The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-07-01
Science PaVeS
Way for Cure
of CrininalitV

quents by their acts alone and to n
large extent dispose of them legally
on this basis. The general public, and
even the courts, believe that a person
OF normal intellect can control his ac-
lions, and consequently that the ac-
tons of any person of normal intellect
are premeditated. or at least controlled
completely by the intellectual mental
makeup. and that therefore the person
is responsible.
No Question of kItruisrn.
I'm the light of well established
facts, known to psychatrists for the
last half century. this method of plac-
ing responsibility for criminal acts Is
hasically erroneous and should be re-
yised. We must learn to comprehend
many abnormal classes hitherto unrec-
ognized by society as subjects for
study, control or aid.
There is no question of altruism in
VOWED; proper understanding and
attitude toward these people who have
no innate power of adjustment to their
environment will make every home and
family more nearly safe.
"You are OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES too
well-with the boy who, surrounded
by an affectionate family in horne of
ease. runs away repeatedly, undergoes
unnecessary hardships. and when
brought back can never give any ex-
PLANTATION for his acts except that he
just wanted to get away
Juvenile Delinquency.
You doubtless also have come into
contact with those other well known
types of Juvenile delinquency-children
who lie and practice petty thievery
from their earliest years, later forge
checks and generally involve their fam
lilies in serious situations and in whose
genealogical history there is no dis
cernible trace of family propensity for
similar actions.
"In another class are the thousands
of tramps, possessing what is common
ly called an aversion to work, who
form an almost alien stratum of soci-
ETY., useless to themselves. and liable
ut any time to become menace to the
communities through which they pass.
"Stil another class is composed of
those unfortunate persons who be-
cause Of abnormal emotional trends
or phobias are forced to commit acts
over which they have no intellectual
control.
How Brain Is Regulated.
'rhe first thing to be understood
about these people is the fact that
the pathological criminal or menta. de-
fective is unable to adjust himself
normally to his environment for the
very important reason that the mott
waiting activities of his brain are seri-
ously disturbed.
ITO understand such disturbances il
Is first necessary to know that the
motivating activities Of the brain are
regulated entirely by two antecedent
processes-the intellectual and the
emotional, or affective activities. If
these two processes are we'll balanced,
the motivating center will be stimulat-
ed IN such way as to make the in
diyidual adjust himself normally to
ito his environment Should this bal
ance between the intellectual and the
emotional processes be seriously dis
turbed, however, then it will be impos-
sible for the individual to adjust him
self normally and he will perpetrate
acts which often are Illegal and al
ways abnormal
Mind a Duality.
1.-THE mind is thus duality and not
unity, and it must be understood as
such if we are to gain a knowledge
of its contents which will lead to a
correct diagnosis of the conditions re-
sponsible for the maladjustment of in
dividuals to their surroundings.
Both toxins and the chemicals in
the blood act selectively upon the varl-
Gus centers of the nervous system
Ether, for example, selectively in
wolves the highest centers of cerebral
ton, raising the threshold to such
point that incoming impulses cause no
reaction. thus producing unconscious