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MENTAL DEFICIENCY
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should be allowed to stand in the way of an early. deliverance little children from sufferings and horrors undeserved. The Society
Defectives Who Cost The Nation £8,000,000 A Year for the Prevention of Cruelty to
PENALIZING THE FIT
[By Robert Blatchford]
"Medico-Legal Problems" is not an appetizing title, and printed in plain type on a sober Jacket of hodden grey does not appeal to the casual render. The casual render would not be likely to choose it, on its face, as a holiday companion or bedside book. Myself, I should notice it on a bookstall without an expectant thrill, yet I found it as absorbing as a cross-word puzzle or a mystery story, and I don't believe that anyone' possessed of ordinary imagination and human sympathy would find it dull.
Children does admirable work; but it deals with what in comparison with auch unspeakablo wrong, ure venial offences.
A Revelation
Lord Riddell makes a revelation. which is news to me. He says that many normal parents resort to voluntary sterilization as a means to birth control. There is no doubt that in most European countries the movement in favour of small families has grown and is growing steadily more popular, and tho eugenists have reason on their sidej when they condemn the unrestrict ed increase of undesirable or in ferlar types. Such unbalanced prò i duction, in which the Al fumilies) bear fewer children while the C3
The book is, in essence, a tract But there is no auch registry families increase and multiply, is on birth-control, and birth-control office, no guardian angel. The un-racial danger. This discrepancy! is a subject alive with dramatic born baby is defenceless. It may may, however, be remedied as the suggestions and relations intricate be called Into a life of disease or
more illiterate members of the com- and diffent. I found the fogat shame by a lunatic, a drab, or a
monwealth learn to keep their] problems treated here extremely in- } sot. And the abominable, wicked families within their means; but asi teresting. for legal arguments, with sumnions must not be interfered regards the mentally unfit there is their subtle points and dispassion-with by any benevolent law because no hope except in legislation. They ate reasoning, always appeal to me. It would be a violation of the sacred cannot learn, they cannot under John Selden's lucid talks on Equityliberty of the individual. Yet that stand, they do not care. What can and Contracts are us intellectually same individual is negregated ir be expected of the witless animal- satisfying as Rabelais's exposition auffering from infectious disease, ism which drifts in and out of of the reason why monks love to is restrained if dangerous to the asylums, homes, and hospitals, and be in kitchens. When should a doc- public, is punished if cruel to a preys upon or la preyed upon by tor or a lawyer give evidence, and dog. Nay, if neglectful of a child other miserables? when bold his pence? To what ex- │will be held answerable, but for the tent is a surgeon justified in inter- unborn innocent child there is no fering with the processes of protection. The helpless creature nature? Is a man legally free to is wronged in its conception, is do as he likes with his own body; doomed before it draws ita first with his own life? Where does in-breath. It alone of all human dividual liberty end and legal or beings-has no individual rights, State prerogative begin? These are no sacred liberty. vital questions of personal im- portance to us all.
Useless Citizens
The Child's Sacred Right For whom shall we legislate, for! the felon, the lunatic, the diseased, There is, for instance, the pro- or for the unloved, unwanted child blem of the sterilization of the un-unborn? I can find in my heart and fit. Should insane or imbecile brain only one answer to such parents be permitted to bring dis-question. Amid all the talk of eased or weak-minded children in sacred rights I would say a word to the world: Ought the State, or for the sacred right of a child to the community, to interfere with be well born.
the wanton multiplication of help- I do not know just how plainly less. ustless, and troublesome
one may speak on a delicate sub- citizens? This question may beject in a family paper. I may say, discussed from the point of view though, that the sterilization which of the moralist, the eugenist, the Lord Riddell advocates would be taxpayer, and the individual parent.voluntary, and that it would only I have myself always considered it interfere with the liberty of the as affecting the fate of the unborn individual so far as to prevent the child.
birth of children of insane or weak-
We have already 40,000 more in-minded parents. And I would re- sane or mentally defective persons mind those who would shrink from in the country than our mental what to me seems an act of mercy institutions can accommodate, and and justice of the terrible fate to recommendations of the Mental De- which the child of unfit parents is ficiency Committee would cost, as born; a fate more cruel than any Lord Riddell shows, a capital out-sentence passed upon the most Jay of some £29,000,000 and an an-wicked criminal by our law, Think nual expenditure of £16,000,000 of an imbecile woman living in that added to our existing annual poverty with uine
illegitimate expenditure of £8,000,000. That is children.
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a strong economic argument against mentally and physically unsound. the multiplication of the unfit. In pity for the children it would Then there are the social and thebe right to make tho sterilization of Jeugenic arguments. In an over the unfit compulsory.
crowded country, where it is diffi-
I think the revolting facts quoted cal: to provide decent homes, and by Lord Riddell in his revealing impossible to provide full employ-pages should convince all who ment, for the whole population, the learn of them that no shibboleth multiplication of unemployables is most undesirable, and, na the eugenists point out, it is an unsound social policy to make possible, or render, inevitable, the rapid in- erease in the numbers of spoiled and useless-creatures whose-stock will more or less inoculate the normally healthy mass.
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A Curee to the Nation The outcome of the legal or illicit unions of the mentally defective is an appalling crop of lunatics, criminals, and diseased and im- moral persona whose lives are curse to the nation and a misery to themselves. Ought these pitiful creatures to be allowed to produce their unhappy kind? Bemembering that a good law, badly administer- ed, may be a bad law, and not for moment ignoring the need for rigid safeguards, I claim that the sterilization of the unfit, as defined by Lord Riddell, would be a just und merciful act. :.
Consider the children.
What must it be to be born rickety, dis- ensed, unclean, weak-minded. Incur- ably, vicious, an idiot or a cripple? What hope is there for these defec- tive infants, Our lunatic asyluma, hospitale, reformatories, prisons, and cemeteries hold thousands of the horrible results of the sacred | right of brutish or crazy men and women to bring forth helpless vic- time of their lust and crimes.
Matrimonial Failures Mr. Cairns, the magistrate, said the other day that the tragic matri- monial failures he had to deal with in his court would make devils weep. What la to be said of the criminal procreation of children un- fitto live? I have often wondered how many children would enter the world if they had the choice of it. Imagine a "registry office where parents must go to engage offspring from the cohorts of the unborn, What questions would the child or its guardian angel ask? "What: kind of home could you provide? What education?. Are you sane and honest and sound In minds and limb! Kindly produce your doctor's certificate of health. You don't look very intelligent. Do you drink? And mother; is the affeckin
fonate and competent and comfort- fable, or a slattern and a slut? I⠀
don't like that cast in your eye, nor that weak chin. Where do you live Briggs Alloy? No, thank you; I don't think 1-should be suited rug ko
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RUNAWAY GIRLS
LIFE'S HARD-KNOCKS-HELP TRUANTS
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UN away from home. girls!. But be sure you have a strong. consti- tution you'll need it! That is Helen Grace Carlisle's un- swer to the problem of the runaway girl which is proving 'so alarming these days to, parents, ministers and welfare) organizations, The number of young girls who leave home! for New York with virgin hearts and hope, and hardly any money, is increasing every year in the most fantastic way.
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A Tragic Figure
As I laid down Lord Riddell's: book just now I was oppressed by the tragic figure of a seventeen- year-old girl, one of a family of defectives, who went wandering about military camps, who for gathered with immoral women, who was locked up and moved on with- out ever Anding peace or under- standing in her unbalanced, quiet mind. Well might she have with a fevered, and broken life: auid to the parent who cursed her
un.
Oh, thou who didst with pitfall and with gin, beset the path I was
to wander in." Must we allow such horrors to continue? Must the sad procession of these lost ones, like the Banquo's line, stretch on fo crack of doom? I remember a poor mad woman many years ago who startled my mother by saying: "The devil's in our house. He has come to tea. He says I must kill! had two daughters, both of whom my father." That unhappy creature
had committed suicide.
sacred right of the insane to stock the Isle with Calibans, or shall we merited suffering and woe? I think save the unborn children from un- Lord Riddell's hook will help us to find the answer.
Well! Shall we stand fast to the
A number of men who had been waiting to sign on for a ship raided the premises of the National Union of Seumen at Tilbury and attacked the secretary.
He re taliated by hitting one of the men on the head with a piece of iron and escaped. The intruders complained that officials of the union were unfairly selecting men for work.
HELEN GRACE CARLISLE
What happens to theus bind mico in the big city? Helen Graco Carliste las treated the question' lo "Bee How They Run." She belloves that girls who run away from home; have a hard time, but she believes they should do it anyway! At the enme time Miss Carlisle admits that New York to the worst place for theed with having to support not them. It is a cruel, dangerous city. only the baby, but her husband as New York man to predatory in the welt. As private secretary in a firm qubtle ways that are most fatal to on Wall átręci, she saw a for! The Inexperienced girls, "
inate of adventure lured her again. She
weni on the rond with "The Affracle company.
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life.from the wings at a
Mia Carlisic,, mal dark and wide-eyed, hardly looking "more" ̧than twenty herself, tabla. tờ to an
speak with authority becauso`nhe theatre. She learned to know the has seled out her theories and seems types of Rsing chorpsigirts who 10 hare heen succefulThe Miracie." She made friends | bad beon angaged to act as nurs fo The young authorcas began hef tour or Ave other girls as new to own career as a runaway sir, the stage as herself, and, this site. was during the war and she had group stared meals and apartments "deelded to be a' pacifist. As a stu-
together in much the same way as... dent at Hunter College bor name the baroines of "Beo How They hadeheer in the daily rass for pro-Run." testing against the war Her mother, fearing
saiiqus trouble,
of
An extremely intensa.
varied
used to lock the girl in her room. Derience of life has beed the re
isit for Atlas Carlisle of running One morning Helen packed her salicase and diappeared. She was
adway from home... It the kind ** tree to dabalento claim In so thing that many parents would
Twinb cfallen, and even to make soap box wish for their phildrent but it
not 'abam aprechen. the very happy, thai, Bhi has discovered, for lis- abem to have, hurt Car-
verkignorant. Vatminded.
Kiance, that "mer te a much over- Then bums forand dimppoint-rated paalimis" and motherhood the mang and anally, frriage with the rest reallly. She h
won through enbarthing but peuplaas young poet. té a rich werenly and a knowledge, ... Helen tarace went home to tail bar of her own powers. 19 milyon mana mother about it. und had to borrow Now she lives quietly in the a nickel for cartare, The young country, writing, caring for her couple starved In New York and ebfldren, and discovering for the later. faLondon. I was Ierally dral-time that eboking 14% Losely love. In a garretera nåting, ardilt 12 no wonder, ale When her first child was born advises other gifla tozun away About two yearsglajerg (she was Ɛtcom - homet
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Mr. H. R. Oswald, the Padding- ton coroner, said that as the résult of his comments on the "reckless- ness of pedestrians and the speed of motor vehicles" he had received some abusive letters.
How a bride received a telegrami on her wedding morning from the bridegroom saying "Please Cancel Arrangements" was described in a breach of promise case heard at
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Mrs. Lilian May Vizor, a widow, that sort of thing," he said, "and he must harden his heart and. aged 35, of Tetbury, stated that the
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He had used her late husband's bicycle, and had had her furniture removed to a house at Calcott, near Tetbury, where, they were to live. Later he married a girl from Stroud,
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"I have alab suggested that tho In London speed of motor cars streets should be limited to the speed of the old hansom cabs,, mit I have been told that that is Im practicable.
"Let them go on in their own way and kill people." I have done my best to suggest means to reduco, the number of accidents. My own idea is that the speed of all motor vehicles in London should be re- duced.'
present striking points of differ ancé, is none other than Mata 'Hart, the famous woman spy who, ac cording to the records, was shot by firing squad at Vincennes in the course of the war.
IS SHE "GLORIA ALLISTER"?
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The woman, who was wat with Dea water, declared that she was Gloria Alister, an Australian, and that, having, fallen from a Britich steamer, she had been in the sea for thirty hours clinging to a plece The theory advanced by t of wreckage: The police made Journal, which can only be accept known their suspicion that she was ad with reservations, is that blank a former prisoner known as Banita shots were fred at Mata Harivaa | Adamon, raid to be of Lettish she stood at the post of execution, origin. But there has been no con- and that she promptly fell as firmation of this identification, though dead, to be spirited away Now the "Liberte" suggests that later by goccult influences", "-and- the mysterious woman, whose transferred to a fortress prison.
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