Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-04

America, and by uniting all the various
departments of the local governments
could do away with the expense Of
maintaining separate political fabrics.
In this way. too. better cooperation can
be obtained in the scheduling Of plan
tation culture and other industries,
doing away with overproduction in GER
tain lines, which in the past has de-
moralized the British West Indian mar
ket. The Capitalization of government
would be forced to include. in addition
to Jamaica and the British colony in
Honduras. the Bahamas the Barbados,
British Guiana, the Leeward and the
Windward Island, and Trinidad. The
improvements in communication and
navigation between all these scattered
dependencies have removed the OBJ
stacles which formerly interfered with
this ideal in political and economic
government, and have finally made it
possible for all these British units to
cooperate.
Would Place
Doctor on French Juries.
LIE Matin, Paris.-Why is there net q
provision in the law which would re-
quire doctor upon each jury? Then
the culprit could be more easily ex-
amlned as to his physical and mental
aspects and the degree of his RESPONSE.
bility established. His intelligence could
be gagged and the nature of his reac-
tons to every impulse. In fact. the
whole nature and character of the indi-
vldual, both mental and physical. could
thus become matter of ANALYSIS and
record, to determine whether such a
person should be reinstated in society.
regardless of whether the specific Of
tense was serious one. For medicine
mas mace prodlgious progress in what
is known as the glandular science.
The exhaustive studies of DR.. Leopold
Levy, for example, have determined
with precision all the functions of the
glancs and their influence upon the
moral as well as upon the organic life
OF man. For instance, one subject is n
lazy, weak-willed, lethargic kind of per-
son, not because he wishes to be that
way, but because his thyroid gland isn't
operating properly. Another man il
nervous, depressed or choleric to a
pathological degree because of defective
action in the Emphatic, pineal or pitui-
tary gland
Courts strive continually to benefit
and protect society by furnishing the
unsocial They condemn the thief to
three years in prison as a sort of re.
venge exacted to balance the resent
ment felt at his offense The courts
nave never thought to consider that the
thief, by his behavior, shows himself a
pathological Subject-one who is to be
treated, not punished. If the three
years in prison were. therefore, altered
in their cases to three years of thyroid
or other gland treatment in a hospital.
the seat of the whole trouble would be
reached and society saved far more eff
fectively than has ever been observed in
any mere retaliatory process directed
against the Grant one.
With physician on the bench or ON
the jury, all the physiological caprices
of the convict can be investigated. and
he then becomes during his incarcera-
ton patient, rather than a prisoner.
With physical regeneration made pos
slble by scientific medicine there comes
a moral regeneration. Once restored to
really normal health. he who was a
thief or drunkard or degenerate Is such
no longer Medical science, by treating
mis- body, has healed his soul.