Legend

Chart Showing the Endocrinopathic Deviations through
Successive Generations of an Original Biparental Disturbance

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-Diabetic-hyperodrenalism

-Dyspihustone-toll, over body hair growth most absent,
adiposities of other sex portly in curtence-Hyper hypopituitorre

,2,3,5-Apparently normal- but touted for obnormal growth

and metabolism

,4 -Apparently normal-over 6' (rocial)

-Exophthalmic goitre-hyperthyroidism

Harelip-disturbed development (thymus pituntory thyroid
-Dysplutone - extreme chalky teeth-abnormal leaning to sweets
-Congenital blindness - puny, developed sarcoma face, dred
first year [possible thymus)

, 10-Moderate Grant-61-hyperpituitarism

HEREDITARY ENDOCRINE DISTURBANCES.

This diagram was prepared by the 1921 Training Corps of the Eugenics Record Office and exhibited at the Second International Congress of Eugenics. As indicated, the chart is based upon a pedigree study of endocrinopathic inheritance by Dr. Walter Timme, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, May 6, 1916.

11-Grant-tendency to ceramealogy

-hyperplutens -Osteomalacia and dwar

disturbed development (@xymus? Myroid porathyroid's goods 4-Hyperpihustoric tendency

ances, but the thymus and gonads also
became involved in the upset within
inter-dependent glandular systems.

PERSISTENT THYMUS AND

CRIMINALITY.

"Of 192 bodies sent to the anatomical laboratory of the West Virginia University Medical School, 52 came from the insane hospitals, 10 from the tuberculosis sanitarium, 74 from the

In that portion of the family here
described, the original endocrine dis- poorhouses, 20 from the State Peniten-
turbance involved primarily the pitui- tiary, and 36 from undertakers. In this
tary gland in the father and the pan- number 22 persistent thymuses were
creas in the mother. In subsequent found, 20 of which were from the 20
generations there appeared a segrega- criminals. All were first or second de-
tion and recombination of hereditary gree murderers, with the exception of
glandular qualities into various en- one who was a rapist." (Endocr., Nov.
docrinopathic complexes. The pitui- 1921, p. 812, abs. of paper by S. J.
tary and thyroid glands appear to Morris, which appeared originally in
have suffered the greatest disturb- Med. Rec. N. Y., 1921, pp. 438-439.)

MENTALITY OF BLIND PUPILS. Welsh, the Germans, and the Irish. In The Pennsylvania Institution for The last have a particularly low exthe Instruction of the Blind, Over- pectation. (4) With the exception of brook, Philadelphia, 187 pupils were the Russians and Italians, the mortaltested in February, 1920. The report ity is higher among these races living which has been recently published in New York State than in their native states that the authorities believe that country. (5) This condition may be this test is fairly representative of due to the difficulties of adjustment to the mentality of the student body. It new conditions of life; or to the poorer states also that "there is no material quality of the immigrants as compared difference in the classification whether with their own people who stay at determined by the judgment of the home, or to a combination of both teachers or by the methods that obtain these factors.

HEREDITY OF ECTODERMAL

ABNORMALITIES.

in the psychological laboratories." The results given are as follows: Intelligence quotient, 110 or above (superior), 21.4 per cent.; 90-110 (average), 38.5 per cent.; 80-90 (dull), Dr. H. Fischer, of the University 16.6 per cent.; 70-80 (border line). Skin Clinic in Köln, describes in the 13.3 per cent.; below 70 (probably feeble-minded), 10.2 per cent. The Dermatologische Zeitschrift for Febreport further calls attention to the ruary, 1921, a family in which for five surveys of seven schools made during generations, without skipping, anomathe year 1919-1920 which found simi- lies of skin thickening, nail marking. lar distribution of intelligence among the pupils.

THE MORTALITY OF FOREIGN
RACE STOCKS.

and hair distribution have been inherited. These and other symptoms of the patient suggest hypothyroidism. Fischer rejects the view that we have here an inherited disfunctioning of the gland, because, he says, if it were such, other changes due to thyroid should appear, such as goiter. Also, the skin thickening is not a hypothy

ening is obviously genetically connected with the other defects. Rather, he thinks, all are due to germ-plasmic

The Scientific Monthly for January, 1922, publishes Dr. Louis I. Dublin's paper on the above-named subject roid phenomenon; yet the skin thickwhich was read before the Second International Congress of Eugenics. Dr. Dublin concludes that (1) The several races that make up the foreign-born disturbances affecting the ectoderm, population of New York are variable and inherited as dominant traits. as to their natural vigor as measured by their mortality rates or by life tables. (2) With the exception of the Russians, who are, for the most part, Jews, the expectation of life of the foreign is less than for the native born of native parentage. (3) Of the foreign born, Russians have the best ectoderm; and the particular form expectation followed in order by the they take may be determined by the Italians, the English, Scotch and inadequate thyroid secretions.

It seems possible that two causes may coöperate in this case: namely, a hypothyroidism and hypoplastic tendencies upon which the hypothyroidism leaves a specially profound mark. These hereditary hypoplastic tendencies may be confined to the

VOL. VII.

SOUL OF A POET.

FEBRUARY, 1922

John G. Neihardt was born in Sharpsburg, Illinois, Jan. 8, 1881. He was reared on the Great Plains, and settled at Bancroft, Nebraska. He studied at a normal school, taught a country school and became a reporter on a newspaper. For a time he was literary critic of the Minneapolis Journal, but he soon returned to his rural home, gardened, reared a family and wrote poetry, both lyric and epic, which has placed "him in the very front rank of American poets."

Neihardt has a verbal mental mech

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the stimulus to be derived from sum-
mer tramps through the West, and
from the normal sex-life. He is ev-
idently something of a recluse and so
a semirural community for him has a
greater attraction than has the busy,
superficial kaleidoscopic city.
"Far from the bitter grin of hu-
man faces

"I could sing."

And he shuns too much daylight and sighs: "O Great Kind Night!" But he understands the soul of the Amerindian and is understood of them.

drips rhythm:

"The winds of the cosmic struggle

Made of his flesh a flute

His mental faculties are tuned to a anism of unusual quality. Some of rhythm which became painfully obhis most striking phrases and poet-vious once in his delirium. His poetry ical ideas have come to him in his half sleeping hours. Indeed he comes to depend upon this language mechanism, so that he writes swiftly and easily when it runs easily for him, but often he has to wait for it to function. He indeed personifies this mechanism as his "ghostly brother." In early youth he, for a time, adopted

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To echo the tune of a whirlwind

rune

Unto the million mute."

One hears the periodic gallop of horses in:

By the might of the Mede, the hate of the Hun

The bleak northwind of the Goth." Probably this capacity for rhythm lay back of his early love of machinery.

vers libre ", but that was apparently merely an expression of his radical nature, desiring to be distinctive; but his natural expression is rhythm, and in word-pictures, like his "Storm Rune," one sees the lightning and John Neihardt is somewhat malhears the dull thunder. adjusted. He compares the Missouri "In gardens of gloom, walled steep to his own soul-" the beating at the with doom, bars, the breathless fighting of the Strange blue buds burst in thunder, half-whipped but never to be conand bloom quered spirit, the sobbing of the Dizzily, vividly, gaudily, lividly-wind-broken runner, the anger, the Death-flowers sown in a cannon- madness, the laughter." He feels he gloom." is different and emphasizes the fact. His father wrote verses before him. And he is different; that is one reason Neihardt has a prevailingly mel- why a world, weary of monotony, ancholic temperament. This deter-likes him.

mines various elements of his reactions.

J. T. House, 1920. John G. Neihardt, and Poet. Wayne, Neb. F. H. Jones & Son. 143 pp.

Man First, a depth of philosophy in his writings, and second a quest of

BIRTH RATE IN FRANCE. The world war dramatized for France the old question of natality; it has become the problem of her very existence; for, as the author says, it is not sufficient to be victor; it is necessary to survive victory. The author reminds the reader that in all her history France has had numbers; she has them no longer. It is to sentiment appeal must be made, first of all, of having children as much as of loving one's country and offering all to it.

The author proceeds to analyze the problem of population; and to consider how peoples die or decline. He traces in ancient Greece and Rome the loss of fecundity, the perversion of the sex instinct to purposes of mere pleasure; growth of cities and of love of luxury, with decline of childhood. With a loss of the racial instincts the race ceases to live. So, today, Paris sterilizes France.

the view that on the average those whom syphilis kills and gonorrhoea sterilizes are below the average in social fitness. J. C. Funk, formerly scientific assistant in the U. S. Public Health Service, has written a book on the grave menace of venereal disease. While some of his statistics are open to question, every intelligent man must agree that it is desirable to warn youth of the presence of these contagious diseases, and to make a fight against public prostitution. The author believes that this evil can be minimized by a proper community spirit.

J. C. Funk, 1921. Vice and Health: Problems-Solution. J. B. Lippincott Co. Philadelphia. $1.50.

INTELLIGENCE AND SCHOOL
GRADES.

Mr. William F. Book, of Indiana University, has made a preliminary report on a state-wide survey of highschool seniors. In this test, the scales of Dr. and Mrs. Pressy were used. Over 5,700 students (over 2,300 boys and 3,400 girls) were graded. It appears that about as large a proportion of high-grade students of low-grade

In the problem of natality there has to be considered the problem of the family and how it may be maintained. For the instinct of family life is easily repressed without any great sense of individual loss; though with irreparable loss to the nation. Particularly in France as of high-grade intelligence go to growth of democratic ideals has weakened the family life which is essentially a monarchical institution. The author's program involves moral reconstruction of society, an economic reorganization of the family, an altation of the national energy.

college. About one fourth of the "brightest" students (A and A4) are not thinking of going to college; while sixty-two per cent. of those grading E had arranged to enter colex-lege. On the average, the students who have decided to go to college stand slightly higher in intelligence than those who have not. The "brightest " students had not been selected for special advancement in high or intermediate school. The average boy ranked decidedly higher in the mental tests than the average girl; but the boys did not advance, on the average, as fast as the girls.

G. Rageot; 1918. La Natalité: ses lois economiques et psychologique. Biol. de philosophie scientifique. Paris: Flammarion.

VICE AND HEALTH. While eugenics is not antivenereal propaganda, yet to believe that venedisease has certain eugenical is not necessary to stress

PERSONS GAINFULLY OCCUPIED: of colored as compared with white