitting counties to group in the location, erection and maintenance of one almshouse for the use of several counties. Ideal poorhouses could he provided. It had been previously determined that the neglect of the institutions was due, in a large measure, to a lack of funds, and Barrett's suggestion was adopted. The legislature convened in and Gov. Hyde, in hia message to the senate and house of representatives, in joint session, urged that measures he adopted to corect the conditions disclosed by The Star.

Following this The Star sent the staff writer who had investigated conditions in the almshouses to Jefferson City where he told senators and representatives of his findings. Percy Werner, St. Iouis attorney, then drafted a bill for The Star along the line suggested by Barrett anil on January 17 the measure was introduced in the senate by Senator Joseph Brogan of St. Iouis and in the house by Ilepresentative J. L.

Wood of Shelby County. Progress of ltill. The senate bill was referred to the committee on county courts, of which Brogan is chairman, and the house bill was sent to the committee on eleemosynary institutions, of which Wood is chairman. On the day following the introduction of the bill The Star's representative appeared before Wood's committee, told of The, Star's investigation and exhibit Bill' to Provide, for nf Oil ID non counties was disclosed the offers of aid and the pledges of cooperation increased. By the time the article dealing with the institutions in Jefferson.

Iron, Mississippi, Pemiscot and Iewls counties had been published the entire ptate was nronsod and the campaign became en undertaking of the people. Thus It was that the voice of the people was heard in the senate and house when the bill was called up ftfr passage. How Inquiry Startctl. It was a Jefferson City dispatch In The Star of November 1, summarizing the report of W. Miller, former supervisor of Jails and almshouses, to the State Board of Charities and Corrections that started the inquiry.

This report classified conditions in certain counties as "poor" and "very poor." The Star immediately f.ent a staff writer to investigate conditions at first hand. Conditions in many poorhouses were found so degrading as to be unprintable. first article was published on November 23 and in connection with it The Star said, editorially: "The leglslatnro will meet in January, at vtlilcli timo The Star liiidings will la before that laxly iiihI an effort made- by this to correct Hie unwholesome condition. That first article, dealing with Stone County, told how the writer had found the poorhouse on the summit of a bleak wind-swept ridge in the Ozark mountains; how the Huperintendent. unable to withstand the horrors of the place, had deserted it and how tlie unfortunate paupers ho were left alone and un-cared for were living on swill from garbage buckets.

petal's Almost tnlxdlevabk-. lonvicts Reade ders PooAou JKl nsirJe ill. District Poorhousesi issouris to Text of Measure Offered Today in Ugislature 8 -( fj Paupers Let Out to Result of The Star's Exposure om.vi -6 -7 r. 7.. "li o.

Inmates of Many younty Lowest Bidders in i- 4-. By Staff Correspondent. St 7-t l( i Tart 1 1 I1C i Mississippi County Wnman rII Ti bill as mtrouucea in ive Wood of bheiDy muuij, JVfcary Committee nu ocuiUl La. uu rastors for Assistance in to Eleemosynary womnuu Competition Among Poor Families Keen in Ef drafted for The ers oppose, and which mich ft hinh pchedtil of compennnllon there is not any likelihood that it will ans. There has en no construe tlve legislation by flther hous" thus fur.

The main attack thy the enemfe of the Htaie univctrity Is ctill to Whituker's r)erics of bllla normal and university I'raduatcs of their teaolier'-cet hereafter, and plaolmt th. rnntinfr of cei ifica Ioh ntlrejy the hands of the ptate upc, intend-ent of Kchoola, ni pcditical party office, Im tin the 'nritsf calendar nwnlt-iiipr final pBUBitue, The filiile is expected to kill these hills if lite farm bloc in able to pass them through the houne. According to' Males, the farm bloc agrees the Democratic policy of making the mate properly tx rate for ilie next two yenrn 5 vnti the $100 of the prefent 7 cent. There Is unanimous iiRre-mint in both hour-e anl enate fo-the abolMhment of the tate fs commlNMion. Tlie farm bloc undoubtedly will cut the appropilatloo of the fiate public imt let th lorni.iisslon Htand.

One of the curioim develop-rnentu of tlie Kittiatiou I the ignor intr of t'Jov. H) Ie Die jjr puldi a ri minority a well an by the democratic tnajcrity. An fr an 1'fln. consulted on letrir lati' by niemberH of eilfi' -r pentitu- ur hou the governor mirhf us well be in South Africa. hiti.kr If on 1h outn with the jtovernor Whitaker engineered the ref'o nd 'im on the Minty choot unit law t'vo L.

ettc Poorhouse Conditions fort to Get FeW Dollars by Housin Dependents. will rjmitamW0 WORK OF THE STAR nie lltr In ronn-rtlon I o.r of i. ed the motion picture. The bill was poorhfluje v.aa M-nt tare In county neat ami -e 'AtX -at FOR POOR PRAJSED More Money Given by Star Readers Is Spent for the Poor adiarent rountl. In Social Suggestions Made by Ameilran Woinan'e rounc-il 1 1 e.

lqilartra. 11JI hm- BY 'MODERN WEIV UjuIs. of whk Welfare Board to Aid Sjweofiey Is president: By fcditor. Kt. Ioui, Star of' f-itthr report to 1" throur.h Ivm.

It wa. hard to believe ant, tnou- and of persons doubted the truth to to' i W. Iul nnMDfh.i rj .1 Ytirnie. (HE Miourl Conference for Pocll Welfare at lt tweml tha Riaiemein wmvi wFW is meelln at Jefferson City on November 10 i' lny rubjecta, among them of 7rf urai fAtors "fn View. edHei by a.

on k. ollowln, HelDS I. "uouse Series et reported out or committee the recommendation that it be passed by unanimous vote. This same procedure was followed when the senate committee met to consider the measure on January 25 and this committee likewise reported the bill favorably by a unanimous vote. The senate bill was ordered engrossed February 2.

engrossed February 7 and read the third time and passed February 8 by a vote of 29 to 0. It was sent to the house February 9 and referred to Wood's committee. The Star's representative again appeared before the committee snd the senate bill was favorably reported without a dissenting vote. It passed yesterday. It will become a law when, after the usual procedure, it is sent to Gov.

Hyde for his signature. The governor announced yesterday that he would sign It. Ilov Was Received? 1 NAV Ala ru. wii.t SU Be Done Profcl em Una mm iiiati for be rn County Condit et'L v1 9 r.A'w.. V' The next dav The Star tol ot conditions the County Institution and asked its readers to picnic three blind women in a leaky, unhealed attic; four consumptives in a dirty one-room shack; a woman alone in a log cabin without a fire; a brother and sister in a hut of logs; four feeble old men.

two of them tghtlesw. ending their days in a filthv shanty, with a woman and foolish girl living in a tiny lean-to built against the wall. Publication of photographs, depicting th1 horrors of the institution, erased doubt. The articles continued. Dallas Count r.

the place of horrors; Vernon County, with its pitiful child in the k. Regards The "disclosed )K. Of! rr.nvi vufno Newspapers in Three Counties 1,,,.. tt' ff Ofdr-. Purpes.

"nemi. -rv- 11tor Wort. rr. Increase Discuss Campaign of The Star stu(r an R. need fr.

WU AM county ar Out 'POSe est to Improve; State Poor Farms e. St "aiel for ir inn ht. PoorhOU4e. ttf- Ir'anf Press of Jefferson, Pemiscot and Stone Coun hioo'l-'' had been beaten ana Tiiomuy who by inrnaies, jn-County, with its degrading ties Offers Suggestions and Criticism in Connection With Recent Articles. abused ferson ShamefuL 9 Is Comment Opinions of Readers of The Star On Disclosures in the Poor Farms Iron County, wnere i ur conditions; A r.

TL 17 I ll allowed 4 0 cents Biinerintendent wa prfa of M-oi-rt is 1JotjcI5- roiTi lUItiiilfe War etrrtu. clothing and and out of tar t. a day for buying food. for each immet arouvetl th 'nue or ronoi-. rton in' countr 5mboi- and' the at th.

K.Ti woman ot Kl-ort take make his own nm he h.id to I netfl tor mprsmnl ot poorfiirma I by Tb Ioai Star. of County Poorhousei Editor St, Lons Start' I ftnv jf! ravi ronrrn about tlu- i ar -j crdittoit of the unfortur'at. hud tn the rorrnosa o' Mi wrl, and to it ainp if i.ir.i wsr'on oiri of Che pror i th How was this glad news received by the forgotten inmates of the i lonely almshouses throughout the! slate? What scenes were One can picture the brief smiles that lighted sad old faces, the words' of cheer, the brightened eyes, the look of hope. One think of poor old Uncle Johnny Sheppard. down in his hut in remiscot.

and remem- bers his words: flurry 'em up, son. hurry up." And memory brings1 a picture of "Old Abe" who hohblod down from the mountains in Stone County and begged: "Have the i people to hurry and do something I for God's sake, before we're al! i dead." And poor o'd Mr. Alberts, whom the writer remembers, a he sat holding his bead in his hands In Is aco. 1 bo senate work more c'lol ly with the nat" I Itemocrats than th- do with th- (rove rn or. 1 Both lionf have thir work in hand atid unless there i deao-' lock the end over lax and uppfo-pliation Mil, the legislature ho'Kd be able- to adjoprn at the ond of the I ftpUm- March 13.

Jt may necf -fiojf to pidon-- the faction until 17 to peirct Ml'n parked at the end of the f-j ion to cigned. After v.orkinrr ten lioiitp todiv (the hecife mnif no I prog ret" in its enjtrorj'ment cahndar and ad-j jc urii'-d tonight with more than eighty mcinircK Htill pending, Ore of the bilN emtrofed by the house durinar the afrV-rnoon won th Honey niefintire prohibiting fruternl-( tie, sororities and -cret In the public HChofd. An ent to engrossment by the bousse th" wfjv jure only ajd'i'e to hiurh nehool. i It is made the duty of bool dl-j jreetot. board" of edncation, choo! Inspector" or any th authority controlling or ma rattipg ptiblb-; hoofs to expel from elool iei.l or ov t'lent who joins or be.

Many rural r.twmvm- manr t.en cor, jon. O.c -r re hostile bfio't of what la JM -n. r.rt At Urfidre aaiu ho oinr tviHa fvmtd tho Interfertsue of rtro- profit, and where pesie. the neglected little girl. as found imprisoned In a shed; Pemiscot County and Mississippi County, where the.

poor B. R- PCOCS. grfatril ff -rrimr rorod thr orinton or whs fnd 1 Movie Record of Conditions in Sorne Counties i it- Beinff Shown Afternoon and fc.vmnt 'let out unn ma at! were Courty. wnere wrecks of humanity for their Trresd it! fill Old stinctly ar.fl invariably were imprisoned In beastial fashion. The Public I Aroused.

The effect was immediate. Thousand of letters, demanding that conditions be corrected, were received from persons throughout Missouri at cs. lUhongh no nation of contract expire Mar. '4, 152 -i cox, tract i'li r'Jisins their r- WICKERSHAM CHOSLN HEAD OF LAW REFORM INSTITUTE The the senate can otint; on motions final disposition of the measuit. Hy 4 6 to it favored taking it up.

This, supported n- tne i-ewis i poornouse. with hi wife by his side, smoothing his hair, only shook bis hibiiion here Tuesday. Wednesday lind Thursday the Ho- '1. Tlie Missouri organization in the National Hardware liich iiiis approximately univiai reports are trial during-; of January th workers i -thre' indtitri-s! rii $1 in when the writer promised that the' nts of the subsidy, panl to 41. ari hour.

Fii-" nriirr -d Tnur: i.y f.s. that jnd of the l.Ci( pwid'crii wai these wou'ii pro' Jjhiy be a nrnl ir.iti' a I hrmiirhont SHI.VGTUN'. Feb. 24. (By I.

The council of the Ameri- he people would do something he Uniivil States wfrc i ti. or the motion to recomn a rpeal was made for fundi Hollars were forwsr'i i to The ires. never lived to learn that the people fivcR a lva a v.i licp? a p- an ctt. ober the money tnr rebof work and t.u-li? to become ctlon of or- under the 11 i ranged from one per ceni 'on Iaw Irustitute, in session here: fi-ldv elected W. Wicker- of New York former Unitert i yiat'-'s attorney R- rtral.

as executive president. Koot. internation- VMall--, I'rt-tr lii--'zn-. I'M, Uf any public school fratrniy. jrcriv or scret Stati? ii.iiuw.irp ana tur II Wr.r'riri TaiiM secretary of trie A kit 11 ni i.r sit over 1 tiir ok i-t a Ro'-i-on.

recoil: mii, sote we Ti senate ai.s.'jy and oill. i a to ereemen Monday, from the bills. to ppn per II Fp're-r KJ- MAN SHOT KIDNAFED IN CROWDED CHICAGO CAFE UPWARD WAGE TREND SEEN BY TRADES COUNCIL NEWS for n.his that -u'd of Charities and Corrections. Even the convicts in the Mhsou maet. The report mary a'ivamvs are opening of spri becinr.inir of the hu.v 5 d--, who came here four from M.

to the Hroadwav Prcfbv- aisy known, lawyer, was made honorary president the lnftitution. The institute aims to clarify the American ltral code. ttitioipatd thv ison. K-i 24 illy r. p.

viate htd read, took up a collect. on to aid the paupers. Kelief expedition wer- ar. 1 truck loads of sup of th -I oni To Iloror ti. V.

oodo'alc candidates for alder, man ho gueft of honor at a lincbeon of the Hepubb'-an Worn-an's at the Annricin Annex, at 12.1a p. m. Saturday. Kdgar of the chamber of Corn-m'-rce ittl -ptik on the bend ifs'l's program. PAINTERS' STRIKE MAY BE.

AVERTED BY CONFERLNCE olir- r'orribe' haunt jcht for to mysterious jtint and id pinp todny an l- 't. -Th vance. crease of courfe, i No mployf is the jay of his ADMINISTRATION MEM AGREE tri.m Cht-reh, mode antiounc-ment today that 1 had tesign'-d and -'--ped a as'cjt-ite to tne Presbyterian Church at nokey Yu. He iI remain here tint SI Krvfter fim-y, April 1. poinsr to in-' workers un- I TO KILL SHIP BILL MONDAY is unidentified strnricer in South Side cabaret.

A near-panic was crfcated wh-n two r.ejj rushe,) the doorway of the rftary i an- following J. Eiifenrin. the I'a intern' r.cunced yesterday that Vrteen the plies were sent to several oi ire in-, Scores of package? con-j mining food and clothing were sent to more distar.t counties by mail. Then came The Star's motion pic- ture. depleting at first hand condi- tir.s in some of the institutions.

It was released at the Missouri The-1 ter and the thousand who viewed it i left the theater deeply im- making some money, and! he is makinsr. the "larger i is likely to make. Work- i never lose sicht of the a prosperous employer is i WASHINGTON. Frb. 2 4., By the mere advance ers must fact that "ff.

fe.ie 1 flw-ir victim council and crowc "vVafte Trn-i is is th it 1 of th Teadinjr cdiloria! In the-current issue ct the Trades Council News, the official organ of the St. Louis BuiMing Trades Council. The editcrial says: "After several years of marked and stubborn downward trend in the waces of labor America. St is most ratifying to be a bio to report that a has for tho btte" nl that the direction of revisions of wage schedules In this country now' two Paint- a of the Master fin. no Irag-ed and i to to a a a y.

i X. S. The ship subsidy bill, battered by ten weeks of bi-partisan attacks in the senate, was struck its death How this afternoon when ad-nrinistr-ition lender formally an-: they would f-r to toss it Saving 20 to 40 National Casli Registers Cash or Terms He-pa irs gUen juxmipt atwntioik fiot prioc- HOWE SCALE CO. 514 St. Charles St.

ers' Association, it is expected a-i agr'fitifnt will be reached htri -ow ard March 15 that wii! ei.tni-i-ate the- jrf.ssibi'ity of a srik-. Hardware Men Coming. their host bet of thir wsj" ditions. This human nature as humanitv. for the improvement and employment con-; is a manifestation cf that is as i It comes from a law lie uri Hardware A 1 x.t- ill il.Vf.

pressed. Ways and means of rem- lying ondiuoa were discussed aad many death Monday. tioa win hold its twenty-fif aniitial for convention a.a-1 cleventli annual ex-j had 5en "xpecteo. The painters h4 been calU learislative after the away to a irhortly that cannot be rejie;" announcement.