The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-09-16
SCIENCE TO HE'LL
s'BL4CK SHEEP
Medical Treatment May Do More Than
Rod or Lee
ture.

NHdb Woulu you w W yoUi wy
he ran away from home?
Would you give him a good licking,
or would you spare the rod in favor
of a nice, long lecture, or would you
follow the Biblical example Of send
ing around to the butchers for his
most highly fatted calfg
Science says you would do well to
postpone such actions until after a
trip to the doctors. A thoroughly med
ical examination might disclose the
! fact that your boy simply couldn't
help running away, and that a doc
tors treatment would do him more
good than rod, lecture and fattUb calf
combined.
The same thing is true OF other
bad" boys or girls, those who are
merely wilful and hard to manage,
and those who are bad" enough to be
classed as incorrigible, or black
sheep" A thing the boy needs. Sci
ence has q way of dealing with in
corrigibles which offers hope that in
the future the majority of them can
be permanently helped. The story Of
what science can actually accomplish
is nearly a parallel to what can be
done toward solving the problem OF
criminality. The solution lies in the
| study of psyehitheraphy, and the road
runs through the equipment Of a mod
ern laboratory specially designed for
| p~sychopathic medical examination.
Here in the laboratory, according to
good medical authority, lies hope for
the runaways, the juvenile delin-
quents, the brilliant drifters, the con.
irmed failures and all the rest of
~humanity's by~-products, from the boy
who is hard to manage to the tramp
in the city parks.
"The first thing to be understood
about these people" says DIR. Max G..
Schlapp, Of the neurological depart,
ment of the New York Post Graduate
Medical school and hospital, lis that
they are unable to adjust themselves
normally to their environments for the
very important reason that the mott.
waiting activities of their brains are
seriously disturbed.
ut is the disturbance in the emo
tional center, with persons perfectly
normal intellectually, which upsets the
normal balance. throws the unfortu-
nate sufferer out of touch with the en-
vironment and causes the hayward and
abnormal acts which are due to moth.
ing else than to waves of uncontrolla-
BILE feeling which completely subiu-
gate the inhibitions of the intellect.
This, for instance, accounts for the boy
who, surrounded by an affectionate
family in a home of ease, runs away
repeatedly, undergoes unnecessary
hardships and when brought back can
never give any explanation for his acts
except that he Just wanted to get
away"
There is a perfectly good reason why
even a minister is unable TO reform his
hayward son. No amount of preach
ing, reforming and character talks will
do such persons any good whatever.
Their brain cells are physically affect.
ed, not necessarily through injury and
necessarily through lack of devel-
opment, but through a disturbance in
the proportion of the different chemical
factors in the surrounding medium
from which the cells draw their nee.
potential energy and %activating
substances. Therefore, such cells do not
normally to stimulation.
What can be done in the future de-
Ponds, as usual, on further research"
DR.. Schlapp, "and at present
is no provision for the neces-
sary constant observation and treat
which may mean the sal.
of many criminals as we'll
as the hope of families with black
The laboratory is the place
Tor the development of this corrective
work, and it is partly for this work
hat the New York Post Graduate hos.
Ditsl is trying to raise an endowment
Z
we want to teach the other doctors +,
What we have learned, in IN extended
of postgraduate instruction, I
md we want to make further strides |
nto the unknown. II may be that pri- :
rate philanthropy nee more will 5
the trail of progress, but that
line surely cannot be far of when the i
tate will avail itself of the mors hu a
name and mons methods which c
cience has 10 offer in the care Of the
iopelessly unfortunate" The Sun and a
Jew York Herald.