New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-23
DR.. Squash" Little, Once Famous as an Athlete,
VIII Apply in Developing New and Great lnst-
tuition at Letchworth Village Ideas Cleaned
in His Youth on Farm and Football Field.
fkTT's got to be live placc-or bust
This refers 10 Letchworth NllIaEe

fkrT's got TO be a live plaCo-or bust.
This refers TO Letchworth NllIaEe'
l. and may. perhaps be looked upon as
the motto chosen for it by c. 5. Little us
superintendent. At least, that was the
picturesque and quite characteristic way III
which he expressed himself few days ago
when asked for his views regarding inns
most interesting state institution. 1t VIII
seem an odd sort Of motto to the student
Of heredity from the biological point OF
,,,eu, who chances to be fatalistc in his
INTERPRETATIONS. or to the pessimist regard
ing the practicabity Of training the leeo,e-
minded. Nevertheless, one feels that it fits
when one has heard Dr. Little present MS
ideas as TO the care Of the mentally de-
fcient. These are interesting, and theH
conception can be traced TO the fact thdU
their lankv, loose ointed, siX-foot-and-moie
author was bred on a New Hampshire farm
and made his mark in the football history
NJ Dartmouth. in them, football has DEM
onsfrated, II this demonstration was neeoeu'
that the game may become an educational
force
That woman does not always need 'he
vote in order to accomplish valuable "ork
for the state is freshly illustrated in Letch-
worth Village. The institution for the seq
reCation Of the feeble-minded ana eNiepuC
hack of West Haverstraw, which VIII ulu'
mareIv represent an investment Of S3'Vo0'-
O6O and which has been named in hohor 81
William Pryor Letchworth. IS the irult oil
the labors OF a group OF women who some
vears ago observed the numbers OF men,
tauv deficient in the schools Of New YORK.
They interested some men in the prob
lem. with the result that the subject was
brought TO the attention of Governor
Hughes. The chart Of feeble-mnded fam
rv az New Jersey, which was recently de-
scribed in The Tribune as the Dr. Jekyl
and Mr.. Hyde Of heredity turned the scare
When Governor Hughes saw the a"lu
stream of -mindedness leading DOW
from the Revolutionary soldier through us
NAL swamps Of criminality and paupeIIS"
beside the fair line Of high minded men ah'
women descended from the same soldle
and his wholesome quaker wife, the oatt'
was half won.
AS a first step a commission was ap
pointed to consider the whole subject
The result Of their labors was the pur
chase of more than two thousand acres o.
farm and wood land in the cloves or the
Ramapo Mountains, three miles back IRON
the Hudson, and the Appropriation TINS
wear of more than $4,000 for a begin
ming on the permanent buildings whlcf
are TO house the institution. There arr
perhaps a hundred inmates already livlni
IA houses which were on the farms com
arising the estate and in inexpensive dor
Ynitories which have been erected. Thl'
number, however. is only sufficient t'
serve as an illustration Of what the VII
lage is to be when the equipment for th'
three thousand inmates contemplated by
the plans has been provided.
The domain over which Squash" Little
as his fellow alumni affectionately style
him. rules and for whose development III
As responsible is a veritable little king
dom. The approach is not Of the easiest
If you are going up from New York thu
tourney is not without its tedious mo
ments before West Haverstraw station il
reached The train of gloomy cars stops
with a frequency that suggests desire
20 accommodate the jewellers on every
lane.