Show MAJORITY OF RURAl SCHOOlS UNFIT FR FOR USE SAYS CORWIN OT only a few fow but the vast majority ma mn- N NOT jorl of ot rural schools of or the United States are unfit for human use because of oC according to Dr R. R V. IV Corwin of ot Pueblo who ho spoke y yesterday morning before the National atonal Council Counci of Education at Barratt DarraH hall ball hall Following tho delivery delvery of oC this address and the he discussion the council counci voted unanimously to request the e executive committee of ot the association to appropriate appropriate appropriate 1500 for tho the committee In chargo chars of ot the work Dr Corwin said that tho the American Medical association had hd rendered valuable valuable valuable val val- service In operating co-operating co with wih the N. N E. E A. A committee and had offered to continue tho the work matching dollar dolar for dollar dolar the N. N E E. A. A expense fund You ma may Judge from the report read by Dr Di Wood oot whether you are satisfied with wih conditions of the tho rural schools said gald Dr Corwin Could you ou have havo Imagined that any part of oC our country contained and uphold schools violating most or all al the principles of sanitation and whose existence or use tiso is a disgrace to any any civilized d community com corn that not a few fow but a majority of ot the rural schoolhouses are unfit for uso use because of ot that In Inmany Inmany inmany many sections of ot tho country the aver- aver ago ase rural schoolhouse In relation to its ia purpose is not as well wol kept or aa as a healthful as a a a. a good stable dairy barn pl pig pen or chicken house But what more moro could be bo expected of ot a government that creates a cabinet cabinet cab cab- inet met department for animals but falls fails fals to recognize ona ond for tor man that appropriates appropriates millions milons for tor brute heredity and little nothing for tor human humane or eu eugenics ou- ou genies And too to think that these conditions conditions condi condi- tons of ot the rural schoolhouses should exist In tho the oldest and most thickly settled portion porton of ot our republic republic republic-in ln in the vcr very verj hub of ot our land within almost calling distance of or some of or the grandest grand grand- oat est temples of ot education tho the world has hns ever o er known Conditions of at r Disease It I Is b bad d enough to know that 15 out of ot the tho school children children chil chil- chi chi- dren in tim the United States are arc diseased and unhealthy that p persons are socially unfit that infected people walk wall the to streets of ot New York Cit City dally daily daiY that people ople In the United States are suffering suf sur- faring fering from syphilis That our country permits several million milon business prostitutes to promote their That venereal diseases cause one- one eighth of or all al human suffering That we punish the drinker Instead of ot the seller seler That we O criticize the use of ot cigar cigar- eta ets and amid permit their manufacture That hat it costs a a. year to care for patients patents suffering from mental mental mental men men- tal diseases in public institutions That insanity is increasing more than twice as rapidly as as' as o our r population tion Uon 11 1 to 25 That heart disease Is 57 67 per cent more prevalent than fifty years ago and that kidney diseases have havo increased per pel cent In lb tho last half hal century School Sanitation Also AIno All Al this Is bad bad bad-bad bad enough enough but but I think that wo we should permit the exis- exis tense tenso of schools that are arc de health health-de and moral corrupting moral and I teach by illustration tile the vilest of or sanitation sani sani- tation as reported by the chairman of ot your committee is well wel nigh incomprehensible ble No No heaping of oC wealth no amount of culture will wil avail al a unless as ns a people people peo peo- pie we have havo health Is a n statement made recent recently by ono one of or your our foremost educators and no educator will wil contradict contradict contradict con con- this statement There aro arc many disgraceful things that havo have been tolerated and and Indifferently onty permitted that demand attention and correction In our schools we find 2 per cent of oC children known to bo ho minded feeble in some schools as high as 30 per cent and cent and this does docs not in- in chide tho the higher class of ot defectives those who run nU away with wih tho chauffeur chaut- chaut faur who supply the tho courts with wih di divorce divorce di- di vorce torce cases feed tho the prisons and necessitate ne no- tIme the employment of detec detec- tives Improving Human Stock If It I for 01 the tho next years our schools would discontinue all al higher and aesthetic education and devote all al their energy to Improving the human stock to feeding and breeding to teach teaching In that acquired traits die with the time body and Inherited traits pass to the next generation that the laws Jaws of oC heredity are aro constant and are aro the same for foz bug and man to developing athletically cal cally tho weak weale pupil pupi Instead of ot tho the strong making the tho average Improvement Improvement improvement Improve Improve- ment of ot health In school a prize winning winning win win- ning contest Instead of or tho the fastest mile mie mieor or highest jump If it 1 ever every normal school and teachers' teachers college should give Ive thorough Instruction in health sciences sciences sciences and every teacher be obliged to pass a 0 rigid examination In these sciences science's ad- ad ence's s before being qualified to teach tench In tho the public schools If I tho the people be taught that environment is important but heredity more marc Important and eu eugenics eugenics eu- eu genies most Important and that through eugenics Is la tho the on only I hope of oC Improving our race raco or saving our nation nation naton na na- na- na tion ton at the end of tho century wo |