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Feeble-Mindedness
Reliable statistics show that at
least four out of every thou
sand of the population of the United
iStates are feebie-ruinded persons. This
Is a condition not due to the lack of
opportunity for proper training and
■education, but is the result of abnor
gnal brain changes, which are either
congenital in origin or due to injury
and disease, at birth or in early in
fancy.
In at least two-thirds of instances,
feeble-mindedness is due to bad her
edity, poor family stock, defective
■germ plasm that carries on the taint
from generation to generation. As an
illustration of this hereditary condi
tion, the famous Kallikok family is
typical.
Martin Kallikok, a soldier of the
American Revolution, was father to an
illegitimate child, born to a feeble
minded girl. The descendants of this
feeble-minded girl, traced to the sixth
generation, number nearly 500 pau
pers, prostitutes, criminals and degen
erates, who have cost their state al
ready one and one-half million dollars,
and the end is not yet in sight.
Among this class of people, the birth
and death rate is found to he several
times as high as among persons of
normal development. The offspring
of this group complicate the problems
of the Juvenile Courts —the child-plac
ing agencies—and children's institu
tions and later become inmates of
almshouses, jails, reformatories and
prisons.
The cost to the state for caring
for this class of people, and protecting
society from their delinquencies, is
enormous.
Feeble-Mindedness as Seen in the
Court.
Twenty five per cent to forty per cent
of all repeated offenders in courts and
prisons are feeble-minded persons. In
order to see just how difficult a prob
lem these individuals presented to the
courts, an investigation was made of
10 feeble-minded persons by Dr. V. V.
Anderson, in the Municipal Courts of
Boston.
The majority of these individuals
began school at the usual age, had am
pie opportunities for common school ed
ucation, and left school at the age of 14,
15 and 16 years, but 73 per cent never
got further than the fifth grade and
showed, by the poor character of
their school work, their inability to
profit by the training society required
lor its future citizens.
Recognized as failures in school,
these unfortunates were set adrift in
early adolescence to earn a livelihood,
but careful investigation showed that
75 per cent had never in their lives
been self-supporting. Now, that same
lack of capacity to learn, that same
Inability to profit by mistakes—demon
strated so forcibly in their failure to
advance in school, and later to earn
a livelihood —agaiu crops out in their
inability to measure up to the moral
standard of the community.
This particular group of 100 feeble
minded persons were arrested 1,825
times. The futility of employing
measures intended for those capable
of profiting by experience, is shown by
the apparent inability of these persons
to profit by what is done for them,
and by the unfailing certainty with
which they return to the courts to lx*
handled over again.
The court placed these persons on
probation 432 times, but they had
to be surrendered to the courts or
placed within institutions, non penal in
character, in almost every instance.
The actual statistical results show
ed that the chances were better than
four to one against any one of these
individuals being able to complete his
probationary period without being re
firrested. The court in addition gave
735 sentences, in fixed time, 106 years
imprisonment, and in indeterminate
sentences 250 years, but none of these
measures have sufficed or will ever
suffice to permanently change the
course of their careers,
f Finally as an explanation of all this
social maladjustment, failure in
school, inability to earn a living, and
failure to conform to the standards
of conduct of the community, or profit
by the usual court and several meas
ures given, we find that all of these
individuals wore mental children, and
had the mental level of the average
American child of eleven years or
under.
Seventy-five per cent had the mental
ity of the average American child of
ten years or under.
It is plain from the above, that we
have been considering the conduct of
a group of mental children, who In at
tempting to compete on equal terms
-with adults, were held to the ivspon
sibility for behavior and were dealt
•with by measures, designed for per
sons able to profit by experience.
Think of the economic waste that
could have been saved, had society
properly recognized, at a time when
prevention was possible, the real prob
lem presented by these individuals.
Relationship of Feeble Mindedness to
Other Conditions In Court.
Studies in the same court of chronic
alcoholics (the old rounders)
show that 37 per cent were found fee
ble-minded —7 per cent insane—and 7
per cent epileptic.
Studies among drug-users showed
28' j per cent were feeble-minded.
A group of 100 immoral girls were
taken and examined just as they came
into court. They belonged to the mild
er type, rather than the old offender,
for 81 per cent were either first or sec
ond arrests.
Of these 100 girls, 49 per cent had
the mental level of the average Amer
ican child of 12 years or under. For
ty nine per cent, or nearly every other
girl, was suffering from a serious ab
normal mental condition; feeble-mind
edness ranking highest, 30 per cent.
Syphilis and gonorrhoea were found
present in 61 pr cent of these cases.
It was found that there was a high
correlation between the frequency of
offense, and the mental condition of
these girls, for 39 per cent of first of
fenders, 47.2 per cent of second of
fenders and 84.2 per cent of recidivist
(repeated offenders) were suffering
from serious abnormal mental condi
tions.
The Commission for the Feeble-
Minded has the following articles for
distribution:
“Facts About Feeble-Mindedness.”
"Tlie Durden of Feeble-Mindedness.”
"What Is Practicable in the Way of
Prevention of Mental Defect.”
“Feeble-Mindedness and the Law
from the Medical Viewpoint.”
When They Come Home
Your whole community will be at
the station “wdien the boys come
inarching home.” You are planning to
honor these men with parades and
celebrations of all kinds. Are you mak
ing sure that the profiteers of vice are
not planning to take advantage of the
days of festivity to dishonor them be
fore they get settled again in the nor
mal ways of life?
When men and girls are changing
their occupations and ways of life, says
a pamphlet issued by the Treasury
Department, when war disciplines are
being removed and wiien spirts are
buoyant, the greatest temptations to
self-indulgence and dangerous pleas
ures occur. Cities and towns through
out the country face now the most
important crisis—the biggest emerg
ency yet encountered in the fight
against venereal diseases.
What the War Has Taught Us
“Our ignorance and failure in hand
ling the problems of veneral diseases
constitute the greatest crime of Ameri
can civilization. This is the clearest
lesson of the war." This was the con
clusion of a medical officer in charge
of the physical examinations of drafted
men as they were admitted to one of
our great army camps. He had been
a physician in civil life, but not until
he had seen with his own eyes the
hundreds of diseased young soldiers
as they filed by his examining table
did he realize the extreme seriousness
of the venereal problem.
Hefore the war, physicians and pub
lic health officers knew that gonorrhea
was every year causing thousands of
cases of blindness among infants,
countless surgical operations on wo
men, and sterility in both men and
women; that syphilis was being trans
mitted to offspring, causing physical
and mental defectives, that it was a
prolific cause of locomotor ataxia,
paralysis, paresis or softening of the
brain, insanity, miscarriages, diseases
of the heart, blood vessels and other
vital organs. Rut people generally
did not know these things and few
medical measures were taken. The
war opened our eyes.
Venereal Diseases a Peace Problem
The examinations of drafted men
sho-wed that five men came into the
army with venereal disease for every
one who contracted it after he was
in the army. And the one w T ho con
tracted it in the army, probably, was
infected in a civil community outside
of military control. Venereal disease
is, therefore, not a military problem or
war epidemic; it is a civilian problem
and a peace problem, taken over by
military authorities for the period of
the war only where civil communities
had failed in their duty. The draft
and physical examinations of men
merely resulted in digging underneath
the sod of our civil life and showing
that out of sight in every man's town,
in every man's state there has been
going on yearly a waste of manhood,
womanhood and childhood by the rav
ages of these preventable diseases;
diseases whose causes we know, whose
germs we can see and identify through
the microscope; diseases which we
can locate in an individual; diseases
which are transmitted in the course
of a business which has no possible
constructive use or value, by carriers
who have to advertise and can be
easily detected.
Your Responsibility
Now the returning soldiers, who
have been given intelligent protection
and wholesome recreation, are to be
turned back to the civil communities.
The federal government must, of ne
cessity. in the next few months, give
up its wartime control. These men are
your responsibility now.
Some of these men are in your lodge,
vour employ, your union, your church,
your neighborhood, some are your
own sons. To protect these men from
vice means also the protection of the
girls of your community from tempta
tion and disgrace and the saving of
future wives from disease and suffer
ing. Your community must organize
a S the military authorities did to make
and keep your home town as easy a
place in which to live clean as the
army.
Is your community accepting Us re
construction task?
The Georgia State Board of Health
Is ready to assist all who make applica
tion in this great work by supplying
pamphlets and delivering lectures.
They are making all laboratory tests
for the physicians of the state when
requested and furnish free of charge
the expensive drug arspbenamive for
the treatment of syphilis.
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Extra Session Needed 7
Pass Good Road Law
UNDER PROPOBED BILL THE AUTO OWNER WILL PAY THE WHOLE
COST OF IMPROVED HIGHWAYS, TO COST
$40,000,000 HOW IT WORKS OUT.
Atlanta, Ga , January.—The demand
for an extra session of the Georgia
Legislature to be held this spring if
possible appears to be spreading over
the state, to judge from the expres
sions of opinion in the Georgia press
and the letters being sent to the capi
tol. The people of the state are be
ginning to realize that only through
a special session, called to consider
the subject of good roads legislation
alone, can a bill be passed without
danger of being lost in the hurry of
the closing days of a regular session.
All over Georgia the farmers and
other citizens are awakening to the
fact that delay is costing them money,
and they readily realize that the ex
pense of an extra session is small be
side the cost of a lost year’s time be
fore beginning actual road work. The
farmer, too, is beginning to under
stand that under the proposed good
road system,. improved permanent
roads will not cost him one cent, un
less he happens to own an automobile.
The automobile owner will pay the
whole bill, without raising taxes or
making any other public charge.
All the official organizations which
have been in conference to recommend
a good roads law to be passed by the
Legislature, have agreed to the prin
cipal points to be included in the bill.
Briefly, they are:
To reorganize the state highway de
partment so I*. will meet the require
ments of the federal government and
permit Georgia to use the $1,300,000
in the federal treasury as hei share of
the government good roads fund.
To increase automobile license fees
to an average of S2O based on horse
power of the car.
To amend the state constitution to
permit appropriating money for build
ing and mainlining roads, and to is
sue state bonds for these roads.
To designate a system of state
roads running from county seat to
county line, and to fairly distribute the
funds among the counties.
To permit joint inter-county bond
issues.
It is proposed, under the law, to is
sue, after the people have voted on it,
a bond issue of $40,000,000. This
money is to be spent at once on a
great system of highways, mostly for
paving the highways already graded
throughout the state —the principal
roads.
The revenue from the inc* %ed au
tomobile license fees, evji An the
present number of cars in Georgia,
will more than pay the interest and
BUY A BUSH CAR.
Four Cylinder,37V2 horse power motor for $1175.
Six Cylinder, 40-horse power, 5-passenger, $1375.
For designs and description call on Fred J. Fuller, or write the
Bush Company, Bush Temple, North Clark stret, and Chicago Ave.,
Chicago, 111.
Just say I am in the market for an automobile and wish designs
and prices.
My territory is unlimited. A 90 days guarantee against defects
and workmanship.
FRED J. FULLER, Agent.
Bethlehem, Georgia.
STUFFED UP WITH
“A BAD COLD?”
Get btwy with a bottle of
Dr. King's New Discovery
at once
Coughs, colds and bronchia! attacks
they are all likely to result in danger
ous aftermaths unless chocked in time.
And how effectively and quickly Dr.
King’s New Discovery helps to do the
checking work! Inflamed, irritated
membranes are soothed, the mucous
phlegm loosened freely, and quiet,
restful sleep follows. _
All druggists have it. Sold since 1869
Constipation Emacipation
No more lazy bowels, yellow com
plextion, sick headache, indigestion,
embarassing breath, when you use as a
corrective Dr. King’s New Life Pills.
They systematize the system and keep
he world looking cheerful.
WHEN YOU SUFFER
FROM RHEUMATISM
Almost any man will tell you
that Sloan’s Liniment
means relief
For practically every man has used
it who has suffered from rheumatic
aches, soreness of muscles, stiffness of
joints, tiie results of weather exposure.
Women, too, by the hundreds of
thousands, use it for relieving neuritis,
lame backs, neuralgia, sick headache.
Clean, refreshing, soothing, economical,
quickly effective. Say “Sloan’s Lini
ment” to your druggist. Got it today.
Sloan's
Liniment
Kills Pain
retire these bonds in twenty years,
making any other tax unnecessary.
The automobile owner is glad to pay
the increased fee to get good roads,
for they will save him five times the
cost in tires alone, to say nothing of
wear and tear on the car. Manufac
turers agree that good roads will save
at least SIOO per car each year. The
saving in gasoline is remarkable.
The roads to be constructed under
this system provide for two highways
from each county seat to the county
line. Counties with two represents
fives will have four such roads. It
is anticipated that the present roads,
already graded, will be used in most
cases. But the roads to be improved
will be designated by the state high
way commission, upon recommenda
tion by the highway engineer. The
population, the traffic, and other fac
tors, are to be considered.
Under this bill, the country counties
get all the best of the deal. For in
stance, Tift county would be given
four roads from Tifton to the county
line, connecting with others there.
There would be 36 miles of this road,
costing $15,000 a mile, or $540,000.
Tift county has perhaps 500 automo
biles, which would pay a tax of $lO,-
000 a year. But Fulton county, with
its many thousands of automobiles,
would be awarded only a few miles
of road, because the county, outside
the city limits, is very small, and the
mileage insignificant. Fulton’s license
fees will pave roads for a dozen or
two counties. But the Atlanta auto
ists do not mind that, for they want
good roads to tour over, and they want
tourists to come to Atlanta.
By the passage of the highway bill,
the government appropriation becomes
available for use, and the money from
the increased auto fees can be used
this year, even before the state bond
issue amendment is passed. A year’s
time paved will be of vast importance,
especially as there soon will be thou
sands of returned soldiers looking for
work, and it must be provided in some
way.
But there are inquiries from fanners
living off the main highways as what
benefit they will derive from the im
proved roads. The answer is this:
The state road system will relieve
the counties of having to keep up the
main roads, which absorb most of the
county money now. They can put this
county money into the smaller and less
important roads leading into the main
highways. In a few years there will
be a hard highway past every fanner’s
gate.
CALOMEL DIMES
A SLUGGISH LIVED
Crashes into sour bile, making
you sick and you lose
a day’s work.
Calomel salivates! It’s mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on a
sluggish liver. When calomel comes
into contact with sour bile it crashes
into it, causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel bilious, headachj, con
stipated and all knocked out. go
to your druggist and get a bottle of
Dodson’s Liver Tone for a ‘ew cents,
which is a harmless vegetable sub
stitute for dangerous calomel. Take
a spoonful and if :t doesn’t start
your liver and straighten you up
better and quicker than nasty calomel
and without making you sick, you
just go back and get your money.
If you take calomel today you'll be
sick and nauseated tomorrow; be
sides, it may salivate you, while if
you take Dodson’s Liver Tone you
will wake up feeling great, full of
ambition and ready for work or play.
It is harmless, pleasant and safe to
give to children; they like it.
True and False Freedom.
There are two freedoms —the false,
where a man is free to do what he
likes; the true, where a man is free
to do what he ougL t. —Charles Kings
ley.
Drink Buttermilk Freely.
The use of buttermilk Is largely a
matter of habit. Southern cities con
sume nlmost as much buttermilk as
sweet milk. The difficulty of keeping
milk sweet has been largely responsi
ble for the popularity of buttermilk as
* beverage.
The At the
—' PR|CE
YOU YOU
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WHEM we recommend
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the most satisfactory and
economical suits your money can
buy, we are safe in appealing to
your confidence in us, because
the maker’s guarantee is behind
every garment.
Pick out the suit you like. Try
it on. Notice the make and fit.
The price is right. You must be
pleased. * You will be pleased,
J. M. BROOKSHER
& SONS
Eliminating Poison ivy.
The cheapest and most effective
method of eliminating poison ivy, ac
cording to experts of the United States
department of agriculture, is the sim
ple one of rootiug up the plants and de
stroying them. If the poison ivy is in
large fields it may be necessarj to
plow and cultivate the land. Ivy on
large trees, stone walls and buildings
can be killed by arsenate of soda, at
the rate of two pounds to ten gallons
of water. Two or three applications
are sufficient
TORNADO INSURANCE
Your neighbor’s home burned only a few days or months ago, and a
cyclone is likely to strike this section at any time, so INSURE with US
anl lie down at night with a clear conscience and a peaceful mind. Don’t
DELAY. It may mean the loss of your home. Any man can build a home
once. A WISE man insures his property in a reliable insurance company
so that when calamity comes he can build again. He owes the protection
that it gives, to ihs peace of mind and the care of his loved ones.
Kilgore, Radford& Smith
Announcement
Bedingfield
GARAGE
I have opened a Garage buiness on
Athens street in the building loimerlv oc
cupied by J. R. Jones, Jr., near Woodruff
Foundry.
You will find me there at any time
during work hours. If you want a good
job and prompt attention, bring your
work to me.
Special attention given to Chevro
lets. I am equipped to do your work
right, and will appreciate your patronage.
Bedingfield
GARAGE
Athens St. Winder, Ga.
TAX NOTICE.
Third and Last Round.
Those who have not made their
•etunis will please meet me at the
ilaces that 1 have advertised and
nake your returns for the books
will close May the Ist. I trust
that every tax payer in Barrow
‘ounty will return their proper-
ty.
Chandler’s Court Ground, April
14, from 9 to 11 a. in.
Johnson School house, April
14, from 12 to 2 p. m. j
Ook Grove School house, Aprir
14, from 3 to 5 p. m.
Miles Hunter Gin House, April
15. from 9 to 11 a. m.
Statham, April 15, from 12 to
4 p. m.
Wright’s Store, April 15, from
5 to 6 p. m.
Bethlehem, April Is, from 9 to
12 a. m.
Chancy’s Store, April 18, from
1 to 3 p. m.
Maddox School, April 18, from
4 to G p. m.
i>. I). Jone’s Store, April 21,
from 9 to 11 a. m.
11. T. Vincent’s Store, April 21,
from 12 to 1 p. m.
Carl, April 22, from 9 to 12 a.
m.
Auburn, April 22, from 1 to 4 p.
m.
Thompson’s Mill, April 23,
from 9 to 10 a. m.
Cain’s Court Ground April 23,
from 11 to 12 a. m.
County Line, April 23, from 1 to
3 p. m.
Mulberry, April 23, from 4 to
5 p. m.
Will be at the court house eve
•y Saturday.
J. A. STILL.
Tax Receiver of Barrow Count^j
Tons of Maple Sugar.
The output of maple sugar in the
Vovinee of Quebec is about 14.300.000
ounds per annum.