but who, under favorable conditions of vocational guidance and
direction and with a new home environment suited to their
peculiar needs, may become wage-earners and fairly useful
members of society. In the town for which you seek better
conditions, which of these efforts is most needed at the
present time? Is it to meet the needs for institutional care or
for supervision adequate and well applied for those left either
in their own homes or placed in colony-care?

FOOTNOTES:

[14] See "Mental Diseases in Twelve States," as reported in 1919 by
Horatio M. Pollock, Ph.D., Statistician New York State Hospital
Commission, and Edith M. Forbush, Statistician of National Committee
for Mental Hygiene, published in _Mental Hygiene_ of April, 1921.

CHAPTER XI

PRODIGAL SONS AND DAUGHTERS

"Because of fathers' sins the cost
Is counted in the children's blood;
They starve where once they might have stood
Content and strong as bird or bee."--H.H.

"The primary function of social science is to interpret men's
experience in passing from stage to stage in the evolution of
human values."--ALBION W. SMALL.

"Every wrong-doer should have his due. But what is his due? Can we
measure it by his past alone, or is it due any one to regard him
as a man having a future as well? As having possibilities for good
as well as achievements in bad?"--JOHN DEWEY.

"Judge not, that ye be not judged. He that is without sin among
you, let him first cast a stone."--JESUS.

"The Sage is ever the good Saviour of men; he rejects none. For
the good men are the instructors of other good men and the bad men
are the material for the good men to work upon. The good I would
meet with goodness, the not-good I would meet with goodness
also."--LAO-TSZE.

"The good man is apt to go right about pleasure and the bad man is
apt to go wrong. It is only to the good man that the good presents
itself as good, for vice perverts us and causes us to err about
the principle of action."--ARISTOTLE.

"I cannot but think that the extreme passion for getting rich,
absorbing all the energies of life, predisposes to mental
degeneracy, to moral defects, or to outbreaks of insanity in the
offspring."--MAUDESLEY.

"Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world or out of it which
can be called good without qualification except a Good
Will."--KANT.

"The ob