Evening star., 1933-09-17

-HE stab Of a hypodermic needle is
making bad boys good. The return
of working mothers to the home Is
having the same effect.
- Putting it another way. glandular
extracts and the depression are solv-
ing the juvenile crime problem.
A few years ago. lawleSsneSs among boys
and girls reached such proportions that Presl-
dent Of the United States called q special con-
ference of educators and criminologiSts in the
effort to check the crime wave engulfing the
youth OF the Nation.
What this conference failed to do, science
and the greatest evil of modern times-un-
employment-are accomplishing.
From New York. Chicago. st. Louis San
Francisco Atlanta ana other large cities comes
the report that crime among the youth of the
country is less than at any time since the
World War, and in each locality the reason
seems to be the same. 1t is twofold reason
scientific on the one hand; economic on
the other
Glands that the medical profession knew
nothing about until recent years-the ductless
or endocrine glands-are the means through
which science is Transforming character.
\ BOY intelligent. vigorous, apparently nor
NAL develops the fire bug" mania. He
isn't insane or anything like it. But he SIM
DIV can't resist setting places on fire.
Such boy was brought to the Good Samar1-
tan Clinic in Atlanta, Ga.-one of the three
most important gland clinics in the United
States-and tests there indicated that he was
developing into a dangerous CRIMINAL because
of a disturbance of the ductless glands. These
mysterious parts CT the body were too active,
and that overactivity had stirred in the boy
a mania to see red flames leap.
;,,io ctiOns
dermic needle checked this condition of the
glands, and in few months the boy was law
abiding and longer menace TO hlmseH
or to society
The case of "R T." shows how another kind
of lad can be helped. "R. T." was years
old when his mother brought him to the Good
Samaritan Clinic at Atlanta on May II, 1882.
She complained that he was very backward
mentally He could not talk plainly and ne
was still only in first grade at school. He hao
not grown any fer three years and though ne
had an enormous appetite he was puny ana
undernourished He complained OF head
aches too.
When he was weighed and measured at the
clinic he was only 4734 inches tall and Welgheo
inst 4olh mounds For his age he should have
weighed more than 81 pounds and he should
have been 49 inches tall, DR.. T. Luther Byro
of the clinic staff explained.
The boy was retarded about a year and half
in growth He locked more like 7-year-oio
than a 9-year-old. He seemed doomed to DC
a dwarf and to be mentally deficient, perhaps
feeble minded, too
After careful tests and examinations had
ruled out ricketts, and thyroid disorder as pos
sibe causes of the lads dwarlism, the doctors
at the clinic began giving him anterior looe
pituitary tablets by mouth every DAY. inree
times a week they injected antuitrin by hypo-
dermic. In ALL he had SO Of these injections
at interrupted intervals
When they measured him on May 6. 1855
not quite a year after starting the treatment.
he was mere than 49 inches tall and weighed
&c pounds. He had grown over two inches
and gained 2lla pounds. He is now years
II months old. He appears about six months
younger in height but three pounds above nor
NAL weight
His mentality has much improved DR.. Byrd
reported at a recent medical meeting. Still
undersized. he is no longer doomed to be
dwarf and is able to keep up with his classes
at school
The stab of the hypodermic needle has
wrought many similar transformations, and IN
addition has caused startling physical changes
not only in youthful patients, but also in men
and women of all types
It has made fat ladies thin and tl.n ones
fat, it has checked the growth Of giants and 1t