Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04
Y. 4. GAMBLER

among themselves and upon one another.
Nor does it provide for the safeguarding
of the lives Of the multitude of sane Off
Gals who would be required to control
these segregation farms" mob of Grim
nas, with keen intellects and degenerate
emotions, would be very hard to handle.
Again, may ask who would determine
the defective persons to be sent to these
segregation farms?" Would jures say
who should be thus confined for life? And,
if so, might not some unrecognized defective
get on the juries? Or would the civil au-
thorities have to depend on expert psycha-
! trists to discover OBJECTIONS? And, if so,
how could we be sure that many Of these
experts were not degenerates? Evidently
some of those who have testified recently
in a notable criminal case in Chicago are
decidedly defective, for they show sharp
minds and dull emotions. And much of the
talk of these proponents Of segregation
farms" as the slow but sure cure for crime,
seems bit crazy. In the educational world
nearly all the leading psychologists are
somewhat queer.
And here we come to a real danger to So
ciety today. In schools and colleges ma
terialistic psychology is quite prevalent, &C
companed by lot of academic usages and
customs which lead inevitably to the de-
rangement and degradation Of the emotions
things like games are magnified, and impor-
tant matters Of mind and morality are ig-
nored, cannot fail to yield considerable
crop of degenerates
At the same time these influences have
penetrated multitudes of homes to the de-
thronement Of parental authority and the
production of youthful anarchy by a de-
bauching type Of demoralizing sentimental
ity. Our times need more sanity in the
schools and colleges and more sanctity in
thn \ isrI14 h ,oro 1Io,I
crime would be cured far more effectively
and far more speedily than aggregation
farms can remedy it.
Upon this general subject the New York
Commercial, in a recent editorial, spoke
most wisely. The editor said:
ga great many people are wondering If
the revelations Of the hearing in connection
with the murderers of the Franks boy in
Chicago are not indictments, in some de-
gree, of the modern education system
: 1t is plain that the murderers got an
education of a kind in school and college,
but it appears merely to have given them
the idea that they were supermen. Of
course, they were only two sapheaded boys
with swollen egos-distended perhaps he
cause of what they had been taught in col
lege, and, we might also add what they had
not been taught there.
1t is certain that perversion NAV be of
various kinds. The intellectual kind is fire.
quently the forerunner of moral perversion.
| II not the cause of it,
|, according to the alienist, Dr. White the
| boys were crammed in school with thin es
from books, but when it came down to the
ueyelopment OF a true sense of life and it's
opHgatons, the awakening of INTELLIGENT
consciousness, Of the duty of the individra1
10 himself and others-well, there was no
such thing.
"A great many boys have been ruined nv
pelhS permitted to imagine that because they
had acquired an ability to read write and
clpher that they were, therefore, abnorma1lv
oTi9ht-lndeed that they surpassed air
others-and that they had a power of ner-
people. ~ 0'n0r
1T all sounds foolish, of course. but II is
Lne solemn truth, nevertheless
. great injury is wrought bv hermit
ing youngster to think that the smnIe
arn winch underle all good character
enough to be stressed when if comas ~ az 10
yeIopIng intelligence and fitting tho indi
Vluual Tor place of usefulness in the world
oo 1nore are great many young men in the
1917 Ioody VINO are more or less tainted
WIN the awful mental disorders which az
1llct the murderers Of the Franlxs how a. a.
mas such faint in young gunmen in hove
VINO demand mans wages for pretendin o
| 10 work at something that they know notb7
Ing ABOUT, who scott at churches and snaar
a. sun human attributes as pity, sympathy
ana human charity-indeed bows KNOWN o
absolutely nothing we'll that is worth know
ms out who have yet arrived at that state
! oL NINA wherein they consider themselves in
De smarter, more intelligent keener. bright
| er, adler and more profound than ANYBODY
else in the world
The Greenwich Village idea of literature
Jazz notions concerning morals a cynical
attitude toward things that most people re-
we're, and callousness which denies express
SION TO some OF the most appealing and
oe2utllui human emotions are all proofs of
breakdown in the system of education by
which the individual acquired such erudition
as he may fairly claim.
ANY education which deforms rather
/ IMAM develops is to be condemned even
| though it be obtained in a seat of learning
famous as an educational institution"
Our educational institutions need to be
! cIeansed OF sentimentalists and doctrinaires:
/ and the homes of our country need to have
! IN them more prayerful and pious parents
/ exercising their patriarchal authority with
/ firmness.
Most of all, the world needs mighty re-
! Eiyal of religion that will clarity intellect,
cleanse emotion, and control the will Jere
Macaulay and Sam Hadley, by strict religious
work among the Outcasts of New York made
more defective men effective for good than
/ all 1.-The segregation farms Of the apostles
Of eugenics could help back to decency in
thousand years.
Every successful preacher Of the gospel
sees constantly multitudes Of the most de-
graded men and women restored to purity
by the power of the new birth.
Regenics, not eugenics, mankind needs
most.
The world of our day has had enough of
psychological humbuggery and sociological
Quackery.
1t is oyer-Dopulated with experts and per-