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According to this view poverty is not the cause of crime but simply determines its nature. Neither does Dr. Sutherland agree with Harvard's famed Earnest Albert Hooton that crime has a genetic basis. He believes that crime, whether upper-class or lower-class, is learned by association with other malefactors already in the field...
Speaking on the subject "Should We Ignore Racial Differences" at the Town Hall Meeting of the Air Thursday night, Professor Earnest A. Hooton of Harvard University chloroformed his listeners with a demagogic speech smacking strongly of fascist racial theories. . . ." The Daily Worker...
...loud--"regiments of schizophrenics, paranoiacs, and manic-depressives"--they sound almost musical. If you write them out, you get nowhere. And if you actually get them in print, you are liable to be sought by the Associated Press for a feature story --which is what happened to our Professor Hooton...
...only reason that we haven't released our plan to the press is that Mr. Hooton got there first. If we could only find that schoolboy essay of ours, we'd almost be willing to claim plagiarism. But the public has the story now, and it's just as well it came from Mr. Hooton. We were always a bit shy about talking to reporters, and by the time we got to those grown-up ideas and long words, we'd have to call on the Professor anyway...
...adds the final denunciation that "the fittest and best of the nations are sent out to be killed, and the trash stay at home to breed more trash and plan more wars." It is in answer to this situation that Professor Hooton would send both the mentally deficient and the congenitally deformed to fight the wars...