Show TO URGE THE GOOD TO MARRY among animals the unmated undated are practically nonexistent non existent every individual becomes either a father or a mother and contributes his or her share to the makeup make up of the following generation it la Is different with hum human an beings with us the unmated form an appreciable proportion and it is obviously of great importance to see that as tar far as possible these unmated persons shall be the interior inferior members of the race leaving the superior ones to determine the characteristics of the coming generations it is an unfortunate modern modem condition that so many of the best individuals do not mate the reasons for this are dis cust in the journal of heredity by prof roswell hill johnson of the university of pittsburg taking up first the men who do not marry he divides them into classes some are obviously inferior such as the immoral the diseased or the deficient but there are many otters others who are largely superior by nature such as those who seek some other end so ardently that they will not make the necessary I 1 sacrifices and those whose education or apprenticeship has been too prolonged efforts to improve matters professor johnson says may proceed along three lines as follows 1 I 1 try to lead all young men to avoid a loose life A general elfort effort will be needed more by the superior bior than by the inferior T 2 hold up the role of husband and father as particularly honorable and proclaim its shirking without adequate cause as dishonorable for a man to say he has never met a girl eliom iv bom he can love simply means he has not diligently sought one or else he has a deficient emotional equipment quip ment for there are many surprisingly singly many estimable attractive unmarried women 3 cease prolonging the educational period past the early twenties the professional schools in our country are steadily delaying the age of 0 graduation and thereby that ot of marriage they formerly asked for high school training and many still ask no more but other oiher schools have demanded more and more till now one requires a collegiate bachelors degree for en trance the situation is made still more serious for medical students by the frequent postgraduate hospital practise without pay it Is time to call a halt this can not go on without serious loss to the race our young men should not have their marriage postponed ty by external circumstances past twenty five years this means we must allow students to specialize earlier it if there Is need ot of limiting the number of candidates let us have competitive entrance examinations we must have our superior men marrying earlier even at some cost to their early efficiency the high efficiency of any profession can be more safely kept up tip by demanding a minimum amount of continuation work in ia afternoon evening or seasonal classes laboratories or clinics no more graduate fellowships should be established till those now existing carry a stipend adequate for or marriage so much for the men among women the proportion of superior unmated individuals is even larger says the writer some of these have had their chance of marriage reduced by going to colleges others thru engaging in pr prominently eminently feminine occupations pat ions such as a the teaching of children yielding meagre opportunities to associate with men or others thru living iving in those cities that have an mine dub proportion ol of women then there are re besides these sli women bomers who because they are brought up in families milles a without brothers or brothers friends fiends are so unnaturally shy that they hey are unable to become friendly alth with men however much they may care are to there are still others who repel epel men by a manner of extreme self possession and coldness sometimes the result of 0 parents or teachers overzealous efforts to inculcate modesty and reserve things valuable in due degree but bad in excess statistics show professor johnson johnsom tells us that the marriage rate as well as the birthrate birth rate has been found low among the graduates of coil colleges 0 g e a I 1 but at there is only one mitigating circumstance cum stance that these women have married superior men out ot of the last fifteen recently reported erig engagements age which I 1 noted seven are to tcp college or university alumni altho college graduates make up but about 1 per cent of the whole population that college women are superior suporia r to the average woman is a safe infer ence however we may use ano another criterion of superiorly superior ty eminence may be measured by space in collective bi ogra phles miss castles figures a correlation of eminence with a very late rate at marriage and a consequent decreased racial evidently even more drastic crasti methods must be used with the women than with the men first of course if U we wish superior ingmen to marry we must bring our superior men up to the mark and induce them to do nothing that will lower them in the eyes of the best of the other sex there is however the writer asserts such a thing as being too condemnatory but let us not take that ambiguous the single standard of oc morals to mean a general sex strike this is to extreme such euclit au an unforgiving and compromising position can not be approved because it leads a very large number of women into celibate lives with a serious result in addition it increases thes temptations of the men left unmarried these extremists must remember that it is hard to get men to marry at even a normal rate as current statistics abundantly prove therefore the threat of a sex strike willi never enforce chastity slow and hard bard as it is we must content ourselves to build up a sounder moral basis by better attested methods ol of and me motherhood the by misguided feminists must cease and greater honor and appreciation must be meted out to mothers in order to more than compensate forthe recognition that women earn earm in rival occupations women omen shoula properly be permitted to do any work they wish not incompatible with their well being but greater honor and esteem ts Is due those who have not shirk ed the paramount function and responsibilities of motherhood those who are beginning to decry coeducation may be interested io know that professor johnson gives it 11 a high place among the agencies to which we must look for the encourage ment of marriage among the intellectually fit BL ile he writes while waiting for separate colleges to become coed coeducational as aa they eventually will their present dynge nai sic tendency can probably be reduce by the gradual introduction of men teachers into the colleges women professors tend to foster beff bate career hunting which attractive as it is to many young women at first in most cases is eventually unsatisfying furthermore the introduction or courses dealing with the home and the child would give college women increased interest in and eagerness for that noblest profession of homemaking and motherhood eligible young people should have their circle of acquaintances broadened coeducation I 1 believe Is one 0 the best means as associating the best groups but kanj many other means should be encouraged we have lu in this a further justification ot of cards dancing and theatres theartres the atres that these may sometimes be pursued intemperately need not condemn them universally these and other social devices extend the range of acquaintance andl andi also give the necessary ume time for mutual estimates aud and friendships oth ers era besides parents should feel some obligation to afford these social opportunities tuni tunit ties les to young people surfeit for some individuals and dearth for others othera call for curtailment here and encouragement coura gement there finally ho he urges us to do all in our power to correct the growing tendency to postpone if not to abandon marriage entirely on the part of the superior young people ile he urges hold out marriage as one of the ends of a useful normal beautiful life help superior young people UP to meet and encourage and further their early marriage give more honor and appreciation pre clation to those who have married well and have had adequate children and lu in whatever ways you properly can reduce this app appalling alling percentage ot of superior cell celibates bates who are thus pulling downs down the quality of the humair race literary digest |