| Show Ii J A Modern ProblemS Problem S I I COLONEL ROOSEVELT occasionally says I s something very cry good which sh should not be be surprising sur sur surprising i in t the e case of a phrase-maker phrase who iho is either cither always talking or writing Ills His latest excellence I is his observation that to every cery forward movement move moe ment there thero is nh always nys a lunatic fringe a a body of o. o extremists who riot into radicalism with every I f t I good i idea n that is suggested To no iio innovation of our modern life does docs his remark apply more properly prop S I I erly than thau to the new science of eugenics I Rm UPOn tho the reaBy creditable idea t that at b le Ii mankind sho should ld be bo improved by scientific breeding I and by preventing the mating of the ph physically or orI or II mentally unfit the tho extremists have havo carried it so soI I 11 I f far r that normal men and women have hae become dis clis- clis gusted The inhabitant of the twilight zone of I common sense that intermediate territory between I the erotic and tho the hidebound react reactionaries 1 t is tempted by distaste to reject even the 4 beneficent features of the eugenics cult i- i Matrimony is an institution established by bS society society so so- to att attain jn the maximum of family stability ij i and aud the minimum of immorality It has bas its faults I as has everything else mundane but its advantages nd I I outweigh the defects It foU follows ws natu naturally that II t whatever en encourages marriage necessarily lessens th the h social vice vIce and that anything that promotes i 1 the legal l and lawful relation is beneficial Society n naturally turn ly hesitates to ac accept ept the tIle view i announced by Dr Ann Blount of Chicago that the I m ted should be afforded easy divorce but is compelled to admit that indissoluble matrimonial I 1 bonds once these become unduly irksome are as asI asI I likely to drive ono one or both parties into immorality I J 1 as are the h unusual difficulties placed in the w way y yI I of marriage I 1 It It- is n a subject difficult of discussion for it v verges upon topics topi th polite society taboos and r. r rightfully too Yet there is nothing so SQ important to tho race as the adjustment o of relations between I the sexes The great difficulty lies in the tho faint line that separates commendable frankness frankness' from unjustifiable liable indecency But deep down in every every thinking person lerson is it the conviction that mating is governed 11 neither ithe by rl rules es nor precepts and that th the law that r retards t r 8 a legal bond is merely encouraging the sort sorl t upon on which society frowns TOJ n la saAt sa I I At least ono one grand old American merican institution I f appears tc have e hit the toboggan slide elide The Tho Thomen men who vho are seeking tho offices cant can't get them and 1 t tho iho of offices offices' i es that are arc seeking the men men sometimes enn cant can't t get them either S. S tI Us pas I L' L The Tho barber bather who 10 was given gi a n. thrashing b by an I n o in Los Jos Angeles is iB probably rob bly one ne of the kind kind Ii that cuts you one ne day and und asks hether you OU t shave naVo yourself the next J I t la Ss I i A A. A president f of Honduras lon luras has hag died a ural natural death tl But nut i he r. r I a avoided that that- disgrace b Or the len or moving in into irio Mexico o. o wf t v a- a |
