The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-02-03
THE BACKGROUND OF CRIME.
Continued from Page Two.)

/ Dy SenIlmeAIanSm WHICH permits n
to consent to competition upon its
own territory Too much mixture o.
races will bring together too many
gods. The fight against degeneracJ
is the one God fighting many little
gods. To be either mongrel or by
brid multiplIes the tasks Of Christian
ity. Racial purity permits the clear
est vision up to God. .
Degeneraey and Criminalism.
! Back of the modern forms of evil
which we are making much ado IN
our fight against mot knowing that
we are fighting symptoms and effects)
the great background and source Of
crime is racial degeneracy, with all
that it implies The mating of in
ferior stock of a race, the mating oil
normal with subnormal, the conglom-
Grafton of the Oriental, the Slavic and
the Ethiopion mind with the Teu'
tonic, together with the degeneratine
forces of physical defect manifested
in alcoholic, sypilitic, and other car.
nalities, with the weight of several
generations behind them, presents a
museum of mongrelis min which in
tellectuality and religious conviction
do not make good showing.
Just before the Revolutionary war
young man of good family Joined
one Of the numerous military com
panies formed to protect the settlers.
At a tavern he met degenerate girl
| by whom he became the illegitimate
father of a son, who was feeble
1 I'D hn oh criu
| fathers name, but inherited the moth
er's mental capacities. Dr.. Goddard,
of Vineland Training School, traced
the family of the feeble-minded off
spring through one hundred and thir-
| ty years with the following results
The boy grew UP and married wo-
man of his own mental qualities.
From this marriage have come 4S0
descendants; 143 are or were feeble
minded; SO illegitimate; SO sexually
immoral; "a alcoholic; epileptic;
SO died in infancy: 8 criminals; s
keepers of houses of i'll fame. These
people married into families of the
same type, so that there are now in
record LAG individuals, most all
of whom are mentally defective and
lantisocial. The young soldier left
the girl at the tavern to shift for
herself and returned to the traditions
of his family, married woman of his
own standing and carried on another
line of descendants who became
prominent.
The young man, as DR.. Goddard
says, did only that which almost all
young men do and which society
winked at. He did not think of the
consequence of his act. The girl
COULD not think, but the act pro
duced problem for both Church
and State for the next twenty gener-
atoms. A mother who was for forty
years "a tramp, thief, and drunkard'
had 834 descendants; 709 were traced
through old age, resulting as follows:
LOG born out of wedlock, 142 beggars,
Ga sent to charitable institutions, 1S1
prostitutes, 76 convicts, Z murderers
and 1873 shiftless. This family of
several generations cost the govern
ment in rs years $1,250OO0. This
stream of racial filth and other
streams like it will pour on down
through generation after generation,
exacting tremendous toll, and no
prophet can tell the final outcome.
Juvenile Court and Race Retirement.
To serve the human race in new
way, to help in the making of new
race, or maintaining the standard OF
the old, there has arisen a new insti-
tuition known as the Juvenile Court
II is not substitute for some rum
out movement nor for anything, but
has mission peculiarly its own.
It's idea is that every child will
grow into good citizenship (some
better than others) if it is properly
directed and protected. Crime must
be fought with something as strong
as crime, and the court represents
this degree of strength. The benefits
of the court are applicable to all
races. 1t is the only institution fol-
children which does not require sep
arate departments or organizations
for different races. This is because
it represents the law under which al.
men live and the highest standard of
morals to which all men must come.
The court reaches the child indi-
and seeks to engender in him
by personal contact foundation for
the best character of citizenship of
which he is individually capable. II
touches and teaches him with the
of the law and not with
textbooks. 1t touches his home and
benefits him through that relation. |
1t touches his environment and pro-
tects and directs him in that rela, |
ton. 1t shields him from the coarse |
ness of criminal association and the |
of adult courts to meet
his needs when he is in custody of |
the law. IT directs the State toward |
and encourages it in attention to |
juvenile delinquency. 1t enters any
relation which the child sustains and |
authoritatively deals with it ipso
facto 1t takes into account, when
charged with an offense, the child's
his mental perspective and
grade, his heredity, his environment
his physical condition as to its bear
ing upon his character and conduct,
and determines by diagnosis of each
character the proper cor
receive methods.
The Burden Of Crime.
AS the burden of crime falls upon
it proportions itself upon
The State, the community, the father,
the mother, childhood. Taking into
the essentials for q well
successful life from the
of governmental, racial.
economic. religious and
domestic elements elements, the abil-
ty to provide for these things and
The consequence of their unprovision.
he proportionatea mount of suffering
10 each five relations involved, the
of the burden of cr;noaI