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Show in school and society's future jailbirds and prostitutes." pros-titutes." "Proof is to be had," he continues, "in the investigations carried on In prisons, reformatories and rescue homes every one of which has shown from 40 to 60 per cent of the inmates to be subnormal." Subnormal children delay progress of other children in their classes, he points out, and when they grow up (bodily, not mentally) they are Stumbling blocks in industry. The make it impossible for civilization to reach its highest goal. "And how they do multiply!" exclaims Humphrey. Hum-phrey. "Next to their irresponsibility, the chief characteristic of these half-equipped humans is their astonishing fecundity a vicious parenthood is flooding us with a vicious progeny most mental defectives who attain their twentieth year unrestrained have ' added to the race's load of defective children," Surely that is something the world America first! may well ponder over. We cannot hide ouTeadsntheandstrichlikeT-andignorea problem so vital to the future of humanity. If we do ignore it, what then? "We are drifting," warns Humphrey, "toward a depreciated race a huge incoherent proletariat, ridden by a handful of plutocrats whose culture savors of a splendid degeneracy. "We are following the beaten paths of the ages. Yet we need not follow it a day longer Than we choose: "The first move toward regenerating the race' is to cutt off unfit parenthood." Food for deep and earnest thought, isn't it? f : . j I Grownup Children I J "THERE are in this world, scientists assert, mil-t mil-t lions of human beings, of mature bodies, who are, in fact, but grownup children. They have mentalities of 10 to 16 years. They are the "borderliners." The problem is this: What is the world going- to do about it? ' Seth K. Humphrey, author of "The Racial Prospect," calls it the "menace of the half-man." He would solve the problem by segregation or sterilization, or both. "We are populating the earth from the wrong kind of stock," Humphrey writes in the Journal 0. -Heredity. "The least capable of providing their offspring with either a heritage of brains or a decent bringing up irirry earliest and breed fastest" fast-est" Their children, Humphrey says, "are dullards i |