Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-19
HEAD OF INSTITUTION FOR
ORPHANS TALKS OF CHILD
PROBLEMS.
NOT ONLY HOME BUT OTHER
ADVANTAGES ARE REQUIRED
individuality Of Children Too Ere.
quently Submerged to Hard and Fast
Rules Of Discipline Specific for
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis Discussed
Other State News.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des .Moines, March 19.-'It should be
one of our social forms that no child
should be given into any authority tina:
can not or will not guarantee him ade-
quate educational advantages"
This was the dictum laid down by
Superintendent F. J. Sessions, OF the
state soldiers orphans home, in an ad-
dress on the education Of the institu-
ton child before the state conference
of heads of institutions in session here.
superintendent Sessions took ground
in favor of a very high standard for
institutions like the one over which
he presides and that the place should
not only be one where the child may
live but be, so far any institution can
become, a real home with social advan-
tages He sand:
"Institution schools should be models
of efficiency Institution children are
under firm authority; they have no dis
tracing designations; they live in one
family, therefore, teachers and family
managers cooperate closely for their
advancement. The possibility of get
ting to school regardless Of weather
conditions; the arrangement of the pro-
gram to conserve educational inter-
ests; the regular hours; the selected
and ample dietary; the hospitalizins
OF infectious diseases: the stated hours
for tasks and recreation; the oppor-
tunities for training by actual prac-
tice in many of the vacations; and the
friendly emulation among these chill
ell Of q n pfi-, a
ton Many of these influences are not
available in the education OF outside
children.
There is one phase OF education
covered by opportunities of the outside
child for which there is no possible
equal chance for the institution child.
This may be termed the child's social
ization The institution child is shut
in from the social life by which out
side children are educated uncon
sciously.
Too Much Monotony.
Children in whom the monotony Of
uniformity has been substituted for in
dividualitH are objects OF comp passion.
Thou shafts; and thou shalt nots are
not perfect moral and social pabulum.
1t should be a matter of concern to the
superintendent of any childrens in
Stitution that the lawns are always un-
Uttered. When discipline degenerates
into keep off the grass absolutism il
is tins for the superintendent to retire
that some one may establish the in
stitution as ID home for childhood.
Specialization may be attained in af-
ter life. but is of such elemental i'm
portance that institutions should make
every reasonable effort to overcome
their inherent handicap to the syn
chronization of the social with AGA
demic features Of education.
Another valua BILE and interesting pa
per before the same conference was on
the subject of epidemic cerebro spinal
meningitis, described as an epidemic,
infectious, slightly contagious, disease
OF the brain and the spinal cord This
was by DIR. w. E. Whitney. physician
for the industrial school for boys.
1t was necessary" said the doctor,
mails in order TO find specific for this
disease. Physicians should be upheld
in their use Of animals for scientific
research
DR.. Whitney also declared that thru
these scientific Investigations the Flex-
ner serum had been discovered. and
while before its Introduction the NOR
tally was from 20 to 80 per cent since
the profession began using the serum
ii has decreased TO from 20 TO 80 Der
cent.