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hood. Fortunately, very bad conditions are rare ; but they are frequent 

 enough to make the need for assistance vastly greater than the supply. 

 With many of us who were born in the west the joy of pioneering 

 still continues. In this work of training retarded children and youth- 

 ful offenders we are again on the frontier, hewing down forests of bad 

 habits and founding homes for the future generations. As our re- 

 sources increase and our knowledge accumulates we may look forward 

 to the time when we shall be able, at these border lands of society, to 

 select the good seeds, mother them in a fruitful soil, weed out the tares, 

 and raise a bumper crop of boys and girls that will do credit to the 

 nation. 



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