Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-27
Superintendent of Industrial
School Suggests Plan For Bet
terment of Our Race
URGES MARRIAGE RESTRICTION
Colonel Drake Says That Certain Wise
Laws, If Enacted, Would Prove a
Blessing to All Mankind-Cites the
Achievement Of Science and Skill On
the Brute Creation.

DeS MONIES, Lune 2t-l Olonel u. -.
Drake, the superintendent of the Ell
dora industrial school, asked the con-
the board of control at the capitol yes
terday why the pronounced criminal
type of humanity should longer be
permitted to propagate Il species that
will continue to menace the people.
He was discussing the subject of
heredity and environment and their
relation to juvenile delinquency lie
reached the thought that 1t is the hui
man weakness to ascribe to heredity
those tendencies which call for COM
mendation; but to ascrbe to environ-
ment those which call for condemna-
tion. And then he said:
If statistics are to be, relied upon,
and the evidence set forth TO support
the claims made, surely the time has
come when the human family should
be given as much consideration as the
animal. Scientific method has removed
the Improbable and poorly bred ami
NAL Why should the pronounced
criminal type of humanity be permit.
ted to propagate q species that will
continue to menace our people? Dras-
tic measures are made necessary for
the complete eradication Of this grow
ing evil. The time has arrived when
sentimentalty should be excluded and
the sound, sane judgment of our
thoughtful and active workers be aided
by the efforts of united people for
the betterment of our race.
Then, and then only, will the effects
of heredity manifest itself in the gen.
GRAFTON to follow. Society, when once
awakened to the responsibility which
rests upon it, will make an environ
ment which will be conducive of re-
suits satisfactory The INDECENT ele
the already congested districts of our
cities and centers of population, Will
have been regulated and occupied Sc
that the youth may receive the atten-
ton they so much deserve. Whatever
of predisposition to evil may be cor
rected by counteracting influences and
the child of the alley or gutter be the
beneficiaries of most wholesome at
mosphere"
Laws Are Possible.
That wise marriage restriction laws
are possible goes without saying. Col
onel Drake said that after making ali
deductions as to the effects of heredi-
ty or environment. there certainly re-
mains much work for the medical pro-
fession in the disseminate of such in
formation as NAV be acquired from the
scientific treatment of cases brought to
them from the ranks of juvenile de-
linquency.
"The state may also enact laws gov
erning marriages which would prove a
blessing to all mankind.
Hasten the day when the human
family shall receive as much attention
at the hands Of science and skill as
does the brute creation, whose entire
being is changed by carefully eradicat-
ing those qualities, whose ancestry
having been low bred, placed upon him.
Is it not possible to go forward in the
present day of enlightenment to so in
fluence those who may be affected or
iblighted by bad birth or dangerous en-
vironment and guided by the benefi-
cence of a higher and nobler life, leave
an impress which shall bless future
generations?"
Papers also were presented before
the conference by Superintendent
Fitzgerald, Of the Mitchellville Indus
trial School, and Voldeng, of the Cher
okee Insane Hospital The session of
the conference will continue this morn