Show KNOW YOUR OWN CHILD I Feeblemindedness a Eugenic Problem I By DR ALBERT LOYAL CRANE So far this w week ek we have been the various aspects aspect of the problem of feeblemindedness TOd Today y we should like to call your the attention to the laws governing transmission of ot mental defect from one generation to another Before passing to the statement of th the thC laws themselves however attention n should be drawn to the fact the feeblemindedness is a condition con condition I which may exist in any degree degree de degree de- de gree from profound Idiocy up to the very ery mildest degrees of mental defect defect de defect de- de In which the mental status of the individual borders on the normal normal normal nor nor- mal and the diagnosis of feeblemindedness feeblemindedness feeble feeble- mindedness becomes an exceedingly delicate question Between the these e two extremes It Is customary to classify all cases Into three thre great groups The morons who who are capable of or useful work under supervision and whose only defect lies in In their inability ina ma- to plan for themselves The who though notable notable not notable able to do any useful work are able I to care for their elementary physical cal needs and finally I The idiots whose lives are apparently apparently apparently devoid of even sufficient nt in intelligence In in- to care for their most fundamental physical needs As says speaking of this group They would die of starvation starvation starvation food tion amidst an abundance of were it not placed In their mouths for them Now let Jet us consider the laws governing governing governing gov gov- the transmission of this devastating devastating dev dev- blight Highly summarIzed summarIzed summarized they are as 1 1 If H both parents are healthy and free from train their offspring is healthy 2 If U one or both parents though free from taint suffers s from alcoholism severe tuberculosis sis lead and possibly other poisoning poisoning poi poi- pol- pol the nervous system of or the offspring tends to be more unstable than that of or the of offspring of healthy parentage 3 The mating of such neurotic offspring with healthy Individuals few generations eradicate eradicate eradicate ma may maj after a Jew but cate the nervous abnormality the mating of individuals of like Ilke constitution tends to produce offspring offspring offspring off off- spring an accentuation of the abnormality 4 4 The mating of two Individuals of nervous nervous nervous nerv nerv- of such marked deficiency ous vitality yields offspring In whom there is a tendency to Imperfection of brain development development development develop develop- ment or r mental defect 5 5 The mating of two two mentally defective detective Individuals yields off off- spring all of f whom hom are re detective defective Dear Dr Crane Is it possible for or two people of good minds to have a minded feeble-minded child Thanking you J. J BYes B B. Yes J J. J B D. it Is possible for two people of good mental ability to have a minded feeblemInded child If It you jou will reread carefully the second and nd the last half haI of the third I laws as given In today's article you jou will see that the milder de degrees degrees degrees de- de grees of nervous defect manifest themselves in the first generation only as nervous Instability not necessarily as mental defect detect However 1 the mating of two such nervously unstable individuals may perfectly well produce offspring suffering suffering suf suf- fer fering ng from genuine mental defect though usually this defect Is of or the milder degrees It is not probable that such an heredity would yield offspring of the Imbecile or idiot grade Copyright 1924 by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate PAY PAl Prominent doctor dies Its It's disclosed disclosed dis dis- dis closed his income in the last ter years totaled or a a. year Not ot to be sneezed at But Dut this physician devot devoted d another ten ears Tears to going to medical school ard sitting around waiting for tor patients patients patients pa pa- after he graduated Figure it by averages and his income over the entire year twenty year period was only a a. year Success Is a system by which we collect back pay for effort that was underpaid at the when we were learning how So part of the pay for work joure youre doing now may I not come until later years ears The crop is slow in the tile harvest quick |