The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1922-08-02

a. 0ARNAAGO0 4A W@
your schools, and they reach a point
where they can go no further with
out they jeopardize the education of
these boys and girls who make rhe
next generation of your citizenship.
We cut the state board $4,000
eliminated that from the ~appropria-
ton for the greater university In
this state. We may have gone too
| far. We did finally restore $4,000
of it to carry on the experimental
work at MoccasiR and Fort Assina-
boine experimental stations. Every
where that we could cut 1 think we
honestly tried To do it, but we
reached the point where we could go
no further.
"You cannot open your prison
doors in this state and turn loose on
the community four hundred crimina-
| ais. You have 1880 unfortunates
over at your state insane asylum,
but you cannot close the doors to
those people and carry on as civilized
folks. You have over at Boulder
about three hundred unfortunate
children, deaf and blind and dumb
and feeble-minded; and you cannot
close the doors at Boulder and do
your duty as members of the white
race.
81 want to say to the women of
this audience this afternoon, and to
the men, too, that one Of the greatest
menacing things that you face in
Montana-and you do not realize it
is this great on-coming group OF
morons and feeble-minded children
in Montana with no place to put
them. This afternoon seven hum
dred feeble-minded children applying
for admission to the Boulder institu-
ton and not a single DON in which
to put them. One OF the deputy hu-
name officers came into my office
, about three months ago and reported
TO me a case in a west side county
t that you find duplicated in every
, countySin the state. He said he found
5 a family over there, a father and a
! mother, the father Of sub-normal
4 TYPE, able to do common everyday
work around the town, and anxious
/ and willing in trying to support his
family. The mother mentally half
$ demented, and had been for years,
: with seven children, five of them i'd
Fiots, one normal child, and a three
n weeks old baby that nobody knew
o what would be the future of. You
: do not realize the threatening danger
e in this state, and if you do your duty
e you have got to corral and take care
of the class of unfortunate children
+ who reproduce in the coming genera.
ton Just the same as normal men anC
i women.
: Il was going into the Contra
school in Missoula three or four years
a ago before / was your temporary
e governor. l visited the sub-norma
room in the school and saw the worl
e that the teacher there was doins
n with these unfortunate children.
lie saw an 18-year-old girl there, / thinl
y she was in the second grade, and thi
=. teacher was training her fairly well
But" she said, where she SHOULD
10 really be is at Boulder. We mad
a. application, but there is no place t.
l. put her there Two or three or fou
at months after that / happened to NEE
te this same teacher in Missoula, an
y discussed with her her work. In tn
re course of our conversation, 1 aske
Dr. her about the girl l had seen prev
Il ously. 'Oh-she got married
Sc Don't laugh. 1t is a serious thing
and is a problem you folks have GO
i'd TO meet at your own peril.
"you have got an orphan asylur
On over there with 225 orphan children
0, and you cannot shut its doors. The
n. are doing good work in the stat
I finding these abandoned children an
placing them in good homes. Yo
to have got a reform school at Mile
e. City with a hundred wayward boy,
Op and over at Helena with sixty unfol
an tunate girls. But for your own pr
nd lection you have got to carry on wit
ot these institutions.
"a "Here is your great university. [
i? you know, men and women of Galli
N tin county, that one of the problem
to your state faces today is what we a,
1t going to do with the. crop of studen
to registering for the fall sessions, Wi
no money to employ another instrr
{ tor? 1t looks as if we will simp
me have to limit arbitrarily the numb
tie; of students at the normal and agl
cultural college and state universal
ieT 1t looks like, with the revenue
a hand, there is no other way. l no
we can avoid it."
wn To the best of my ability, l su
a gested to your representatives to ?
ris- a tax commission in Montana. No
i'd; you are going to have one ONE til
the or other. Forty-two out of the fort
&C eight states of the Union have alrea
ldi- adopted it as their permanent poll
J1,- Last year you collected $27,000,O
our of taxes in Montana. and with