Show Y KEEPING V THE PROBLEM 0 OF THE MORON 4 11 it I 1 itken REEN i A I 1 tiller at t at II 11 4 Is baing said in the newspapers about lii orona one inight be led to bel believe leie that this ans a new which had only recen aly arisen let tao rou Is only the I 1 resent day name for feeble inin minded ded there line lins always been a certain amount of feeble mindedness or mental detect heness just as has ol 01 ns was been a certain amount of phew leal ica defective feebleminded feeble minded persona persons are those who lack one or more mental traits which are possessed by normal persons and which are necessary in to social relations an A society becomes more complex ami anti exacting the number of persons un tin able to comply with the increasing eo conditions naturally increases mental defect eness Is due to tome some parental or infantile condition there are just two problems in the treatment and care of the thee ke defectives the first Is one of on how can lie tile mentally defective aemi be distinguished from the mentally normal nomal person in matted en ca this thill s easy it Is the so c tiled ader line axes eft are dIAl cult the old I 1 nash lesal legal definition of a feule min led dersom as very simple lie ile was a person who ho could not count IO 10 pence or who tin could not tell ho wits ns his hn father or mother IT 11 was enough fr fir those day days nany elaborate ein borate mental tests hare have been dehill for und rind bensur ing feeble none one of the Is to tit absolutely alsol sol ne accurate curate r ebble shows itself in I 1 many was 1 ahe he individual may be i colorblind color blind thord ord blind or figure dillrd I 1 lie ile may inay hae liae defective memory dee tle use or uncontrollable table emotions defee the or uncontrollable temper this doe does not mean that every colorblind color blind person in mentally defective nor that every mentally defective person Is cot or blinds blind it doci dot mean that mental defective defectiveness nessi dhow itself in some form of defective senses or mental in prehistoric times nature and the th struggle for existence disposed of most 0 v nhe defectives today we vt e are protecting them and caring for them in institutions where the need of 0 contact with the out silde world I 1 Is removed we have alo learned that the higher tyre of fe feeble ellic abat Is kimn as the th krada caa be truine tru lne and educated cUtI chill chann aft on h hns s not yet foud oot out how to pre able not nor how N 0 o P jaw N III ilie guoin from be act exra lold tt to lia koromi oa 01 |