Show r I BY D The Good I The Tho family went very much wrong Old Mart descendant descendant de de- de- de of a long lang line of good English Eng Eng- lisa lish stock took advantage of a feeble feeble feeble fee fee- ble minded girl and became the father fath fath- er of ot a feeble minded son Young Kal Ral- Ukak married mamed a normal woman The union was blessed with five feeble feeblemInded feebleminded feebleminded minded and two normal children And so on and so on the on-the the community will always rebel against medical as a a. requirement for mar mar- the the grand total offspring of old Mart numbered souls Souls I not animals Thirty-six Thirty of these souls were il ilI illegitimate il- il legitimate children Thirty three Thirty three were I sexual perverts Twenty four four were hard drinkers that drinkers that is why we IiI It Ii Ii- cense the booze business Three were I epileptics Eighty two Eighty two succumbed in inI infancy Three went to prison Eight conducted immoral resorts since I our sons and brothers must sow their wild oats And of the brood were feeble minded Old Mart one might say was personally responsible for at least half halt of all that suffering and misfortune Well We'll be generous and charge him with half halt of It leaving the feeble minded girl he betrayed to shoulder the other half halt Had the thing been threshed out then the girl would have shouldered about nine tenths nine tenths of It and Mart would have hake been discharged with a gentle genue caution from the court But wait After the war Mart married mar mar- ried ned a Quaker girl From this union there were descendants all normal normal normal nor nor- mal and many of prominence and exceptional exceptional ex ex- attainment save two who were insane conceivably from collateral collateral collateral col col- lateral heredity through marriage into tainted families Thus from one who was bad to the core ther thorp sprang a grand total of who were good just as good as you and L I. As nearly as we can figure it out only 66 of ot the turned out bad That is not counting the who were physically unfortunate In other words this infamous Kal Kal- family so often cited by eu eu- cu- cu as a a. horrible homble example of bad heredity had about 6 G per cent of black blacksheep sheep Well Wen what family can show a cleaner record In as many generations generations generations' genera genera- Lions Six per cent Isn't so bad If the rate should fall much under that it ft would put the Pharisees out of business busi busi- ness |