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Our state training-school classrooms, instead of being so often a refuge for incompetents, should be training grounds for remedial teachers working in special classes outside the institution as well as those working in it. Classes should be under the supervision of the state educational department, like other schools.

"No state, without exception," says Dr. L. N. Yepsen, president of the American Association on Mental Deficiency, "has a really satisfactory, well-integrated and coordinated program for its mental deficients."

The whole situation is so deplorable that the steps to remedy it must inevitably be slow and many. And it will never fully clear up until the state training school ceases to be an isolated place of last resort, until it has a give-and-take relation with other facilities in the community. There is a way, however, that you can help immediately.

More money is the key to the problem, not only for more space but for more personnel and better qualified personnel. Without more money neither administrators nor attendants in make improvements. American women in demand that their state legislatures neatly increase appropriations, must be willing to pay a few cents extra for taxes that will insure children in all state training schools real training and good care. The investment will pay off well -- not only in spiritual satisfaction but in actual salvage of human beings.

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