Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-10
INCLUDED WELT ARE
WORK IS ASSA|LED
Psychologist Warns Institute
of Public Affairs of Genera
ton of WeakIingS.
81 = s,aw Correspondent. Of The Star,

Fv = STAFF Corresnon,ies,t Of The Star.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. August
n.-Tndiscriminate welfare work Is es-
tahlishing in the United States "a
fourth estate of wea&iingS, who econom-
icaIls are going 10 rise up like a
FrankenStein monster and annihiiate
ELL" Or. William J. HickSon. director
OF the pSychopathic laboratory Of the
Chicago Municipal Court, told the In
Kt!tuts of Public Affairs here last night.
Or. HiCkSon advanced ths novel
theory that dementa praecoN a dis
finct type Of mental disease which IRE
ouentlV goes unrecogni2ed for years,
Is the underlying cause of the de-
linouency. dependency and crime
which. he said. has reached its point
Of liberation" He quoted statistics
purportine to show shat the Nation is
spending 81 l 900 600 600 in its war on
crime due to this mental and character
defect.
Dementia praecox. Dr. HickSon as
serted. is hereditary constitutional
condition which has little relation 70
environment. He said that Ii appears
in two forms. kataklonia and katatonia
The first produces the positive, out
SPOKEN. oyeremotional individual. who
is led easily into crime and becomes
easily excited The second is the un-
6eremotionalized individual, hard 10
RECOGNIZES and only recently discovered
bv psychological tests. who apparently
Is devoid OF ordinary human senu-
ments
At present. DIR. Hickson said, there is
10 cure for the dementia praecoN con-
Gition. but data are accommodating TO snow
that it is due tn hereditary gsanousar
defect. He urged that katakloniacS and
ksfatoniacS be recognized as far as pos
x;ble in the schools. juvenile courts, etc.
and segregated in farm colonies. where
they can be self-Supporting and kept IN
an environment which will not Stlmu-
late 70 crime.
Or Hickman emphasized the necessity
Of eliminating the dementia praecox
strain from American heredity 1t Is
this class. he said which was reSpon-
xsble for. the falls of Greece. Rome. Rus
sic and Germany and which eventually
viii tear down the United States II al
lowed TO continue
Onlv about one-haE of oempntia
praecox victims, he insisted. find their
way into insane asylums. The rest are
concealed in penal institutions. He en-
phasized that this condition was quite
different from anv of the defects OF In
telligence. such as the various types oil
feeble -nlindedneSs, paresis ana seniie
6ementia, where the trouble is located
in the center Of the brain Thoss and
other psychotic conditions, ne said play
8 small role in the crime and delIn-
ouencv statistics
Bv trying TO preserve these people. he
said. society is signing its own death
warrant. Social service for the real de-
fertive, he insisted. is hopeless
Cites Tax Increase.
Contrary TO the general opinion. taxes
throughout the country have increased
since the war and will continue 10 in
crease Mark Graves. tax commissioners
of New York. told the round table on
taxation
1t surprises many to know" Mr.
Graves said. that In the aggregate /
more dollars of taxes viii be collected |
this wear than in the highest year Of I
wartime taxation. Reliable estimates /
indicate that taxes for Federal. State 7
and local purposes viii approximate So I
coo 900 600 In l92a-nearly S700. 600. 900 +
more than vEas collected bv the country /
al large when wartime taxes were IN I
yoglie.
Take the Federal situation. If ne
accept as literal the statements OF the
President. Budget Director Lord and
other administration officials. We would
believe that the cost of the Federal Gov
eminent has been materially reduced,
and that the Federal Government Is
raising less by taxation and spending
less than il did few years ago. But
II the fiscal year just ended the Federal
Government took over $500. 100000 more
from corporate and income taxpayers
than il did the first year of the Coolidge
administration Appropriations for the
last complete fiscal year exceeded BY
more than $500 600 600 those first signed
hy the President. and his own estimate,
contained IN his 1929 budget message.
called for appropriations of S410,000,0 900