The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-27
HOPES ID PRODUCE THE PERFECT MAN "EugenicS' or How to Pick
 Ones Parents. PROFESSOR HAYS PLAN Ambitious Scheme of a savant Who Would Produce Race Wherein
 ApoIIos and Venuses
 Are Plentiful.

Washington Special to the New York
 World.
 Prof. Willet M. Hays assistant secre- tary of agriculture, has leaped into the arena with a proposition that puts him on an equal footing with the other giant intelleets in that department of the gov ernment. Dissatisfied. not to say jealous, because of the enduring fame found by the man who wrote the treaties on ''The Teeth of Gallnaceous Fowls" and the man who labored to produce a breed of parlor pigs that would be olednly in habit and might be kept in the house, and the man who looked for years for plan to get a stingless mosquito, Professor Hays has taken all the hurdles with a scheme to improve the human race by careful selection of parents for future Americans.
 MT. Hays Is secretary of the American Breeders association, which he organized. The American Breeders association is in- terested in breeding everything. They breed cattle and horses and that sort of thing, or rather write treaties and tell how others shall do the breeding. They bi GU d ItDId lp d nlule anu BOl Il BlIdlef or something like it., and for years they have been at work on the problem of crossing the lightning bug and the honey bee so the bee can see to work at night and thus produce twice the amount of honey
 Witnessing the marvellous results of breeding strong animals with strong ani- mals, Professor Hays took the idea as far as humans are concerned, and pondered over 1t long, long time. Then he evolved the theory, which not more than million men have had before him. that fathers perfect physically, morally and mentally, and mothers perfect mentally, physically ana morally would produce children with all these desirable attributes This scheme Is known as eugenics.
 Professor Hays has decided to appoint committee on eugenios from the mem bers Of the American Breeders associa- ton, and he is now writing letters to va rious breeders to ask them to serve on this committee and to give him their ideas on eugenics. When he gets his answers he will tell gaping world who these experts are and how they are going about it to improve the human breed.
 Professor Hays admits that he has no clearly defined plan for changing the her edity of the American people, but he has hopes. He thinks that if plants can be Improved and horses and cows and po- tatoes, there Is no reason why the human race should not be improved He is willing to undertake the job If the people will let hlm At any rate, he will write a pam phlet about it, which will undoubtedly rank with the immortal work of that earn est scientist of the department who bred oranges and interbred them with the high and holy purpose of getting an orange that would stand the frost He got fruit that would withstand the frost all right. but was somewhat chagrined to dis cover that the fruit was not an orange at all, but the sourest lemon that ever puck cred mouth.
 Then, too, there was that other scien- tist of the department, and nobody is saying it was Willet M. Hays-who trav- eled all over the western hemisphere in search of certain kind of bug. He re- turned unsuccessful and after making his report he walked out on the grass in front of the agricultural building here and found the bug hopping around merrily in the grass
 Professor Hays is as earnest as he is energetic. When he gets his game going there will be nothing but Apollos and Ven uses in these parts.