The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-16
Bomb Throwers Diagnosed as Insane
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN

shown by the fact that thousands OF
ordinary laborers use 1t constantly In
mining. quarrying and road building.
,ne ana tSs ost no S.rns
them only succeeds in blowing him
self to atoms
Strange, and Terrible creature.
To the average citizen a red Is as
strange and terrible a creature as the
blood sweating Behemoth. 1t might In
terest him therefore 10 know some
! thing about a few of the individuals
suspected OF connection with bomb
| plots who were examined by DR.. Hick-
| son. One of them was man of low
intelligence who was afflicted with
I dementia praecox. This form OF insan-
| ity does not make him appear crazy to
the superficial observer, but II pre-
vents him from working with any
| success and 1t gives him an irresistible
| impulse toward acts of violence. This
| man made his living by rubbing out
| the figure / on 81 bills and substitute
| ing 5, doing all the work with an
| ordinary lead pencil. He called him
self a socialists and occasionally made
| speeches in radical meetings which
| showed that he did not know any
thing about socialism or anything
else.
Outwardly very different, but IN
wardly very similar. was a man of
some wealth who always carried
red flag on his automobile. He was
showed many ways that he was men
tally unbalanced.
A woman who was arrested as a red
suspect always wore red sweater TO
show that she was ap anarchist She
was 20 years old. she was diagnosed
by DIR. Hicl<son as grade socio-
path, which means that she had about
the intellige&e of an ordinary child OF
fourteen,
Bomb. Throwers.
Bomb throwers often escape, but as
sassins of public men are usually
caught and scientists have long
known that nearly all assassins are In
sane. The man who shot Mckinley
was case of dementia praecox. SO
was the man who recently attempted
the life of Premier Clemenceau, DIR.
Hickson says that this man was one
who had been known from childhood to
be feeble minded. He should never
killed Kurt Eisner. the German radical
leader. was of the same type, and had
also long been known as weak
minded individual.
A Greek in Chicago who was sus-
pected in connection with bomb plots
was a paranoiac. and gave abundant
proof of the fact. He had a delusion
always calling upon the police to ar
rest perfectly innocent persons, When |
he was arrested he began shooting at
the police. and succeeded in killing
cart horse.
Another Of these So called political
agitators" was a Russian. also insane. |
He made a practice of attending court !
and would get UP in the midst of pro- |
ceedings, interrupt Judge and lawyers |
and begin a harangue against organ |
lied government.
A large percentage of all these in
sane reds are of foreign birth. They |
are simply mental detectives which |
other countries have worked off on the
United States
Restrict immigration.
There has been much talk of re-
stricting immigration so that persons |
with dangerous political opinions would
be excluded. But 1t is not an exami-
needed. Only scientific tests designed
to detect the insane and feeble-minded
will keep out the bcmb-t hrowers and |
assassins. One of these detectives.
coming to the United States with no
political opinions whatever, win be-
come a menace to life and property
nonetheless. a#
DR.. Hickson has records in his Of
fice which. he holds, show that Euro
pean countries deliberately send us
their weak-minded and insane In order
to get rid of them Usually the fam
lily Of such a person sends him to the
United States, and often the European
officials connive at the scheme. Seldom
does our own immigration ONCE de-
tect the defective one.
Insane anarchy is with us because we
have opened the door and let II in,
and because we have done nothing ef-
tective toward curbing 1t after it got
here.
Subject OF tomorrow's letter, 1.-THE
New Woodrow Wison.")