Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-01-13

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never be ellm... rom
strain he said, but it can \, est.
ually suppressed.
Much of the feeble minded
among the lower classes may a
traced to the well meaning but mis-.
directed efforts of many charitable
homes and societies, who caring for
children until they reach the emo.
tional age Of 1S or less, turn them
radrift when they most need protec-
ton and direction" he said.
"At this most critical period when
malleable, and succumbing readily to
suggestions of good or evil-usually
the latter-both sexes make the
most of a newly acquired freedom,
and eager for excitement, with the
sexual fires adame, they soon, in drift
ing to the bad find their mates in
connections licit or illicit as chance
may provide, and reproduce their kind.
Earning a scanty living wage-if
any one at all-with none of the real
comforts of life, is it surprising that
the majority of the offspring of such
conditions should be defective?
I'm this country of cause and effect
one cannot fail to recognize the nee.
essity for the enforcement of meas
ures which experience has demon
Btrated as absolutely needful steps to-
ward prevention, viz, the separation,
seQuestration and asexualization of
the feeble minded; and further revis-
ion of marriage laws forbidding in.
crease.
Separation protects society from
contamination and the defective from
world where, brought into compe-
tition with normal people, be it in the
home, in school or in business circles,
he is forever misunderstood and driv-
en- backward.
Separation, first, of normal from
backward children, in the schools,
and the massing in classes of those
OF similar mental capacity; second,
the segregation in institutions Of
those proven defective, that they
may be trained in occupations proven
possible for hem-industrial, man
qal or intellectual-such as farm and
mouse work, shoemaking, carpentry.
dressmaking, painting or printing; in
these aiding, also, in the living ex-
penses of their community.
"In order to effectually accomplish
this, the sequestration must be per-
manent; otherwise the trained i'm
beetle is a greater menace to society
than is the unframed, in that with
latent powers and talents developed
TO the point of concealng defect, he
is no longer recognized, and has
Indulgence of instincts-be they crilu-
1nal or merely emotional.
Training schools for detectives,
without the protection of permanent
sequestration, find themselves twice
defeated in their aim; not only that
of prevent ng increase, and of lessen
ing crime, but in the loss of trained
iaborers aiding in self support and in
the care of the helpless. For this
evil, legislation offers no remedy, no
state in the union providing for inde-
terminate sequestration.
why might not the government
set aside a reservation for such?
Surely they are as deserving as the
Indian or the negro; and such pro-
vision would be far more reasonable
and economical than penitentiaries.
for which there would then be no
need.
"The separation. segregation and
eseXualization of the unfit in one gen.
Grafton, must in the nature of things
bring two fold blessing, not only re-
ducing numbers in one, but raising
and accentuating the standards of sue
cessive generations.
with such division of classes pre-
senting a permanent object lesson Of
lit and unfit, the question with each
being simply-"to which
shall my descendants belong?" eugen-
&c marriage will, as the outgrowth OF
such civilization become natural GUS
tom with all, as it is now with a few,
needing no law to enforce It,"
Very Polite.
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