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Show STAGNANT WATERS. Human life either gets better or 1 worse; it does not stand still The I depths to which the race can sink are ! strikingly shown In a report on feeble- minded citizens in Pennsylvania, which has been compiled for the Public Pub-lic Charities Association of that State by Dr Wilhelmine E Key. In the northeastern part of the State a district dis-trict 700 square miles in area and having hav-ing about 10,000 inhabitants has some 500 defectives who live with their own sort and reproduce their own kind in dirty little backwoods settlements I dominated by the evil trinity of alco- hoi. Ignorance, and Immorality. These unfits cost one county oyer $10,000 each vear, and their numbers arc steadily increasing. The iortv-llv-women who were past child-hcai in-a in-a co had borne on an average seven children apiece, and five, wen- living There are half a dozen other such anas In Pennsylvania; New York Stat.' has them also, and Xew Jersey Booth Tarkington has told of such lr his story of "The Gentleman from In dlana." and the typo has been studied in Kansas. Probably every one of our States has these stagnant pools into which its worst elements drain and there multiply. Little as AmcYl cans like it, this problem must be faced. fac-ed. In the long run the facts must lie gathered and studied, and such action taken as will prevent the increase in-crease of tbo absolutely unfit OUT body politic can support many sores but there Is no good in so doing. The purpose of the State is to give ns more life aud better. olllens, |