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Show Friday, Febraury 1, 1929 THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH Legislature Urged to Provide for Feeble-Minde- d U-al- i ! by ? Governor Dern, Welfare Organizations Clubs, and Mental Hygiene Society. in some conflict with organized soInciety. And because the particular dividual concerned is neither insane, deaf and, dumb nor blind he does not draw public sympathy. The mental blindness which impells him to take the wrong turning does not show. To e citizen the the transgressor with the mental age of eight years looks about like everyone else. This fact makes It even mors imperative that some scientific and institution be provided for their care. In commenting on the fate of a ty child under existpical ing conditions, the society says: Lack of success In the school room makes the mentally defective child unhappy, restless and frequently delinquent. Hishome life may be economically depressed. When he reaches the limits of his capacity to learn In the class room, and has neither a job nor the endurance to stay in school, the truant officers may do the only thing left for them to provide some care for the misfit turn him over to the juvenile court. Onesuch boy became a ward of the court under the following circumstances: He was a confirmed truant with the actual age of eleven and the mental age of eight years. His mother was a moron drug addict, and no matter how much money his indus- Utah Is one of only three states In th j entire country which has not a separate Institution for the , care of Its according to a recent report of the United States bureau of census on pro-Tide- d feeble-minded- feeble-minde- d state Institutions. Realizing the urgent need for such an institution the Utah Society for Mental Hygiene is leading in a movement to urge upon the legislature the necessity of making an appropriation to buildi a home for this class of unlos amates and provide them with the training necessary to make them useful members of society. The seriousness of the present situation is shown by facts gathered under the direction of the society. They bring out very forcibly that the neglect of the results in criminality and degeneracy, all the more pitiful because It ceuld be prevented. Under proper care potential criminals could be made into useful ciftzens. According to a survey made in Utah by Dr. George L. Wallace director of the committee on mental hygiene in the United States, and other reliable information available there are about 500 children In this state in pressing need of custodial care. Dr. Wallaces investigation shows that Utahs percentage of is from one to one and f per cent. trious father earned the children nevThe present haphazard manner of er had enough satisfying food. Varwho ious persons attempted to do somecaring for the few are given any attention these unfor- thing with the family, but they could tunates, according to figures compiled not break it up in time to salvage the by the society, is costing the taxpay- children. All the children stole wheners much more proportionately than ever hunger pressed them too savif a central institution were provided agely, and the older girls, with their for this purpose. mother's approval, entered Into llvea The per capita cost of providing for of shame. children in the Salt ; The boy already mentioned and hla Lake City public schools for forty older brother became wards of the juweeks of the school year, six hours venile court, both progressing through a day, five days a week, is $70. For the Detention Home, the Industrial instruction in the Twelfth school for school, the city and county jails to the the same length of time the per cap- j penitentiary. The younger boy la a ita cost for the same amount of in- j killer. Whenever he is hungry he struction Is $243. The cost to the holds up the first person that crosses state department of public instruction his path. So far nothing but hla for the thirty-fou- r and three-tenth- s him from poor aim has saved weeks of the elementary school year choosing whether he would rathar ha for six hours a day, five days a week, shot or hanged. He has served two is $77, according to the findings of terms In the state prison and is now the society. at large. Although the boy has been According to a report of the director a ward of the state of Utah since he of education at the State Industrial was eleven years old he Is still unschool, twenty per cent of the inmates trained to earn his living. When n are and the per capita small boy he liked shop work and cost of caring for them is more than might, at one time, have been trained $394 a year. This is not considered info social and economical usefulness. a fair per capita cost since it includes The society believes that hundreds many items that cannot be fairly of human beings like this could ba salAt the vaged and not onl ysaved from downcharged to individual same time many counties are paying fall but made useful and $360 per capita for the care in private ing citizens through the training which houses for their d charges. a state institution for the None of the foregoing schools or inwould provide. stitutions, the society point out, Is It Is reasonable to believe the fw equipped to train the cent crime committed against Juan either in correct social habits or In Nelson could have been prevented labor. should the offender received proper Many socially disastrous experienc- medical and mental care. The public es of neglected individ- should demand an institution that uals of the higher type are related by woould provide careani training for social workers who often contact them our most petiful unfortunates. In feeble-minde- avt-rag- d d feeble-minde- feeble-minde- d feeble-minde- feeble-minde- d d d ons-hal- feeble-minde- How would you like a washer that children could play about without harm. . . One that had no old-fashion- button-smashin- ed We have made it so easy for every woman to have this new EASY Washer that now everyone should have this modern labor- saver. Pay a little down and a little each month and before you know it, your EASY will be paid for. g crease-pressin- g, feeble-minde- wringer...One that would damp-dr- y a whole batch of clothes ready for the line in less than two minutes do it while the big tub washed? That is what the latest EASY Washer does. The wringer has been replaced by a sepatub. This new device rate extracts all the water automatically. It is faster... easier... safer... gentler. A gas heater under the large tub provides hot water. A trouble-fre- e pump empties all water. No lifting nor carrying water. You just boss the job with this superb new EASY. old-fashion- damp-dryin- ed g Your weeks washing without charge no exposed moving parts. Operation simple and automatic. Safe Removes water more 5 6 Breaks no buttons or 7 Takes out more water than wringing does. Leaves clothes evenly 8 See this marvelous new EASY Wavher work in your home... on your clothes. Prove to your- 9 self f hat it w ill do all v, e say ic wdl. A phone call 10 will bring ope of our demon strator s t o do y our washing any day you say ..and wlihout charge. Phone ouo. gently than most delicate hands can. No strain cm fabrics does not crack silk or rayoc garments. Leaves blankets and wool- ens fluffy and unstretebed. d d I J metal fasteners. feeble-minde- damp and free from deep, hard creases. Makes ironing easier. Damp-drie- s the difficult pieces -- overalls, sweaters, c nforters and even pillows. self-respe- feeble-minde- feeble-minde- feeble-minde- g feeble-minde- Also built with 4-cy- gasoline meior for homes ivithout electricity The TOWN DOCTOR (The Doctor of Towns'! The One Price House - DIXON - TAYLOR IF I RUSSELL GO Those Who Use the OREM LINE Ride Cheaply and Safely WEEK END EXCURSIONS - Tayson to Salt Lake City and return Provo and return. FOR THE GOOSE is like a business MARRIAGE can be lost from start-Iwith too little capital, or losin con fldence on the way. - There's no excuse for a woman lookin ugly after shes dressed. FOR THE GANDER It ony takes one man to write a show that It keeps fifty men busy puttin on. PAYCON nCE & COAL COMPANY You cant change a tire 1 'A town, that is good enough to live in, good enough to provide your livelihood, provide your children with schools and playgrounds; a town whose citizens are broadminded enough to nut up with your peculiarities, is a town good enough for you to boost. If you cant boost, do the at least one favor and move out. William Hale Thompson. Chicagos most cussed and discussed mayor Throw away your hammer a ndbuy a horn. Thats one thing says Mr. Thompson says with which all the thinking people in his domain are in accord. It is good advice, however, to suggest that when tooting your horn to be sure you hre in the right key. The mane who always knocks and runs down the place where he lives is not only a pest but a public liability. Towns should have a place to pen such people up put them all together in one place and let them contaminate only each other. The disease they have is worse than smallpox and is just as malicious and contagious. Whatever is is punk. The knockers creed is The easiest thing in the world to do is to knock. It doesnt take any brains and it is the easiest way to attract attention, i Koncking is cheap a cheap trick used only by cheap people, but expensive to them in the long run. Even a knocker hates a koncker and sooner or later everybody shuns him because they are afraid of him. Usually the fellow who knocks his town, knocks his competitor and his neighbor and like a bee kills himslef stinging others. Nobody ever got anywhere running other people down. The old saying that every knock is a boost is true only when the knocker is knocked out. If any merchant needs to lose the patronage of his fellow citizens its the fellow who is forever knocking who decries and belittles every attempt to do anything for, or make something of the town who says that every fellow or organization that tries to do things has an axe to grind On the' other hand, the man who stops blaming conditions, government, prohibition and competition the man who quits laying the blame of his own shortcomings onto his associates, friends and relatives and takes unto himself the blame for things not being as he would like to have them taht man will take advantage of every opportunity to make his town a better place in which to live, work, play and make money. Every town has its faults, but every town has its good. If a town has little to talk about, that is just that much more reason to correct the faults or at least keep still about them if a man hasnt enough gumption to do things that will help correct them. Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone. 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