COL. EVANS: What are you going to do with the group the doctor describes that ought to be in a colony? What are you going to do with the mentally deficient who will never be able to carry on? There is no appropriation available for that group. If the Soldiers’ Homes are not properly supplied with means or some other special effort made, every community will have these individuals as a reproach upon them, and it occurs to me there is no group of men that would be as able as this group to have the propaganda go forward that there is a problem to be solved in these cases. DR. WHITE: I had this in mind about some of these difficult problems, some of these border-line cases I didn’t have a chance to speak of the other morning. I suggested there in just a word that in connection with these disciplinary measured such as have recently been promulgated in this order we got this morning, No. 27–A, probably we shall have to come to some form of disciplinary treatment with a considerable group of these border-line cases, and the plea I wanted to make was that discipline should not be used as discipline per se, but that we should seek for all of the possibilities that are incorporated in disciplinary measures which can be brought to bear upon the patient for his welfare; In other words, if we can make out of discipline a therapeutic tool. Now we are dealing for the most part, in these border-line cases and in the delinquent group, with types of individuals that are more or less defective. Almost all of them are defective in some sort of way, not necessarily intellectually defective but frequently on the affective side; but there undoubtedly has to be some kind of disciplinary pressure brought to bear.