Show REAL CAUSE OF CRIME Criminal Classes Recruited from Paupers Pau-pers Who Have Become Disheartened New YorleA simple method of abolishing vice mid crime in New York and other large cities Is announced an-nounced by Prof Alexander Halg the distinguished UngllBh physician nnd physiologist to the uVltish hospital In London The criminal classes according to him are recruited from the pauper classes who after they lose heart become unemployable and degenerate Into chronic loafers beggars or thieves This thing of losing heart Dr Halg says is not a mere sentimental or emotional state but Is nn actual physical degeneration of tho heart due to Insufficient nourishment He says I believe that when the poof and unemployed lose heart It means that the heart muscle Is at last sharing with the other muscles In the general malnutrition As tae result of this the heart probably falls and dilates and Is perhaps never again able to keep up the same blood pressure to produce the same muscular nutrition and the former strength of muscle of nerve or of will power No doubt If such a person were carefully dieted and rested for months that person would return to a normal or approximately normal condition But poor people never have this chance The most they can hope Is that as spring comes around an increase in-crease of work may lift them above the verge of starvation and their hearts therefore never have an opportunity oppor-tunity of completely recovering |