South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 102, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 11 April 1920 — Page 17

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VOL.XXXVII.NO. 102. a Nr.w spAiT:!: von nrr. homk WITH AM, TIIIJ LOCAL NKWS SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. SUNDAY, APRIL II, 1920. DAY AND NIGHT FI'I.L Ln.m una; Ti:Ln;i:Arinc sintvirn PRICE SIX CENTS end Kids Play Hookey

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It Wasn't Until He Had Visited a Pool Hall That He Got His Cue as to One Real Cause of Local Truancv Cases.

Th5 Sunday Feature Editor. Dear Ed: You remember last week when you asked me to call .round at the School Administration building and find why kids pity hockey and whore. "Well, I could have .sworn at the tlmo that I knew the answer and I thought for awhile that I wouldn't go down there at all. but Just dust off the Underwood and pound out a few reams Lbout the rail of the old swimmin' hole. I calculated that that must ho the logical answer la Indiana anyway becauso ever since Jarnos Whitonib liiley spilled the brans with those immortal lint about barefoot boys and their connection with s-wlmmlng holea the ropular conception of the public, ay well as IJfo and Judge, and our other best circulated authorities, has always born that of throe pplndly ehar.kod males, ages 10 to 1,, liberally blest with freckles, a stubbed toe each and a cat-chasln' doc: between thorn, cooling their fevered brows in an iSht by ten pool. The restof the picture includes two oak trees, a knotted shirt and a "No Swimmin Alowd" sign. In the background the steeple of the Iii rod school house peeks through the trees. f .mi:mouii:s or old. flee whiz, yes! It was bound to be the swisinilu hole. Didn't I remember that In the pood old erstwhile back in Ilarrlsoa county, Texa. nothing but the combination of Charley Adams lake" and an Irresistible cprlng day could Induce rne to desert my quest

of the elusive learnin. I'm yet a mere youth. Kd. and I know that the ways of the juvenile male don't tindergo any radical changes in the course of 10 year ii r so. a si:iuors stati: or Anwms. I'm going to let you in on the secret now, IM. and

Asks ii Y Dit. c;i:oiu;i: ad.ymkiiavicz, .'Miiilstrj' or lYrcigri Affairs, Warsaw. WAFiSAW. Poland. April 10. Mr. John Maynard Keynes' book, "The Kconomic Consequences of tho lea e." the contents of which have only recently become known in Poland, at first staggers the reader by the sheer weight of statistical data, financial deductions 4and arguments derived therefrom. Put on closer ibservation it cannot fail to convey the impression that It is the work of a clever financier, but not the work either of an enlightened economist or a sound politician. We do not wish to criticize the attitude of Mr. Keynes, who, after having taken part In the Paris peace conference until June 7, as representative of the Pritish treasury, suddenly resigned from this position in order to demand publicly the revision of the treaty in a pro-Corman sense. We even agree ith him that the revision of the peace traty would be advisable. Put we are deeply persuaded that both historical Justice and economi cal necessities require that this re-J vision tie effected in a eenso absolutely opposed to the pro-Herman plans advocated by Mr. Keynes. Too l'acrable to Poland. Taking the Danzig question as an xamplo, we observe that Mr. Keynes considers the present solution as far too favorable for Poland and affording us excessive influence and powers. We. cn the other hand, must consider this solution as unsatisfactory, ;u It has not In a sufticient measure given us the possibility of safeguarding our most vital Interests. Nor. In fact, have the interests of Danzig been taken into clue account. Per if Poland needs Danzig as its only outlet to the sea. Danzig, on the other hand, needPoland as its natural "hinterland."

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CONSTANT'NPI.i:. AptT. 10 The s-uitan. Moham'iu I VI. has is. J "'j od an imperialdeer e proclaiming! May I as "marriage da" through-j o.it Turkey In an effort to promote j !h weddings and '- .irres: tlo de- j line In the birth rate. This action j vas taken on the rc ju-st of Hazim ; Hey, minUter of ir.teri. .: who I ascribes the decreased r.jmher of, births in Turke to the irivohtv of ! i oung men.

gaced persons who have been unable to marry rarli-r are urg? d to do so j on May 1. As an inducement, no charges are to be m.ob' for mar- j ri.ires pei forme i on that day. I gaet? at w ddings a:- to nv.kc n ! gifts, the first childr:; cf those who; wd on Mar 1 .re to receive tlv . rat.iis of the c hildr-m of tro- sul-j tan r.d to rc ; the g;ft of a! brandet f'ooi iio' uov-rror of tbej ). oto.ee ri Iii- h !' er.fd is '.,; n , The su!:-u, v..n i- r.a'v. d i I'r-i'-d bo- , 1 1 . ! u .: ;;- ; ; 1 o . , j , a ' . 1 . 1 ' '. o . . Ibiuciii- i- Il.it n d. ; . . ;. s ;b.- d. : v-i : : ;.-o e of H: .. t. iu Ar.ato'.u. ' '..), ., i 1 1 t a c 1 i . i "i a : ; o .. b! m :. " : : ' .;..!. pr.'-- . ; g . . ' . r daced bittil

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to which it is linked by our principal waterway, the Vistula. Besides, Mr. Keynes forgets that Danzig for about 400 years was united with Poland, and that this union was one of the main sources of prosperity and welfare both of Poland and of Danzig Itself. It is a singular fact that Mr. Keynes, who is po full of pity for the present unhappy state of Germany and Austria, hns no word of compassion, or even of understanding, for tho treatment Poland hau experienced during the war at the hands of the representatives of the above mentioned two states. The difficulties Poland has to cope with at present have, for the main part, been caused by the devastation of her forests, the looting of her stores, the decimation of her cattle, the reduction of her rolling stock and the robbing of her factories of their machinery. Put even before the war Poland had no opportunity of developing her forces as an economic unit; divided into three separate parts, she has for more than a century been made to serve the interests of the three great powers to whose rule she has been subjected. o Overnight Job. Hitving regained her poiPleal existence. Poland naturally cannot reorganize and rebuild her economic life overnight, nor can she achieve this object without the assistance of the great powers, to whose victory she chiefly owes her independence. She must be .afforded the territorial boundaries which are essential to her further development. We protest against any solution which mipht curtail this development in the interests of Germany or any other hostile state. I'ven If we admit that Germany's capability of fulfilling the financial obligations which the peace treaty tion of the use of intoxicating" Vverates. (Juvrrnmnt oflicials allei;e that people of Anatolian villages, men and worsen alike, indulge what ih.y call "bilrning nights" of music anal feasting. Indulgence in modern dancing has aroused the protest of a member of the chamber of deputies from Anatolia who lias Introduced a bill authorizing otfleials to prevent warren from "participating In the antics and capers of the ball room. CLERGY MA SAID TO BE THIEF LEADER Vir.XXA Amil A clergyman, Thomas Pfefferkorn, alleged to be leader of a band of 23 thieves and incendiaries, has been arrested with bis fid lowers at the town of Mltterseii. according to the Sulzburger Vo!'.sb;.4tt. Pfefferkorn, the papers sa. r.cruited his followers from ai.tcr g persons of some standing in ;h-: town of Mitterseil, including the pfe-. k anhcr. th sclioolmaster. tl:e a-tr:-..i and tlie postiaistrc s-. ar.d th- b. tt- r cart i - r. They are al1. to .,,- burgiaii'td the ir.r: ti.en s- t U f to it a cd to have pi a.-tit ed bi o km. d on a number of prominent citizen.

Investigation

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it's a serious state of affairs. I thought when you put ine on this story that I was going to hae a lot of fun out of it. but I was all wrong. It's the movies and pool halls that are loading the swimming hole in the delinquency race. Kids I mean both boys and girls now are staying out of school and not even getting healthful exercise out of it. Of course, the girls don't infest the pool halls naturally thoy wouldn't. not being able to distinguish a Kelly pool bottle from a picture of Willie Hoppe but when Before I went down to that School Administration building I would have bet two to one on swimming against any other temptation in the path of the young seeker for knowledge. I would have backed a sixfoot creek against all other inducements combined and I would have finished about third be.?!. "What Was Repealed to Rita" in 1GS revelations is shown on .Michigan st. on Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays you find them there unanimously. That is. the regulars, those who are addicted to truancy as a habit. All of this was told to me by Mr. Nash, one of the attendance ofllcers who works in Miss Elizabeth Turn-

has Imposed on her. and which Mr. Keynes himself describes as excessive, may be affected by the loss of territories, such as the Sarre district. Alsace-Lorraine, and upper Silesia, we absolutely refuse to acknowledge that such considerations can In any way counterbalance the Just claims we have to Upper Silesia, which, so to speak, was the cradle of the Polish state, whose center it had formed until the 14th century. If Poland during the 10th, 16th. 17th and 18th centuries slackened her hold on Upper Silesia, this is due to the fact that the Polish kingdom In those days derived its economic strength solely from agriculture, and was ruled by a powerful class of landed gentry, who. In their search for new tracts of land, turned their eyes exclusively to the east. Put today Poland is a democratic republic, dependent on industrial development, supported no longer by an' aristocracy of great landowners, but by the broad masses of its peasants and laborers. The Polish miner In the coalfields of Upper Silesia must therefore be regarded as an essential element In the reconstruction of the Polish state. Inrgt Percentage of Poles. According to official statistics for 1910, In tho regency of Oppeln, of a total population amounting to 2,20S.00Ö souls. 1.2äS.O0O were Poles. The percentage of Poles In the principal mining centers was as follows: Pytom (country) tj per cent Gtiwiee, Gory Tarnowskie. . . Katowice (country) Kozle Lublinicc Olesno 79 per cent 73 per cent '38 per cent 7 S per cent S5 per cent S3 per cent that the These figures prove greater part of the coal production of Upper Silesia is due to Polish la bor and that by the laws of nationality, which have been accepted as binding by the peace conference and form one of the main principles of the treaty of peace, upper Silesia belongs to Poland. Our claim to this district is In no way less Justified than France's to Alsace-Lorraine. Plays Important Part. On the upper hand. Upper Silesia i-- destined to play a very important part In Poland's future economic life. Mr. Keynes states that of Poland's pre-war annual demand for coal, amounting to 10.000,000 tons (this figure evidently applies to Congress Poland alone), only 1.500.000 tons were supplied by Upper Sihsia, and that consequently the total annual coal produce of Upper Silesia. amounting to 46,000.00o tons, is much too great for Polish needs. This statement is likely to convey a false impression. Mr. Keynes forgets that the industrial development of Poland is continually progressing, and that the consumption of coal will in future be considerably greater than it was before the war. Then he utterly overlooks the very important fact that the districts of Prussia, row united to Poland under the peace treaty, namely. Posen and western Prussia, with their highly developed acricultural industries (sugar factories, flour mills, etc.) will need a large amount of coal, about 10 to 15 millions of tons a ye.tr. which will e.,u tily have lo W i tip plied by Upper Silesia. Stnkirg ;'s these errors nay be. they are m r- trifl-s in comparison w ith the utif r ignorance of Polish affairs, coupled with rejudiced ani

Showed That It Wasn't After

BY M. F. SCULLY er. department over at the School Administration building. He is as conscientious about his job as It is necessary for an attendance officer to be and furthermore he thinks about it. He is advocating a preventive instead of a cure. wiiat would crni; thi: situation. "Just a strictly enforced agreement between the managers of all the picture houses not to admit ehildren of scholastic age, say beween 8 and 16 during school hours, and a sign to that effect hung over each box oriico would eliminate the greatest cause of truancy," he told me. Then, of course, aside from the movies there are the boys who adopt a pool hall for headquarters as soon as they reach the long pants stage, the kids who simply can't resist the call of the outdoors in the glorious springtime they form the swimmin' hole, marbles and baseball group and some others who just abominate school on general principles. avi:u.;i: or rminxics. Hut all in all the average number of chronic truants in South liend is low and although they didn't mention it over there I imagine the accomplishments of the attendance department is a work well done. The two officers make between 3 5 and CO calls a day which at the maximum is l.r0 cases of unaccounted lor absence in a week, representing less than one per cent of the IS, 000 school children of the city. Only the absences unaccounted for by the principals are reported to the attendance department. All principals are instructed to mail a notice of the absence to the child's parents when the case is reported to them. If that fails to bring a reply then the officers are assigned to the case. PARENTS ART another CAUSIT. I!a-k here when I was enumerating the causes of truancy I overlooked one which was the most startling of the lot parents. Down in the mountain districts of West Virginia, Kentucky and the Carolinas there are people who oppose learnin' for the children on the grounds that "wt'uns never had nar'n" and contend that kids can

Poland mosity, which reveal themselves In passages like the following one: "On the other hand, the bankruptcy and incompetence of the newPolish state might deter those who were disposed to vote on economic rather than on racial grounds. It has also been stated that the conditions of life in such matters as sanitation and social legislation are in comparably better in Upper Silesia than in the adjacent districts of Poland." Astonished by View. We can only give vent to our astonishment that a member of the Pritish treasury and financial expert should venture to speak of bankruptcy with reference to a country which possesses the vast resources and natural wealth of Poland. Has Mr. Keynes never heard of the agricultural riches of Poland (wheat, barley, oats, maize, corn, potatoes, beetroot, hemp, flax, cattle and poultry!? Does he really not know that Poland, next to Ilussia and Germany, is the principal cornproducing country in Uurope? Has he no knowledge of Poland's mineral pupplies (naphtha, salt. etc. ). of its vast forests. Its numerous economic possibilities only waiting to be made use of? Does he not know that, whereas the percentage of uncultivated ground amounts to 19 per cent in Russia, 2G per cent in Rumania, 2 5 per cent, in Switzerland. 19 per cent in Sweden, only 15 per cent of Polish soil has been left unutilized? As for sanitation and social legislation, there is no need for anxiety that Upper Silester in the case of Its reunion to Poland would lose the benefits it enjoys in this respect at present. It has been a maxim of Polish administration ever since the revival of the Polish state t, maintain in oach of the three parts, subjected hitherto to foreign rule, the laws and customs by which these territories were governed before the war. Thus Austrian laws are still In force in Galicia, Russian laws in Congress Poland and German laws In Posen. It is quite natural that having the choice between these legislations. Poland will Viltimately choose the most suitable for every branch of public welfare. In these circumstances it is superfluous to point out that social legislation and sanitary institutions in the districts of Poland adjacent to Upper Silesia are not after all on so low a level as Mr. Keynes believes, as a whole series of laws and regulations concerning the welfare of the working classes and tho improvement of public health have been issued in Poland in January and July. 1 f 1 . Poland Not a Hindrance. Mr. Keynes wishes to see the future of Uurope built on the cooperation of German financial and Industrial strength and Russian productiveness of raw materials and foodstuffs. that Poland possihil lties Russia, and He overlooks the fact possesses the economic both of Germany and that, after having re covered her independence and strength as an economic entity, Poland will not only be a purchaser of foreign goods, but will be able to export her surplus of very important raw materials. Poland will in no way be a hindrance to the development of economic relations between the west and the east; she rm:t, on the contrary, be considered a natural oconomic accessory to KUa" (Copyright. l?:o.)

"Only one man in threo wa.s found to be normally healthy, and one man in ten Avas a physical wreck." This is one of the disturbing facts revealed in the report of the commission which investigated the results of the medical examination of recruits under the conscription act, and bears out the statement made during the war by Mr. Lloyd George that Britain is largely a "C3" nation. In a statement of impressions gathered by a chairman of the medical hoard examining men in most of tho industrial areas of Scotland, notably in Dundee, it is pointed out that one of the most striking conclusions reached was that the physical condition of the manhood of the country was very much less determined by industrial conditions than by conditions of housing, feeding, and social surroundings. The examination of boys was disappointing. In the industrial class the boy went to the factory at 14. At 16 he had reached his full wage-ctirning capacity, was indulging in all sorts of excesses, was not having his due bare of sleep, was living in squalid surroundings, and feeding on unwholesome foods. This was particularly noticed in the Dundee area, where there is a great falling off in the numbers of factory workers above the age of 4 3, as their period of productive usefulness seems to bo over at that age. Tho evidence, the committee affirm s, provides a strong argument in favor of immediate and general reforms in hygiene and sanitation.

11Y SPECIAL COHIti:SPOM)i:.VT. DUNDEE. Scotland. April 10. Some striking and disturbing facts concerning the Pritish nation's health are revealed in an ofllclal publication just issued. It is the report of a commission, headed by Sir James Galloway, appointed during the war by the ministry' of national serico to investigate the results of the medical examination of recruits under the conscription act. Of all the areas. Dondon generally shows up worst, and "hlack spots" in the East End are indicated. The evidence, the committee affirm, provides a strong argument in favor of immediate ani general reforms of hygiene and sanitation. Nearly 2,500.000 men of military i rr uorn iiiomln bv n .1 1 5 O P. .'1 1 Se" vic medical boards period Met. 31. 1017. 1 9 1 S. Out of this large 3 per cent could be up to the full normal during the to Nov. 1, number only regarded as standard of health and strength for their age. and more than 10 per cent were judged totally and permanently unfit for any form of military service. One in Three Normal. In other word?, only one man In three was found to be normally healthy, and one man in ten was a physical wreck. It has been sail larged a "C3" nation. ; startling official facts '.hat we are r.d thn above provide the most saddening confirmatory evidence of this statement. We are foed with the fact that a tenth of our your.g manhood is

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cook just as good corn pone and wield just deadly a squirrel rifle "without no high falootin' education." But in the twentieth century South lend purem s exist who have never heard of the compulsory education laws and when they are made aware of them counter with "Johnny's our kid and we can boss him like we want to." So saying they get Johnny a job at fifty cents a day and he adds his bit to the family income until the heartless attendance of'b-er calls and puts him back in school. Sometime it to Ices the attendance officer, the s-diool teacher and a municipal court action against the parents to do it but Johnny goes back. what law requires So many cases of this character among the uneducated foreign population have been brought to the

One Briton in Ten

physically useless for either military or civil occupation. No one can read the results of this physical census without an increasing sense of dissatisfaction and even dismay. Gross physical defects were found most prevalent in industrial urea, but a low standard of health is not confined to towns, and we read, for example, that the farm laborer whose physique at 20 is is middle-aged at 40. and to varicose veins, defective excellent a victim feet, and rheumatics'. From all the regions there comes severe condemnation of the industrial conditions which set boys to work for long hours at too early an age under surroundings which enfeeble physique, and which, combined with bad housing conditions and lack of opportunities or time for healthy recreation, introduce the weedy, anaemic yuong men who crowd our cities and who are wornCUt at 4ä. To deal with this state of affairs some form of organized physical culture and fuller facilities for healthy open-air recreation are urgently needed; and perhaps, above all. there is need for the mental attitude of these youths to be changed, and their present full contentment with, ani even pride in. their disabilities changed. If not to a divine, at bast to a human and virile discontent. How Scotland Stands. The following account gives a summary of the physical condition and defeats found in 10.000 recruits examined in Scotland between August 131G and May 1017. During this period the recruits called for examination represented without question the average male inhabitants of this district. It may he stated at once that only sonre 20 per cent of the male ropulaticn between 18 and 41 years of ago are found free from noteworthy physical defect. While the relative figures fluctuated from time to time as different classes, employments, and '-'u üt'-ons of men wore called vp. u- percentages over the whole 10.000 were as f lows: Gride I Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 20.? 1R.3 4. The difference between m-n in f'rade " and 2 respectively wn accounted for to the extent of la percent by the following classes of defect: Eye conditions impairing vision. 2.2 per cent: deformities of the fet restricting marching powr. 1.0; bernia, varicose veins. mild cardiac conditions, obesity and dyspepsia, ar.d stiffness associated with middle age, each 1 per cent; painful testicular condition (e. g.. varicocele). 0.7 per cent; and ear eiefeefs, 0.C, per cent. The 4.4 per cent of rejected men were considered unfit for any ferm of service, chiefly by reasöi of serious disease of the heart and blood veve!. .- pf-r cent; tuberculosis, 1.1 per cent; ties of the bones, joints, percent: and epilepsy and deform ietC.. O.S dullness. 0.3 per cent. The number of recruits were almost three times as great at the age of .as in any other age. and the numbers between ace 2 0 ami were about three-quarters of these from 30 to 4 0 years. TTsc Case of iHuuIee. Tr a statement of impression--ali.e!d d;:rir.ir the period May to Nov. 11, 1 ?1 S, by a chairman of

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the national ervice medical boards examining men in most of the industrial areas of Scotland, notably in Dundep, Motherwell, Perth, l'ifesliire and Stirlingshire, it is pointed out that one of the most striking conclusions reached was that the physical condition of the manhood of tho country was ery much less determined by industrial conditions than by conditions- of housing, feeding, and social surroundings. This, of course, refers to the actual nature of the industries in question, apart from the comfort, etc.. accruing as the result of that labor. Another outstanding feature was the very large number who were graded lrnv. not because of active disease, but because of disability, the result of physical defect, often preventable. arising during the course of growth and development, e. g.. flat foot, hammer toes, spinal curvature, varicose vein-;. hernia, or varicocele, and again largely inIbicnced by social conditions, housing and feeding. Hoys IisapioInt ing. verv noticeable feat-iro in the

Charities and Corrections Board Is Enormous Farce

Special to The Nws-Times. INDIANAPOLIS. April 10. County and state penal and charitable- institutions, presumed to be under state supervision in Indiana, have eot ! n f ii t even been iusneoted bv ' the'state board of charities and corrections. under the Goodrich ad -

ministration. according to Inform. - ; raur.u a :d di- ase m iruir no tion which has n n uncovered since ; irub-r.t have re.. made to Frederic; Van Nuys, V. S. district j th state bo.,?d of !,".-: ;?h and 1,attorney made n open e-h.,rge of ; ne.red or i m d. "malfeasance and incompetency" ' Penal l ami in I.b. against the state board in federall One int ;b'-" "f -.Tränt a '':- court. ; :-o jt.-' pn-or.-T at h ;"-,.-.! 1 v 1 Evidence has been accumulate-- to ; v. us bro-jirht to t!." :ii'-n;:: T h.show: j pT.al farm b'.ard. the '.v- ! -ar-i 1. That al thou eh $3'f-. i- ap- j of charities and 1 o tcV- and W propriated annually for this work, i govrnor himf. to 1the state taard has neve-r properly . wash'-d in h m-t m inspected these institutions but has J Hundn-is of -..mpiamts -c.-:---contented itself with pe-rfunctory .- : ''nditiot.- .vt:r. m .11. . . animations that revealed nothing 1 os-pit.,:--. "-ur.ty pou- : . a..-: concerning their conditions-. state pr:-,,--.- have- 1,0... ,.r, ., 2. That complaints have b,-en . the ,tr e-; ;oi oft..- ..'rr . made repeatedlv to th board con- ; sin--- b- -xposed the ,o-d.: .-.- -rerr.ing the conditions under which luting .:; the Marc-a eo-;r.-v a,'. :. r. i the institutional inmates were :. :t kmc- - raing and against brutal tn-atra'-nt by , p! :i:.- v..c:b! r- ;v atteniants. but that the-e complain s Mr. Y , : Xr' at .. s - to .: . have never been investigated or tlv r.ow vi.at .n '- doc.e .. ;!. the conditions righted. 1 com;,:.,; . Tl e f. d- ral 3. That appeals hnve been m.de : has r.o j in- li' cn oV r Me to Gov. James p. Goodrich for r- ' stitutie.r.-- at.-i th-- t, lief from these Institutional abuse s ' tious in whi'-h tu.- -r-. - s and that even such effort" as the' 10 prison r-. governor made to bring about in- Judge And- :'- n;.' d - -- vestigatior.s of them were ur.avail-; nation v. h-n in th- r..l- of a h-.r-jr. in z. b- a s ; . 1 : State IntitutionH Slichtl. N I'ep"ii,'dde IbdT. The abuses that exist in the.e in - : 'hf.on't a:. - !'. rare :.v:b.r.r ttitutions are not confined to county about tin- ",:,.:!:;'- f stat pr'.r.manaed institution-. The state ;-rs?" penal farm, the insane hnspttal and . Tio r- ap'' " '" '- Tl r-$,-i r.s.' - the state's prison are included in the , body to whom th- p.ibh- ran t-.im lts azaint which complaints have for a correction e t the .-:t:r.ir o:.been mad-. j ditions ar.d puMxity for them is th Nor is the täte board of chari- 1 only remedy thit hi- Ur tis and corrections the only board ( surge-teri. which has ignored complaints. j Ib.th ti:- members r : The state board of health ha hd ( beard of c rrec?:or. r- i th- : complaint before it concerning in- i of be .'.rh h..ve asVed to - h-.-. r-t .anitasv cendititns allowed to exist federal -';r m .-l :' in ins'ituti.ms and it ha not only ! gn t. ..1 o-it t'.e r, i.-lf ;-.n . ': " failed to inveetiate but hai orTicial- 1 county.

You'll Be Surprised to Learn it, But "Parents" Are Another Cause and "Movies," too. Exert Their Influence. attention of th- departm-nt that a circular cent sining the compuNoiy education lav. in four lar.ruato to published and distributed by the department. The compu'.Miry law in Indiana requires every child ,:nd. r 1 .; years . t age to attend s.-hnol. If a child bus i.,;.s;.d the fifth grade and i U h or fh- rr.av rr;f;,r üh t!i- Vocational Uudan. e d.-partmr.t a:.t v.., urc a joh uh:!- attending pirt time hod. fr . y pas 1 ,; tile law CfiiM s. t. op rate Natur.. ::y this makrs 14 the di:h i:!t ar'. Ti" s-.i:tis gathered by th- drpartm r.t show that lb ..,,,( majority of thoe v. In, leie school io at th; a -e They rcmai.l i i the f a-t time school for t o e-,rs and thm ei s. ard olii.a'i-M as a sort of uat pessary affliction ; ff r :dl. If they pass the t.ith a-;d -ith grad-- they n-.iii!y o-itir.ue into h''u b" and on until they ate graduated or are force.', to v to '. o r i . sott aki; i:i:;isiJ urn. :.tS!e;i i; and 1'. ;hre are "0 r.v.ei-d wilh -.he vocational guidr-iue department and lioldir.T vith wages from seven to ' .". dollars a wie1;. Among rii'se the pirls and 1.oj. ate about equally divide. 1. About the time of c..r I was right it's th? sprir.5. When the gloriou-- April sunshine begins to f.lttr into the class room the kids simply can't resist the cn!l of 'he outdoors. It's the same affliction strides tb? t.iu.i" business man when he slams the rch top des.; shut ; nd hies hiuis-df to the lakes or the polf cours-.. It's the same affliction that makes the -r-vn up lad;i'h the spring sa'es and that i::akcs dogs sprawl cut cn the sidewalk, stiotoh and forgej about tr.o. buried bones. Vhy blame ,1... ki! tor expressing it i i their only way.

examination of the ov.r-a "1 r 'a' was l'-e larze percentage -f o Kia le rne n who were engace 1 in n -r-productive Ji-bor e. g., cbrk-. grocers, etc. and had been ? etaployed all their industrial life. The e xamination of the ho s w i disappointing. The proportion deferred for re-earnination as not being o ;ite up to tho standard of phsical tltnes required for their age was unduly high. This wa quite as noticeable .imongst the agricultural as amongst industrial classes. Here, again, the determining f jctor was feeding and housing; inth- caKe .f the agricultural da---, the evil-- of tli" bothy sysfm. living on tinned fool, calces and t- ,. lack of home comfort. In the industrial l'. the boy went to t e factor', at 14. P.y li he bad reach d lu full v 1TO J -j i r. va rc; sb-ep. W ;: r u b'iii. - S 1 1 1 1 e 1 ö " a ie-ea m ir g capacity, w. s in sorts of exe'sfs 1; 1 hi-" du" pharo of iivin- s'o.ia'i I s irai.d reding on UTiwho'ely brand' d t ':: 1 ompiatnts u-: ur.tr ;e without .i moi.'itioTi.s. Tor example. it has t ecoi. e known t)..tt c. co ni plaint that prisoners in the M :iion county j ill w !-.- cornpeüed to ;s. the same driauib j cups and the .-.tme wash basins as , other pr:soi..-rs afheted with rom-