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Show oo RACE SUICIDE CUTS INTELLECTUAL CLASS ( Special Dispatch. LOGAN, June 13. Race suicide of the Intellectual classes Is overwhelmingly overwhelm-ingly the problem of the time." declared de-clared Dr. Lewis M Terman of the Leland Stanford university. in his opening lecture before the summer school students of the ltah Agricultural Agricul-tural college. Monday morning. "It Is not at all improbable that the down-tall down-tall of such ancient nations as Kgypt Greece and Rome, could rightly be attributed to this failure of the Intellectual Intel-lectual types to reproduce themselves And today In American families reproduction re-production Is almost inversely pio-portlonal pio-portlonal to the intelligence quotient of the parents. The Issue is a vital one to America and to the world 'The philosophy of the century, especially here in America," said the speaker, "accords respect to the common com-mon man. and the aim of social organizations or-ganizations is to make the most ; the individual. Bui the democratic Idea that individuals are equal has extended Itself until it includes ihe thought that meg are equally endowed en-dowed mentally. 'A"ht? revelations of scientific investigations through mental men-tal tests have been somewhat of a shock to this equalitv IJa. and yet It is not impossible to harmonize these scientific facts with the finest of Aim plea n Ides la." |