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started on the subject of caring for subnormal people and itis possible that the agitation may increase until some steps are taken to care for these people-whose care we have shirked sp long. """ Why do we force these subnormal boys and girls to spend so many years in public schools when their brains will not permit them-to grasp book knowledge "and the years' are butVasted? Why "do we not, when "the ioy or 'girl is found to be subnormal by a firoper medical test, put them in schools or institutions where they wuTbe taught manual training; where some one branch of industry can be given to them for a number of years until their poor under-developed brains are able to grasp it and they are equipped for the struggle for ex istence instead of trying to force upon them a knowledge of a num ber of things that will be valueless Jo them if they do not possess a knowl edge of any particular industry? T wny ao we not give tnem a knowledge of even one industry that would enable them to live by its prac tice and would take from them the necessity of resorting to crime or prostitution for maintenance? I believe that if we would awaken, to just this much of our responsibil ity toward. these people, we would then be ready to go still further in not only caring for them, but in protect ing purselves from the resultsTof what is today our criminal neglect of an appalling condition. LETTERTOEDITOR Editor Day Book': Dear Sir Fri day evening, May 9, at 7:40 p. m., at tjie corner of Lincoln street and Chi cago avenue, my father was struck and killed by a street car. At the coroner's inquest the motor man said he did not see tfye man until he was twenty-five feet from han. When he first saw him he was Atriy gn the tr'""Ii) ti'ri not Vnow whjen way he came from from, but was going south, and he just hit him with the corner of his car. At the same inquest the policeman in charge of the ambulance said he knew nothing of witnesses. He sup posed the doctor or motorman got them. The claim agent who represented the street car company'at the inquest says he i willing to settle the case, as they do m most cases, by paying funeral expenses. He also says, and is willing tcr bet a new Dunlap hat, that in case suit is brought, that the judge will not let the case go to a jury, but will throw it out of court. What I want to know is, has the street 'car conipanya perfect right, to kill anybody, if tfiey pay funeral ex penses. According to' their representative, this is correct And he will bet a new hat that the judge will not let a jury decide it and he seems to .know what he is talking: about. What kindof a combination are we up against. The verdict at the in quest was n open one. It read: "Struck by a street car and died from injuries." The company says they have ejev en good witnesses, but they did not have them testify. The' police that removed him had no witnesses at alL And now the company through their agent says: We will pay funeral ex- penses, or we will bet you a new Dunlap hat that the judge will not let a jury decide whether a street car company can be sued if you refuse funeral expenses. John Kiosella, 624 S. Taylor Av., ak''Park. o o Miss Henrietta Hoegh, first secre tary of the Norwegian legation in Mexico, "is said to be young, pretty and well up on international law. o o-z ' What sounds like a cackle from a man's own Vif e is rippling laughter If it comes irom some other man's wue. Cincinnati Enquirer.