Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-12-16 | Page 6 | Purity Demanded before Marriage

oo i I PURITY DEMANDED f BEFORE JARRIAGE I In a lecture before the parents clasn II of the Sixth ward Sunday school yes-Iterday, yes-Iterday, Henry PeterBon, principal of i the Ogdcn High school, advocated the ( passage of a bni at the next state legr 1 jlBlature which would compel personB I j contemplating marriage to first pro- I cure a purity certificate from a board of medical examiners. He considered j in his addresB "The Improvement of j ess ca ai the Human Race," from an eugenic point of view. Although the Anglo-Saxon race has always been considered one of pronounced pro-nounced purity as applied to the marriage mar-riage relations between classes, Prof. Peterson suited that the past fifty years in this country had brought about a decided change This condition condi-tion is due, lie believes, to the incrcaa cd number of foreign Immigrants from the less advanced countries of Europe. In his opinion there Tias-boen too much Intermarriage between tho An glo-Saxon descendants and the lower class of foroign Immigrants oo - !