Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-09-14 | Page 44 | An Eugenics Failure

AN EUGENICS FAILURE AlLURE r E D of the Pennsylvania eugenics marriage-license marriage statute is is having the expected effect A marked decline in the Ule number of marriages marriages marriages mar mar- as compared with the corresponding period before before be- be fore ore tho the law v was enacted h has been the result And it inevitable ine The application of medical was vas and social social social so so- cial theories to so ancient au an institution before the of such theories is clearly operation m understood was wasso wasso as asso so manifest an nn error the wonder is is it could get legislative legisla- legisla t ive tive C support Whatever tends to render marriage difficult contributes contributes contributes con con- tributes to immorality that truth amounts to an axiom since it is self Such a statute inferentially inferentially infer infer- seeks to prevent the union union of the unfit and ignores the natural workings of the sex instinct Unfortunately Unfortunately Un- Un fortunately fortunately- tho enamoured couples who ho seek seck legal approval of their relations will not infrequently enter cuter despite Ie legal al restrictions into that alliance the law la forbids Society is thus confronted with the age age- old problem matrimony has long Iong solved The proponents of eugenics eugenics have ha a an admirable theory but unhappily soc society cannot enjoy this reversion re re- version to first principles without its inevitable corol- corol lary the ary the destruction of the barriers conventionality has las