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...student generation to which thumbs have more to do than pull out plums, six-foot, 20-year-old Stanley Fiese of Beloit (Wis.) was last week putting his 185 lb. of brain and brawn behind a helpful idea-Registered Collegiate Thumbers. A student at St. Ambrose College in Davenport (Iowa), he got the idea last May, thumbed his way around during the summer to enlist boys in several colleges...
...offer a lift from liability in case of accident. Encouraged by the Roman Catholic faculty at St. Ambrose, Thumber Fiese plans to enlist 800 more colleges. Says he: "We believe our fundamental idea is sound and . . . that our organization will benefit society. ... I have a girl friend in Beloit and visit there weekends. That isn't the reason I thought of this plan, but the R. C. T. emblem sure helps get a hitch...
...rabbit punch at his foes, white-goateed Statistician Roger Ward Babson last week rudely suggested that famed Helen Keller be elected to succeed him as moderator of the general council of the Congregational and Christian Churches. Shocked bigwigs of the church council, which was holding its biennial convention in Beloit, Wis., hastily apologized to Miss Keller for "the public use which has been made by Mr. Babson of the name of Miss Helen Keller in a most unkind and undignified manner...
...National Training School for Girls, in Washington, D. C., when plump, hard-working Carrie Weaver Smith became its superintendent last year, compared to the Girls' Industrial School at Beloit roughly as a slum kindergarten compares to Bryn Mawr. Inmates of the N.T.S.G. were some 60 members of the U. S. capital's worst young female riffraff. Most were colored, some white. The majority were three-time offenders. Practically all had either syphilis or gonorrhea. The plant was an obsolete brick building, with badly ventilated rooms and few sanitary facilities. On the theory that the deplorable conditions...
...Kansas City Star correspondent promptly found an 18-year-old Beloit student who described her experience: "All of us girls had been threatened before with sterilization unless we behaved ourselves. I knew it wouldn't do any good to kick although I didn't want it done. . . . My mother heard . . . after it was over and protested. ... I thought for a while that life had very little left for me but I have since changed and want to be a beauty operator. . . ." The mother of another Beloit inmate, a Mrs. Betty Benson, somewhat ambiguously declared that her sterilized daughter...