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Show BAD EYES LEAD TO BADMORALS Judge Wadhams Finds That Defective Defect-ive Eyesight Goes With Moral Delinquencies Now York, Fob. 25. Defective oycslght frequently Is tho causo of criminal tendencies or mornl delinquencies, delin-quencies, Is tho opinion of Judtso William H. Wadhams, who bases hla bollof upon a long porlod of observation observ-ation ns Judgo of tho court of genor al sessions, "Bad eyca mako bad men," said Judgo Wadhams, In an address to tho Society of Medical Jurisprudence last night. "Tho man who can not seo straight can not think straight and can not act correctly." When tho nervous functions become be-come disarranged, tho morals also nro defective, Ono of tho first stops tho Btato should take In tho correction correc-tion of tho criminals, Is careful examination ex-amination nnd treatment of their oyes. A very largo percentage of tho men who appear before mo for sentence sen-tence aro suffering from defective eyesight and I attrlbuto their moral delinquencies largely to this causo. |