New-York tribune., 1908-07-16

feebie-n1indsd- For years such patients have haf
to be sent from New York TO asyUms hundreds ot
miles from the city New York City has paid 20
per cent Of the support OF such asyIums. and then
has had to support a large proportion OF its own
insane and epflsptic its almshOuses. where they
have business to be- because ii practically
separating such children from their relatives FOR life
TO send them far. and hey to aldermen and
made fuss and got the children kept here. II
was really not humane to send them so far; yet
the upstate members who control the LegIslature,
determined to have the benefits CT state tnstita-
ton. spending state money. in their own localities.
would not for years give a state asylum for the
feehle-mnded Of New York city. Now at last We
are to have Haverstraw. thirty miles up the river.
where send boat every week; bat IL took
long. hard fighting 20 get IL
Il could give you similar Instances from several
states" said DR.. Kelsey where opposition TO pro-
gressfve movements for the betteTnent Of condf-
tions has come not from the wicked. wicked cities.
but from the good country people. who. blind and
deaf to anything but their local interests were
impervious TO any Of the larger aspects Of social
questions
Somebody asking Mr.. Hebberd aboat almshouss
administration in Pennsylvania. he remarked
Pennsylvania is a sort Of submerged state. any
way-a state thai sells furniture by the yard OF ths
pound. whichever suits a contractor best
A condition things revealed in Schuyler
County. y. Y. not hattering to state pride
The county boards the poor out in families.
said MIR HebbeTd. and whenever they try 70 estao-
lish an aI1shouse all the folks that want 20 board
the poor turn out and vote il down. The SSeses a
year spent the county for board money has be-
come a corruption fund
Repeated inspection has shown that the system
is not only very extravagant. but bad Instances
have been shown OF feebIe-ninded persons kept
shut UP in sheds: cases where the man of the
family was a drunkard. and the wife took
feebIe-ninded pauper board 10 support the
family"
do you know your county insttutionsF
said DR. Kelsey to the class Il venture TO say
you do not although this is trained professional
group. Our aImshOuses are disgraceful. And the
most dangerous one of all is little rural aims
house with twenty-five or thirty inmates and a
superintendent paid two three hundred dollars
a year
Mr. schenelin speaking for the Manhattan
Trade School for Girls, declared it to be per-
fectiy ridiculous how they girls out of the
which they can earn living, and yet with all
kinds Of tastes and aspirations reused. which
they cannot possibly satisfy by any wages they
can earn. Our graduates after ten or twefve
months course get almost once 20 per cent
increase IN wages. and in short time 80 and
100 per cent increase. And besides her trade we
teach the girl her rights an employe And
we find II does not make her less desirable as an
enlploye because she knows her rights, for We
have more applications than we can fL Tne
IovaI stIppOrt OF the wage earners 70 the schooi
ts very significant. The school has many allxll-
fares but the one that gives 1t the most money
is the wage earners' auxiliary.