The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-18

their energies ana giving the o
heritage"
Neurologists and psychia-'
trists, doctors who make special
studies Of nervous and mental
disturbances, have found that
the newly arrived immigrant
mother and the mother who has to
slave in industry to help out the fam
lily income' both are subject to duct
less gland, endocrine, deficiencies
which cause their children to be men
tally deficient.
Gland Lack Makes "MongoI."
The immigrant mother, suddenly
confronted with the jangle and hustle
and trouble of life in a great indus
trial city frequently gives birth to a
"mongol" idiot for her first child in
the new country. Later she may be-
come accustomed to the new life and
bear more normal children.
The mother who has to strain her
body daily in wearying work, even
while she is carrying child, in order
to make enough for herself, her I'm.
derpaid husband and other children
to live, uses up too much of her in
ternal glandular substance and conse-
quently cannot give her baby the
proper physical equipment
overworked Mothers Bear Most.
Doctors have not yet fully found out
just what glands affect the amount OF
gray matter" and what specific ef-
feet each glands activity has on the
brain, but they have found that over
worked mothers or those suffering
from some shock with resulting
glandular deficiencies are responsiSl
for the majority of the feeble-minded
babies born.
Mentally defective children are born
to mothers of leisure who have every
comfort needed, but doctors believe
that eventually every case will be
traced to either physical disease
poison, accident, or glandular def.
cheney in the mother at the time OF
pregnancy. OF course working class
mothers stand the greatest risk OF
having their own bodies so wrecked
by work that their children are af-
fected
Must Spread Birth Control.
And, of couse, working class women
cannot readily find out about safe
birth control methods, which would
save them the trouble of bringing
many children into world that will
not use them kindly and, if they are
defective, will not have adequate &C.
commodation for them in institutions.
All over the country the homes for
the feeble-minded are notably over.
crowded and poorly managed, with
few exceptions. The capitalist govern
ment does not begin to take care of
the poor unfortunates for whose birth
and reproduction it, is responsible, to
say nothing of its beginning to strike
at the root of the evil and inform
working mothers of birth control,
provide the welfare measures Of
mothers pensions, which relieve a
mother from the necessity of working
during certain periods, and give the
best scientific care for the detectives
who are born.
No Hope Under Capitalism.
Capitalism does not concern itself
with those who fall by the wayside
unless their passing can be turned to
political use, such as the recent. un-
fortunate death of Calvin Coolidge,
junior Even social democracy does
not fulfill its welfare promises or
eventually let's the industrial lords
throw the social measures" passed
as happened in Germany.
Handicapped Russia Leads.
Only in Soviet Russia do the moth.
ers get square deal. Life is still
hard in Russia and the mothers
haven't all that they will get some
day, but for country that has passed
thru so many hardships as Russia and
had practically the whole world
against it, Russia is doing wonders.
In spite of the odds against her, she
actually leads the world in social well
fare measures; but 1t took the over
throw Of capitalism and Imperialism
and the beginning of real Soviet sys-
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