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Although only a short time in exist- 
ence the psychopathic laboratory has 
already demonstrated beyond question 
that what is urgently needed is an 
institution for feebleminded criminals. 
These individuals never will be normal 
and it is folly to sentence, release, 
rearrest, and sentence them all over 
German Suggestions for 
Germany continues to take an active 
interest in proposals for making good 
the eugenic loss caused by the war. 
An article by Dr. von Behr-Pinnow in 
the Archiv fir Rassen- und Gesellschafts- 
Biologie (XI, 3) is thus summarized in 
the last issue of the Eugenics Review: 
There are two means of increasing the 
population. One is by combating the 
causes which lead to a fall in the birth 
rate; the other is by keeping the death 
rate low. The people, beginning with 
school children, must be enlightened 
with regard to the importance of large 
families. The housing laws ought to 
be modified, hygienic homes secured for 
all, and every attempt by houseowners 
to discriminate in favor of childless 
couples as employes or tenants checked. 
Recognition ought to be given to large 
families by the government and ex- 
pressed in a scale of wages (including 
supplementary payments) for all persons 
employed by the state, proportioned to 
the size of their families. The same 
thing should be enforced if possible 
(there are legal obstacles in the way) in 
the case of persons privately employed. 
Children must be discouraged from 
leaving their parents’ home before they 
are of age and spending their wages on 
themselves alone, instead of giving a 
share (20%, the author suggests) to 
their parents; for this leads only to a 
decrease in the size of families. Working 
people can frequently be heard to say 
nowadays that it does not pay to have 
children, for in old age one gets nothing 
The Journal of Heredity 
again as is the procedure nowadays. 
The criminal insane and the feeble- 
minded of ordinary types are fairly 
well cared for in some States, but the 
feeble-minded of criminal tendencies are 
a special class and should receive special 
segregation and training suited to the 
grade of mentality they possess. 
Constructive Eugenics 
from them. The imperial insurance 
laws should likewise be altered in favor 
of married people and large families; 
and engaged and newly married couples 
must be protected (by the withholding 
of their names and addresses) from the 
flood of advertisements of contraceptives 
and the like which is now poured out 
on them. There ought also to be more 
stringent penalties for such advertise- 
ments, and physicians alone should be 
permitted to give public instruction in 
regard to the limitation of offspring. 
Infantile mortality can be decreased by 
providing free nurses, midwives and 
medical attendance to all insured 
women, by the payment of full insurance 
money for sickness during the last six 
weeks of pregnancy, and by granting 
premiums equal to one-half the sick 
pay for twelve weeks after confinement 
in winter or twenty-four weeks in 
summer, to all insured mothers who 
nurse their own children. New pro- 
visions in regard to the insurance of 
motherhood are also wanted, and better 
facilities, provided by the local govern- 
ment boards, for the care of infants and 
smallchildren. Private societies formed 
for the same end and for the care of 
orphans must also be encouraged and 
assisted by the state. Funds can be 
raised in part by an extra tax on the 
unmarried and childless couples, in 
part by confiscation by the Government 
of the estates of people who die intestate 
and have no heirs within the third 
degree of succession. 
