Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-05 | Page 7 | Durant Views Nation's Ills

DURANT VIEWS NA NATIONS NATION'S TION'S ILLS Birth control was blamed for most of the economic and political ills ilk of the hc co country by Will Durant author and philosopher cr In a a. lecture Monday Monda y ev evening in Kingsbury hall Speaking peaking on Is Our Civilization Dying under the auspices of the University of Utah extension dh divi divi sion Slon Dr Durant pointed out that so so- so- so society begins to die with the introduction tion lion of birth control The less able contribute a larger proportion of the population and this inevitably lowers the biological qua sty ity of the people he said Masses asses Breed Faster Politics is affected by the biological biological cal fact tact Dr Durant said bc because the superior elements clements are arc weeded d dut out ut and the masses breed faster than they understand Because of oC this machines rule role our municipalities and sUItes states he said Education is also gravely affected b b 1 t the biological trend he said in that the well educated practice birth control while the uneducated send children to school from home abaci devoid of culture and learn learn- in ing mg In speaking of the effect birth control con con- rol will have on the economic system s system Stern S tem tern Dr Durant said We give our industrial leaders an impo impossible ible problem problem lem em when we ask them to find work for an ocean of arms and legs He pointed out however that our economic system i. i is an impossible one because the strong get the majority ma ma- of the worlds world's goods Inequality Ingrained Not all our constitutions not all allour allour allour our revolutions he summarized can do away with the ingrained inequality inequality in in- equality lying at the bottom of at our biological quality Underneath the communistic dream of or equality always always always al al- al- al ways lurks the Darwinian nian smile of nature Capturing world markets was advocated advocated ad- ad by the philosopher to escape the results of our faulty economic system But to do this he said we would h have lave ve to lower our living standards to o those of the Japanese or eliminate through war var all rivals for these markels mar mar- kels Either method would result Inthe inI in inthe I the downfall of civilization Dr Durant advocated education asan asan as asan an additional qualification for public office and warned that it is the duty of parents to help children marry at atthe atthe atthe the natural age