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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...
...first job Philip Sidney Hanna ever had, 19 years ago, was on the Economist, Chicago financial weekly now owned by Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, built up by his eldest son, "Snake" Jr. (now publisher of the Chicago Evening-Post), and published, with the Chicago Journal of Commerce, by younger son John Dawes Ames. Last week Phil Hanna returned to the same scene as editor of the Journal of Commerce. He will also have much to say in the Economist. For the last ten years Reporter Hanna has been a potent financial writer in Detroit, since 1924 Detroit representative...