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Show SAYS EUGENIC LAWS WOULD BE HARMFUL Clarence S. Oarrow Declares Children Cannot Be Developed Like Cattle Chicago, Jan. 20. Eugenic laws would do moro harm than good and Juvenile institutions are breeders of crlmlnnls, Clarence S. Dnrrow told members of tho Irish Fellowship club. You may develop potatoes and cat-tlo cat-tlo by eugenics, but whenever you get abovo tho brute you must havo freedom free-dom of choice, ho said. Political philosophers are now trying to regulate birth, Mr. Darrow said. Permission to havo offspring would dopend on tho amount of political poli-tical pull ono has. Naturo does moro than ttho eugenic professors can over do. Sho Is ovor busy building build-ing up tho strong and tearing down tho weak. Wo aro laboring under nn obsession obses-sion that society will becomo perfect 1' wo pass lawB enough. Theso cures always effect moro ovlls than tho dls-, eaBO itself. If tho making of laws woro left to truly wlso men thoro would bo very few of them. Tho Juvenile court Is n Into lnno-, vntlon. Wo havo reached that point when wo think pooplo can't oven tako cdro of their own children. It Is n mighty poor home that Is not hotter for n child than a stato Institution, which statistics Bhow Is a breeding spot for criminal!). Thoro aro many who cannot glvo tholr children tho training thoy should, but If tho monoy which Is spent in taking enro of your Juvcnllo institutions wero spent in helping tho people In their homes, tho result would bo different. |
