The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-03-20
NUMBER 20.

allowed to study with the brains more than
one consecutive hour. Play is called body
study, and is as carefully taught as any other
science. Every school includes drill in me-
chanical arts as well as arts Of culture. His-
tories used are mainly cotemporary, so that
children are no longer brought into close re-
lation with the old brute ages, the wars,
kings aud beastly acts Of men who were only
half evolved They are taught thus to look
forward and not backward.
WHAT EVOLUTION HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
Evolution in 1888 was thought Of as for
the most part theory that concerned the
past Men were busy hunting up their an
cestors We have learned that the larger
application of evolution is to secure noble
descendants. The average of human life is
already increased to so, and old age does
not begin till over 100 One man out OF
every 200 reaches the age of 125; one out of
each ,0oo attains $50 years; and seventy
well-authenticated cases are ON record reach
ing over 200 years
But what o,A our ancestors Of 100
years ago say to our Heredity islands. In
1923 it was agreed at the Council of Nations
TO set apart Bermudas, Madagascar and
New Zealand as nurseries of humanity; !;
where, by carefully adjus. ing environments,
we could raise a select and vastly superior
stock; that should itself become the point OF
a grand future humanity. To these islands
were sent infants, selected from all tha
world, as the most absolutely perfect in
brain, body and beauty. The result already
is that we have Shakespeares, Bacons and
Platos to order, with bodies like Apollo, anG,
souls like Brahma. We have already suffi-
cient of these msn of science tc furnish us
with International counselors. In a few
generations they will overrun tt e earth AMI
redeem the nations.
One hundred years ago evolution as ap-
piled to animals produced feetness, or fat,
or nlilk; all sensual results, but valuable
No one had made q study of evolving the
intelligence Of animals. But in 1905 N.
Marpere selasted few st. Bernard dogs OF
remarkable ilt,!ligenee, and by careful
breeding, killing Off all weak intellect, and
educating those of superior brains he laid
tho basis of the noble dogs of science of our
day. In 1923 sort Of articulation ives
themselves had finally affected the larynx:
and now we have dogs capable of abstract
thought and vastly superior to the lower
races OF men.
UTILIZING TRAMps AND CRyMINALa
A mostremarkao,e social advance Is in
the utilization of vaga5ondage. Il is now
forty -four years since every person must
show that he was of some value to the state,
contributing his man power to the pub
lie advantage The vast system Of irriga-
tfon that now covers the continent and
renders a drouth impossible; the charging
OF the secondary batteries for lighting the
continent. aud for moderating the extremes
of the northern climate: the construction Of
all public buildings is done by those who
formerly preyed on society. Prisons and
poor -hou.es are abolished Criminals and
vagabonds ara all at work
All punishment is reformatory. Those
three times arrested are made to connect
the wires Of the powerful batteries used In
connection with the public crematories. and
are thus inssantaneously killed After. two
ttias 1a The fl6s l5lioH sEs csss Is con: :
.sidered hopeless, and the effort ended. Crime
has,ats are rendered impossible Criminals,
o'1eesconvicted, are children Of the state
Tley are secluded at their enployments,
and, if reformed, are never returned to So
ciety OF allowed to propagate their species
Compiled from "E. P. P" in Globe-D Demo-