58o THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Section 1841 — 6. — Each county shall bear all the expenses incident to the 

 transportation of each child from such county to such ' ' Bureau of Juvenile 

 Eesearch," together with such fees and costs as are allowed by law in similar 

 cases, which fees, costs and expenses shall be paid from the county treasury upon 

 itemized vouchers, certified to by the judge of the juvenile court. 



Section 1841 — 7. — The provisions of this act shall become valid on and 

 after the first day of July, 1914. 



It is thus seen that Ohio plans through the "Bureau of Juvenile 

 Eesearch," to study the prohlems of delinquency from the points of 

 view of the best technology afforded by sociology, psychology and the 

 biologic sciences. The law contemplates in this bureau a great labora- 

 tory for the study of vital phenomena — of sociologic material in the 

 widest sense. The records of observations and examinations upon chil- 

 dren, in the first place, will be expected to enable the authorities to 

 deal with each child much more intelligently than they have been able 

 to do heretofore. The reasonable expectations in regard to education 

 will be set forth clearly in each case. Futile efforts to overcome native 

 defect will be avoided. Doubtful cases of defective delinquents will 

 be given experimental treatment in reform schools, till they are proved 

 to be unimprovable or are improved. The non-defective delinquents 

 will be saved from institutionalization, which will result in great 

 economy both to the individual and to society. 



There will result a new conception of the work of our reform 

 schools, and also a new conception of the work of its field officers. The 

 reform school is not to be expected to overcome native defect, but it 

 is to be an experiment station trying out doubtful cases, ascertaining 

 what retardations may be overcome. The field officer is to be a very 

 highly trained practical sociologist, skilled in all the arts of guiding 

 into proper lines the forces of socialization. His is to be the art of 

 making personalities. 



The lines of work undertaken in such technological studies are sure 

 to result in new conceptions and divisions of feeble-mindedness. They 

 are also likely to bring new visions as to the relations of intelligence to 

 the will and emotions — ^the relations of knowledge to the springs of 

 action and conduct. 



It is also reasonable to expect that the clinic with its constantly 

 flowing stream of delinquents, and the archives resulting from ex- 

 haustive physical, mental and social examinations made in the clinic and 

 in the field will become a great museum for research into the kako- 

 genics of the state. Society is not ready to demand eugenic marriages, 

 but the accumulation of such material as this Bureau of Juvenile Ee- 

 search is miaking constitutes a most intelligent procedure to prepare 

 us to control and to eliminate the propagation of the unfit. These 

 investigations will also make contributions to pure science in psy- 

 chology, sociology and biology. 



