The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-01-16
GROUP CROOKS, BAR PARENTHOOD,
JUDGE ASKS u. S.
BY Roy Gibbons
NEA Staff Correspondent

NEA stan correspondent
Chicago, Jan. ,l6.-America' unfit
will be gathered in commuQitles> that
ever will be cnildless if the proposal
of Chief Justice Marry Olson Of the
Chicago Municipal Court is adopted.
For under a federal law proposed
by Olson the unfit-habitual crimi-
nails, drug abdicts, the hopless!y dis
eased and other social interiors
will be surgically rendered incapable
Of begetting their kind.
Olson will seek to have Congress
pass legislation which will make uni
form the sterilization efforts already
undertaken by III states.
In his drive for such legislation
Olson will be aided by DR.. W. j.
Hickson, head of the Chicago Munic-
ipal Psycopathic Laboratory and by
the latters wife, Marie X. Hickson,
herself psycopathic expert.
"Save Nation From Taint"-
"Such law" says Olson, sis nee
essary if we would save this country
and the world from hereditary faint
and SOCIAL deterioration.
"Roihe and the other great civili-
cations Of the ancient world fell be-
cause of contamination of the ma
tional life stream by unfit progcni-
tors. America, too, is threatened
with destruction when it lets crimi-
MATS and other vicious social enemies
pollute it's future generations.
"We must weed out the potential
parenthood Of those who form our
habitual criminals and others add
judged able to transmit physical and
mental handicaps to their offspring"
The state has as much right to
render man or woman incapable
of parenthood as to execute crimi-
nal or deprive him OF liberty, Olson
maintains.
"For years America has been the
dumping ground for the unfit of
many lands. These are reproducing
their like" he adds.
at will shortly become a survival
fight and the fittest will win. Either
the physically and mentally sound
will go down to defeat unless ster-
ilization laws are invoked or the
offspring of the misfts will under
mine our social order and plunge ,ile
nation into decadence.'
Wants Segregation
Judge Olson is first in favor of
segregation communities for the
type of people meriting sterilization
and then gradually educating the
public to the need of the more
neutrality-suspicious. of .the
eugenics law.
His remarks follow close on the
heels of a book by Harry Hamilton,
Laughlin of the Eugenics Record
Office, Carnegie Institute, and eu-
genics associate of the Chicago
Psyschopathic Laboratory, in which
a nationwide survey is made of eu-
genical sterilization attempts and
needs.
Proposed Law
Both Judge. Olson and his assist
ants, Dr., HicEson and DR.. Laughlln,
propose model federal law which
would permit a jury trial by the per-
son judged needed of sterilization
and would also allow him every due
process of appeal and opportunity to
confront his accusers with contradic-
tory evidence.
Likewise it refrains from antago-
nizing constitutional principles
which prohibit cruel and unusual
Dunishments.
All persons coming under the
social inadequates classesS' and |
ne'er-do-wells, cripples, the
blind and sufferers from chronic and |
infectious diseases, together with
~-criminals, Predetermined,
nebriates and drug addicts, would
De included under esle bill.
motherhood cannot be a blessing
o>any woman if she knew before
land that her baby was doomed as a
social inferior because of/heredi-
AIRY taint," Mrs. dickson said. "If
'he is unfit for motherhood any wo-
nan should be glad to forcibly fore
20 it, and be compelled to.
DR.. Hickson says:
ITO the state will eventually 90 the
light of choosing who shall be par
'nts and who not. Such must be
he case if the race is not to perish
rom pollution of its national life
tream by radically unfit parents,
Who are potential transmitters of
10Th mental and physical handicaps
o possible children. Such are pos
IDLE of detection by scientific Gu
enical psychopathic and other ac-
tests"