Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1916 — MANY HOOSIERS ARE STATE CHARGES [ARTICLE]

MANY HOOSIERS ARE STATE CHARGES

Educational Conference Speaker At Detroit Declares 20,000 In State Are Dependents. Detroit, Feb. 22.—Rural school andchild welfare methods —chief topics of discussion today—were. alternately assailed and praised by speakers who delivered addresses before organizations, allied with the National Education association which are holding conferences here this week. Adelaide S. Baylor, of Indianapolis, state supervisor of home economics, speaking on race preservation, told the national council that one out of every 140 inhabitants of Indiana is an inmate of a charitable or corrective institution. She said there are 524 such institutions in Indiana and that they care for an average of 20,000 inmates. “Recently the governor of Indiana advised the people that these institutions were filled to overflowing and declared, in no uncertain terms, that instead of appropriating more money for new buildings, steps should be token to lessen the increase of those who were daily becoming a burden to the state,” she said. “The physical, mental and moral stability of every citizen is the essence of race preset vation. The weightiest problem for public school officials and teachers to solve is that of discovering some methods for enlightening the people in the practical application of ration- j al principles for the betterment of the present and future generations.”