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until they are 14 years old, so as to get 

 around the Child Labor Law ; and to fasten 

 a useless tax burden on property owners 

 that will amount to $200,000,000 a year or 

 more ; as it were, to put a premium on sub- 

 normals. 



The great per cent, of the subnormals is 

 alarming. Heredity is the cause and the 

 sole cause. I present this analysis to 

 arouse an enlightened public sentiment. 

 We first must know the facts and study 

 the conditions, then we are prepared to 

 act. 



This report of Superintendent Maxwell 

 further sets forth on page 274, that the 

 public school standard of scholarship in 

 the City of Seattle, Wash., 93.6, shows the 

 highest average of intelligence of any pub- 

 lic school system of any city in the United 

 States. 



