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Show PHYSICIANS DESCRIBE MARVELOUS EXPERIMENTS Chicago, Jan, 2S. Extraordinary experiments ex-periments were related with radical measures advocated last night at one of the largest meetings of the Chicago Physicians in the history of the city for the discussion of the problem of heredity. Dr. Eugene Davenport of the University Univer-sity of Illinois, created a great sensation sensa-tion when he advocated the application applica-tion of tho fundamental principles of Eugenics for lmpro ernent of the human hu-man race. His treatment of the subject sub-ject was based not only on the paper read to the meeting, but also on his own vast experience in meeting the practical problems of livestock breeding. breed-ing. His chief proposal, was that all tho "culls" or "scalawags" of the human hu-man race should be taken before the courts, scientifically Investigated, and If found unworthy, colonized and allowed al-lowed to die off. Scarce! v les6 interesting was the recital re-cital of Dr. W. L. Tower, who told of experiments in lnter-marrlaee of Anglo-Americans and Irish-Americans with the Indians of southern Mexico. He announced Important scientific deductions de-ductions arrived at as a result of comparing com-paring these with similar experiments with different varieties of certain small South American beetles. Other men who have studied heredity In pigeons, evening primoses, guinea pigs, turtle doves, rabbits and iata showed the results of their experiments. |