Hansford: Mental Defectives in County H., Indiana 23 
Adam Baker, the seventh brother, is also a stone quarry 
laborer. By his stooped shoulders, crossed eyes, and thin 
face one would know him to be a Baker. He married the 
widow of Charles Slack, by whom he had 2 or 3 children, 
the oldest of whom is feeble-minded, Dwight. Adam is 
usually on the borderline of self-support. As long as the 
quarries are open and he has no sickness in his family, he 
needs no help, but there are many times when he has to 
ask for help from relatives and friends. He has received 
township poor relief to the amount of $9.25, and his name 
appears on the records of the Charity Organization Society. 
His name appears once on the county jail records showing 
that he spent 2 days there on an intoxication charge. 
Simimary 
Here is a family which seems to be on the downward 
path, the older generation being in the main self-support- 
ing and self-respecting. They are mentally and socially in- 
ferior, but not so much so but that they can get along after 
a fashion. With these mental traits are a few physical char- 
acteristics which seem to be dominant. Their children are 
not able to meet the requirements of their environment, being 
inferior to their parents both socially and mentally. This 
is not because of increased social pressure, as the old folks are 
still living, and living under the new conditions as well as 
their children. If the coming generation can be judged by 
what they are as young children, the chances are that the 
third generation will be even of a lower type than that of 
the second. 
2. The Lookout Ridge Population 
Northwest of Harrisburg in Township 1 is a very small 
block of rough country. Surrounded on all sides by good 
pike roads and fine farms, it is crossed only by the roughest 
of slippery, gullied mud roads. The ground is high, trees 
are mostly of a scrubby nature, red clay shows plainly in 
the scanty pastures, gates sag, houses look tired of standing, 
and the people remind one of the poor white trash of the 
South, giving the whole territory a desolate appearance. 
Lookout Ridge is the name usually applied to this little bit of 
hill country which is about 2 by 3 miles in size. 
