The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-17

SCHOOL at oL. AntnOuy 10 WHICH we
send our boys and girls for correction
and after the next year we hope to
have separate schools of this nature
for boys and girls. Echoes has In
mind much needed public institu-
ton, however, an asylum for the
feeble minded. Possibly we might
put it, the INDECENT feeble minded, for
it would not seem necessary for the
state to provide for such unless they
are destitute of means. 1t does not
seem right that they should be con-
fined with the really insane people as
, at present. Also we believe that the
most of them are capable of earning
a competence, under proper direc-
ton.
The keystone is placed on our ex-
change list. We shall thus be in d.
rect communication with much south
ern territory.
Club women in South Carolina
were especially interested in three
measures before their general as
sembly and the following summing
up of the fate of these measures will
be interesting not only to South Car
DINA club women but to all Southern
club women
\ The bill to create a Free Travelling
Library commission, which was being
worked for by the club women of
South Carolina, was favorably re-
ported by the committee, and had
many friends, but it was blocked in
several directions, and although 1t
carried the small appropriation of
five hundred dollars it failed to pass.
While this is disappointment to
the club women it is not discour-
agement, for they believe in the value
and usefulness of such measure for
the betterment of the intellectual and
educational uplift of their various
communities, because they have
practical experience in responding to
the demands of the people in every
part of the state for travelling librar-
les.
Allied with the best in culture, in
fuence and education in the state;
unhampered by any obligations to re-
pay; untrammelled by any entangling
alliances; free from all self-seeking
and endowed with an unlimited sup
ply of enthusiasm and application,
the club women of South Carolina
! will work all the harder for this
measure at succeeding sessions OF the
general assembly.
The subject has now ben put be-
fore the legislature, and with a great
err familiarity with 1t and a clearer
understanding of it's possibilities,
there is no doubt but that the time
will come when free library oppor-
tunities for all the people of the
state will be sought for and secured.
The bill providing for the estab-
lishment of kindergartens in the pub
lie school system, under certain con-
ditions, presented under the direction
of the kindergarten workers among
the club women, and heartily endors-
ed and worked for by the clubs gen
orally, failed to pass.
THE appropriation for the Reform
atory and Industrial School for Way
ward Boys, also so, earnestly worked
| for by South Carolina club women,
| received favorable consideration by
the legislature to the extent of ten
thousand dollars for the continuance
of the work on that institution. This
reformatory idea has been before the
club women of South Carolina for
years; the first year the bill establish
ing such school failed to pass; the
second year the bill passed and an
appropriation of four thousand dol
lars was made; the third year, al
though the site had been secured and
the four thousand dollars appropri-
ated had been expended to begin the
work, no appropriation was made,
and so the work stood still. This re-
cent appropriation of ten thousand
dollars portent that the value of
this necessary institution is finally
taking hold of the minds of the men,
bers of the general assembly.
Thus we see that failure at first
presentation of an idea is always pos
sible, but If there is merit and worth
In the plan eventually it will receive
recognition. Let the libary and the
kindergarten workers take heart and
apply themselves this coming year in
promoting the usefulness of their de-
partments, keeping carefully all
statistics in regard to their influence
and popularity among the masses of
the peOple and at the nayt paotinp