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normal lines by providing sane
healthful activities for energies that
will be spent"
Insanity and Alcohol.


Excessive use of alcohol was charg-
ed with one-third of the insane de-
pendents, between thirty and forty
per cent OF all epileptic cases and
from forty to fifty per cent of all cas-
es of imbecility in the United States
by Bailey B. Burritt, assistant secre-
tary of the State Charities Aid associa-
tion of New York, in an address before
the conference. Mr.. Burritt also stat
ed that sixty per cent of the total
number of arrests in the state Of Mas
sachusetts for the year 1908 were due
to public intoxication.
THE almost universal practice of
treating drunkards solely as penal
problem with no medical aspect. and
of fining persons convicted of public
intoxication small amount and sent
encing them to Imprisonment from
three to ten days is of no use what
ever, either so far as the individual or
as society is concerned" said Mr..
Burritt.
"The problem should be treated"
he concluded, "as. medical problem
with penal aspects, rather than pen
al problem with no medical aspects" !"
He proposed plan for dealing with
the whole problem as follows:
"A more adequate system of iden-
tification of cases of alcoholism in Or
der to sift out the 'rounder.'
"A graded series of remedies in
cluding release of first offenders with
out their appearance in court and a
greatly extended use of probation and
suspended sentence.
The use of fines to be paid in in
stallments and the abolition of the
practice of fining a man after he has
spent his last cent on a spree and
then committing him to a penal insti-
tuition for the want of money to pay
his fines.
Provision for commitment Of
chronic drunkards upon proper med
ical certification without the necessity
of being arrested for public intoxica-
ton and hailed before court. This
commitment should follow the anal
ogy of commitment of insane persons.
The development of farm and hos
pital colonies to which habitual alco-
holics can be committed and where
they can be given abundance of
OuI-OlsuOOl WOIh duU luCu-
ical care"
Crime and Society.
In discussing scientific basis for
the treatment Of problems of Grimm
ology and penology, Prof. Maurice
Parmeiee. of the state university Of
Kansas, said that with the aid of sci
ence we shall soon be able to individ-
ualize the treatment Of the criminal
and to apply such forces in each case
as will counteract the tendency to-
ward crime manifested in the individ-
ual
Whether manifested in the adult
or the child,' said Prof. Parmelee
"crime is danger signal to society
1t is an indication that biological and
social forces are at work causing
certain individuals to commit anti
social acts. The juvenile court move.
ment is of peculiar interest from the
point of view of putting the treatment
of the criminal on scientific basis
for, if conducted on scientific lines
it offers the entering wedge for the
scientific reform of the whole code
of criminal procedure, because legis-
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tenacious Of ant.quated conceptions Of
crime and punishment with respect to
children than with respect to adults.
The speaker urged that all persons
who have anything to do with crime
whether they be legislators, judges
lawyers. probation officers, police Of.
ficials. or prison administrators
should possess some knowledge oi
anthropology. biology, pathology
psychology and sociology.