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Show BKLEf m Hi . Industrial School He Tells Rotarians Task Is Vital One. j Training Youth Remedy Radical Menace, Says the Speaker. i The proper moiding of Lie eiunuue the youth of the country is tho must portant task beforo the nation today S. Hinckley, superintendent of tho i industrial school at Ogden, id in address before the Salt Lake Rotary at its luncheon yesterday. "Tho Bolsheviki, the L W. Y other radicals of today were ho 3 a short time ago, and had thin- ) given right training in youth they' ni be useful citizens ins lead of a limnr1 civilization," Mr. Hinckley said, The" lary club will do its part in influciv the youth of the state for rlniit, ja, Y. Collins, president of tlie , uh. f: The subject was referred tu th conr tee on boys' work, of wnich l.ir. Smith, city superintcialent of school! chairman. iIr. Hinckley attributed dHlnquJ among hoys to three causes: luur; on the part of the parents, and esierJ" fathers, as io what t lie hoy needH;-poverty, needH;-poverty, which in some eases unite necessary for 'boys to steal in ordei obtain food, and makes it iiupossilil'i tho start for the boy to havo a real e'lj in the world, and to feebk'-niinilcin which Mr. Hinckley termed one of Q great problems. He said the f-rc' factor contributing to dcliniuem.j broken homes. Broken Homes Blamed. "Broken homes are responsible for"1 per cent of the delinquent diilJmi, Utah. 's "It Is a strange fact, bin there ai'" per cent more fathers dead in tl families than there are niollujiV said. "When the father dies the ri support and mainstay of the fumilj'pl tfone. When many of the boys conn the school they are -woefully iimlei i poorly clothed and suffering from rjc nutrition. Very often a boy will i ten pounds in thirty days. t "Gentlemen, there are women and (I dren hungry at home in tliis city it is nut strange that the children come delinquent. The foud fiutstioi-l one of the important things. Prick- nif it impossible for most of thc ;uill ask for food, and children often from sheer d us pe ration. "When these people com (5 to yon -employment, don't turn them ;tw;iy i when there is no w ork, but inveMlj :: their rendition and see if ou emmet in some way. "Remember, t he food question . ; of the most Important tbhi;:s in lifi?. we can't expect boys to grow up prop.: unless they are properly fed." In commenting on the fcf-nle-mhc ess in the United States. Mr. Mine! , said three in every 1000 students in p ' lie schools are feeble-minded, and on: these only one in ten is being adcn.ua . cared for. He said in Utah no provli -whatever was made for the feeble-romt ; for out of the students of the in-hisi school, he said. 14 per cent of the I'- -are feeble-minded and per cent of . girls. These students, as well as :u ' feeble-minded of the state, snoukJ, -plaeed in a separate institution, h: ( .; Feeble Minded Problem. Rotarians and besiness men should only lend their support in ormHcitb.!? ' linqueney, but also should urge that le-:; lation be enacted providing fpr such-, institution. Mr. Hinckley asserteil. gave statistics showing that the bWh among the feeble-minded greatly excel-that excel-that of people of culture. . Joseph Decker, chairman of a conn tee of Rotarians framing a repolu V" to be sent to congress urtring prpfrl --road --road legislation, outlined a mi:nr:r plans on how railroads should lie 1 ., eraterl which he nsked be given i ; sideration, so an Intelligent vote c be taken later. The rosobitioii framed will be sent to the intenjW-Aj Rotarv officers to he mailed tn for approval, and then v. ill be se:it u ?-LL Visiting Rotarians inlrodneod a: ... flav's luncheon -.ver" H. 0. Ogden. Dr. Frank Tvler of K-Mm :-: Slaleolm Moore of Philadelphia and Jensen of Seattle. : -. A feature of tlm banquet wastes Ing of the Rotarinn Rusty on;iru-t, c . posed of Bishop David A. Smuf. ai Best, Roval W. Daynes and Gr-e Pyper. with Edward P. Kimoall 9 companist. |