ontrary, the adrenal, thyroid and pituitary are present in
a certain proportion, he will become the active, aggressive,
never-resting, keen, and relentless fanatic reformer. A woman who is
gonad deficient with a superior adrenal will suffer from virilism
and specialize in the extreme tactics and mythology of the feminist
movement. A number of life reactions are classifiable as the strivings
of endocrine inferior individuals to overcome their sense of
inferiority. The unconscious vegetative system and the system of
consciousness are both modified by the weakness of a link in the
glandular chain.

What, therefore, is to be recommended in the prophylaxis of the
natural deterioration of the wells of life, the ductless glands? For
even if we may be able to replenish them when they dry up, would it
not be better to delay their dessication? The hormones reply to every
call of life and respond in every reaction. The normal constructive
process of their cells remanufactures what has been lost, and the
original capacity to respond is restored. If, though, the rate of
destruction and loss outruns the rate of repair and construction, they
will be permanently damaged. This is what occurs in shock, serious,
severe accidents and injuries, prolonged infections and diseases,
profound continued emotions, and the wear and tear of overwork. The
prevention of these excessive fatigues of the endocrine system in one
or all of its parts, and especially the prevention and enfeeblement of
the diseases of children which injure them at a period when they are
most sensitive to injury, is the task of the endocrine hygienist.
Periodic examinations, to check up the balance sheets of the hormone
factories and to measure the amount of their damage by means of blood
analyses, will provide the most valuable method in the campaign to
lengthen the productive and enjoying span of life.

THE TREATMENT OF CRIME

Endocrine hygiene will discover no wider or more fruitful area for
exploration and control than that of crime. For more than a generation
there have been attempts at a criminology, and a new understanding and
control of crime. In the United States a concomitant sentimentalism
has concocted measures like the honor system which, naturally failing
of their purpose, have undermined confidence in the idea of scientific
diagnosis and treatment of crime. As someone has noted, to ask a
criminal to promise not to misbehave, when discharged from prison,
is l