Hansford: Mental Defectives in County H., Indiana 13 
more gradual than those in the southern part of the county. 
This district includes Townships 2, 3, and parts of 1 and 5. 
They are still very rural in character. At the present time the 
outlook for the betterment of the community is brighter than 
ever before, as a start has been made toward placing this 
rough hill country on a better economic basis then it has been 
heretofore. Since one man in Township 3 has demonstrated 
that fruit is a paying investment, a number of men have 
planted orchards which they are enlarging from year to year. 
Already this industry has reached the proportions where it 
furnishes employment to a limited number of men. This, how- 
ever, will only accentuate the defect already existing since 
the defectives will be the ones who will not respond to the 
new conditions. 
In Township 3, where there is a Holy Roller community, 
a teacher corrected a small boy and his sister for mispronounc- 
ing a word. The boy at once threw back his head and began 
making unintelligible sounds. The teacher was frightened, 
thinking that the boy was having some sort of a ''spelF' until 
one of the other children explained that the child was “talking 
in tongues''. The teacher picked up a strap and only 3 ap- 
plications were necessary to make the boy change back into 
plain English. It might be well to explain that the people of 
this faith claim that they have been sanctified and can speak 
in the “unknown tongues" which were spoken on the day of 
Pentecost. The little girl then began to speak in the unknown 
tongue but was reduced to plain English by the same method 
used on her brother. The next morning a notice was on the 
blackboard saying that the teacher's hide would be found 
hanging on the blackberry bushes if he ever touched the 
children again. The boy again demonstrated his ability to 
speak the unknown tongue on the second day, whereupon he 
received a severe whipping. The next morning the school- 
house was almost a wreck; every windowpane was smashed, 
the door was broken in, the seats were jerked loose and piled 
in the center of the room, the stove was broken and the pieces 
were heaped in a pile on the teacher's table. It is safe to 
say that every person in that community knew the guilty 
party, yet the one who did the work was never punished. 
In Townships 7, 8, and parts of 4, 5, 6, and <11 is to be 
found excellent farming land. Here are the prosperous farm- 
ing communities, and if it were pot foy tfiQ fact that in each 
