Evening star., 1933-09-17

miraculous decline In juvenile delinG uedcy.
Probably no other criminologist has given
closer study to this surprising condition than
Judge Garland Watkins, head Of the Juvenile
Court in Atlanta.
1T was unnatural in the first place." he
points out. "for business and industry to draft
these mothers and delinquency among children
was the price Of their absence from home.
Now that business and industry no longer need
working mothers. and they are sent back to
their God-given posts Of duty. the youngsters
are responding with better behavior.
Mother care is the greatest influence under
. the sun for molding juvenile character. and
unless mothers remain constantly at home this
influence is destroyed. Rich poor, In hard
times or good, the mothers place is with her
children.
"She and her family should make any sac
rifice in order to keep her at home. 1t is the
mothers very presence that makes the home"
Mothers in the home instead of in industry
pocket money reduced to a minimum that
excludes bootleg liquor, taxi rides and too
many movies-and glands These are the in
f1uences that are retaining the wayward
youth of the Nation.
few years ago a group OF doctors in At
lanta decided that a clinic should be established
to study the ductleSs blandS, those mysterious
parts of the body that seem to determine what
we are physically. mentally. emotionally and
practically every other way.
tuition, and it has continued so to the present.
with no patients accepted who are able to pay
for medical services.
Attention was attracted to the clinic by its
success in increasing the growth of children
evidently destined to be dwarfs and wide in
terest was aroused by publication of the fact
that lady weighing 279 pounds had lost 102
pounds in nine months through glandular
treatment given at the clinic.
THE results achieved at the clinic come from
treatment with two medicines. anterior lobe
pituitary tablets and antuitrin. Actually. these
are two different forms of the same substance
extracted from the front part of the pituitary
gland.
This gland, also known as the hypophysis,
is about the size of big cherry. 1t is sus-
pended from the under side of the brain in
almost the exact center of your head. and so
long as it performs its important functions
properly you do not realize that it is there.
The pituitary gland, however. produces. by
a process scientists call secretion, number
of very important substances that profoundly
influence the growth and activity of the rest
of the body
While scientists in the laboratories all over
the world are still exploring the nature and
possibilities of these substances. physicians are
putting one of them. the that influences
growth, to work in actual, everyday practice.
1t is with this substance that DR.. Byrd and
his associates at the Good Samaritan and DR..
william Engelbach and associates in Detroit
are saving children froM the fate Of dwarfism.
When the front lobe of the pituitary gland.
either from injury or disease. produces too
little of its growth hormone dwarfism results.
In this type of dwarfism the person is not
only short but underdeveloped all over Even
the mentality is apt to be underdeveloped and
the personality dwarfed. it appears from the
children whom DR.. Byrd has seen.
But when the front lobe Of the pituitary il
overactive, the reverse condition results II
the gland produces too much growth hormone
while the patient is still child, he may grow
and grow, beyond the normal for his years.
until he becomes true giant.
II the condition occurs when the patient Is
already grown up. the abnormal growth 10
largely limited to the extremities The hands
and feet become very large and broad, the
chin. jaw, lips, forehead and even the ears
enlarge. This condition is called acromegaly.
In treating patients suffering from disorders
of the ductless glands. glandular substances
are given for the purpose of checking q IN
creasing the activity Of the gland that Is the