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Show RACE BETTERMENT CONVENTION CLOSES Gathering in Oakland, Cal., Comes to End With Big Morality Masque. OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. ". "Romeo loved his Juliet, eugenics or no eugenics, eugen-ics, and it's the same with Pat and Biddy today. I hope we'll never see the day when two persons, who love each other, cannot marry. This statement by Dr. C. F. Ballard, of Havelock. Neb., was made today before be-fore the national conference on race betterment in its concluding session. He was answered by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale university, who thought that persons physically or mentally defective de-fective should not be allowed to marry, even if in love. He said: "Society thoroughly imbued with eugenic eu-genic ideals would register more real love marriages than it would without them. ' ' The conference accepted Professor Fisher's view of the matter. George Wharton James of Pasadena, Cal., declared that the white man could learn much from the Indian in the matter mat-ter of health rules. "The Indians were 'Fletcherizing ' hundreds of years before Fletcher announced an-nounced the beneficial results of thorough thor-ough mastication,' he said. The conference brought its convention conven-tion to a close tonight with a morality masque, " Redemption, " in which 200 special and regular students of the University Uni-versity of California took part. The masque was an allegorical arraignment of disease and war. The place of meeting for the next conference was not decided. |