Show THE ANSWER TO RACE SUICIDE There has never been a lime says an editorial writer In the Medical Mows when tho overproduction of the masses did not threaten to overwhelm the classes and when the philosophers did not grieve that those who were > noMt competent to lead the race were not the foremost to reproduce their own kind 1 And yet In spite oC ominous predictions society has ripen to successive suc-cessive heights of civilization The law that governs the rlie of nations In like the law of convection of currents As new molecules are constantly carried up to tho energized point of steam so are the rankfct of climbers in the world of men continually rising to positions o power Those who have reached the top do more than merely reproduce their kind They transmit their energy and It le thus thai thoy truly reproduce themselves What though college graduates do not replace themselves in their universities by l their own Ions They have filled their places a hundred times by their influence their teaching and their vitalized energy I That Is In fact the real answer to the complaint abut race suicide Taking Tak-ing the human race as a wholo tho Increase In-crease In number In the past century has been amazing The population of Europe has far more than doubled 1 in that time the population of America has increased twentyfold The spread of civilization and arts has gained oven more than has the population I It Is true that some special form of racial development declines the reason is that it has served Its purpose and that It Is tIn another form took its place Blue blood has over to be vitalized and strengthened by an admixture o rod blood the classes are ever recruited from the mosses The best blood needs replenishment from the common stream Or it dies out in America we have n mingling ot racial elements that Is making and will continue to make anew a-new raceUn this country that will bo distinguished and Is already largely distinguished by delicate arid clearcut features nervous energy trcmendouu vital forco and executive capacity and an acumen and quidk Judgment combined com-bined with thoroughROing comprehension comprehen-sion and application such as the world has never before seen The American rcan race is the latest product ot time and when fully developed will bo Ha greatest great-est I will dominate tho world arid fts sway will bring S development never nev-er before dreamed of and will ahvayfl crcss make for peace righteousness and pro1 |