The Washington times., 1923-05-22


greater to any other town of
the same population without
leaving an improved road.
School Programs for Sex Educa-
ton and for Recreation"
S-New York Avenue Presby-
terrain Church. Topic, THE Con-
tribution of the School to Social
| Work with Adults"
| Morning general session, Cont
4 mental Hall, IL to 1 p. m.
Evening general session, same
hall, o'clock
| Meetings of kindred groups at
luncheons, afternoon meetings of
kindred groups election of Of
| f1cers for the coming year at p.
| M, various dinners.
Crippled Children.
| Probably 80 per cent Of the Grip
pied children of the United States
have been deprived of their birth
right through no fault Of their own
or their parents" maintained Miss
Jane A. Neil, principal of the Spald-
ing School, Chicago. in stressing the
duty of the public school to pre-
pare physically handicapped chill
dren, as well as those who are nor
NAL. to find their place in the
worlds work.
The education of crippled chill
dren in special public school
classes" said the speaker, sis not
phlianthropy-it is enlightened self
interest. 1t is not only humane,
but economical, for it makes tax
producers out of potential tax-con-
sumers. And this is the function
of the public school"
Polntlng to data gathered in the
SCHOOLS of the District of Columbia
MISS Josephine B. Timberlake.
superintendent of the Volta bureau,
declared that children with defec-
tive hearing are far more numerous
than is realized
In this city, where only eight
children were supposed to be in
need OF lip reading" she said, ian
| investigation showed that 1921 had
defective hearing. At home and
with his playmates such a child
VIII be happy, for they will raise
their voices for him, but. in school
ne misses the teachers quiet re-
marks and the recitations of his
1 =
and unruly, or Indifferent and a
drean1er-each type a problem. A
school for the deaf is not the place
Tor him. for he has a normal com
mand of language"
MISS undertake advocated wider
spread OF instruction in lip reading.
Care of Feeble Minded.
The State must recognize it's re-
HaesfI- sl
sponsiolilty for the supervision of
the feebleminded throughout life.
just as It now recognizes its respon-
siolIlty Tor normal children up to a
certain age, declared DIR. Francis J.
| MaxIleld, of the Pennsylvania State
department of public instruction.
Whether this supervision shuold
be effected by segregation in insti.
tutlons for the feebleminded. or in
the community by cooperation with
the home, the schools, the employ
ers' welfare agencies, etc, is a ques-
tlon which must be decided in each
individual case,
| Inc answer depends upon MANY
factors beside the degree of mental
| ueIIclency. There is no out and ont
institutional case If the parents
are intelligent, well able to sunport
the cnlld, have good degree of civic
responsibility. and live in a com.
fnunity where there are good special
classes for the mentally subnorn1aI,
tnere is seldom reason why their
cnlld should be sent to an institu-
tlon unless he is mentally unstable
| or psychopa THO.
among othIr important papers to
oe oellvered today are the follow
ths' Inc Future Responsibility of
tne ochool Toward Children Under
rive Years" DIR. Helen T. WooIIev
Detroit; Medical Inspection and
FoIloW-up Work for School Chill.
dren," DR.. Caroline Hedger. chi
cago; instruction of School Chill.
dren in Health, Habits, and Ideals y
MISS Sally Lucas Jean, of the
American Child Health Associa-
| ton; "A Speech Correction Program
Tor the Public Schools" DR.. Smiley
Blanton, University of Wisconsin;
and Public Understanding of So
! clal Welfare Organizations" George
!. Hechf, editor of Better Times. ="
Divorce Sign of Uplift.
Divorce is an indication that
! men and women are setting them
| selves a loftier goal of human asso-
| ciation," Karl de SchweinitZ. gen
! SAO'@ EoCSi Cloly VI the
Society for Organizing Charity, de-
clared at the general session of the
! conference last night.
| Let us not be stampeded to de-
spair." he said, "by reported in
! creases in divorce. While divorce is
| testimony to human weakness,
! while in each individual home it
| represents tragedy, it is perhaps the
price of change, the sign of failure
| it is true, but of failure to attain
! to a higher ideal of the family.
Men and women are longer CON
tent with an inadequate life to.
| gether''
Home making is q "sweated in
dustry," affirmed Mrs. Edith Puff
fer Howes, of Scarsdale. n. Y, in
| an address on Social Progress
! Within the Home"
! ut is a sweated industry" she
said, lin the sense >that it is still
chaotic with reference to the pro-
Queer. Certain standards obtain as
! to results, but not for the respon-
| sible relation of the hOmemaker,
! who works forty minutes or sixteen
hours as chance determines. and
| does not yet know whether she
owes to home duties her Woman's
whole existence, or only her leisure
/ moments"