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Show (Tainted Blood Strain on the Financial Resources of the United States By HARRY OLSON, Chief Justlci Chicago Municipal Court. HALF of every dollar of taies in the United State? goes to pay foi the results of defective blood streams in the population. Punishment Pun-ishment of crime and care of defectives consume half of all taies because the feeble-minded and the emotionally abnormal continue to multiply, many of them inevitably becoming lawbreakers. The policeman, the lawyer and the judge have been dealing with a medical problem about which they know nothing. Law enforcement can not solve the problem because the normal people don't need law enforce ment and the mental defectives won't pay any attention to it. A border line class Mists, nevertheless, for which enforcement of law is a deterrent The juvenile court will have to be abandoned for something else. Although Al-though the juvenile court is an advance over the police court in dealing with children, it fails to straighten out crooked emotions and wavering intellect in children born defective. The press frequently makes news out of the condition of mental ami emotional defectives. Their acts make news, because they are out of the asylum. If they were in the asylum nobody would pay any attention to them. In the next ten-year period there will be two or three times as many murders unless we adopt a new method. Look at the fool idea we've had in education that you could take all sorts of children, put them into the public schools'like a clean sheet of paper into a printing press, and have them all come out alike. |