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...when intelligence-testers began to impress the nation, Principal Persis K. Miller of Locust Point's public school asked Johns Hopkins' Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer to survey the community, a social back-water of Baltimore. Dr. Meyer's agents found 166 children in Locust Point who were sufficiently subnormal to need special training. Some were considered ''liable to recruit the ranks of the vagrants, the alcoholics, the prostitutes, and the delinquents." Others would be "drifting along at the lowest social level." All would be in one way or another detrimental to society...
Seventeen years later Principal Miller and Dr. Meyer had Dr. Ruth Eldred Fairbank, Johns Hopkins' psychiatrist, see what had become of Locust Point's morons of 1914. What she found she reported last week in Mental Hygiene. She found most of them still living in the neighborhood. All but two of the girls were married. Only five cases of illegitimacy and five cases of prostitution occurred during the 17 years. Three-fourths of the subnormals are supporting themselves. One became a Pro- hibition agent. One "nitwit," who can write only his name, progressed to an inspector...
...Locust Point itself had great influence in turning its morons into citizens. It is like a small town without rural provincialism. Factories have always provided work for those who wanted to work. Three or four generations of Germans, Poles, and Hungarians have tended to own their own homes. Economics and society have been stable. And the investigators credited one individual for the rise of many a Locust Point moron to good citizenship. This was Hannah Dorritee, a schoolteacher, now over 80 and retired to the Presbyterian Church Home at Towson outside Baltimore. She was "aggressively determined not to lose...
...YEARS OF THE LOCUST (America, 1929-1932) - Gilbert Seldes - Little, Brown...
...that those who are still on the run may read. Calling his book a "fever chart," he plots the curves of recent U. S. public opinion, shows how it followed the swoops of economic graphs. Written with wit and wisdom. The Years of the Locust is a serious book not aimed at mental moppets, well worth a tycoon's time...