Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-05-14 | Page 1 | Alcoholic Fathers Most Likely to Have Male Offspring, Woman Scientist in Germany Finds

y Alcoholic Fathers Most Likely To Have Male Offspring Woman Scientist in Germany Finds I Children of Temperate Parents Preeminently Girls She Concludes After Exhaustive Experiments Experiment With Mice I BERLIN G Germany May 14 AP Dr Agnes Blum slum believes that fathers moderately addicted to al alcohol alcohol al- al cohol are most likely to have male children while the offspring of a temperate male parent are preeminently preeminently preeminently pre pre- eminently girls Dr Blum so de deduces deduces deduces de- de duces from experiments on animals since 1921 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biological Research in in Dahlem near Berlin Her conclusion has be been n accepted by many German scientists while others hold that the results were due to the racial peculiarities of ot the animals upon which she As for experimenting purposes purposes pur pur- I poses animals having the largest progeny in the shortest space of time had to be selected to obtain exhaustive exhaustive ex ex- statistics white mice were chosen They were then paired off oft into many groups of ten alcoholic and ten nonalcoholic males each One group of ot mal males s was fed normally nor nor- mall mally while into the the- cages of the theother theother other ten a strip of filter paper papel saturated saturated saturated sat sat- with wit alcohol was repeatedly introduced The mice inhaled the alcohol which promptly passed into their blood There was as an overwhelming overwhelming over over- whelming majority of ot male offspring offspring offspring off off- I spring from the alcoholic fathers