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Show SCIENTIFIC BREEDING The latest American fad is to lay bare all the intimate secrets of husband and wife in order to inform tho general public on how to improve baby breeding. Asyet, the records of some seven hundred married couples, who have kept careful tab, have not been published in the newspapers, but we may look forward to this rare treat of journalism in the near future. The records are in the hands of Dr. Charles Benedict Davenport, director di-rector of the eugenics record office at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, who is going over them together with a little group of scientists, backed by such eminent plutocrats as Mrs. E. II. Harriman and John D. Rockefeller. Scientific breeding used to bo restricted to race horses, dogs and prize chickens. To b suVe, man's progress in getting ahead of the "lower animals" has been slow, but in our era of enlightenment he is going ahead considerably faster than, say, fifty million years ago. Personally, I think the human race is in a pretty fair physical and mental men-tal condition as it is, but experience has taught us that there is nothing so good but that it can bo improved upon. There is no reason to doubt that scientific human breeding is a step in the right direction, and I am anticipating a regular department devoted to this Interesting endeavor in the Sunday papers. San Francisco News Letter. |