The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-12-01
EDUCATION STRIDES
FAIL TO COPE WITH
LDDELINQUENCY
Welfare Worker Warns Parents,
Teachers; Christmas Seal
Work Praised

Declaring the responsibility ZOE
gangsters and bootleggers rests upon
the parents and teachers who are slack
in the rearing Of children, Mrs. A. 5.
Moynihan, nationally known welfare
worker, addressed $50 members Of the
Parent Teacher association here Mon
day night.
She pictured the vast improvement
in our school systems, teacher tram
ing and recreational facilities and re-
ferred to an increase at the same
time in child delinquency. Citing the
common excuses of movies, prohibl-
ton, automobiles and easy money, she
declared she was not prepared to say
that these things are the real reason
for the increase although they may
have been factors in some cases.
The task of discovering what IS
wrong belongs to the parents and
teachers, she told the group. She ad-
vised officials to make survey OF
the needs in their districts and
change their plans accordingly. She
told how boys are roaming the high
ways who should be sent home to
their parents.
On the subject Of handling poor
relief in a county, she stated that
the county method is far better and
more effective than having township
chairmen in charge. She stated that
a bill would be introduced into the
next session of the legislature to do
away with the township method.
Mrs. Moynihan's talk concluded a
two-hour program in which an ,ad-
dress was given by DR.. Kathleen Jor-
dan, world traveller and health au-
thority who came as representative
of the Minnesota Public Health as
ISOLATION. She is the wife of DR.. L..
S. Jordan, superintendent of River
side Sanatorium at Granite Falls.
DR.. Jordan told Of the Importance
of buying Christmas seals and fight
ing "our biggest public enemy, tu-
berculosis."
"The public enemy, tuberculosis,
is more deadly than any gangster
and kills more people than anything
else known. Three people are killed
every "a hours in Minnesota and 49,
600 lives are taken yearly In the
United States" she said.
"Seventy-fve per cent OF the people
in sanitariums are between the ages
of Is and 35 and precautionary steps
should be taken in schools and pub
lie places in preventing this public
disease" she said, more lives are
taken between the ages Of Is and 40
from tuberculosis than the total toll
of accidents.
"The disease is not Unbeatable"
she continued, "but it is infective and
every person should check to see II
they are infected as the disease
works long time before it is notice
able. Do not only protect yourself
but also those with whom you come
in contact" she advised.
Figures on chart giving the death
rate in Minnesota from tuberculosis
since 1910 showed that in that year,
2,27O people died from it; in 1920,
2,137; 1880, 1,24S and in 1881, 1,O63,
indicating that the work done has
helped.
The meeting was opened with a
violin duet, played by Dale Cherry
and Marjorie Bliss. Fern Kramer &C.
companied them on the piano. An an
nouncement of the school carnival
which is to be held Friday night was
made by Jimmy Pease and Allen
Fobes. The last musical number was
a piano duet played by Mrs. H. v.
Starr and Mrs. B. E. Marsh.