| Show Utah Ut t Legislature Urged to Provide for Minded Feeble-Minded b by Go Governor e r nor Dern Welfare Organizations C l bs S and Mental Menial Hygiene Society Utah e e of ot only three states Inthe In tho the ent ant entry which has not provided provided pro pro- vided Ff arato institution for the care o. o its minded feeble-minded according to a it report of tho United d States bureau of lr census on feeble minded In state institutions flesh Reali tg Ig the urgent need for such an hie lut ion tho the Utah Society for tor Me Mc al l l Hygiene is leading in a n to urge upon the legislature legislature legisla legisla- ture the necessity of ot making an p. p to a home for this cIa class o of mO an and provide them with th tt training necessary to make mako them u useful members of ot society the iila of tho present situation sit sit- i 3 shown by facts gathered under under un un- der tic it of the society They L biu- biu iu u o 01 vary forcibly that tho the neglect of tho r f minded le results in crimin slaty ax ar u i j degeneracy all nil the tho more mOle pitiful pitiful pit pit- bt inse it could bo ho prevented Und r gop r r caro care potential criminals could l b 11 i J made Into useful cl zens ili-g ili g to a survey made In iu Utah by Dr Br L L. L Wallace director of the tha committee on mental hygiene in In Inthe the United States and other reliable reli rell- able abla abl In a available there thero are about minded feeble-minded children in inthis inthis this st state fa in pressing need of custodial custo custo- custodial dial dirl cai u Dr Wallaces Wallace's investigation shown s that chat Utah's percentage of n is from one ono to one no and andon on one half lal per cent I The present haphazard manner of caring T the few minded feeble-minded who are aro gi giu u ii any attention these un unfortunates for according to figures complied compiled by the is costing the taxpayers ers mu laud more proportionately than if it a ace ce institution were provided for this purpose The r rr r capita cost of providing for i t. t Laded children in the Salt c Lako Lake Cy public schools for forty weeks reeks f the tho sCh school ol year year six sll hours I J a day re 0 a dayd ays a we week k is 70 70 For instruct r n t In the Twelfth school for tho sar sac 3 a length of time the per capita cap cap- ita Ua cost coat for cr the same Bame amount of in- in Instruct is The cost to the state de dc doe t e of public instruction I for tor the tho th ti four thirty four and three tenths weeks c 0 of t tho tto o elemen elementary s sol ool ol year yar for fo six luurs ours a day five days daY a vice T cef is v 71 according to the find iga of Vie the soc ty ding to a report of ot th the tho d t of ot at tho the In 1 l school 01 per cent cant c tho the i Ii is s 's s saro s saro aro fe- fe winded ended and t o pc p pc ca- ca ca cost o ot ring inns for them Is Isore yore ore ore t t. t I 3 1 a a Year vear This i t tot not centered cred a R fair r r caG cap cost t ace ce ce it In s many girds osis ti tu i c cannot bo fay Iy ay 1 I I 1 charge lo to up up At the Uc sa sates s r sue o many co es are aio r- r paying ying r c capita ita ta for the c ere re in io vate vale I j i houses their feeble feeble miL d ch char Id None Nl-n nc r Z the foregoing se S BC-S 13 c c. c the society point poin rut is j I equips to ft train the feeble r. d either meet social habits c oo l' l in la I cu self is g labor lr ifan n. n ally illy disastrous experienc 63 Cs of or ted ded feeble minded feeble minded Individuals Individuals individuals o of higher typo are related by I social rs rs rs who often contact them i 1 in some conflict with organized so so- clety And because the particular individual individual in in- dh concerned is neither insane deaf and dumb nor blind he does not draw V public sympathy The Tho mental blindness which him to tako take tho the wrong turning docs does not show To the average citizen the minded feeble-minded transgressor with tho mental ago of ot eight years looks about like everyone elso also This fact makes it even cen moro Imperative that somo soma scientific and well managed institution be bo provided for lor their care In commenting on tho the fate fato of a typical typical typical ty ty- minded feeble child under existing existing exist exist- ing conditions tho the society says Lack of ot success in la tho the school room makes tho the mentally defective child unhappy unhappy un un- happy restless and aM frequently delin delin- quent life may be economically economically cally depressed When he reaches the limits of his capacity to learn in tho class room and has neither a job fob northe northe nor the tho endurance to stay in school tho the truant officers may do the only thing left for them to provide somo sonio care for tho misfit turn misfit turn him over to tho the juvenile court boy became a ward of ot the court under the follow follow- following ing lug circumstances He was a confirmed truant with the actual age of ot eleven and the men mental tal ago of ot eight years His mother was lias a moron drug addict and no matter how much money his industrious Industrious Indus Indus- father earned canned the children never never nev nev- er had enough satisfying food Various VarIous Var Var- ious ions persons attempted to do something something some some- thing with the family but they thoy could not break it up In time to salvage the tho children All the tho children stole whenever when ever hunger pressed them too savagely savagely sav sav- and the older girls with their mothers mother's approval ent entered red into lives of shame The boy already mentioned and his older brother became wards of ot the juvenile Juvenile Ju ju- venile court both progressing through the Detention Home the Industrial I 1 i j school the city and county jails falls to the I 1 penitentiary The y younger unger boy Is la at aI a t I killer Whenever he be is fg hungry he holds up the first person verson that crosses I his path So far nothing but his poor aim has saved him from I choosing whether he would rather be 1 shot or hanged banged He has served two terms in tho the state prison and Is now I l at large Although the boy has been beena a yard ward of the tho state tate of Utah since he heT was T S eleven ele yea years yea old he be Is still u u.- u. tr trained ned to earn hJ ha living Whoa When n a small boy ho liked chop hop work and might at one tin time Im ha 3 been trained Into 0 co- co corl rl 1 and The c s-aty s aty ty bf baliv v th hundreds of ot hu hu- hut t T hin like t th cId be sal sale salvaged v r ed r r. J rot not cal from downfall down down- fall but IJ raide de useful and r respect rt ing ins ns through the t tr aing which a no st sta star a cn f f- f the mind ed wo we 1 1 1 pr r It Is l to believe the recent recent recent re re- cent cimo cne comm comro commit i against June Nelson could have havo been prevented should the of off er Jer ier received proper nd mental care The public L uld c C md nd an institution that wo woe Id ld provide training for our mot zt t unfortunates |
