Word: hanna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Laborer Hanna had on his mind the matter of his daughter Helen, 15. Because she was alleged to have told her little sister to steal a purse last July, she had become award of the court. Her case came up early last month. Like her mother, she was examined by Carolyn Friendly. After that, Laborer Hanna became angry, terrified, excited. And Portland (through the sedate Portland Oregonian} learned of the Hanna Case for the first time. For Teacher Friendly had written of Helen Hanna: "Recommendation: Should be sterilized. She is not at all placeable and if left...
Cried Laborer Hanna: "I will not let them take Helen away. I would rather die first. She should be at home helping her mother with the children. There is nothing the matter with Helen. She is a good girl. Maybe she did take something, but if she would we would give it back. There is nothing the matter with my family. Maybe the kids don't mind their mother as they should...
Revealed to Portland was the test which 15-year-old Helen Hanna took. Things Helen knew: that George L. Baker is Portland's Mayor; that George V is England's King; Herbert Hoover the U. S. President; Calvin Coolidge, ex-President; George Washington, first President; that electricity "lights, shocks"; that tea comes from Japan. She knew the meanings of: copper, dungeon, lecture, haste. Things she did not know: the life-span of a horse; the largest city in the U. S.; why the heart beats. If she were hunting a ball lost in a circular field and were...
...Laborer Hanna had no money for counsel. But he went to Lawyer Arthur A. Tarlow who agreed to help him. Speedily Lawyer Tarlow obtained a rehearing of Mrs. Hanna's case. Three physicians questioned her. They found her illiterate, but discovered that she knew that a match touched to wood makes it burn; that a handkerchief is used to "blow the nose"; that leather comes from "goat, cow, sheep"; that her bus fare to the courthouse was 10?; that three bus fares would be 30?. Asked where she went to pray, she replied: "Church." To whom did she pray...
...Hanna was found to be "normal," was released. Teacher Friendly, declaring that her test had been misinterpreted, said that she had acted merely as a consultant to the court. She would bring no further allegations of feeblemindedness against Helen Hanna. Then Judge William Ball Gilbert of the Circuit Court said he had taken no cognizance of the tests anyway. Because of the Hanna's poverty, he took Helen from her family, installed her in the home of a Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Townsend...