# The Lutheran Pioneer_St. Louis_1930_S168
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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER. 167

home, where we were all anxiously waiting for them.
Henry drove his car into the garage; and when he
came into the house, he slumped down on a chair,
fainted, and could not talk. Finally he started to
vomit and came to again. I carried him to his bed,
and there he lay and could not talk. I called his
family physician, but he was sick in bed also. While
I was trying to get another doctor, he rallied and
began to talk. At midnight, after we had gone
home, he had another fainting-spell. In the morn-
ing his physician came over and gave him orders to
stay in bed for three or four days. He seems to
have overtaxed his heart by too much walking and
shoveling. Tle says that for some time to
come he will not again start out all alone to
explore the Western wilds during a blizzard.”

Deaf Schools in the United States.

The January number of the Annals
carried the regular annual statistical and
tabulated matter pertaining to the schools
for the deaf of America. The report shows
64 public residential schools in the United
States. There are also 18 private and
denominational schools and 144 public
schools. In all there are 196 schools for
the deaf in the United States. Canada has
nine schools.

The oldest school for the deaf in the
United States is the American School at
Hartford, Conn., established in 1817. The
youngest public residential school is the
school for the colored deaf and blind in
West Virginia, established in 1926.

The largest school in point of attendance is
Mount Airy, with 608 enrolled, and the smallest is
Taft Institute, Oklahoma, with only 18 reported.

The oldest public day-school for the deaf is the
Horace Mann School, erected 1896, and the youngest
one Throop School in Chicago, established in 1928.

The day-school having the largest attendance is
the Public School, 47 Manhattan, with 525 pupils,
and the smallest is the Birmingham School, with
five listed. ‘The Seattle School is also listed with
five pupils.

The oldest denominational, or private, school
listed is Michigan Evangelical Lutheran School at
Detroit [ Ey. Luth. Deaf-mute Institute], established
in 1873, and the newest one, the W. R. Allen School
at Faribault, 1924. The largest of these schools is

the De Paul Institute at Pittsburgh, with 134 pupils,

and the smallest is the Sanatorium School at Lans-
downe, Pa.

Canada has eight schools for the deaf. The
oldest is the school at Montreal, established in
1857, and the newest, the Toronto Day-school, 1924.
Another provincial school is being established in
Saskatchewan. The largest is the Ontario School.at
3elleville, and the smallest is the day-school at
Toronto. — Silent I oosier.

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Men are disturbed not by the things which
happen, but by opinions about the things.

The Deaf-Mute Institute, Detroit, Mich.

Some Rural Church Statistics.

Observation of conditions has indicated to all
who ‘would see that the population of the farming
communities and of the smaller villages has been
declining for years. This has also been borne out
by actual surveys and the decennial census enumera-
tions. The 1930 census will bring out the further
fact that even the larger villages and towns are
growing very slowly, if at all. This state of affairs
means that the Church will have to arrange its
church extension program so as to meet present
conditions and to turn her attention more and more
to the spiritual needs of the industrial towns and
larger cities.

Despite the great amount of talk about union
in Reformed circles rural America, like urban