| Show I IThe I I The Science of Eugenics a Beautiful More MoreA MoreA Become Nothing That Can The Theory or Y YA capable of thought and reason to human beings THEORY applied conditions in the existence A that must base its excuse for upon the tho usual fate of the argument founded animal world encounters An array of logic no matter how irrefutable mistaken premise upon a u forth to reinforce certain contentions must inevitably ine the facts set because because be he- if its foundation is faulty crumble at the first onset of opposition And the exponents of or the new science of eugenics cause incorrect of oi the human race by scientific scientific scientific the mental processes who would improve e and women would abol abolish sh sin and crime on the thet of or mating men the of diseased mentality by manifestations n a t theory liter theor that both are arc constructing constructing constructing con con- of matrimony to definite rules and conventions arc are restriction a n. beautiful and imposing structure but it is is on the sand and when the floods come it will disappear The Tho theory of Dr David St Starr lT J Jordan one ono of the most brilliant minds in America and foremost in the ranks of great educators that men man and women may be limited to the fundamental rules riles that govern untenable because he eliminates from consideration consideration consideration con con- in plant and animal life is and connected thought the faculty of reason of sustained exclusive human attribute If the human entity never progressed progressed progressed pro pro- which is an the gressed beyond the mental processes of the child if the training of and the modern lord of creation knew nomore nomore no nomore impossible mind of man was and knowledge kno was not cumulative than the first man if human c ge more communicable then the argument advanced by Dr Jordan before the he hc Lake Teachers' Teachers Institute would be worth serious investigation Salt It seems impossible to take lake this learned educator seriously when ho he advances the proposition that if the veins of an honest man were a n i a a term which politician politician-a and his blood fused with that of a opened considers iders remarkably descriptive of total depravity deP de de- Dr Jordan evidently con of effect Hit it is probable that the experiment would have the P making the politician honest at least in his offspring In that proposition proposition proposition Dr Jordan discounts the effect of environment of associations this latter being baing one of or orthe of training and of the force of circumstances the most potent factors in determining character It is apparent that Jordan and Dr from countenance I the doctrine of original siu sin gets no that h ho would probably explain the fall of Adam and Eve Eye on the comfortable comfortable com com- theory that unlearned in the science of eugenics the Creator made mistakes that he might have avoided had he be been assisted by b this thus modern idea Leonidas was one of the early exponents of the scientific propagation prop propagation a-a- a tion of a n race of mental as ns well as physical but he did not make the mistake of attempting to interfere in the mating of men and women this great commander of the Pan-Hellenic Pan forces at Thermopylae Thermopylae Thermopylae Ther Ther- was vas a hardheaded and recognized the uselessness of essaying the impossible Discarding as of no moment pre pre natal natal influences influences influences in in- and believing the results of heredity easily removed by persistent persistent persistent per per- application ho he took under his care the boys of Sparta as soon as they could be removed from the paternal roof and held them under his own super supervision ision The effect of his training upon their mentality may be noted in the most s sublime blime e example ample known to all history of courage in the face of overwhelming odds and the physical results may maybe maybe maybe be equally gauged by the almost immovable line which they set across the path of the invading in hosts of Xerxes O Occasionally a scientist clever enough to realize the impossibility of interfering in the adult males male's choice of a mate and too oc ad advocates tes the destruction at to realize the enormity of his suggestion birth of malformed misshapen children as ns well as those of parents known to be physically unfit As Asa 3 a practical means this idea promises better results than that of the proponents of the new science and is not more unlikely o of ever er being possible of practical operation It is foolish of course as witness the contributions made to art science literature and the industrial arts by conspicuous characters in history vijo were ill or crippled from birth and the flame of whose mentality burned the brighter because of their physical handicap The law of compensation remorseless eless and inexorable works to advantage in all instances and md the sharpening and heightening of one faculty at the expense of another is is neither rare nor without its influence upon life The new Dew science science as a basis for theory is a splendid subject for discussIon discussion discussion dis dis- dis- dis by those to t whom discussion is more important than action although Dr Di Jordans Jordan's eminence eminence in in both fields excludes him from th the number It is is always questionable whether serious consideration of the impossible is worthy the time of those who might do much if directed along practical lineE eie 4 r ii- ii J T is to be regretted that the state board of Utah Fly IT health eath is not not getting gettin the support it deserves l in its campaign against the housefly nor th the tho Campaign assistance necessary to make it effective Tho Not Wholly physicians who are intimately e y acquainted with withA A A. Success habits of of the assure us that he heI I carries disease in his wings which we ma may readily believe since he turns from beautys beauty's check to a a. dead dog with ith careless indifference and is charmingly impartial in hovering boy hov boering ering Bring between the garbage can and the cooking viands upon the kitchen range Even a laggard imagination can conceive conce e of the maladies which unsanitary surroundings and the part taken by tho the fly in aggravating them The campaign a against ga the e fly y is s national in its s scope ope and the flit success success suc suc- t cess it is achieving elsewhere seems to transcend that accomplished in Utah The efforts of the board of health to prevent typhoid fever for instance by rigid inspection of milk and protection of water supply from impurities will go o for naught unless the housefly's sphere of activities is is limited Many cases of typhoid last season are said to have h ve been traced to the fly by the simple process of eliminating the theother theother other usual causes known 1 to have been absent in the particular in instances instances in- in stances under inquiry The covered ered garbage can and the tho dead fly are nrc exhibits that testify to surroundings that make for health Give the board of health your aid in eliminating disease As it is you the board I 1 i ip protecting the least you can do 10 is to lend your assistance 5 K I h 1 f N these heated healed days of a wayward summer r Instances 1 I IN when the proletariat is being g variously assured that tha t it does not rule but hut ought to to- todo do so and 0 of F Direct D. D t that it should rule and does docs there arc are two in instances in- in in- in Rule of stances of direct government that ought not to be bethe the People overlooked Seven Seyen murderers under sentence of death in California petitioned that legislation be initiated abolishing capital punishment but they secured only 1000 of the requisite signatures chiefly because they lacked funds to secure sufficient efficient canvassers Consequently they will die under tho the law a as ae at present constituted although the movement movement movement move move- ment secured them a reprieve Also the question of free lunch in saloons is to be referred to the voters of Los Angeles at the next general general general gen gen- eral election The fhe first instance is is' isso so serious a matter to the condemned men and there is such a widespread division of or sentiment as to the advisability advisability advisability advis advis- ability of capital punishment as to render inadvisable its discussion i ithe inthe in inthe the spirit of levity But the second example the referendum referendum on von oil the free lunch question rather American corn complaint P at the Continental o nen- nen tal habit of being amused at our political and governmental activities We Ve do many things well and some things thing's b excellently well and there are arc few thin things s that we do so very badly But th there re can b be e n no o question that we furnish a great deal of entertainment to the nations of ot the world entertainment that is mostly secret and subdued since our national foolishness does docs not seem to affect our capacity for taking e care r of ourselves and effectively resenting disrespect I The man who predicted that the millennium would woud arrive va this year car has given notice of a postponement Possibly the butch butcher er arc and u t ter the grocer finally found him hin i i J The Nicaraguans are arc having another revolution Possibly Pos Ps ibl- ibl th the tae i last Jast national political Apolitical convention in this country didn't co come me up to their tr expectations V Another Another Da a Vinci masterpiece erP cec has been heen found Still the ilc artist that painted it probably loft it w where ere that result was reasonably to to be bee expected ted j A c J X r F |
