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life protection, Mr. Philip Davis, OF
the Chicago Civic Service House, and
Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen. OF Chicago. dis
cussed child life on the street and
Juvenile protective work
The attractive feature of the after
noon was reception to the conferences,
given by Governor and Mrs. Swan
son at the Executive Mansion. TEN
porarily relieved OF conference duties,
and delighted with the spring weather
that has come at last, the visitors
attended In large numbers. many So
ciety people of the city assisting In
the entertainment
Session Last Night.
DR.. Searcy. a type Of the Old South,
but vigorous in spite OF his snow
white hatr, presented the report on
heredity. Starting with an allegory,
he divided the subject into seven
parts-definition and explanation of
heredity Importance of the subject
normal psychic heredity abnormal
psychic heredity. degeneracy and i'm
provement.
He went into technical discussion
of the forces operating to produce
intanity and epilepsy, defining hered-
ity as the transmission OF habits Of
action along the lines of descent say
~
and reform was filed by the prob
lens arising from the hercdity of de-
ficiency and Effectiveness Of psychic
morphology and physiology.
He insisted that heredity plays q
greater part In producing different
grades of men than do the agencies
OF environment He urged more
nareful study and interest In the mat
tor of degeneracy, especially because
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more rapidly.
"A general awakening OF public In
forest" said Dr.. Searcy. .is broadcast
over the country on this subject. Pro-
libltion laws, In one shape or another,
to stop the extension Of their use, are
enacted In all the States. The
esthetic, alcohol. stands first, be-
cause It's injury Is most pointedly
. cerebral
Can Snvc Chronic Insane.
me subject assigned to Dr. Ferris,
~ Flea for the Chronic Insanet' was
exactly that, for he commended that IT
was possible to bring this class back
TO condition OF mental soundness Ele
said that insanity was not a specinc
disease, but sociological condition., in :
fuenced by heredity and q combine
ton OF circumstances, all OF which
operated to the brain deterioration of
the victim, He showed that 1t was
necessary to correct habits and the
general manner of living. DR.. Ferris
said case had come under his per-
sonnl observation where a person who
had been insane for ten years was
cured.
"The anodyne, caffein, nicotine, Co
came, codelne, morphine and the like,
all. however, when repeatedly used. do
brain injury. and tend to develop into
Il serious abnormality any Inherited
tendency, or predispostion to mental
aberrancy, that otherwise might re-
main latent In person. The produce
neurasthenla and cerebrasthenia In
those who use them, oversensitiveness
the principal symptoms The so gem
eral use OF such agents, too. in socie-
| ty Is begetting, as phylal trait, Pc
culiar neurasthenia or cercbrasthenia,
| which, to use sianEous word wo
may call tho dope-dlathesis, affected
With which, by heredity from dopeh
lnncestry, tho person is never comfort
able unless doped in one way or ans
other, lie Is horn feeling bad, and
takes readily to the hnbltual use of
anodyne and annesthetic drugs. Race
ldetarioration and race Improvement