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It Seems to Me HEYWOOD BROUN AJL T HEN the news came !rom Flemington that ▼ ▼ both sides rested one could wish that the same privilege might be accorded to the public. Editor and Publisher, an organ of the Industry, is currently conducting a symposium under the headline: 'Trial Over-Played? Editors Differ.” The weekly itself takes almost a Winchellian attitude in describing the “trial of a generation” as ”a great Journalistic feat.” Os course, it is quite true that on certain after-

noons some of the participants have behaved as if preoccupied not with judge or jury, but solely with tomorrow's headlines. But though the proceedings have been outlandish they scarcely bear out the smug suggestion of Mr. Pew’s publication that justice has dropped her sword and scales in order to run copy for the papers. Among regular rewspaper men there is a wide difference of opinion. Louis B Seltzer of th* Cleveland Press in speaking of the space used on the trial says that "a surprisingly small percentage of it has b:en

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Used in poor ta.-tc.” Guv T. Viskmskki of the Portland Oregonian thinks that “the manner in which the press has conducted itself at the trial has been little short of disgraceful.” And he adds, "as for the distinguished names who have made themselves trial sob sisters and brothers for a few guineas the less said the better.” a a a It Final Ift /{(came Disgraceful JT -em.> to me that Mr. Vi sniskki has singled out quite accurately the mortal sin of the press at Flomihgton. There are. of course, exceptions, but many editors have betrayed he craft thfy serve by lacking a confidence in >he competence ol their own staffs. Personal journalism was exploited in a few vulgar instances from the very beginning, but it was not until the publishers began calling all drawing cards from the microphone and the magazines that the trial became disgraceful. Editors ought to know better than that. Every newspaper man on every big story has had the happy privilege of watching the ooys and girls from the wrong side of the tracks stumble and fall in their attempts to adapt themselves to factual reporting. If it’s news you want I'll back a good rewrite man any day or night against a Nobel prize winner. The trained seals always bark their shins and yet semiannually editors grow panicky and summon the erring brothers. It is a crime against the craft as well as a betrayal of public confidence. It's Tommy this and Tommy that,' and when the guns begin to shoot its still "Tommy this” because the regular reporter finds his nice clean city room all cluttered up with celebrities. And as oftei as not he is a little sore. Suppose you were a reporter and a good one. And suppose ycu felt that you ought to get more money. To continue the fantasy, assume that the city editor has said, “You’ve got it coming to you. Bill, only I just don't know where to find it. The paper can't afford It. .vs . non as a break comes you'll certainly be remembered.” a a a They Are the Dig Money AND then suppose you ca.ne down to the office one bright morning to find that the management had taken on a bunch who chew the cud of serials or strut their stuff in continued stories. Mr. and Mrs. Reader wouldn't you be just a little sore to learn that Mrs. X was to get SSOO an afternoon and Mr. Z a hundred? There is nothing parochial in the average newspaper man's feeling that when there is work to be done the columnists and the clutterers and the hulld-up-your-tissues-with boys should be sent over the Mde of the first lifeboat. On the very rare occasions when an author becomes a reporter and gets away with it the regulars are always ready to express their sincere admiration. It is the newspaper men and newspaper women themselves who have eagerly hailed Edna Ferbers one-day contribution on the trial as the best story which has come from Flemington. But those who set eye upon this lofty little island had to swim through brine and treacle. They had to penetrate the clinging weed of the vast expanse of the Sargasso Sea cl specialists. The trial and Its reports could have been helped mightily if the judge would rap for order and announce. “The press seats are reserved for working newspaper and women. This is not the proper place for self-exploitation and stunts. All of you who are not reporters please walk, run or waddle out of here. We want to get down to business.” • Copyright. 1935*

Today s Science ! BY DAVID DIETZ

A T 7ITH the slogan of "dogs versus babies,” mediW cal societies and other organizations have started a nation-wide fight against the anti-vivisec-tion campaign now being waged in 32 states of the count ry. As part of this campaign, the American College of Surgeons, representing 12.000 of the country’s nio.-t eminent surgeons, hits issued a 50-page pamphlet entitled “Animal Experimentation—lts Importance and Value to Scientific Medicine.'* Thirty-five of the nation's leading medical scientists, including the recent winners of the Nobel prize for medicine. Dr. George R. Minot and Dr. William P. Murphy, arc among contributors. These authorities point out that the elimination of animal experimentation would cripple medical research: in fact, bring most of it to a standstill. "Animal experimentation has conferred immense benefits upon mankind." Dr. Franklin H. Marshall, director general of the American College of Surgeons, writes in the introduction to the pamphlet. "Doctors themselves have volunteered as subjects when animals have not afforded suitable media for experimental research.” a a a DR. MINOT at t Dr. Murphy received the Nobel price for their discovert’ of the liver treatment for pernicious anemia. A decade ago. Dr. F. G. Banting and his colleagues received the prize for their discovery of insulin, a treatment for diabetes. All over the world, today, children suffering from diabetes are alive because of insulin. Without the discovert* of insulin, they would have died before this. Similarly, sufferers from pernicious anemia now are being saved from death by the liver treatment. a a a POINTING out that the insulin treatment of diabetes resulted from animal experimentation. Dr. Minot writes: "A somewhat similar story can be told of the relief of sufferers from pernicious anemia, a disease heretofore always fatal. "Investigations on animals pointed out the effect of liver feeding upon growth, upon blood regeneration under certain circumstances, and had served to enhance essential knowledge concerning blood. "From such stepping stones, combined with observations made during life and death on various sorts of patients came the modem use of liver extracts and during their development animals were employed to determine if the products would be toxic for man. "The future solution of the cancer problem and many other conditions which are enemies to man in all probability will be solved in part by wise, judicious use of animal experimentation."

Questions and Answers

Q—Who was Hester Prynnd? A—The heroine of A Scarlet Letter,” by Hawthorne Q—What is the language of the original Magna Carta? A—Latin. Q- How is “Cavallcria Rusticana” pronounced? A—"Kah-tmhl-lay ree-ah roos-tih-kahnah.” Q —What does the initial "M” on the quarter dollars that were issued from 1916 to 1931 stand for? A—MacNeil, the name of the designer.

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MANUAL HIGH SCHOOL GROWS UP

Charles Emmerich Shaped Destiny of South Side Institution

“VyE have a building, but we have no school vet. That is our task.” Principal Charles E. Emmerich spoke those words to a nervous group of 21 teachers who sat solemnly around a table at Indusrial Training School in February, 1895. It was the teachers’ first meeting after Otto Stechhan’s dream of a free industrial high school in Indianapolis had been realized. Slowly during the winter of 1894 and 1895 there arose on Meridian and Merrill-sts the dignified building that was to become Emmerich Manual Training High School in later years. The structure itself was equipped with the most modern educational devices and was divided into three sections —the technical to the north, the literary in the center and the scientific to the south. Most of the pupils had come from old High School No. 2. which had occupied makeshift quarters in Ward School 8. Others were attracted by the facilities of the industrial shops. The first leaders of the school were sons and daughters of the prominent German families whose enterprise had helped make the school a reality. The United States Census of 1930 shows 3888 German-born Indianapolis citizens. 000 BOTH pupils and teachers felt the excitement of the new school. It was an experiment, and both the city and the nation were looking to the institution as a probable answer to problems arising from the American industrial revolution. Many persons in Indianapolis felt that the purpose of the school was to make mechanics and workers instead of educating the pupils in the conventional ‘‘cultural subjects.” Mr. Emmerich discouraged such an attitude as much as ooss'ble. A story is told that a visitor came to Industrial to inspect the shops. Mr. Emmerich called a young Purdue graduate to his office. The instructor, knowing Mr. Emmerich's democratic view, was wearing his overalls when he was introduced. “And this, I suppose, is a janitor,” the visitor drawled. Mr. Emmerich sharply lectured the visitor on his favorite theme —appreciation of shop work. Teachers, now retired, who were

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DAILY .WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND ~_By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—The jangle going on behind the scenes in the House over the bonus issue has all the aspects of a comedy of errors. Belaboring one another with jealous charges are those two superzealots of veteran legislation—Texas’ beefy Wright Patman and Georgia's raucous Carl Vinson. Each is the author of a bonus bill and each is demanding the right of way for his measure.

Patman, a cuirency inflationist, proposes to raise the $2,000,000,000 necessary to pay off the bonus by an issue of greenbacks. Vinson wants to finance the deal by a bond floatation. American Legion officials are backing the Vinson scheme, much to the vocal indignation of Patman who has been sponsoring bonus bills for years. In the cross-fire of brickbats between the warring camps is gangling Speaker Joe Byrns busily assuring each—without much success—that he is not playing favorites. Byrns’ one thought is to get the bonus issue off his hands. While Administration strategists have been cudgeling their brains for ways to prevent the passage of a bonus bill, the Tennesseean has been iterating and reiterating one refrain: "For my part I would like to see the matter disposed of as soon as possible.” ana PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT caused Maine's Tory Senator Frederick Hale to blush a deep red the other day. A large delegation of Maine officials, among them Democratic Gov. Louis Brann plus the state's three representatives, plus Hale, called on the President to discuss the famous Passamaquaddy Bay tidal power project. During the conference, one of the party started to describe the Maine coas* line. "Oil, you don t have to tell me about the coast of Maine,” the President replied smilingly. ‘‘l've sailed every* foot of it. Why. I know more about it than Freddy here. I go to Maine every summer. He only goes there once every six years when he has to run for office.” NOTE: Hale usually spends his vacation hunting in Alaska or deep-sea fishing in the Caribbean. a a a HOW seriously Donald Richberg takes his role of "Assistant President"—although actually he winces at the title—has been disclosed by his secret maneuverings with the National Labor Relations Board. When Philadelphia blue-blood Francis Biddle took office as Chairman of the NLRB, he and his colleagues went over to see the President who was most cordial. "Come over and see me any time,” was his farewell. "I'm always at your disposal.” And as troubles loomed on the labor horizon, the Labor Board endeavored to take the President up on his suggestion. Always, however, the door was barrejJ. Finally, the Jennings case came up arousing the opposition of newspaper publishers. Louey Howe. White House confidant, recognized the seriousness of the situation

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st Manual in 1895, were particularly impressed by the pupils’ independence of thought. Clubs were organized. Thought was stimulated by debating societies and literary groups. An early issue of Mind and Hand, the student newspaper, reports an account of heated debate on the bloody Pullman strike in Cook County, Illinois. George Pullman then defied organized labor in a spectacular manner. The affirmative won 17 to 8 on the subject, “Resolved, That strikes are an evil and that the recent strike clearly proves this.” 000 FORTY years later the United States was to lay its labor problems before Federal labor boards for arbitration. The student mind was bent on grave subjects. Katie Pearce, a pupil, wrote in Mind and Hand an article protesting that women were as capable of patriotism as men. “Can man, in his heart.

and arranged for the Labor Board to explain the case to the President. A date for the meeting was fixed. But without a word of warning it was suddenly called off. Donald Richberg had heard of the conference and rushed over to the White House demanding that it be cancelled. a a a RELATIONS between the NLRB and the White House have been delicate ever since. Whether the present members resign is in the lap of luck. When Roosevelt published his letter reversing the board in the Jennings case, both Ed Smith and Dr. Harry Millis handed their resignations to Chairman Biddle. They were dissuaded from forwarding them to the White House, however, by Senator Wagner and other Senators who are drafting labor legislation. They argued that the bills they are introducing will remedy the situation and make the NLRB supreme in all labor disputes. Also the President called in Labor Board members, gave similar assurances, temporarily smoothing the ruffled waters. (Copyright. 1935. bv United Feature) Syndicate. Inc.) ANTI-HEARST DRIVE. OPENED AT DE PAUW Students Join National Protest Against Newspapers. Bg Times Special GREENCASTLE, Feb. 12.—A new kind of pledge pin bloomed on the campus of De Pauw University here today. It is a campaign button and the legend reads: "Don’t Read Hearst.” The buttons are being circulated nationally by students protesting the current Hearst newspaper campaign against alleged radical professors in American colleges. Hearst's Chicago Herald and Examiner and American circulate in the De Pauw territory. NOTED HISTORIAN IS UNDER FIRE BY NAZIS Berlin Professor Ordered to DiscuOtinue His Lectures. By United Press BERLIN. Feb. 12.—Prof. Hermann Oncken. noted historian of Berlin University, was ordered today to discontinue his lectures. His offense was that his students cheered him after Nazis had denounced his lecture of Jan. 12. "Revolution and History,” in which he contradicted Nazi historical theories.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1935

—Photo by John Hawkins, Times Staff Photographer Manual .... Trained hands and educated minds.

scorn the idea of a patriotic woman? Does he dare cast this slur on her in the face of history. Why should she not feel this noblest of all feelings?” The challenge went unanswered in future issues of the publication. The school gradually was becoming a personality. It adopted its school colors—red and white—and Hans Stechhan wrote a yell. School spirit soon developed. So bitter was the rivalry between Shortridge High School and Manual that the principals of the two schools were forced to confer to stop violence between pupils of the two institutions at athletic contests. The principaLs agreed that two jeering yells be discontinued. The North Side students had shouted, “Girls in white, girls in red, they’re the girls that make the bread.” (Manual had a cooking school.) A Manual pupil wrote an inspirational yell which was immediately adopted. It was “Rah,

TWO FORT OFFICERS ARE GIVEN TRANSFERS Capt. Holmes Goes to Philippines, Lieut. Davis to Hawaii. Capt. Don N. Holmes, who has been assigned for four years to the 11th Infantry at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, has been transferred to foreign service in the Philippine Islands. Lieut. John J. Davis, 19th Field Artillery, has been assigned to duty in Honolulu, Hawaii, and will sail late in April. Capt. E. T. Hayes, 19th Field Artillery, has assumed command of the western Indiana Civilian Conservation Corps district with headquarters in Mitchell. WELDING CLASSES TO RESUME AT Y. M. C. A. Russel Fursel Again to Have Charge of Course. The class in electric and acetylene welding will open for the second semester at the Young Men's Christian Association trade school at 7:30 tonight. Russel Pursel, who has taught the class for nine years, will be instructor. The public speaking class met for the first time this semester last night. Classes in radio service and repair and show card writing are now being formed at the trade school. High school and business college courses also are being formed.

SIDE GLANCES

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“\ou don’t seem very concerned when I say that I pullec sixty-two gray hairs out of my head this morning.”

rah, rah; Shortridge High School wants its mamama.” 000 THERE existed in those early days a close relationship between pupils and teachers. On Saturday afternoons pupils and teachers would wheel out their bicycles and pedal their way to Broad Ripple for a picnic. Mr. Emmerich encouraged the growth of clubs, or, as they were in those days, fraternities and sororities, because he believed in group activity. The annual of 1904 lists the following societies: Ran Cheros, Oski Wos, Z. Z. Z., Colonial Maids, Senoritas, Manchus, . Raza Mataz, Tribunes, Toreadores, Tredecimmites, Walkuren, O. G. TANARUS„ Zi Kis, Bashi Bazouks, Minnehahas, D. A. N. D. Y. S., Laconian Maids, Mikados, Colleens of Innisfall, Vivantes Vierges, Aztecs and Phi Delta Nu. Another of the early organizations that enjoyed popularity was the Sheykhs.

' I C©VER THE WORLD 000 000 By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—A constitutional amendment to reduce the number of Senate votes required to ratify a treaty from two thirds to a majority will be sought by Senator James P. Pope <D-, Idaho). The resolution has the backing of a group who feel that under the present system, a comparative handful of people can block the will of an overwhelming majority. An analysis of the vote on the World Court reveals that when the Senate turned thumbs down on American entry, it was far from

being the “Victory for the People' which its foes claimed. Assuming that each Senator truly represented his constituents, the final line-up indicated that, in round numbers, 80,000,000 Americans favored the court as against approximately 45,000,000 opposed. These figures are estimated by tabulating the population of the 48 states and lining the people up, for or against the court, according to the vote of their Senators. When one Senator voted for, and one against the court, the population of that state split accordingly, half to each column. a a a IN the final vote, the Senate alignment showed 22 states in favor of the court, 12 opposed and 14 divided. Those for it were Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Mis-

By George Clark

The undergraduate organizations were short-lived because the Indiana General Assembly, in its great wisdom, outlawed high school social societies. Some of these groups still exist as graduate clubs where middleaged men and women gather to ! remember their Manual background. Prior to the depression they gathered considerable stuns j for worthy causes at Manual. Drama rose to a position of high importance as talented pupils competed in the writing of class plays. Joel Baker, Criminal Court probation officer, was a charming, but husky-voiced Portia in the play, “The Merchant of Venice up-to-Date,” presented by Manual mum nci 25 ’’ears ago. Mr. Baker, who now supports a mustache, portrayed the feminine charms of the famed woman lawyer. 000 WHAT the graduates today feel today as the greatest tribute to Mr. Emmerich is the growth of musical organizations at Manuai. Mr. Efimerich himself organized the first 12-piece orchestra. During his time a chorus, Mandolin Club, and various singing groups became active. A military corps w r as organized in 1896. So strong was the patriotic fervor aroused by this training that several boys rushed to the recruiting office at the outbreak of the Spanish - American War. The history of student publications at Manual was a precarious one. The Mind and Hand was succeeded by the Armgus, the Mirror, and, finally, the Booster. E. H. K. McComb, the Manual principal now, was toasted when he was a mere teacher by a ballad. One of the verses asked, “Now last of all this question—how do you succeed to munch the dreadful deathlike contents of old, stale Taggart lunch?” . The March (1900) Mirror included in its personals column: “Mr. Siebanthal asked in one of his classes how many legs a mosquito has. Roy Howard, with a glance at Edwin Denzlerm, growled: ‘Two’.” Mr. Howard is now chairman of the board of Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Two months after the new school was established Emily Helming wrote in the Mind and Hand, “We are sorry that we had not the privilege of taking the whole course at this splendid school.” Mr. Emmerich’s plea to his teachers that it was their duty to create the school had not gone j unanswered.

souri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. Opposed were California, Delaware, lowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota-, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Washington. Split were Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio. Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Wisconsin and Wyoming The United States is said to be the only country which follows the practice of allowing only one branch of a bicameral legislature to “advise and consent" with the executive branch of the government in treaty-making. a a a 'T'HIS arrangement is said to be A due to the circumstances which obtained when the Constitution was framed. Each of the 13 colonies—or states—was considered to be independent, and each felt it should have an equal voice with the others when treaties were being negotiated, regardless of population. Those who framed the Constitution, however, were less united on the two-thirds rule. James Wilson of Pennsylvania objected precisely on the ground that it thus became passible for a few to block the desire of the majority. Rufus King of Massachusetts agreed with Wilson, and Nathaniel Gorham of the same state said that if a majority could not be trusted “we are not fit for one society.” Elbridge Gerry, also of Massachusetts, feared, however, that a majority might be corrupted by foreign influence, and the committee of 11 voted 8 to 3 for the two-thirds rule. Roger Sherman of Connecticut suggested that treaties be ratified by a majority of the entire Senate, regardless of the number actually voting and this failed by the narrow margin of 6 to 5. WESTERN UNION ASKS CITY BOND_ABOLITION Works Board Refers Plan to Legal Department. A. A. Brown, Indianapolis Western Union Cos. superintendent, today asked the City Works Board to do away with the SIO.OOO indemnity bond of his company has been required to post yearly against possible damage to city property by the underground cable of the company. The board referred the matter to the city legal department. "

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Fair Enough NOTING that Mama and Papa Dionne, the parents of the Canadian quintuplets, are now elevating the drama in Chicago. I have been searching the reviews with particular curiosity to see how their playwright tailored his story to their rather special qualifications. The Dionnes are not all-round actors, but types of a highly specialized kind and a play which would give expression to the character in which they appear before the drama lovers must necessarily be

constructed with extraordinary tact, sympathy and ingenuity. After all, the quintuplets themselves are not joining in these personal appearances and it is the babies, judging by the pictures, who have most of the family charm and heart appeal or, as we call it in our business, human interest or H-I. Not only do the parents look remarkably ordinary, but it will have to be admitted that there is nothing strikingly original in parenthood, so the task which they and their author have assumed in elevating the stage seems much more imposing than that of having the

babies in the first place. Nature deserves credit for an important assist in the quintuplet play, but nature has turned pro and the only help that Mama and Papa can count on when they appear behind the footlights is that of the hired interlocutor or lecturer. A discourse based on their claim to fame would be something on the order of a lecture on one's own operation. 000 Mama Dionne Leads the Field OF course, we are much more liberal and sophisticated nowadays than we were 20 years ago and the subject of babies and their origin is no longer avoided in general company as it used to be. But even though the facts of life are pretty widely understood by now, an entertainment based on the parenthood of two such persons as the Dionnes ought to be remarkably brilliant in order to compel the attendance of playgoers whose experience has been just about the same. Mrs. Dionne, if she were set down in one of those familiar gatherings of mothers who sit on camp chairs along the sidewalks of New York in summer, jouncing baby carriages and talking shop, would be accorded a certain distinction by her sisters. But if she continued ner recital day after day there w’ould come a time when some of the other ladies who have mothered large broods, though in smaller batches, would set her down with an irritated, “You’re telling me!” The special talents of various artists who have been called to the stage since the day of the late Oscar Hammcrstein have been many and varied. One of his earliest attractions was a young woman distinguished for having seduced a young Southerner who then killed his wife with a shotgun. His next triumph was a couple of ladies who had shot the late W. E. D. Stokes in an unsuccessful attempt at extortion. There followed in dazzling succession Miss Trudy Ederle, who had crossed the English channel under her own team; Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, the Boston widow who hadn’t murdered her husband with cyanide, after all. and, probably the greatest artist of them all up to the appearance of the Dionnes, the father of the late John Dillinger. 000 Dillinger Wasn't So Hot OLD Mr. Dillinger’s career on the stage was brief and not altogether successful. Hampered and harrassed by the authorities, he played a meager season and then retired to his farm and it was noticed that the drama, far from being uplifted, sagged more alarmingly than ever as a result of his efforts. But he was the victim of discrimination. They wouldn’t let him exhibit his boy’s straw hat and shirt with the bullet holes in them. Such attractions as these, including the Dionnes, seldom last very long for there is something about such heroes and heroines in the flesh or even in the moving pictures which disenchants their audiences. It will be interesting to see what form of drama is written for Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the event that he should be acquitted of all wrong and induced/to follow so many illustrious predecessors on the stage. As an innocent man he would be only a German carpenter with a criminal record, and surely no fascinating figure of a man, unless he undertook to appear twice daily in an act entitled “How I didn't kill the Lindbergh baby.” (Copyright. 1935. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISIIBEIN

YOUR intellect or intelligence is to a large extent inherited. This differs from learning. A person may have an education without being intelligent. When the intelligence of a human being fails to develop beyond the average of a child 12 years old, he is considered feeble-minded. Feeble-mindedness ranges from idiocy through imbecility and moronism, up to normal intelligence. A person of a mental age below that of 2 years is said to be an idiot. Persons with a mental age below that of 7 years are called imbeciles, and those below that of the age of 12 are called morons. It is also possible to divide these sub-classifica-tions into high-grade, low-grade and middle-grade idiots, morons and imbeciles, but such classifications demand more extensive study and expert knowledge. a a a AN idiot is obviously incapable of doing any work • or even of taking care of himself, exactly as a child under 2 years of age can not work or take care of itself. An imbecile, however, having the body of a grown person and with the mental capacity of a child of 7 years, can be taught to do the things that a child under 7 years of age can do. Under supervision, it can help weed a garden, and it can fetch and carry within the limits of its strength, but always under supervision. Morons, on the other hand, can be taught to scrub or mend, to do manual work, and occasionally even operate simple machines, without too much supervision. a a a STATISTICIANS calculate that feeble-minded-ness is so fully bred into the race that approximately 10,000,000 normal persons in the United States are carriers of feeble-mindedness. There are occasional cases in which feeblemindedness is not the result of heredity. These are cases in which there is lack of thyroid gland secretion, resulting in the condition called cretinism, with stopping of development, cases in which the brain is injured at birth, and cases in which some serious infectious condition has destroyed quality of the brain tissue. The only answer which modern civilization has to the problem of perpetuation of the feeble-minded-ness is sterilization. No doubt, sterilization of the feeble-minded would result in diminishing the total number to some extent and, if carried out over a sufficiently long time, might eventually produce a great reduction. However, the large number of feeble-minded makes it unlikely that the result would soon be apparent Segregation of the feeble-minded In institutions seems at present to be the only possible method of immediate control. Q—Give the source of the quotation: “The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.” A—Shakespeare’s “Merchant ,of Venice,” Act IV, Scene I. P I

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