Show SHOULD COUSINS YES IF TILEY ARE NORMAL if a family far tilly strain Is known to bo be health healthily ly and treo free from insanity anil and other mental and nervous detects defects there Is no evidence that it Is dangerous to permit the intermarriage of first cousins was tho somewhat surprising statement of dr charles W rees professor of zoology at tho the utah agricultural college in a recent meent interview with the college clays class in journalism of course ho he continued it th ereis known to bo be a weakness in the i nily strain such a marriage would be dangerous because tho the children would bo be in danger of inheriting the defect in ill double measure even tho the iiri ui h the parents might inight seem perfectly normal professor urges that the fundamental da mental findings of tho the science of 0 eugenico even though tho the subject Is still in its infancy should bo be taught to all parents and future parents ire he believes that carelessness in human aumau nia tings causes all a great deal of needless needles suffering and that it if humanity were fully awake to tile tho substantial racial improvement might re Bilt while Is properly a college ho he believes that runny of its moat important findings can eaddy easily tv lr rande made the common pro po cy of all 01 intelligent readers books are recommended as aa lulng espi bially valuable abla tor for the lay reader eugenics by and johnson tho the next generation by jowett jewett and the by goddard tile tho educational importance of the science was also emphasized to my mind lie he declared declared eugenics Is of equal importance with psychology act aa an aid to the teacher in understanding tho the school child |