Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-30

Says a professor of one of our very
| modernistic universities (Which has
never itself subscribed to the Presby-
terrain doctrine of predestination)
Normal parents, attention! If youl
| son is normal you can never make q
criminal out of him"
Obversely, If your son Is abnormal he
| must develop into gangster, for, says
| the learned psychiatrist, "the gangster'S
defect is physical and hereditary. The
emotional part of the brain stopped its
| development in infancy. matter which
Is traceable directly to ancestral de-
fects. He is constitutionally incapable
Of refraining from crime"
The professor claims to have ex-
amined 10000 criminals during the past
IL years. That is an average of more
than 10 per day, or one and fraction
every working hour. Time and time
again his laboratory ''has labeled youths
as killers only to have the prophecy
fulfilled"
"These gangsters," he adds, SHOULD
be taken from the schools before they
get old enough to be gangsters, segre-
gated on State farms, not punitive. until
they are pronounced cured. In nearly
every case that would mean life segre-
cation. Commitment should be made
after examination by a commission,
which would report to the courts on
just what type each criminal is-and
that before the crime. Segregation
should keep them from both crime and
propagation"
In view of the fact that the Consti-
tuition of the United States forbids in
voluntary servitude, except for punish
ment for crime, and that the law as
eumes every man guiltless of crime until
such be proved against him, let the
segregation begin upon crazy or con-
stitutionally deformed college faddists.
They must be eating too much phos-
phorus.
"And His disciples asked him, saying,
Master, who did sin, this man or his
parents, that he is born blind?"
Jesus answered. Neither hath this
man sinned nor his parents"
4 X X
Now that modernistic science knows
so much, 1t should get together its
learned Spokesman and demonstrate the
predestination of the poor, innocent
ganRster, and then shoot him, instead
Of "segregating him for life" contrary
to the thirteenth amendment and other
provisions made and provided in the
Constitution. Why board a hopeless
peTVeTI WHO InlBut eSCdPc anu w Iillo-
chief Of various kinds before appre-
hended? Let college clinic settle him
forever, before he has a chance in a
country where all men are created equal
before the law.
Then when the learned psychiatrist
comes against o complicated case, like
that of DR.. Jekyl and Mr.. Hyde, he may
arrange to let Mr.. Hyde out on leash,
like exercising q pet dog. but confine.
f,,n Nd IA NJ oyEy1
until death doth him part, for better or
for worse.
A convict who has served three years
In the Eastern Penitentiary of Pennsyl-
vania as a felon has SO redeemed his
name that he is appointed member of
the State Board of Control Of. that same
institution OF punishment. He became
| a leader, for good, of his fellow convicts
within fortnight of the beginning OF
his Incarceration, yet there is no ques-
ton Of his guilt as charged.
A child of years has been sentenced
to serve in the reformatory until he
becomes 81 years of age, on a confessed
act OF fatally shooting a playmate In
anger. A higher court, not having had
the advice Of the professor above re-
| ferred to, has overruled the sentence
but the original sentence was in accord
Wall U1lC cSlCI1Cc JuSt AZ
what age will the psychiatrist take a
child from school to segregate him for
| life because he was born gangster?'
How long before years Of age?
4
What becomes Of all the influences of
environment and teaching, as the years
| develop the characters of us ALP Where
| Is the character not complex? Who
has not 2 dual nature, each tendency
| perpetually combating the other ten
denotes? What is the unavoidable re-
sponsibility OF society to so adjust its
| influences that the best qualifications
| that are born in every man and woman
shall be encouraged and developed?
Shall society be permitted 70 shssnk