Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-23 | Page 12 | Mental clinic Soon Will be Common Hinckley Says

I CM m ILL BE Mil j HINCKLEY SMS i',' "The time is coming when clinics ; to test the mental age of citizens will jl he established and persons will be given opportunities to develop along: 'j: lines their mental qualifications indi-j cate," E S. Hinckley, superintendent 1 j ! of the State Industrial school, said last night at a meeting of the Parent- , Teachers' association of the Mound Fort school. Superintendent Hinckley sald'there ! was great need for. conservation of the j. human race. He gave statistics on the number of babies who died before ,j reach 1 year and of ohiltlren who die ( before reaching school age. j J There is far more feeble minded j ness than the average person est:- mates, he said, and he added that near-I near-I ly everybody was "short'1 on some jf The superintendent said he -was ac- jj! nuaintcd with the greatest bridge , builder in America. "That man," he j: said, "was the worst truant in his ! neighborhood when he was of school i; age. Ho was dirty and ragged and j nothing seemed to interest him. But I he was directed along his natural bent : through the efforts of a woman who I jtook pains to find out what thing In-j j tercsled him the most. She went to I work when he told her he "would like to build a bridge larger than the ' Brooklyn bridge." , Children leave school because they t don't like it, he said. How to interest i them in school work, he declared, was an important problem. ! oo