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Men who "cannot compete on equal terms with their fellows" nor "manage themselves and their affairs with ordinary prudence." Left. This man was photographed outside the bar-room of a country hotel. He is the butt of the local "horse-play." He depends on the charity of the villagers for food and shelter, or "lives off the country." He is a low-grade imbecile, too low-grade to be a serious menace to the community. Center. This young man hardly answers to David Starr Jordan's description of a good citizen as "one who can take care of himself and has something left over for the common welfare." He is not criminal- istic by nature but by reason of inferior intelligence and poor judgment has a reformatory and prison record. He is a low-grade moron with a mental age of nine years. He can earn a fair wage at simple work, such as grocery boy or painter's assistant, but his industrial record is typical of a moron's inability to remain steadily at work except under super- vision. He has no appreciation of accepted marital conventions, tho he is not wilfully immoral. He was arrested for bigamy, but the charges were dropped when it was proved that his supposedly legal wife herself had a previous husband, altho he too had a previous legal wife. His helplessness in this plight was as ludicrous as it was serious. Right. Vicious type of feeble-minded social offender. At the time of the picture he was serving a prison sentence for stealing. When this prison term had expired he could not remain socially responsible long enough to travel the fifty miles to his home, but was rearrested for gross and unprovoked assault. He is the son of feeble-minded parents, and