| Show WHAT TO OU DO WITH THE CRIMINALS Physicians Club of Chicago and the Law Club Suggest Drastic Remedies Chicago Dec 14 UA A symposium on the he of or the criminal and other social parasites was held at the Joint meeting of at the Physicians club pf pt Chi cagl and the Law club last night t These two theories were here ere advanced Elimination of ot criminal children by sterilization st Treatment of ot criminals over 30 years old as habitual and either sending them themo to o penal Institutions for life or putting them horn away in some otter other manner pos possibly possibly sibly by the cemetery route Plea for Race Suicide Dr William T Belfield was the advocate ad advocate advoCate of or the sterilization idea He took ook up the biological aspect of the criminal and after atter tracing the devel development development development of or the Individual to the point where he became b a danger to society made mad a plea for race suicide Mor Morality Morality Morality is ie the arrest of the Instincts by Intellect he said Fald A child Is 15 a sav savage savage age If It he to Improve slowly ho he 10 has a Chaco chace to outgrow his tendencies tendencies tendencies cies before ho ha is 30 Before that he should be given hen I all the care possible po But Jut when a man commits a crime after 30 0 he may be set Iet down as a rule to be morally morall bad with no hope of Improve Improvement Improvement improvement ment For tor the mature criminal I would advocat permanent segregation 1 either by the thu penal colony or the cem cern cemetery cemetery I The Indeterminate sentence with the parole Is a 11 radical ra error for tor the thenan theman theman man nan over 30 Prevention the Only Hope The one hope of the material reduction tion of the serial parasite Is la In lu proven preen ion Hon We must prevent the criminals from tram breeding criminals The great bulk of o criminals Inherit arrested development de development The state has let them breed and Impoverished itself to take care of their children n Dr J N Hurty secretary of ot the In Indiana Indiana Indiana diana state board of health told of the Indiana movement which Is III the edu education education education cation of or the prisoners in the Indiana reformatory to allow themselves to be sterilized More than of them have submitted to this operation so far |
