The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-03-01

(a) Two hundred and fifty-seven
children under eighteen years of age
who can profit BY specialized indus
trial training in the public schools
and are therefore designated as spe-
cial class children.
CD Four hundred and fifty-eight
children under eighteen years of age
whose mental ages are four or more
years below their chronological ages.
These children the designated as
morons who are heghly trainable.
but who must always be under SUI
pervision and are therefore cases for
institutional care. since they can
never adapt themselves to the con-
ditions or ordinary life out in the
world.
(c) One hundred and one children
under eighteen years OF age are
trainable to limited extent, desig-
mated as imbeciles, and can be made
happy in the doing of very simple
things IL kept under careful super
vision.
(d) Seventy-three children and
adults who are totally untrainable.
These are designated as low grade
imbeclles and idiots.
(e) Four hundred and sixty-six
persons of both sexes and Of adult
chronological ages who can be made
more or less self-supporting in a
colony where they can be employed
in filling the soil, and simple build
ing operations, in reclamation of arid
or drainable lands, in house work,
care of poultry, and other similar
types of activity, provided they are
under strict. yet kindly. supervision
f Two hundred and eighty wo-
men and girls of collaborating age
already included in the preceding
groups deserve special mention be-
cause Of the fact they are such a
menace to general social welfare.
When we realize that not less than
two-thirds OF the total number of
feeble-minded persons are either the
children or the grandchildren OF the
feeble-minded and that these women
and girls are mentally incapable of
caring for or protecting themselves
or their children. having in many
instances the mental capacities OF
children OF eight to twelve years, and
that they reproduce themselves much
more reapidly than do the normal
minded, the nature of the menace
will be perfectly obvious.
In general. these men and women
children OF society constitute the
group from which are recruited, ;,
largely. the repeating criminals. the
paupers, teh prostitutes. the ne'er-
do-wells. Boys from the moron
group have been returned to the In
dustrlal school four and five times
IN many instances. The police courts
are kept busy with these repeaters.
Moron children in the public schools
are a serious menace to the welfare
OF all other children, so say nothing
OF the cost to the schools OF their re-
tardation.
These pitiably helpless and ineffi-
cient people. forced by the way in
which we are now treating them to
contend against impossible odds, ex-
plotted by tho INSCRIPTIONS, a men
ace to themselves and their COM
munities, possessed OF adult instincts
and perpetuatlng themselves twice
rs rapidly as normal-mlnded, consti-
tute a problem for the solution OF
which the state is primarily RESPONSE
BILE. They are adult children who
are incapable OF managing their af-
fairs. bringing up their children, or
avoiding the dangers that involve
resistance or self-control. They can
not, II left to themselves, produce
enough to maintain their own lives,
not to mention the lives OF their off
spring. The maintenance we are
obliged to afford them under present
condition constantly increases the
problem. Public opinion. not under
standing their children, say that
families must not be broken up and
SO we support them by state care.
such care, and through so-called
charity organizations.
The commission is now asking the
state to take care OF as many OF
these people as can be in an econ
omic way which will bring some re-
turn and wipe on a portion OF the
problem. AS It Is, we are calling for
these people in the most expensive
way and increasing the problem by