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Show Mil i BEEN SPENT TO AID AFFLICTED At the opening of the convention i..r the deaf this morning there was mi attendance of 90 delegates, including in-cluding graduates of this year, and it was demonstrated that even greater interest in the work of the conven tion was greater than yesterday. Superintendent F. M. Driggs gave the convention a splendid history of the school, calling attention to the great advancement that had taken place, and also the achievements of graduated students. Mr. Driggs said that the students had all proved a credit to the school and he trusted that they would continue to hold up the highest possible standard of industry', in-dustry', honesty of purpose and morality moral-ity which now characterizes the institution. in-stitution. Many reminiscences of pleasing interest to the students were related by Mr. Driggs, covering a period pe-riod of years. Mr Driggs told the convention that since the beginning of the school, 30 years ago, there had been an attendance attend-ance of 391 and that there are now in the school 135 students. He called attention to the fact that six arc now doing college work; sixty-five have in , ii graduated and that liT0 have left the achool and taken Up various vocations. vo-cations. The cost during that time, the superintendent su-perintendent related, has been Just a round million dollars. He said that the state had spent this amount of mono tri't.'ly but economically for the good of both the deaf and the blind of Utah and surrounding country, and he felt that the efforts of the governing govern-ing power of Utah were fully appreciated. appre-ciated. He admonished the members mem-bers of the convention to show their complete appreciation by the very best efforts in industry and the intellectual in-tellectual uplift of the afflicted. At the convention this morning there were twenty-nine adult male deaf, all of whom are employed in respectable re-spectable and self-supporting vocations. voca-tions. A report showed that thirteen are farmers, three laborers, three teachers, three carpenters, three shoemakers, shoe-makers, one printer, one ice cream dealer, one porter and one inventor Miss Mary Woolslayer gave an interesting in-teresting and Instructive address on domestic science as applied to the home. The young lady is totally deaf, but next year she will complete her course In domestic science in the state university. She resides at Woods CrobS. Partial election of officers was accomplished ac-complished at the forenoon session and the others will be elected this afternoon. Those elected this morning morn-ing wen-. Paul Mark. Ogden, prest-dcut, prest-dcut, Mary Woolslayer, Woods Cross, vice-president; Carl Hertell, Lehi, vice-president Treasurer and secretary will be elected during the afternoon session, i The program of the day will conclude with an entertainment at the school, i Part of the day tomorrow will be spent at the Hermitage in Ogden canyon. President Mark is among the prosperous pros-perous shoemakers of Ogden. He is a graduate of the Kansas school for the deaf and blind. Yesterday afternoon Elgin Jacobs, a former student of the state school, addressed the convention on the industrial in-dustrial condition of the deaf in Utah and Idaho. His remarks were listened listen-ed to with much interest, as they brought out the fact that the deaf are an industrious self-supporting part of the communities where they live Mr. Jacobs said that at least one-half one-half of the deaf students take up farming and stock raising, most of them making marked success in that line. The other most prominent industries in-dustries which the deaf take up. the speaker said, are shoemaklng, carpentry carpen-try and printing. Most of the farmers own their own land. President Elizabeth DeLong of the association spoke interestingly of the good behavior of deaf students and said that they were not of the criminal crim-inal class, nor were they burdens on the people. She said that most of the cases where persons were found begging beg-ging under the pretext of deafness as a disability to work for a living, were found to be imposters and not afflict nl with deafness |
