CHICAGO WOULD TRAIN
MENTAL DELINQUENTS
IN INDUSTRIAL COLONY
CHICAGO, Aug. 26. (/p)— A Stand-!
ing offer to rid a city, of more than
3,000,000 population, of all crime by
permanently segregating 3,000 mental
delinquents who are marked repeaters
is in final form for thenext session
of the Illinois Legislature.
The offer from Chief Justice Harry
Olson of the Municipal Court of Chi
cago, and Dr. William J. Hickson, di
rector of the Court’s Psychopathic
Laboratory, in which defendants in
more than 40,000 criminal cases have
been examined during the last eleven
years.
The experience of the laboratory
has brot Judge Olson and D’\ Hick
son to the conclusion that crime pre
vention is more a problem in psy
chology than in police administration,
and that the root of tne problem
is the mental delinquent whose de
bility renders him incapable of in
terpreting punishment as retribution.
Instead of committing offenders to
prisons and reformatories for short
sentences, and then throwing them
on society again, to commit a greater
crime, Dr. Hickson proposed a per
manent industrial farm colonv where
the delinquents could live lives ad
justed to their peculiarities.
He would make the colony largely
sell-sustaining, and m auumoa wouiu
cave upwards of $7,000,000 annually
of Chicago’s $15,000,000 budget for
policing and criminal courts
The laboratory’s records show men
tal deficiency as the prime factor in
Chicago crime, and also, that in a
large majority of the delinquents,
the criminal bent is manifested in 1
some minor offense during the peri
od of adolescense.
By segregating the offenders of
mental debility or emotional instabil
ity, the Olson-Hickson program would
prevent their later and more serious 1
crimes.
Many records are cited by Dr. ;
Hickson in support of his theory that
feeble-mindedness is a major factor
in crime.
Of 262 boys arraigned in one term
of the Boys’ Court, 63 per cent were
morons, and 33 and one half per cent
sociopaths. Only 1.9 per cent rated
average intelligence.
Less than five per cent of the
boys have been in school until past
14 years of age, 83 per cent have not
reached seventh grade.
Many personal histories were in
vestigated in this group. A large
percentage of the boys were found
to have been the offspring of mental
ly defective parents, some of whom
had long criminal records in Chicago. !
“At present the law presumes the i
criminal to be sane until proven in
sane,” Said Dr. Hickson. “When re
cent studies in criminology are in
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the Unitde Slates, every criminal
■will be presumed insane until he
proves himself sane.
"The mentally deficient repeaters
are responsible for virtually all vi
cious crimes, such as murders, rob
beries, bank holdups and criminal at
tacks on women.”
Legislation to provide such a col
ony as Dr. Hickson proposes has
been prepared by a volunteer com
mittee of civic leaders for the Legis
lature.
Macedonian Fighter Killed
In Attempt Escape Prison
SKOP1E, Serbia, Aug. 26. (/P)—
Serbian newspapers announce the
death of Angelko Nikoloff, for 20
years an active fighter in the ranks
of the Macedonians. Two years ago
Nikoloff was sentenced to imprison
ment having received commutation
•of the original death sentence.
Recently when he was assigned to
hard labor he escaped from the police
man who wras guarding him, taking
the guard’s rifle. After six days he
was recaptured, but in another at
tempt to escape was killed during an
interchange of rifle shots with the
police.
Otis Ross and W. W. French, who
have been constructing a road at
Wide Bay to Hubble Dome with a
small crew of men, were returning
passengers on the steamer Starr
which arrived in Seward this morn
ing from Kanatak.
NORWEGIANS EAT
FINE WHALE MEAT
OSLO, Norway, Aug. 26. (/P)—
Whale meat is a popular form of
human nourishment among the poor
er classes of Norway. During the
spring months large quantities of
this food was shipped to Trondhjem,
Bergen and Oslo. Only the best and
most tender portions are selected for
human consumption.
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Ten Cow Hides
Make One Boot
DOEBELN, Germany, 9ug. 26. (JP)
—What is claimed to be the largest
cavalry boot in the -world was recent
ly manufactured to commemorate the
600th anniversary of the boot-mak
ers’ guild here. Ten large cow
hides w'ere required to supply the
leather for the boot. The foot meas
ures 5.9 feet and the shaft 16.4 feet.
The boot will remain at the town
hall as a permanent exhibit.
E. McNamee, well known Seward
and Anchorage man, who has been
employed at Wide Bay on the Hub
ble Dome road project, was numbered
among the Seward arrivals this
morning on the steamer Starr.
JOURNALIST, TO SAVE
OTHERS THE TROUBLE
PENS HIS OWN OBIT
POSEN, Poland, Aug. 26. (/P)—
Tadeusz Gubrynowiez, a Polish jour
nalist, literally “died in harness” re
cently. Among his belongings in the
hospital was found his own obituary
written by himself a short time be
fore his death.
It recounted the devotion of a real
journalist to his work, and on behalf
of those for whom he wrote. It con
tained this paragraph:
“Now, just before his death, he has
at last found a moment for himself,
which he devotes to penning his obit
uary, so as to take an additional bur
den from the shoulders of his col
leagues, who also never have any
time to spare.”
Concluding the obtiuary, Gubryn
owicz asked his readers, if they felt
that he deserved to rest in peace,
to say a brief prayer for him. An
swering those who might say it was
a clever way to solicit thousands of
free blessing, he said:
“Even if it be so it will have been
the first and certainly the last time
in his life that he has acted the
part of an exploiter or profiteer.”
Brunswick Pnonograpns and Re
cords. The Alaska Shop. tf
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One good test of the purity and
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of carbon it forms. Zerolene forms
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\nown to us. That is why the Zero'
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valves ground or the cylinders re'
bored.
Truly, you can buy no better oil
than Zerolene. Ask for it by name
—Zerolene.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(California)
FAMOUS FRENCH
STALLION SOLD
BERLIN, Aug. 26. (/P)—The famous
French stud stallion, Niceas, has
been sold to a German stud for 260,
000 marks. Agents refused to di
vulge the name of the purchaser.
Niceas was foaled in 1920 and is a
product of the stud of Baron M. de
Rothschild. During three years’ rac
ing the stallion was the winner of
more than 500,000 francs.
Read the Gateway advertiseents.
The Alaska Railroad
TRAINS LEAVE SEWARD
7:30 A. M.
Mon.—Wed.—Frl.
A train leaves Seward at 8:Cd a. m.
Sundays for Anchorage and interme
diate paints. Arrives Seward at 2:15
p. m. from Anchorage.
TRAINS ARRIVE SEWARD
7:00 P. M.
T ues.—Thurs.—Sat.
STEAMSHIP STARR
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Sept. 1
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in Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska.
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O’CLOCK Sunday afternoon, sailing date.
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above steamers at Seward, weekly, for Cook Inlet and Kodiak Is
land points, subject to change without notice.
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“The Golden Belt”
To the end that the countless places of scenic and other inter
ests in the Territory may be thoroughly enjoyed and understand, and
to enable them to acquire first hand and accurate information con
cerning all Alaskan activities and devleopment; travelers to the
Northland are urged to visit
ALASKA’S “GOLDEN HEART”
Interior Alaska and places en route—including Kenai Lake, the
“Loop District,” Spencer and Bartlett G-laciers, Turnagain Arm, An
chorage, the Matanuska Valley, Curry, Nenana River Canyon, Mt. Mc
Kinley National Park, Nenana, the Tanana Valley ad Fairbanks, hold
much of interest to everyone, whether on business or pleasure bent;
and a tour through these regions creates a true conception of the
good things that Alaska has to offer.
For train and automobile Schedules, passenger rates and other in
formation, confer with any steamship agent, or
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