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Show I NATIONS SENT I ON DOWN GRADE I DY PROSPERITY Too Much Good Times Bad Thing for Race, Avers Authority 0. K.'S BIRTH CONTROL I Thinks Racial Vigor and Purity Decay Under Sway of Luxury STidCKHOLiM, Oct. 14- (By Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Prosperity is a bad Milnir for a rare because H Is one or the first steps toward dageneral ton m the opinion of Professor. Herman l,undhorK. head of the Rare Bloloei-,al Bloloei-,al Institute at Ipsnhi. Sweden, and veil Known for his ln estlgatlons into UenlCS nd racial biology. Prosperity Pros-perity brings with t the fcrradual Mllmlnotlon of the Rood Old middle .lass the professor declared In a recent re-cent ' addreM on this lUbJeet and this In any country la a sure sign of dCCa IomT EXPRESSED There la grave doubt." the speaker speak-er continued, "whether u people really real-ly Kalns any profit when million of money begin to pour Into the country Experience, pat as well as present, shows that when wealth l suddenly locreaaod it bring en,i-tesa en,i-tesa new needs Luxurlea are c-mahded. c-mahded. lassitude sets In , end e interest in-terest In work and production falls off Women betrln to avoid maternity mater-nity AM of these processes, beginning begin-ning In the middle and Upper .lasses, praduaiiy work downward and in time destroy the race Thus thsj aro an much menace to a country as a powerful political enemy. The professor approves of hirtn control however especially among the less desirable elements of a country's population, and he believes that the reproduction 6f n rarP should be limited, as far as possible, to those who are -well-born He is stoutly opposed to the mixing Ol races, and gives this as one of the reasons whv populations In larger cities tend to A generate, except In so far as racially replenished from the country dlstrb 'v MIDD1 l CTiASS DECAYS "Europe Is decaying no1 only as a result of political cataclysms, but also because of a misconception of racial hygiene, and a failure to counteract the forces of defeneration A strong rnMdle .Inns Is necessary for the racial health of a people. Increasing Increas-ing Industry and trade make It POS-Blb1e POS-Blb1e to feed n larger popnlallun but at the aame time brings about a serious se-rious change In the BtructUn pi society so-ciety The old middle class decay and fina'.u disappears a new middle mid-dle Class Is fr.rme.l. t0 be sun bUt It Is of poorer subsiam .-. Meanwhile Mean-while there Is numerical gain in both the upper and lower classes, espo-daiiv espo-daiiv the latter, in time the working work-ing "clnsa becomes the largest and underneath this comes a layer of human trash." Just what political measures. IT any. should be taken to safeguard racial vigor and purity, Professor Luhdborg decs not sugg.st saying that auch dlacusslon would naturally fall outside the province of a cl-entlat. |