Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-12-28
SECOND INSANE HOSPITAL.

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SECOND INSANE HOSPITAL.
Tho HuronHe. whose editor for many years resided at Yankton. where
he was the editor o. the biggest daily in thu two pakotas in territorial days
editmany declares that the second insane asylum should have been COM,
menced before. The paper says: T.
at a recent meeting OF the waterown Chamber Of Commerce.
a committee RAJ appointed Ito present to the legislature te fact
that WATERFOWL a named in III laws IS the location o a second
insane hospital and that the state ought to be making some provision
for the construction of a building to house the insane that overflow
This should have been attended to before. The Yanhton hos
pal is caring for all the patients it can care for and the need for ar
additional hospital is already felt
ut ought not to be necessary for the city of Watertown to send
a lobby to the capital to urge upon the legislature that which is its
bounden duty to perform"
AS Editor Bowen observes, it isn't a matter for watertown, but is a
question for the whole state in whose interests it is proposed to establish a
second institution.
Men who have devoted their ives to the study of insanity unite quite
generally in the opinion that n thousand patients should constitute the
fol- n institution.
DR.. Meade, who has been at the head of the asylum at Yankton for
almost a generation, is held to be of the greatest experts in America, IL
not in the world.
When he "a at the state capital when the bill was pending to set aside
the Menette section south Of the city fol- a future asylum, he a called be-
fore the commtte by the chairman, and his opinion as sought
Dr. Meade said that he had no disposition to favor n particular town
for a second institution, but he felt that steps should be taken to provide, in
the nea future, for laying out the grounds and making the preliminary
arrangements for a second asylum, fnasmuch as the Yankton institution
would have the maximum within a few years, and before that number is
reached, he said, work should be begun on another.
1t was after hearing DR.. Meade that the committee favoraby recon-
mended the setting aside of the section adjoining the city of Watrtown on
the south for a Northeastern Hospital for the Insane
Without any special effort OF the part of WATERFOWL, it would seem that
the legislature should proceed to provide for beginning operations IN the
grounds which have been reserved for the purpose.
A noted American brewer the other day expressed the conviction that
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than o a desire to suppress drinking There may be an clement Of truth in
what this gentleman says, but we have never noticed that he las ever taken
any prominent partin a movement to improve the character If the saloons
of which he speaks until after public sentiment has wiped out a considerable
portion of them. The gentleman reminds us of the fellow who locked the
barn after the horse ws stolen.
The president emeritus of Harvard recently voiced this we'll grounded
opinion: "It is high time that or teachers and leaders Of the people under
stood that every civilized human being gets the larger part If his life training
in the occupation through which he earns his livelihood, and that his school
ing in youth should invariably be directed to prepare him in the best way for
the best permanent occupation for which he is capable. In other words, the
motive OF the ifecareer should be brought into play as early and fully as
possible" #
Secretary Lansing, having in min the statement that there was ar Of
fetal leak somewhere anent the presidential peace note, say that he'd
Welcome a nyestgato II Secretary Lansing would turn in and help
squelch the exchange which the leak is presuemd to have reached, he'd be
doing something worth. while.
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past it must be admitted that they have generally reflected the sentiment of
the people who have elected them and that their work, al a whole, has lot
been discreditabie to the state. however much son of us may have differed
Ealong certain lines.
Those OF Is who can't have the particular speaker that we want, or the
particular president that we want or the particular personnel of the legs-
aHye bodies of our respective states, should be reasonably well satisfied if
those elevated to responsibility deport themselves al becomes American
citizens. # E
Until the South Dakota legislature does something, or threatens to do
something, that W g think ought not ito be done, let's assume that it is going
to do what is right.
A legislature is what we make it! Let's think Of that whenever we begin
Q fear that Y will do something which " e would rather have left undone.
II 1917 proves to be as prosperous and as happy for you as 1915, shouldn't
you be fairly well satisfied?
It's altogether likely that the European countries have had enough q
fighting, anyway!
Happy New Year to all or readers!
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