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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-03-12
TOO MANY FEEBLE
MINDED AT LARGE
Fifteen Hundred Detectives i'm low,
Who Are Not Under Restraint
EVERY COUNTY HAS
SOME WHO NEED CARE
Investigation Shows Many of Law.
breakers Are Feeble Mentally
Eighty Per Cent of Aims
house Population in
Illinois Defective

Des Moines, Ia.-That there is
great need for additional room to
! care for feeble minded persons in
Iowa is the proposition of the state
board of control members who are
putting it up to the Thirty-eighth
general assembly to provide for this
condition.
The most conservative estimates
place the number of feeble minded
| who should be receiving institutional
care and training at 1900. The
state institution at Glenwood is full
! to overfiowing and yet in almost
every county in the state there are
persons who need this care and train
ing, the control board members say.
Estimates made by experts fix the
number of feeble minded at one to
every 500 citizens. In some eastern
States it is claimed the figures are
CIe to every 800 residents. If the >on
to 500 rule holds in Iowa it would
'Tean at least 5000 such irresponsl-
bles of which only about 1900 are
receiving institutional care.
There has never been any accur-
ate survey but at least 1900 such
patients in Iowa are outside such
care and should be in state insti-
tuition" said J. HI. Strict, member OF
the board of control, today.
Illinois has just provided another
big institution to care for this class
of unfortunates. In an article in the
magazine dalled Hospital Manage
n.ent, Charles H. Thorne, director
of the state department of public
welfare at Springfield, Ill. discusses
somewhat this problem.
"A high percentage of the women
law-breakers of Illinois are feeble
minded" he states.
Sixty per cent of the inmates of
tie state training school for girls
are mentally defective. Their of
fenses are, violation of the moral
code. We do what we can to overcome
the effects of hereditary and en-
.yironment.
'Only under the most careful and
constant supervision can the feeble
n inded girl be protected. without
This supervision she goes back to her
original law violations. She bears
eeble-minded and diseased. children.
She becomes the inmate OF the dis.
orderly resort, the street walker, the
woman who comes again and again
into the police courts. She scatters
veneral diseases thru every COM
munity.
Eighty per cent of the alm-house
population in Illinois are feeble
minded. If the state had the facilities
for caring for these persons many
of the counties would not need to
maintain these institutions"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-03-12
Rehind in Vocational Training and
in Matters. of Teachers Salaries
MUST WAKE UP OR BE
AT BOTTOM OF LIST
State superintendent DeyOe Returns
From Meeting of National As
sociatiOn at .Chicago-Scar-
city of Teachers Gener-
al Thruout the
Country

Des Moines, la.-IOwa soon will
be far behind many of the other
states of the union in vocational
schools and in the matter of teachers
salaries, State Superintendent A. M
Deyoe said today on his return from
attending the convention of the Ma
tional Educational Association held
last week in Chicago. While othec
states are making appropriations for
vocational edpcation sufficient to
meet the federal aid which the gov
ernment provides to those states
which meet the provisions of the
federal aid law, Iowa lags back and
does little to encourage vocational
schools Nor is the state paying suf-
ficient wages to school teachers to
keep up the teaching force.
Iowa must wake up or she will
be at the bottom of the list of states
On these vital matters" and Superin-
tendent Deyoe. "Other states are not
only appropriating sums for voca-
;ional education equal to the amounts
allowed by the government but some
Of them are going beyond this sum >
The Iowa law, passed two years
ago when it was found state aid
law could not be passed by the
legislatures, authorizes school
boards to levy for vocational
school fund to meet like fund to be
Iaid by the government.
There is a scarcity thruout the
United States of well equipped teach
Iers,. he continued. "Men and women
will not go into teaching when thes
can do much better financially in
other lines of work. 1t was the
judgement OF educators in their an
nual meeting in Chicago that $1,2S0
I.er year should be the minimum
salary paid teachers.
There is also a crying need for
better educational facilities in the
rural districts. Consolidated rural
schools are proving to be the real
solution Of this rural school problem.
From Maine to California and from
Canada to the gulf consolidated
schools are recommended as the only
type for rural districts. This was the
testimony of educators from all
rarts of the country.
"Americanism and the removal OF
illiteracy were advocated strongly in
the convention. The teaching of
Spanish and French and other for
eign languages was recommended for
the high schools but the medium of
instruction all thru the schools, it
was agreed, should be English"
Compulsory attendance and health
inspection and regulations are vital
to the success f the common schools
the educators agreed.
The convention was also strongly
in favor of a department OF education
as a part of the government with
secretary of education "a member OF
the cabinet. The educators declared
there are too many educational
bureaus at the seat of government
and not sufficient coordinated educa-
tional effort. .
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-03-12

Hares, horses and giraffes are bet
ter able to see objects behind them
Without turning their heads than
any other quadrupeds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-03-12
NIerrily We Roll Along.

A man entered a drug store very
hurridly and asked for a dozen two
grain quinine pills.
do you want them put in a box
sir?" asked the chemist, as he was
counting them out. =
ooh, no. certainly not" replied the
customer. ''I was thinking of rolling
them home!''-Tt-Bits.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-03-12

''The repeal of the so-called blue
laws should give general satisfaction
altho some will disapprove the act
ion of the legislature" says the
Waterloo Courier. AN unpopular
law upon the statute books, unen-
forced, is always an eyesore, even
tho by common consent no effort
is made at enforcement. The proper
procedure with a bad law is to wipe
it off the statute books by repeal
LEGISLATION. Even the threatened at
tempt to enforce the "blue laws a
couple of years ago led the legai
sharps into paths so crooked ano
devious that they met, themselves
coming and going, There was nc
stopping place and no Solomons in
the state to point out the way.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-03-12

Wen, If a fellow makes sweet cider
and he suddenly discovers that it's
hard, what is he expected to do about
it? asks the Waterloo Times Tribune
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-03-12

An increase in the number of
tramps is reported. Probably escap-
ing from places where they were in
suited by offers of work.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22
..TWENTYTHREEG GAMES
FOR V.V.U. QDINT.
is the Biggest Basketball
Schedule University
=. Ever Arranged.

MortCANTOWN, Dec, 20. = The
west Virginia University basketball
schedule announced here today by d.
rector stansbury, provides the moa
.dtSic,lt assignment of games that has
ever been arranged for a Mountaineer
floor team. Twenty three games are
listed and conspicuous in the list are
fbo Yale, Cornell, Pittsburgh Lafsy-
cite, Washington and Jefferson Col'
gate Rutgers and Allegheny contests
A new coach, Francis II, StadsYold'
who learned his basketball at inc I'M I'M
varsity of Minnesota, under ID. COOK,
iiSa Fomous Western mentor, Is IN
',harre of the squad and team OF IN
,rs~aI strength is expected. Coacn
.G'oJsv0ld vas an AllWesternseiec-
ION nimscl: and was on the advisory
,."ncl,jnr staff aI Minnesota after grad
'votion His material is excellent lG-
Guiding Dawson, Morrison, higer, Hlil'
Outright, We!mer, Hawkins ana l tr9t :
ter,,all of whom are letter men ana 4
large numbc. OF new aud promising
recruits
The complete schedule follows:
Dec Sl--Yale University at Nor
gantown, co,,ooS al.
,Morgantown ,,..o.
Jan. Geneva College at Morgan
town. 1oesorsor
at Washington, Pa.
Ian 15-University CT Pittsburgh
at Pittsburgh, Pa.
ia, Jan. 17-carnegie Tech at Pitts
Ou JAM an Marietta College at Nor
Jan. 3l-Untversity of Pittsburgh at
Morgantown.
F,.s. 7-Fairmont Normal at Fair
mont. ,,.,,
Eel Feb. :.-syracuse University at
Feb. 17-Colgate University at Ham
Feb. l8- Cornell University at
Feb. 1S-Lafayette College at Eas-
IL F'eb' 2 Hall College at
South Orange, N. j.
Feb. 21-Rutgers College at New
Brunswick, N. ].
Feb. 2S-Lafayette College at Nor
gantown.
gantown.
gantown.
rietta, Ohio.
March Washington and Jeffer-
con at Morgantowli.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22
ELECTRICIANS ARE
STILL UNBEATEN
Ley Company Five Could
Not Put Dnge in
Their EscutcheOn.

sa,uraay nights basketball tour
nomsnt at the Y. M. C. "A. provided the
fans with a lot of act.es. The game
;n which the largest amour; It of inter-
est centered-that between the Ley
team, newcomers in the city league,
and the Electricians, resulted in a VIC
torv for the Electricians by score Of
40 to IA.
The Koppers- Monongah Glass team
worked hard to defeat the Mining Ma
chinery tG a As to SO co unit in the
opening game Of the evening This
was the closest game of THE night.
In the final contes. the West vir-
ginian team romped away from the
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22

Why 10 u;ey stand and stand?
Why they caoIcd Georges
What is why
And Georges cabled
A reply
Jai away par beaucoux lie France
Pour moi ici-M'sieur
You ct auxil lie combatt-e
ct lie Etats Unis partout lie
Tout ct changeur-
C'est moi que lie lis-mercia.
The bird who wrote the verse IN
French
Learned sso Language in a trench.
The buying power of = collar must
be getting pretty low when they oher
S5O0,OOO for a pug to climb into the
ring and perform.
There was a time vhen pug would
And take ten bucks for his work a
night.
There was time when five bucks
would buy
A pair Of shoes, new shirt and tie.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22
standina Of the CLUBS.

AS we rush along to press we learn
that Bob Martin has just flattened out
another opponent. Bob may have had
a bad pair of hands, as Jimmy Bron-
son said in excusing the cancellation
of bout, bUI he hasn't shown 1t in his
four professional bouts to date-four
knockouts.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22

Substltutions : Watson Building
Smith for Richie. West yirginian,
Anwyl. for Barnes. Field baskets,
Watson building, Binns, S; G. Cobun,
9; Ritchie, 2; Trojan, 1 Smith, l..
West virginian, Boehm, 5; Barnes, 4;
Erwin 2; Garrett, s. Foul baskets,
Watson building, Binns, in 8; c..
Cobun, in s. West Virglnian, Boehm
2 in a; Erwin, 0 in 2. Referee-Tooth-
man. Time of periods, 90 minutes.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22

million dollars for Dempsey's services
in the ring?" Indignantly protests Jack
Kearns.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22

"All Bob has in the way of punch,
says Bronson, lis a straight loft,
right cross and an uppercut in either
hand"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22

Yeh, and what they offer you ant
what you get will be two entirely DIFF.
ferent amounts, Mr.. Kearns.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22
NELSON DANIELS
/. OF ALLISON VERY
NUCR> improved
ono Bottle Of NerV- Worth oVsb Game
His Set'ouae 3 teemSe'sn

slfSa,ai
Grateful NetT WOrtp CUSTOMERS
continue to report the nal py results
secured fromytbe US of 4hls famous
family tonicF "A Gmber q thesei
state the case in writing ind consent
To publication 50 that the 4argeS pos
sible number Of, FELLOWSHIP ferersS may
profit by their Experience, Mr. Dan
nels did this I UniontoRn's New
worth drug bre in tn p following
convincing wd IDS:
II haYs b b rheumaaBm for theI
past two mbI[ls Ind have scarcely
been able get out pc the house. u
have taker ono bottle Of Nery- Worth
and am nuch improy ID sind able to
get out and around r the past two
weeks. can cheer lilly recotamend
"NE1s IN DAlNEIs.
sAllks0n, Pa"
Crans's drup Store, FalI mont, sells
Nerv- WORTH Neighborini agencies:
.Johnson's Pharmacy, SHIN ston; Hon
aker Pharmacy and Windsor Drug
Co., Monongah; r. ]. Yosf, Fariyiew;
w. P. Moran, Tarmington5 III. J. Mat.
thews & Co.. Manningkon Grant
Graham, Belington; ", Q. Davis. Phil
tppi-AdTs
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22

Tex Richard hasn't been throwing
any half-million- dollar offers around,
has he? Mr.. Rickard paid Jess VIII
lard a hundred thousand for bout
at Toledo.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22

Under the village chestnut tree
Tho village spreader stands,
With JACK Dempsey on mis- one side,
AMI n;uca ,ack in his hands.
Why co they stand beE ava the tree;
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22

Substltutions = Ley Co., Archibald
for Fisher; Brown for O'Brien; Cor
don for G. Brown Field baskets
Electricians, Knight, z; NJ. Hamilton,
Q: B. Hamilton, 5. Ley Co., G. Brown,
j; Maloney, /; Archibald, l. Foul
baskets, Electricians, knight in 10;
M. Hamilton, z in 10. Ley Co., G..
Brown, Z in II; Powell, in 2.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22

what! Am offered only half a
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22

The Ban Johnson row having died
down for the time being the winter
leaguers have revived the White Sox
world series scandal The most scau-
dolous thing about the recens world
series was the scandalous way in
which the Reds upset the dope OF the
majority o: the dopeste,s
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-12-22

SubstItutions = Mining MachlneTy,
Miller Tor Brown. Field baskets,
Mining Machinery, LaveIy, 5; Elem
ing, 8; Mills, 5; Brown, /. Koppers-
Monongah Glass, Smith, A; McCrory,
3; Hawkins, z; Wood, 1; Rldgely, 3.
Foul baskets, Mining Machinery,
Mills, 8 out of Is. Koppers- Monongah
Glass, Smith 4 out OF 8; McCrary, 3
out Of 4; Hawkins, 3 out Of s.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09
A TWILIGHT WEDDING.

There is a sort of sixth sense in
the newspaper man that shifts news.
as the hound scents the fox. It is
IN undesirable attribute that comes
Of long experience and practice.
Sitting alone in our Office, about half
after shutdown, Wednesday evening.
we saw three persons, two women
and man, all colored, approach the
north entrance to the court house.
Their gay attire and elastic step in
iicates a merry errand. We knew
the court house was closed for the
day, and wtih1he instinct, common
to mankind, TO hurry the event of a
wedding, We proffered our services.
A telephone message brought Judge
Cook on the scene, and the ceremony
was performed in our Office.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09

Before the close of the approaching
state election a brief history of Gov
ernor Stanley's administration will
be given to the people of Kentucky
and it will be an eye opening revela-
ton. Stanley is the worst type of
partisan executive that has ever dis
credited any party in Kentucky. II
has been his policy TO reward his
political friends at the expense of the
public service, to the sacrifice of the,
welfare OF the charitable and penal
institutions and the school children
of the state. Criminals have been
pardoned, public money has been
sQuandered, and endless interests of
the people have been sacrificed in
order to reward his political bench
men, and it VIII be easy TO demons
trate that his supporters have gen.
orally been drawn from the worst
element in the Democratic party.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09

Louisville is just now confronted
with an age-old-problem. With the
coming of the military camp the red
light" or segregated district was
broken up. The idealist saw in such
action the end of the social evil, The
practical saw only distribution of it,
over the city. A recent grand jury in
its report thought it was better to
place the rotten apples all together
than to scatter them broadcast
among the sound ones, and the mat
ter is attracting unusual attention.
The women formerly segregated are
scattered promiscuously over the city,
hundreds of such characters from
other cities have been attracted to
Louisville by the military camps, and
immortality is running riot. Nightly
arrests are being made at the room
ing houses, but the evil goes on un-
checked.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09

lifted, the work has been put on in
tensively and much of the lost time
made up, by extending the school
hours and extension of term.
Prof. Peyton has been elected as
principal for the coming year. With
the causes of interruptions removed,
next year should add to the good
work done this year. The High
school at this place is a regular voca-
tional high school with the United
States Government cooperating un-
der the Smith-Huges act This has
been of decided advantage to the
school, and makes it one of the strong
small high schools of the State.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09

President Wilson is not quite the
determining factor in the Peace Con-
ference his partisans would have us
believe he is. He said the draft of
the League of Nations could not pos
sibly be changed. That its terms
were already agreed upon, and to re-
open it would lead to endless wrang-
ling. But senator Lodge said change
and it was radically changed The
President told Italy he would never
stand for that country taking over
Fiume, but the Italian delegates with
drew from the conference, and now
they are to have Fiume as the price
of rejoining the Peace conference,
which illustrates the President is
flexible enough under pressure of
necessity.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09

The speech delivered at Mt Sterl-
ing, Saturday, by Major Denhardt,
opening his campaign for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor, was
something of a joke. Perhaps no
candidate for governor of Kentucky
has ever displayed such a thorough
lack of acquaintance with public al
fairs as did the Major on this Qcca-
sion. II is hardly possible now that
anybody will take his candidacy seri-
Ously. He may be a master of mil
itary, but he is a novice in political,
science.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09
COMMENCEMENT DAY
FORDSVILLE SCHOOL

The Commencement exercises of
the Fordsville High School will be
held at the school chapel on May Il,
10 and 16. Despite the fact of the
many Interruptions that the school
has had during this year, decided
progress has been made in the last
three and one half months and there
will be six graduates for this year
On Wednesday evening, May IA,
the musical program will be given
The music department IS in charge
OF Miss Emma Johnson, and a great
program has been arranged A part
of this evenings program will be CIV
en- by the pupils of the first, second,
third and fourth grades. These
drills of the little folks will be at
tractive TO all.
On Thursday evening, May Is, the
graduating class will give a class
program, and on Friday evening, May
16, the regular commencement ex-
ercises will be held. Quite an inter
esting program has been prepared
for each evening. The graduating
address will be delivered on Friday
evening by DR.. r. II. Crossdeld, Pres
ident Of Pennsylvania University, Lex
ington, Ky.
The school for the present year has
been in charge Of prof Uyarran Dav
ton, as Principal and Miss Norine
Harris Barnett, as assistant. During
the FLU" epidemic the school was
closed, but since the ban has been
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09

The Republican was one of the first
newspapers 10 protest the miserable
management of the postoflice depart
ment by Mr.. Burleson, but it was
scarcely prepared for what has fol-
lowed. Finding the postmaster
generals inefficiency indefensible,
the Democratic press is now seeking
TO make him the goat of the admins
tration. II is even more vOciferous
than the Republican press in its de-
nunciation of its postmaster general.
and is doing so to draw the fire away
from the President. The Wilson ad-
ministration grows daily more I'M
popular. The Presidents jaunts TO
Europe are little short of ridiculous,
the people blame him for quibbling
over trifles while a great army of
American soldiers wait impatiently
TO return TO their homes. The sacri-
flee of American lives in Russia will
have TO be accounted for. Billions
of dollars have been wasted by in
competent under-officials. The pub
lie debt approaches national bank
ruptcy. For all these calamitous
events the administration must ac-
count, and il is to draw attention
from them that the weak incompetent
postmaster general must be made the
goat. But can the Burleson goat
carry all the sins of the Wilson ad-
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09
FLUKE MAKES REPORT
OF FISHING TRIP

Grassy, Thursday Morn.
Dear Thomas: We're here, and
the pendlum is beginning TO swing
Arrived a little after noon. Me
and Ed and Doc and John mixed the
grape juice while Joe Henry fixed
the dinner, then we got busy with
hook and line. Well, I'd a loved to
had you at supper with us; KNOWN
how you like grape juice and fish.
After supper we run the lines a few
times and then after some select
reading from the Worlds Almanac
by John Moore and song by the
quartet, we turned in.
We was out bright and early this
mornin.' l mixed the grape juice
while Joe Henry started a fire in
the stove, and then we went for the
lines. Well, KNOWN me as you do,
know yOu'll believe it, but lot of
folks wouldn't; we come in with
nearly three pounds of fish. We also
had squirrel for breakfast, but see
that you say nothin' about it. The
squirrel season amt on yet. I'm a
warnin' you about this because you
know about as little about game laws
as Doc Pirtle does about bankin or
John Moore about fixin' teeth,
Thomas, I'll be burned if / don't
feel sorry for you. A man who don't
like huntin and fishin' and campin'
out sometimes is either a lunatic or
a criminal, and you have such a dis
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09

If somebody was offering to build
you a new barn or buy you farm if
you would pay 40 per cent of the
cost would you not jump at the
chance? That is exactly the terms
upon which the federal and state gov
ernments are offering TO build your
roads. And better than that, they
will still pay so per cent of the up
keep.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-05-09
BEADS ODDLY STRUNG
(By. ]. D. Claire.l

(By. ]. d. Claire.)
Only fools nurse their troubles
philosophers massacre 'em.
Women air dressin more sensible
than men. considerin' the high price
of clothin.
Singletown Howard shore do
keep his lawn clipped clost. saw
him trimmin it with a safety razor.
I've always noticed there is a good
deal of discord in marital music
where the husband plays second fld-
die
amt never seen one of them lit
tie home-seryice stills, but if that
amt one Lee Simmerman has in his
drug store / don't know what it is.
80
Tinsley has bunch Of German he'll
NETS, and l notice a heap Of fellers
wants him to give them one, who
wouldn't go to Germany after it.
B. Nall, better known in these col
umns as Battle" hived a swarm of
bees the other day, but the neigh
boris didn't know him when he got
it done.
If Gineral Coxey, who's takin' a
army to Washington to protest agin
prohibition, will pay all expenses and
furnish the liquor I'll bet Tins will
enlist if he has to go as a private.
A couple of old maids has asst me
10 advertise. on the quiet. for hus-
bands for em. They are both stout
and healthy and able to do a lot Of
work, but not very willin.'