kindly poor relief law to care for them, and oftentimes they are living so 

 far from neighbors that they could starve before help would arrive. 



Eighty-one adults who are, or should be, earning their living rep- 

 resent this group. Of this number fifty are feeble-minded and thirty-one 

 are normal. The normal cases will be eliminated as they were in the 

 Indiana group. Of the fifty feeble-minded people: 



Sixteen have no occupation. 

 Fifteen are farm tenants. 

 Eight help at home. 

 Five are farmers. 

 Two hunt gingseng. 

 Two are bootleggers. 

 One is a prostitute. 

 One does odd jobs. 

 Total, 50. 



Six of those listed as having no occupation are not dependents in the 

 real sense of the word. They manage to live without work, but also 

 without begging. They gamble, steal, and hunt. One entire family lives 

 mostly on the squirrels the men are able to kill. Oftentimes their aim is 

 so poor that they miss the squirrels and kill sheep. The remaining ten 

 who are non-self-supporting, are idiots and imbeciles, who could not care 

 for themselves in any environment, so this 20 per cent, is not really com- 

 parable- to the 29 per cent of non-supporting individuals in the Indiana 

 group. The people whose mentality was of the same level as the Indiana 

 paupers, were all self-supporting in the simpler environment. And if 

 we exclude those idiots and low grade imbeciles, we have no non-self- 

 supporting mental defectives to compai'e with those of Indiana. 



It may be that the simple environment is not responsible for these 

 figures, but there are other instances where the feeble-minded are self- 

 supporting in a relatively simple environment. In some of the European 

 countries where the work history of a man is pretty well determined 

 when he is born, and where he is bound by certain industrial conditions 

 which we do not have here, there is less unemployment, tramps are few- 

 er, and there is very much less unrest and changing about than among 

 our subnormal laborers. In the institutions which are run on the colony 

 plan, the inmates are taught to do certain things well, and are kept at 



