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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1939
JOB HALF DONE [LE report persists in Washington that exactly nothing will be done about the capital-labor problem by this “Barring a possible rebellion in both the Senate and House ranks,” says a typical dispatch, adjournment will record a blank as to the Wagner Labor Act, the Natiooal Labor Relations Board, mediation and those other factors so vital to industrial peace, continuity and recovery. We ask once more—what Congress for? What areater case of neglect of duty then for the lawmakers fo walk out on this problem? And again we call attention to fact that Congress is hired the year. Superimposed on the millions of involuntarily unemployed is the avoidable unemployment caused by employeremployee disputes. Were there in force a mediation system as effective, for example, as is the Railway Mediation Act with the railwavs and the airlines, it would be avoided. That came from a Congress that didn’t quit and go home. The problem is not insoluble. Experience in this counwith the railwavs and the airlines proves it. There has not heen a major tieup on the railways for a dozen years, And experience abroad also has proved that mediation there has been able to assure continuity of industrial operation and all that means in stopping the inestimable loss from shutdowns. Mediation could be extended to all AmerBut not by a Congress that is suffering from
Congress.
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the by
act
trv
ican mdustry. homesickness and political fright. A streamlining of the Wagner act and a coupling with it of a mediation plan could turn the trick. » » » n »n » Y last report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 43,000 were idle from labor disputes. When that many are out of work who could be at work if there were adequate mediation, an incalculable number in addition are added indirectly. When, for instance, an auto plant closes il is nol just the man on that plant's payroll who is made idle. All down the line, salesmen, clerks, repair men, and a whole host of workers are dependent on the industry at the top. If the full scope could be encompassed by the statisticians who report only those directly thrown out of work, there would be such a picture as to wake Congress up, to cause In fact that “rebellion in both Senate and House ranks” which would get something done. We trust it is not too much to hope that, by the exercise of some attention and some vision, Congress may vet move 1n on this, one of the most pressing of the domestic of a nation suffering in the 10th of hard
troubles vear
times.
WILL ROGERS IN THE HALL OF FAME HE
orators.
of Oklahoma,” said one of the Hall of Fame a comother unanimous
sons and daughters “present to America’s to George Washington, the only the people.” The scene was the rotunda of the capitol of the United States.
panion
choice of
From the pedestaled., undraped statue, the whimsical Will Rogers looked over the hundreds who had gathered to honor the memory of America’s cowboy, humorist, philosopher, ambassador-of-good-will. The upturned faces of the living audience were sober and serious, matching the solemn stone and metal visages of the departed great and near great, that line the walls of StatuHall. The only quizzical countenance was that of the lifelike bronze, by Jo Davidson, from which the flag had lust been lifted. Will Rogers was enjoying what he regarded as a huge
smile of
ary
10K. Ile had been committed, and by lo the eternal company of America’s Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson and other soldiers statesmen of undying repute. What a Valhalla for one who in life never held public office. but whose areat achievement and delight had been in puncturing the nretenses of those who did. An untimely death in Alaska took from the living a private citizen who possessed “simplicity, understanding, loyalty and love of his fellow man.” To a world sorely tried by hates, isms and ideologies, Will Rogers’ bequests are his good humor, his tolerance, his humanity.
his own generation.
immortals—George
and
IN THE FOURTH RING EDP. FOREST A. HARNESS of Indiana went on the radio the other evening, under auspices of the Republican National Committee, to orate as follows: “All of you have attended circus performances where the artists dazzled you in three separate rings at the same time, while acrobats flew through the air and clowns disported themselves—all in a glorious confusion of sight and sound. You know exactly how I feel, then, when I confess that the great New Deal circus of the past few days has proved a little too much for my simple ability to comprehend. There have been entirely too much aerial acrobatics and too much buffoonery going on for us to grasp it all.” Rep. Harness is one of the 97 in the House who voted for the Townsend Plan.
WOMAN'S PLACE HE 1 of all time.” it called. 70 000 feminine Lictor Youths and Fascisti gathered in Rome to do their part in celebrating Fascism’s 20th anniversary. There were uniformed women with rifles. There were women on horseback or on bicycles. There were women carrying fencing foils, tennis racquets, bows and arrows or soccer footballs. But the dispatches say that all Fascist commentators made it clearly understood that “woman’s place is in the home.” How flattered the women of Italy should be! Thev are permitted to march like men; to display their bodies, made strong by drill and play. And then they are told that the purpose of it all is to prepare them for the place where they really belong—in the homes, as human machines perfected to produce sons and daughters fit in their turn “to drill and perhaps to die, for a dictator's greater glory. |
greatest assemblag Was
Some
aeliv- .
Aviation
By Maj. Al Williams
Puerto Rican Air Bases Needed for Canal Defense, but There's No Reason for Alarm Over 'Enemy.’
ASHINGTON, ministration
y W officials and Army and Navy
Yi FE THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES ‘Give Me My Boots and Saddle ’—By Talburt
Jae 7.—Time and again, Ad-
leaders have been asked privately and publicly to ex- |
plain the identity of the foreign enemy against whom
we are arming in the Caribbean.
The Army and Navy peovle T have questioned
| leave me with the impression that their vague an-
swers cannot be understood because their tongues are tucked where, in the interests of distinct enunciation,
they should not be. The Administration people have read and heard this challenge upon scores of occasions, and have failed to present a plain, sensible answer The subject comes up again because of the current publicity incidental ta organizing giant air bases in Puerto Rico. Concentration nf American airpower at this spot is an ohvious necessity, and why we can't get. on with the job without alarming the people of this country is more than I can understand, American airpower based at Puertn Rica will present, us with a tremendous outer screen in the Atlantic for the
Panama Canal. n Nn N
WP" all know the vital importance of the Panama Canal in the defense scheme of the United
States
American commerce wanted the Canal built |
for the obvious reason that we could handle sea ship- |
ments of The Navy considers it vital, in that it would permit us to concentrate our naval forces in either ocean, as necessity demands. Since the Canal was built, blings of the necessity of another canal Panama should be smashed by some enemy. recentlv a big Navy mouthpiece clamored about necessity of & two-ocean navy But the recent naval maneuvers
in case the the
of coneen-
goods between the East and West Coasts. |
there have been rum-
Only |
trated American fleet in the Caribbean is the conun- |
drum of this most puzzling age. Defense of the Panama Canal? Certainly, hni aren't working from the wrong side. when our oly potential naval enemy is in the Pacific? There are only navies that can hold a candle tn our sea (leet British and the Japanese Mav 1 count the British Navy out as an enemy foree, just to minimize our frightful hazards?
W I the French,
the Italian mavies in a lump for a week-end without batting an eye. In the place, none them would be allowed out of European waters by the British If those dictators are cutting into our South American markets, I can't sce where we can undercell them with a sea fleet, or 20 sea fleets, or with gigantic airpower. That's another ball game, We can lick those fellows, or anvone else, by passing a few sensible export laws, building our official commercial representation in the countries of South America, and offering better products at rates the markets will bear In spite of all this. bases in Puerto Rico is a
we
two the
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conld take on the German and
shooting practice,
first of
the organization of giant air step that should have been iaken a long time ago, and is really not connected with anv war fever of Europe. And, in addition to Puerto Rico. let's get that other air defense screen in the Pacific at Galapagos
(Mr. Pegler did not write a column for today.)
Business
By John T. Flynn
Bone Anti-War Profits Bill Really A Protection for Economic System.
EW YORK. June 7.--Some Homer T. Bone and 49 other members of the Senate introduced a bill known as the War Profits Bill. Its objective 1s always stated to be to take the profits out of war. Actually its general aim is to protect the economic system against the terrible effects of War inflation. When the bill was introduced various newspapers made a tremendous pother against the bill on two points. One was that the tax rate was such that on incomes over $75.000 the taxpayer would actually have to pay more in taxes than he received in income. The other was that thie Senators who sponsored the bill had not read it At the time sponsors of
”
time ago Senator
the bill pointed out that the criticism was a manifestly unjust one. They offered explanations of the error into which newspaper critics had failen. But unfortunately this got no space in the critical journals.
Error Is Acknowledged
one newspaper has had the sense of jusin very generous terms the fact that criticisms of the bill it was in error. the United States News: 15 1ssue of the United States News, in an article on page three analyzing three plans prepared in Congress to prevent war, it was stated that under a bill (S. 1885) introduced hy Senator Bone 2 person earning more than $75,000 a year might have to pay more in and Federal taxes than the amount of his income. The United States News was In error in making statement. Section 23c of the Bone Bill makes it impossible for a person to be required to pay more in taxes than he earns in income. The clause does this by permiiting the taxpayer to deduct taxes paid, able income, so that the Federal tax proposed by Senator Bone would be levied only on that portion of income that remains after other taxes are paid.” Now as to the second criticism—that the Senators who sponsored the bill did not read it. The interesting feature about this is that the charge was made by newspapers which clearlv had not read the bill themseh could never have made that
But now, tice to point in printing. these We quote from “In the May
out
state
this
ves or they blunder The publication of criticism like measure United acknow
111-digested, nuneonsidered does the cause of truth ne end of harm. The has had the grace
an this necessari important News alone the error.
m a LN States ledee
A Woman S Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Fegguson
N an excellent discourse on modern marriage, pub- |
lished in the Saturday Evening Post, Will Durant proposes that we should go back to the ways of an earlier age by restoring the ancient custom of dowry. Dowry is an old and was once an honorable term. It
other than Federal, from his tax- |
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The Hoosier Forum
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defend to
with but ill the death your right to say 1t.—Voltaire.
disagree what you say,
URGES G. 0. P. MAT PROGRAM FOR 19540 By Dr. E. ©. We generally feel it is the duty of those connected with the Republican National Committee to outline fa program of the party. We gener{ally feel that it is their duty to state this program so that party workers can understand the program and then preach it to the laymen with whom they come in contact. When one of these national officers comes into our own community we expect such a message; but after the meeting held in Muncie the other evening, which was addressed by a Miss Marion Martin, the whole audience was disappointed because they were not given any program looking toward 1940. There was a great deal of talk about winning in 1940, but no promise of service by the Republican leadership appearing anv place in the prepared address by Miss Martin, It is unfortunate that the Republican national leadership under John Hamilton and the state leadership under Bobbitt, Thurman, Gates, Stults, and Judge Neal has developed no program for the Republican workers to carry on and carry to the voting public. It is about time that all of these parties discover that there is never anything to be gained by the continual knocking of the New Deal unless you can substitute some constructive program. There is & constructive program for the Republican Party to carry out. The Republican Party always has stood for true American principles; and if the Republican Party will get enough courage to take a stand for the American principles in government, we can win in 1940 and restore prosperity to the country as a whole. The people generally are looking and hoping for such a program and up to the present time the Republican national leadership and the state leadership have utterly failed. » » » PLEADS FOR ADMISSION OF REFUGEE CHILDREN By Thomas F. Aiken
May I add my few thoughts to the manyv masterly pleadings of some of the most sincere people in public life for the orphans of ravaged Europe. Who is it that has suffered from privation for the hite of hread that he has given in the name of charity? Can
Haynes, Muncie
ANY man or womsn who
What it takes is Instead of $12, $15. us $30 or $35 a
1this thing out. buying power $18 a week, give week. We buy clothes, shoes, cars, tires, gas, oil, household goods and homes. That gives the producer an outlet for his product. But you can’t do anything with $12 or $15 a week. names will be There are some people who won't work any time, but most of us will,
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ta express their views in
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these columns, cons
religious
troversies excluded. Make
vour letter short, so all can Letters must
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have a chanc e. be signed, but withheld on request. URGES EXTENSIVE STUDY ON TAX-EXEMPT HOMES By
seen the drawn haggard faces of undernourished Kiddies suffer of want in a land of plenty ever forget that sight? Yet whv has this world turned a deaf ear to the pleadings of children—not for sustenance ‘hat has
by been assured, but for only a& chance ~nirteen ztates have already to avail themselves of this suste-
nance, perimented with this proposal, Who would think of tying up a which is aimed at stimuiating home dog with a chain, just a little too ownership, Creating 3 Inarket Yor short for him to reach a plate of idle land, for idle labor, for buildfood? No one would be so unkind | n# materials and household equip-
to a dumb animal, vet we are doing ment.
this same thing, not to an animal How far t! : . but to human beings. can go in fostering on a national
Let us open our shores to those scale any such exemptions would 20,000 children. Loose the chain | seem problematical. This field of that more abundance may be our taxation is traditionally one tor the lot for God knows we all need it. states and localities. It has been rr » =» |in the past their staff of tax reve-
HIGHER WPA PAY URGED nue. Obviously any such wide tax TO RESTORE PROSPERITY would leav2a a gaping hole in tax By Clarence Edward revenues, to be filled from There is no reason for this depres- other source. sion. WPA, PWA, NRA or any There is a real field for someone's other letters aren't going to help study. How has this worked in the , - Sn 13 states which have attempted it? |Has the expected boom in home {building and ownership resulted? [How has the tax gap been plugged? Have the net results been good? So far as we know this has nhof been determined. The objective is ihe certainly laudable. The only question is: Does it work? Somebody jonght to find out without delay. Plans iike this, if demonstrably Aren't vou glad to see workable, are what the country time? badly needs today. So many things to do. > x biitle Thilgren fun ung play | SEES NEWSSTAND DEALERS ily ———— HEADED FOR RELIEF
DAILY THOUGHT on Vows ; : i v! , ‘my! at tremendous God is a Spirit; and they that yitories the Indianapolis Democrats worship him must worship him in | ¢aore in their New Deal. What vicspirit and truth.—John 4.24. tories they achieve for the oneri—— [third ill-clad, ill-housed, ill-fed. Wi should worship as though Gradually they are eliminating the the Deity were present. If my newsstands on the city corners. mind is not engaged in my worship, Cheer up, the news dealers it is as though I worshiped not.Confucius.
has but once
Home Owner Exemption of homes from all taxation up to $5000 is being advocated Senator Sheppard of Texas. eX
the Federal Government
SPRINGTIME
By WANDA MITCHELL
vou glad to see the springtime? Flowers blooming evervwhere: Birds are returning {rom South, Summer time is near.
Aren't
the spring-
will soon be on relief. Then vou ean
'eount. on their votes in 1940.
LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND
By DR. ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM
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defined the property brought by the wife to her mar- |
riage, and every parent in times past felt disgraced if obliged to bestow his daughter's hand without a certain amount of worldly goods to accompany her. The good folk of other days, being less naive than are, believed that love might wear longer with the substantial help of eash in the bank. Since the rise of the American self-made man, it has been regarded as a foul insult te maseulinity, This. Mr. Durant believes, is the chief reason for the decline of middle class marriage. How stupid it would be for us fo deny the charge! Thousands
ne
80 |
of young people cannot get married now= |
adays because the boys are not able to earn enough !
to keep up homes. And I suspect the same fear the reluctance with which parents divide their property when children come to marriageable age. We must keep all until we die, they say, or we shall be left to join the throngs who are recipients of charity. Moreover, by the time the given a college education to his children he is just about as broke as he can be. men give him no quarter.
Sometimes it seems as if society might be better |
served if part of the funds invested in educational frills and fancies for girls could be used as marriage dowries for them. What good is all this education going to do if the women ean’t hand down to chilgrea their Spey acquired intellectual ‘knowl-
average parent has |
And the income tax |
is responsible for | :
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HIGH SCHOOL CLASS ASKS: ARE WOMEN AS COURAGEOUS AS MEN IN TIME OF DISASTER? YOUR OPINION
1582 [in the world—all history shows {women to be the equals of men. un un ” NO. Of course it doesn’t precisely boost one on the road to glory but moral habits depend mainly upon the situation one is in. After testing 10,000 children
land May, Yale psychologists, found [that the habit of stealing or or cheating, say on examinations or on the playground, did not indicate one would steal, lie or cheat at home or when sent to the grocerv and the like. Morality with ‘most of us 1s a pretty loosely knit set of habits. The only thing that {will knit them into a consistent pattern is a profound general ideal {of goodness.
ee ARR Pd THIS TEND TO MAKE ONE DECE(TFUL N OTHER THINGS P 2 YOUR OPINION en
| It § i nen being a Representa|tive or Senator indicates [tive ability at all.
ANiGH SCHOOL CLASS NEARLY ALL HAVE
in the head than the eyebrows. In-
INDICATE CEO ATNE
1 | (ABILITY? YASORNO— | right-handed people is on the left
Grternd we Jibe TD On; “TEE YES.
1 the airplane Cavalier which! sank on ifs trip to Bermuda is just | lone more illustration ny in a | pinch courage as men and their
Rn ———
The recent disaster to, ‘holds out just as long.
women have x eu earthquakes and war, which call not
/side of the head, and for leftAll were handers on the right side. But, brave but the most outstanding since the eyebrows are even on both courage was manifested by a sides this would indicate they were, woman. Tn wrecks, ocean disasters, | not the cause of ability or else abil- | ‘would be eH distributed on ‘of the head.
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Sourage {only Tur IvISHtary SOUS BU ny both sii
ASHINGTON, WwW ner-——or
{ nomination of his party—be ralled a
| both of whom { for the greater part of their lives
| ever
| Negroes and | would be enough-—a | economic
exemption, regardless of its benefits, |
some!
| aged to set down so much cop)
{ beneath your
1during courage—the hardest kind|
land young people Drs. Hartshorne!
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might be debated legisla~- | But, letting that | | pass, ability is located farther back |
dications are that most of it for
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— a WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 19%
Gen. Johnson Says—
Ickes Apparently Thinks F. D. R. Has Exclusive Rights to Presidency Which May Account for Attack on Garner.
June 7.--~Why should Jack Garestablished Democrat the 1940 Presidential
“back-stabber?
any other who
tosses his hat inte the ring for
Above all, why should Harold Ickes do the calling? The idea seems to be that it is “back-stabbing” because Mr. Roosevelt, may want the nomination himself. But he hasn’t sald so and even if he had, there is no more certain single Constitutional right of every native-born American citizen than to propose himself for the Presidency. Does only Mr. Roosevelt now have that right? He isn’t even a Democrat—or such variety as Thomas Jefferson or would recognize. He is no nearer being than, for example, is Mr. Ickes or Henry have been some kind
if he is, it is of no Andrew Jackson a Democrat Wallace of Republican such political hybrids as Garner,
It is perfectly clear why Mr, Ickes want to stop the nomination of Mr or any other Democrat, If a Democrat ever became President, there would be the greatest exodus from Washington of semi-Socialists. crack-pot economists and pink-to-scarlet, political experimenters that ha happened since the Pied Piper turned both rats and children out of Hamelin, Nn »n ”
T is precisely the economic antics of snch as these
that have kept our tried and proved profits system
in such a state of uncertainty,
There is a good deal of puzzling over the question
{ of what policy any Fourth New Deal opposition could | adopt to appeal to the electorate and offset the effect
r
of billions of dollars of spending to buy the votes olf the principal great groups of beneficiaries—farmers, the unempleyed., I think this alone promise that these irresponsible tinkerers would step from control of Government. Third want a epiih-
wold
ferm for the President? Sure they third term. It is their only hope. Under any lican or any recognizahle Democrat their end come, Not one of them could he elected doz-catcher, The only man in the whole United States who won keep them on and who has a Chinaman chance of election is Franklin They wi fight, for his renomination as a drowning man figh for hreath and no common sense can blame them,
sO Mich as
Roosevelt
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HEY are apparently the only hrand of politic phenomenon that the President wishes to have around him. Yet there is scarcely a responsible Dem ocrat in the party who approves {them and their presence and preference are not almost able strains on party lovalty. Undoubtedly Mr. Roosevelt could force hi nomination and carry his crowd on his back if it came to such forcing plus purging of like Garner, as Mr. Ickes seems to threaten, publicans will have goorl a chance that perhap even thev cannot, as thev did in 1936, make enouzah blunders to lose the clection. When Mr. Garner asked threateningly whether if not nominated he wili bolt, he has a right. to ask whether if not nated, Mr. Roosevelt will bolt. Either ac elect a Republican, I know experienced observers 1s exactly Roosevelt strategy, on leave a mess no Republican himself re-elected with a new
acclamation in 1944
to whom unbear-
own re also. But stalwart the Re-
SO
renomsition would wha believe Yhat thix the theory he wili could clean up—and almost by
he
party and
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun
Wherein an Apology ls Made for Socking Someone in His Corner.
' am nue
One
June 7 in debt again, 1 and this time a profound onn of the troubles with most of us columnists ic that are such blame poor shots. Only recently I was blazing away at a fellow commentator, and one slug ricochetea and struck a wholly innocent and, indeed, an admirable bystander, My profound regrets go to Dorothy Day, who runs the Catholic Worker and manages the House of Hospitality, in Mott St I haven't read her book “From Union Square to Rome,” and my particular jibe was aimed at a rather unfortunate sentence snatched bodily out of its context, so that it gave me the mistaken impression that she was being somewhat snooty about the unlucky ones of this world. It turns out that I had everything Sooner or later 1 will learn not even to refer name of a book until 1 have read a minimum of two pages, and never, or hardly ever, will I swat at an author on the basis of a single phrase or sentence, One fears, like Moseley, the dreadful draught which may lie in the stray poisoned cup of water, such an accident who knows what Keys his erring fingers may hit as he fights off the ioxins and strives to meet a deadline? Ana though one strives to emiilate the distinguished military man and sternl “Take it away!” when the
clear product of the [aucel is proffered, incidents may happen,
EW YORK, an apology, we
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to the
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Make Sure of Your Foes If T were to use a fquill pen inst trpewriter, it. is possible that the tone of the daily stint would be more jugqicious throughout. And vou can bet your life it would be much shorter. As one who finds his fingers numb after penciling a ten-wori telegram I am moved to wonder how Scott and Dickens man=wholly in long hand. There can be a fine sort of frenzy when the keys move rapidly. Under such an impetus the machine fingers sometimes sings, “Pardner, vou are hot today.” And even though you know that the keyboard says that to all the boys, it sometimes strengthens a laggard resolve te get in there and fling a few right-hand punches. To that extent care= less and free composition may be an asset. But a really well-trained typewriting machine should ber a columnist’s severest critic as well as his best friend. In tact at certain points it might be a good the machines to throw the ribbon in and That ought to be done when the frenzied on the point of slugging someone in his
ead of a
iclea for ston the fight columnist 1s own corner,
Waiching Your Heal
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
HEN the psychiatrits is confronted with a child whose mental development is not satisfactory he makes an effort to understand the personal problems of the child, its personality and its emotional deviations. He tries to find out the conflicts in the lif child that are suppressing its initiative, appointments which constantly agitate the child's mind, and its point of view toward its parents, its teachers, and others concerned with its developman Such an understanding of the child must be secured by a physician thoroughly trained in diseases of the nervous system and the mind If constant failure in school and lack of understanding in the home continue, the chiid develops a feeling of discouragement and inadequacy, as a result of which it becomes antagonistic to people in its environment. As a result of this antagonism, it may eventually become delinquent, antisocial, and antagonistic to society. The first step is, of course, to have the parents and family doctor recognize the abnormality of the child, so as to get it as soon as possible into the hands of those equipped to take care of such children. At least 10 million people in this country bear within their bodies elements which may, because of the laws of inheritance, result occasionally in the production of a feebleminded child. Various suggestions have been made to bring about a lessening of this difficulty, including compulsory sterilization as well as birth control. There is not, however, any evidence as yet that laws prescribing sterilization of the parents eof the feebleminded, or widespread knowledge of birth control, will Bring about a definite reduction in the total number of cases of feeblemindedness in a nation.
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