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Show STATE WILL SURVEY TIE FEEBpiiDED Investigation to Be Undertaken Under-taken for Purpose of Abiding Abid-ing Children. I A state survey of the feeble-minded children and adults of Utah will be started the middle of August under the direction of a commission created by an act of the last legislature. This commission comprises Dr. D. R.jC'alder, Dr. S. G. Plummer and Dr. K. G. Gow-ans, Gow-ans, state superintendent of public instruction. in-struction. Dr. Gowans said yesterday he was negotiating for aid in the survey from the American Committee on Provision for the i-'eeble-Minded, which has its headquarters in Xew York. When attending the National Education Educa-tion convention recently, Dr. Gowans conferred with executives of the American Ameri-can committee, who expressed much interest in-terest in the projected Utah survey. Since his return Dr. Gowans has corresponded corre-sponded with them, and is hopeful that they wiil send a special field worker to assist the state commission. The state commission has already engaged its own field worker. She is Miss Sadie Myers of this city. Miss Myers is now in the east studying the care of the feeble-minded in those states, .but is expected home to rake up her work in the Utah survey early in August. "Considerable preliminary work will have to be done, ' ' said Dr. Gowans yesterday, "before the active field work can start. Questionaires will have to be prepared and other preliminaries attended to. "One thing, though, the commission wants the people of the state to understand under-stand from the start and that is that this survey is for the purpose of studying study-ing the needs of the feeble-minded and improving their chances in the world, so the commission wants and expects the fullest co-operation of the people in its investigations." |