Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-18
SUMNER SCHOOL ALONG NOVEL
LINES PROPOSED az SUPER.
,NTENpENT mooRlpeE.
MANY MoRoNs CAN BE
MADE USEFUL CITIZENS
Or. Moeridse Holds III Treatment in
Schools and in Homes 10 frequently
Responsible For Condition Of Chill
dren-ParoIe Board Has Many Cases
Up For Consideration.
pecial to Times-Republican.

| practical instruction as to mental
| characteristics and distinctions In chill
dren is proposed. Superintendent
Mogridge, of the state institution for
the feeble minded at Glenwood, will
| the coming summer conduct a summer
school for the study Of mental defec-
| tives. With the aid of members of his
staff and teachers he will give infor-
nation as to these subjects which arc
so very little understood.
! There are three grades of the men,
I! tally deficieent-the idiot, the imbecile
and the moron. They shade into each
other with almost imperceptible grad
+: atoms. The moron is frequently classi-
! filed as merely dull or backward. 1t
| is not always easy TO tell whether he Is
really deficient or not The moron may
| develop into the imbecile, or may be
! transformed into one of normal con-
dition. Right here is where there Is
| lack of knowledge among the people.
! The school will be for teachers and all
others having the care of education OF
children that they may learn how to
distinguish between the classes and
what to do.
! 1t is a theory of DR.. Mogridge. who
! is recognized as one of the most COM
potent students of the problem of the
defective classes, that the lower types
of mental detectives are sometimes
made so by reason IF illness, physical
defects, i'll treatment UT even Of wrong
treatment In school or in homes. One
phase Of the work will be to dissem-
| mate information as to how to avoid
! this danger. There will be instruction
on how to recognize The mental defects
and how to avoid agsravating them.
| The suggestion for the school grew
out Of a conference between DR..
| Mogridge and Colonel Mozambique.
chairman of the state board. regarding
the treatment of the moron class Of
detectives and the widespread lack of
information on the subject.
When the supreme court yesterday
reversed the case tried in Des Moines
| involving the loss OF $4,000 from
package sent from the Des Moines Ma
| tional bank to the Bank OF Irwin. 1t
marked but one more step in the pro-
gress of a case now covering more than
| twelve years. 1t was in October, 1917,
| that the money was lost, probably
somewhere between Carroll and Irwin.
| The case has been tried so many times
| that the riginal package has been lost.
It goes back for another trial because
the court did not permit of testimony
| as to the condition Of the package
when it was received in Irwin. The
package went thru the ordinary rou-
tine, but it was handled by eight or ten
different persons in the two days be-
| ho discovered.
| which gave the case point was mere
| coincidence-that Of the confessed de-
falcation of bank clerk who at the
| time Of the sending Of the package
! was working in tage almost within
! access to the package. The Irwin bank
stuck the express company and then
| the express company got judgment
against the sending bank; and now no.
| body knows what 20 do about it, The
case may never be tried again.
There will be conference Of the
city and state officials today for the
purpose of agreeing upon a plan for
! changes in streets in the capitol ex-
tension district and deciding what work
shall be done this year in relation to
some of the streets. The plan adopted
lby the legislature two years ago con-
| templates abandonment of some of the
! streets and laying out some new routes
| thru the tract It has not been pos
| sible before to take up this part OF the
! Improvement because clearing had not
sufficiently advanced for this purpose.
Now the state will soon be in po-
sition to do some very substantial i'm
| proving of the tract, and the city Will
| join in whatever is necessary to carry
out the original plans which were
adopted by the legislature.
| The state board of parole will to-
morrow convene here and take up the
matter of passing on the cases of a
! hundred or more Of the inmates OF
the prison at Fort Madison. At the
sessions the past two weeks there came
before the board in regular order sixty
six cases for consideration and the fix
| ing of termination OF sentences. In adj
dition there were eighty who were CIV
en- first interviews on request. The
number Is not large in view OF the fact
that practically every case passing
thru the prison must receive the atten-
ton of the board at some time.
| So
The Iowa Constitutional Prohibitory
| Amendment Association has issued a
circular for influence in favor of the
| amendment which contains some new
| statistics as to what is claimed to be
the cost to the state that is incidental
to the use of intoxicating liquors The
expense to the state of certain state
| institutions is given and the percent
age of. the expense which it Is said is
chargeable to drink.
The cast to the state OF Iowa and
the counties of the state of the four
state hospitals for the insane the pen
! itentiary, the reformatories, the insti-
tuition for feeble minded and the insti-
tuition for inebriates, was for four years
1886, 014.04.
Counting go per cent of this in the
case of the insane, IS per cent at the
reformatories and feeble minded in
stitution, 80 per cent at the peniten-
tiary and all at the inebriate hospital,
the total for four years chargeable
to drink was $3,734sS35S.
This makes nearly a million dollars
a year expense.
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