| Show l' l To Too Attention Given to the Great t. t t 1 p Problem Pi bI of f Heredity H ere dt 1 y to 0 ff i jH tt o f i f f L I.- I. r 1 By C. C II ANDERSON Iowa Alienist fr f MI l 1 i The ri he sp span n of life lif is shortening ing through neglect in the t th improvement l of t the acc race while h l criminality a i ty de delinquency y disease e and l insanity a r arc ic on the hr increase Q arid and nd p public m institutions and hC hospitals hospitals' are re g growing ow ng more 1 crowded I I j rrie r Jle social fabric c is il is steadily and ra rapidly weakening ah less less' this downward plunge is the race rac of mankind mankind's is s destined to completely collapse Even now it itis is stretched to the he the breaking point joi irit t. t 1 There are two vo thief chief factors s fact rs which influence our lives hives I es One and the other environment Upon the improvement of the Matter latt r by by schools schol colleges s c churches 1 an and social centers we e spend millions million's of llo l' l it thou thought bt and as as s a r re result lars ever every year but h t to he heredity e we give scarcely a 1 suIt sult there is scattered over o th the state of or Illinois as s in lD every y x other state stat institutions for the crippled the blind the deaf leaf ui the du of dumb the I epileptic the diseased the insane and the criminal The laws of her are arc arcI arcS I as as S inexorable able as as the lau laws la 8 of gravity g Toll Ten ell me trio what your ancestors have ha been een for two or three generations and I 1 will tell you what your our children will be Now Nc w and then th an individual Ii il i rises like a meteor or to to new heights hut but it itis is rc Heredity Is one cof of the th most difficult social problems of this a age t I |
