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Show FORGET "HONOR THY FATHER" So Says.-Kansas Hospital Chief In His Report of Young People of That State. Topeka, Kan. "Honor thy father and thy mother," is a forgotten doctrine doc-trine in Kansas, declared Dr. T. C. BIddle, superintendent of the Topeka hospital for the insane, in his biennial report to the state board of control. Dr. Biddle caustically arraigns the young people of the state for their indifference in-difference toward the old. After reporting re-porting a marked increase of senile dementia de-mentia since his last report, Dr. Biddle says: "It appears that among Kansas young people 'honor thy father and thy mother' has become an antiquated dogma." Dr. Biddle declares most of the cases of senile dementia are turned over to the state because children do not care to look after their afflicted parents. They are willing to pay the state for keeping them, but will not do the -work themselves. The people are harmless, simply having a breakdown because of age. |