We have read with much interest the letters in the February 19 and we do not wish to enter into controversy with either, but we feel that, before such ruling is made, the question should receive the most careful consideration.

We agree that it is not right to allow such helpless bits of humanity to be thrust into this world to suffer; but we can not blame the feeble‐minded so much. As to criminals, a man might be a very affectionate father and yet chance to be within prison walls. However, we think that marriage among the feeble‐minded or among criminals ought never to be allowed without due consideration.

We recall the marriage of two feeble‐minded people, neither, perhaps, was immoral, but rather non‐moral. His degree of intelligence enabled him to take care of himself, for the most part, the wife also could fill the place as housekeeper probably in no very capable way, but the pair supported themselves with a little outside aid. Two or three children were born to them and owing, perhaps to a better environment and education, they showed themselves much more able to make their way in the world than either father or mother. We do not mean to say there are not people, we have so classed, who are unfit and never should produce their own kind. But it is not the imbecile who has filled Homes and Reformatories with his offspring. There must be another cause of unfortunates – and this cause is sin.

Something more than feeble‐mindedness has filled our Homes, it is sin and disease that has caused these wrecks that one so often sees.

Where do they come from, what is their cause? Go into the movie theater some night when they are showing licentious pictures and watch the excited faces of the little boys and girls on the front seats, notice the faces of the young swains and their fair companions, and some years after, you may find the answer to your question in an institution of the feeble‐minded, a whiskered young man with vacant eyes who is conscious of little but the bottle of milk he holds in his hands and from which he feeds. It is sin which is filling our charitable institutions. Sterilization might prevent a few such cases, but why not go farther and prevent every immoral movie, dance halls, and other immoral resorts from sending forth their victims.

One visit to a roomful of such innocent victims would be enough.