| Show l 2 I h 1 vom rc 1 I Iti Ih ti n Ill ll l 1 f 11 r if oi 1111 to I y I l 1 11 tit t r 11 J Dr Helen King After Years t u of c Scientific Research t v w. w t Lt t q r d. d and Laboratory Experiment a oiS' oiS 1 with Animas Animals Declares z r f e She Has Proved That t a. a r 11 Blood Marriages you Would Dr len Produce a Superior Dean King University Faculty Member Advocates Race and Tells S SV V the Intermarriage of J Close y f j WITH IF wr i SELECTION is the th new t theory ory of eugenics eugenics- which tI Dr Lr Helenj Helen kr krIn j y In Dean ari King of o Ph Philadelphia has offered to a a ar r somewhat startled world If you id produce 19 a vigorous Vigo race lace she sIte says in n effect marry your our ur st f cr your brother or your COUSIn cousin By d doing t this s yoK consolidate and perpetuate the virtues of oj r. r your your line Be Bo sure however lever that that yo you prevent r defectives from marrying at all 0 Dr King supports her argument with 1 ii analogy For years sh she has conducted experiments ex- ex ex- ex with rats She has has' carried the process of f close lose inbreeding down through ugh innumerably sll successive generations After tel reaching a point paint analogous to 1200 years cf of life li she has produced a rat much bigger and much sounder than han any and of his forebears forebear This rat she says is isn n he r result of a- a successive s inbreeding of brother roth r J. J t acid sister I By Robert B B B. Vale R. R HELEN HELEN DEAN KING who has startled DR other ther scientists with th her quiet assurance rn In in declaring that consanguineous marrIages marriages mar- mar are eugenically 5 sound u d is a very avery very avery ver human young woman who likes baseball and dime dim novels and andt who ho doesn't C care le a rap what wha prudish folk may say about her or her theories She has spent more than eight y years ars investigating investigating gating the subject of inbreeding studying cause an and l effect through scores score's of generations of animals ani ani- hUlls mals When she arrived at the conclusion that members members' intermarriage between of the same family cari produce a better humans it was teas not a a. a hasty half-baked half de decision She s regarded rev re- re v at atthe the University of Pennsylvania P. P as a woman woman of unusual ability and she already has has- hasan an international standing Th The world has believed since Biblical l days that it is wrong for brother and sister cousin arid cousin uncle and niece to marry In many lands laws have been passed to prevent such uni unions ns And now comes Miss Helen King Ring to say i i. i 7 ff j t tw w p 1 of f the h Reasons R Vii Wh 1 1 f i- i fl Some S f 5 om e 0 t e Why Y 1 t rf J lu t A e J JAk JS r Ak q S 7 4 o 1 r ul s Z i k N ti ve I q 1 r k The Rats Rat in the Upper Picture Are rc Progeny of Inbreeding Carried Through Rodent Generations Equivalent nt to Twelve Centuries ies o of Human Life Life The Rodents Below Vere Were Not Inbred Note How Inferior They Are to Those Thos W Where cre the Life Stream Was Vas Not Mixed that by Interbreeding small animals she has nas view view 01 or of me the the populace Most 01 or of her ner tests rests h nave ve been uc ue u produced a better type It is very to made with rats and conservative tive persons refuse say the least quite improper according to the tho to place the human race on a par with rodents k 4 r r ft if ifa a- a r f r f 7 If s x ce ceW W 2 1 p y f 7 a j t H p 94 ti s J 4 t. t r J z a y n c o. o c 1 I Reproduction of Hans l Cleopatra She Was the Last Ptolemy a Li Line e Which Practised Consanguineous Marriage l I Imam l 5 tn n ID 19 J Dr King is not arbitrary She he he has as is is the tha way with true scientists Lists placed the results of her her experiments s before the thinking world and she e o.- o. is quite ready to accept the deductions of those who can prove that h t- t she is mistaken For tier the present she stands on this declaration When the time comes that marriage is based not only on the physical fitness of the individuals but also on their recorded pedigree for generations generations genera genera- and is absolutely forbidden to the unfit the surest means of improving the race will be bo through consanguineous marriages in families in which the members show exceptional mental and physical endowment in ways that are of value t to themselves and to the community at large It was this bold summary that created the tho sensation among the theologians the doctors and the tho law-givers law not to speak of the common variety variety vari vari- ety of man and woman who viewed inbreeding as something fear fearful ul and awful Biologists were interested intensely interested From all parts of the world came requests for her views and a r record cord of her experiments Skeptical and prejudiced persons cried bosh not knowing that Miss King had by her great ability unusual fund of knowledge and keen analytical mind made a place for her her- self She is ar a graduate of Vassar For a few years she had charge of the research work at Bryn Mawr It was there that she attracted the attention of the authorities of the University of Pennsylvania and was induced to join the faculty Thirty Generations of Rats Rats' She began her experiments with fo four four ra i 5 r rats t Today she has a colony numbered by the tens of thousands Each generation is pedigreed There is a record of the physical development and in inso inso so BO far as as' is pos possible ble a record of the brain quality There is one ono colony of more than one hundred rats each one s showing owing a defective eye Some have small ey eyes s some have hava one large and one ona small eye In this one regard they are all tive The reason is that they have been bred from mother mothe with defective eyes There are rats in the tho King laboratory with verified pedigrees going back to the thirtieth gen gen- All of the the traits of the families have been followed and charted It has been a fond tradition n am among ng br breeders ders of animals that interbreeding interbreeding inter inter- bree breeding ing will produce runts This is not true Dr King King- has developed through interbreeding the largest rat known It was given the name Goliath and was the product of the seventh breeding of brother and sister He was Vas nearly twice the size of the average white rat Of course it is true that if runts are bred with runts a stunted progeny will be produced But 2 if the physically perfect and nd the ment mentally sound are bred bred a higher type will result according according according ac ac- cording t to this noted woman woman scientist And do not lose Jose sight of the fact that Dr Kin Kinis King is one of the few women In Inthe Inthe inthe the world to hold a full fuU pro pro- ip in research work worIc f Nor No or do does Dr Kin King take h her r. r self seli too s seriously She has plenty of time f for r social life lifo and for sports ports She delights in partieS knows how to tell tella reads reads' the latest a good story story- novels fi finds ds' ds joy in li detec detective lve tales attends the movies movie knows more about baseball U Uthan than most men and som sometimes times goes fishing ng She knows knovs more about about- rats' rats than most Biologists because slid she t takes kes a real Teal interest inter interest in ter terest st in them Some of ot them she calls ca by name me She knows all all' about their great great-great- great grandfathers ef And after fter all all alit there Isn't lm much difference between a arace ra race e of rats and us Dr King has discovered that we we are are wrong kin Jin ir s 's saying ying there er are more f females than males pro pro cea It Itis is just th the reverse reverse and js th stis true with rats males to to females Also the female has gre greater ter p power er of resi resistance tance with with r humans as with rats rits' m more re males die soon floon after afterbirth after birth than females The r rat t shows a a. a proportionate proportion proportion- j ate decline with humans humans' Rats are on the other thet side of the the- hill at an age that corresponds witS with forty years in in the human kind f How Inbreeding Works Out Dr King has bred rats down through genei generations generations genera genera- that might correspond with 1200 years f fo for forthe the human race and she has found that inbreeding inbreed inbreed- inbreeding ing did not show any injurious results Here Her are arc her views on the subject r r Inbreeding invariably brings to light the latent characters that were hidden by outbreed ing it cannot from its very nature introduce an any new characters into tho the stock Rand Random m in an inbred stock will not suppress the un undesirable undesirable e i able traits but if only the tho superior individuals duals are permitted to breed the unwanted un traits anthe an the stock gradually can be bo eliminated if link linkage g does doe not exist and they will not reappear u unless l through m mutation tation because the of t the thi stock no longer will contain the genetic factors factor on those traits depend Inbreeding with selection thus becomes i a powerful agent to purify stock to bring about a concentration of desirable traits and to eliminate serious defects It is through inbreeding coin corn corn- with skilful selection that the most celebrated cele cele- breeds of animals have ve been evolved Man is subject to the same laws of heredity as the rest of the organic world Not only feeblemindedness feeblemindedness feeble feeble- mindedness epilepsy and insanity but also general genral genral gen gen- eral ral mental efficiency and marked ability in ii in music in art and nd in literature undoubtedly ar are transmitted from generation to generation ac according according ac ac- cording to the same laws that gov govern m the inheritance of the color of hair and eyes History shows us that the tho prejudice cons ngui consanguineous m marriages which has persisted from the beginning of the Christian era did n no not t exist among the early nations and that such marriages marriages mar marriages mar mar- were common for centuries among among th the Greeks Pho Phoenicians Jews Peruvians and One of the longest of known human pedigrees pedigrees' pedigrees gre grees grees' grees s' s is that of the royal of Egypt noted for close its close inbreeding brother and sister marriages being very frequent There is no evidence that consanguineous marriages were we're in injurious in- in jurious furious to any of those nations The decline o of the the- Greeks Greeks' and Egyptians came when they ceased to be an exclusive people and the vigor of th thrace therace the therace race was sapped by vices and luxuries introduced introduce from other lands |
