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...just finished Jerry," whispered Louis Greenfield hoarsely to the doorman of his Bronx apartment house one morning last week. "I gave my little boy chloroform. . . . He's better off dead...
When the police led him away, Greenfield, a tired little milliner, told them the whole story. For 17 grey, hopeless years he had washed, dressed and fed his imbecile son. He bought him blocks and tin soldiers, read sense into his harsh animal cries. On Sundays he would lead the shuffling child, who was almost a head taller than he, past neighbors' eyes into the park. Both Louis Greenfield and his wife, Anna, stinted themselves, sent the boy to hospitals, neurologists, special schools. But modern science could teach him nothing, could not even relieve painful convulsions that attacked...
...Snowing Good 37 4 new over 33 windblown powder Cohway, N.H. Cloudy Good 13 4 new fluffy Dartmouth Region, N.H. Good 10 6 in. new Franconia Notch, N.H. Snowing Fair 24 5 in, new over 19 base Fryeburg, Me. Cloudy Good 11 7 new over 4 in. base Greenfield, Mass. Cloudy Fair 3 1 in, granular on hard crust Intervale, N.H. Cloudy Good 13 4 in. new fluffy Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Good 14 4 in. new powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Cloudy Good 10 Dry Lancaster, N.H. Cloudy Good 11 Dry Lincoln, N.H. Fair Good 16 New Powder Littleton, N.H. Snowing...
Henry Ford's schools in Greenfield, with 244 pupils all told, go from kindergarten to the college level. At the top is the Edison Institute of Technology. Although he once said "history is bunk," the Greenfield schools teach history. But they stress such subjects as typewriting, manual training, telegraphy, mathematics, spelling, agriculture. Machine shop work begins in the eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian...
...doing, from trips, planting, harvesting, building. Instead of confining themselves to the three Rs, his schools teach youngsters to cook, to run modern machinery. Symbolic of the Ford educational program is his carting the old cabin of William Holmes McGuffey, author of the famed readers, log by log to Greenfield, restoring it as a schoolroom with McGuffey furniture, and then supplying the building with indirect lighting and air conditioning...