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any trade can only be a matter of learning a certain number of move- 
ments, yet this may be sufficient to enable them to earn a living on the 
outside when we are forced to release them. Agricultural pursuits are 
especially advantageous, as here the demands of the community are not so 
complex. <At such a time as we release them, it is our duty to see that 
they are placed in enviromnents to which they are best adapted and where 
the effects of our care and guidance may be such as to insure for then 
peacefui lives which for society is the greatest protection. 
The investigation of delinquents is now being carried on through 
departments of research in a number of penal institutions throughout the 
country. In the Indiana Reformatory we are gathering much valuable 
material of all phases of this subject, but there is one thing which inter- 
feres with our efficiency. Livery psychologist and psychiatrist recognizes 
that feeble-mindedness, as well as insanity, is evidenced in other ways 
than by intelligence alone, and while a psychological analysis will bring 
forth tlhe defect in the majority of cases, there are a great many of the 
borderline type that can be rightly understood only by careful investiga- 
tion of the heredity, family history, developmental history and environ- 
mental conditions of the subject. This work presupposes trained field 
agents upon whom a great amount of work would necessarily fall. In 
most cases our laboratory now has no information as to those particulars 
other than that which we have been able to obtain from the inmate, and 
this is unreliable often because of false representation, but more often 
from a lack of knowledge of the things desired. Our men know pitifully 
little about themselves or their families, especially in those cases in 
which we are the most anxious to obtain accurate information. Many a 
man has considered it strange that we should expect him to know the year 
of his mother’s death, the number of years he spent in school, the num- 
ber of times he failed there or whether he was six or twelve at the time 
of an illness. This developmental period, which is very important to us, 
exists for him only as a hazy portion of his existence. It is only as 
legislatures will provide for such needs of our state clinical laboratories 
that we will be able to contribute to the fullest extent to the thorough 
understanding of the relation of feeble-mindedness to delinquency. 
