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[Reuter Telegrams.] QUEST FOR MENTAL DEFECTIVES NEW YORK. Dec. 18. Albany, the capital of New York State, is preparing to put into operation next year a plan under which all children showing any.tendency towards mental derangement will he sought out in the schools and given early treatment in an effort io cheek crime and also the alarming increase of insanity. Doctor Havihmd, Chairman of the State Hospital Commission, and Doctor Graves, State Minister of Education, are working out fhe plan. They believe that the great preponderance of crime among youth is caused by mental defects. and that it could he corrected if these potential criminals were discovered when mere school children. Drs Havihmd and Graves will ask the Legislature fop an appropriation to carry out psychiatry in public education with experts who will work through the doctors and nurses in every city. He will collect- information of the children showing a trace of insanity, and these will he treated at various clinics, to ln> maintained throughout the State. RUSSIAN WHEAT. ißeceived this day at 8 a.m.i WASHINGTON. Dee. 21. The Russian Information Bureau here has isued a statement declaring the Russian wheat crop is now estimated at 6-10,01)0.090 bushels instead of 660,000,000, previously reported. The reduced estimates still leave a surplus of upwards of two hundred million bushels of all grains, including wheat for export, “including exports already made.-’ ALLEGED MANIPULATION. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. The Argentine Ambassador here has telegraphed to Mr George Saunders of Chicago, asking for the information on which the latter has based his charges that the Argentine Government’s grain reports were manipulated. The Argentine Ambassador says that he acted on the basis of the newspaper reports when he asked Mr Saunders for an explanation. These reports stated that Mr Saunders, who is VicePresident of the Armour Grain Coy., had “questioned the good faith of the official crop report on wheat in Argentina. and added that the report was prepared for the benefit of the friends and relatives of the Argentine Government officials.”
.Mr Saunders' reply will be transmitted to Buenos Ayres.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1925, Page 2
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