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Show HEIST GREAT Hi ! SfflLJpiiS Association Having to Do. With Pupils, Patrons and Teachers Active. The parent-Teacher league of the Emerson Em-erson school met February 1 In the Le j Grand chapel. Dr. E- G. Go wans ad- j drtFsed the league on "Prevention, Rather I Than Cure." Dr. Gow&ns urged preven- i ticn In connection with the care of the feeble-minded. He said: In the United States there are about tfiX feeble-minded persons, of whom only about 15 per cent aru properly caved for. In the State Mental Men-tal hospital there is a department for feeble-minded, but it is entirely inadequate in-adequate in size and equipment and Is full to its capacity now. More than 0 per cent of the children in the State Industrial school are feebleminded feeble-minded and 60 per cent of the crim- lnal class are In like condition. The only way to prevent the increase of this clasa at present Is to have institutions in-stitutions where they can be carefully care-fully protected. Dr. Gowans spoke of many cases that have come under his own observation of i feeble-minded girls, who, being physically j attractive, have married and reproduced : their own kind. These are a few of the , many reasons, he said, for asking the ; legislature to establish a greatly needed; Institution. G. S Glbbs of the Twelfth school was , the next speaker. He defined the two j terms eo often confused with each other, Insanity and feeble-mindednesB, thus; The demented mind Is the mind j thrown off its usual trend by disease. This mind goes up the scale to the j normal, then back to abnormality. ! The feeble mind has never come into ! its own. There is the retarded mind, which may be the result of lack of proper stimuli or a condition of the nervous system. Many children could be taken from homes where they are burdens and where nothing is done to develoo their mentality and put Into Institutions where they may be taught the simple things that children of their psychological ages can do, and thus be made happier and healthier. The feeble-minded should never bo placed with the insane, as the feebleminded feeble-minded are generally more in need of an educator than a physician, while with the insane both are needed. Mr. Gibbs gave thirteen reasons why. In bis opinion, the legislature should be asked for an institution for the feebleminded. feeble-minded. The Hamilton school Parent-Teacher association will meet tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, professor George A- Eaton, supervising principal of the high schools, will discuss "The Relation of Parents to Their Children's School Report." A short musical programme will precede the discussion. dis-cussion. The Parent-Teacher association of the Lowell school will meet at 3:46 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Misa Fannie Buckbee will speak on "The Needs of the School From a Teacher's Standpoint," and there will be a vocal solo by Mre. Lennie S. Riter. Patrons and teachers of the Lafayette school will meet tomorrow evening at S o'clock In the assembly room of the Lafayette La-fayette building, under the auspices of the Home and School league. Principal L. 31. Gillilan of the West Side high school will deliver an address on the subject, sub-ject, "Value of Technical Training for Boys." In addition, there will be a musical mu-sical programme by three of the Lafayette teachers. Before the close of the meeting there will be an opportunity for patrons to discuss dis-cuss with teachers the progress of individual indi-vidual pupils. The teachers desire to become be-come better acquainted with the patrons. They hope to see every patron present. |