Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-29
FOOD AND SEX CONTROL
POPULAR SUBJECT AT SCIEN-
lists CoNCLAvE.
Discussion Of the Theory That Sex
May Be Regulated-TheQ Cues
ton Of Nutrition.

NEW YORK, December 29-The Bio
logical Significance and Control of Sex
was the most popular subject discussed be-
fore the meeting of the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science which
was continued at Columbia University yes
terday. The announcement of the subject
brought out large crowd of women. Prof
T. c. Morgan advanced the theory that sex
was the result of nutrition. If" he said,
"the theory of Landois that males or fe-
males can be produced by regulating the
amount of food were true, we should ex-
pect to find a preponderance of females
among the rich" Statistics showed that in
fact this was not the case, while carrying
1t to the other extreme, statistics failed to
prove that where there was lack OF nu-
triton there was q preponderance of males.
At the Museum of Natural History there
was exhibited last night under the auspices
OF the association an Indian pot-said to
be the first ever discovered on Manhattan
The pot Is brown clay affair, and was
found IN the street near Inweod about two
months ago by w. L. Calver. scientific
investigator interested in Indian relics
the center, and is supposed to have been
buried by the Indians in grave. 1t Is
termed dead pot" because a small piece
has been Clipped out of the bottom to show
that like the man with whom it was in
TERED 1t was through with life
The doctrine of socialism, which gained
popularity among the members of the
association after Henry Laurens Calls ad-
dress on Thursday. received a setback yes
terday, when Prof Irving Fisher of Yale
University, in a lecture before the economic
section on why the Laissez Faire Failed"
opposed it stoutly, though he declared that
we are approaching dangerously near 1t.
Liberty, if carried too far he said, runs
into license" He followed this by advo-
eating governmental control of some in
dividuals wherever possible, and the con-
troll of one class by another. He said In
part:
Obstacles to Socialism.
There are insuDerable obstacles to the
success of socialistic projects. Govern
mental power and efficiency are limited,
and there is always a tendency to corrup-
ton, ineficiency, lack of adaptability to
new conditions, and abuse of power when
one class of society attempts to rule an
other. Socialism cannot be put IN prac
tice without opposition. To maintain it
self socialists must hold the opposing class
in subsection. Nomnally this subsection
would be a benevolent paternalism, but in
political history it is the universal expert
ence that the party in power to intrench
itself against attacks soon usurps more
power employs indefensibe and oppressive
methods. and tries to establish itself in the
enjoyment of special privileges.
the association because of the large number
of women who read papers before the vari-
Gus sections. They dealt with all sorts of
subjects with high sounding names as
fearleSsly did the men. The physics de-
partment was the most honored. Miss
Bertha NJ. Clarke's paper on The Varia-
ton of the Heat of Mixture With Concen-
tration and Temperature had nothing to
do with cooking; nor did the paper of Miss
Fanny c. Gates on The Conductvity of
the Air Caused by Certain Compounds Dur
ing the Temperature Change have any
thing to do with the heating of ovens.
Others who read papers were Miss Ella H.
Richards Miss Alice A. Knox and Miss
Gertrude Berlinsham.
Child Labor.
Henry Laurens Call. before the depart
ment of economics. told of the work of the
national child labor committee, of which
he is the assistant secretary. lie pointed
out that in 1900 1,750,17S children between
ten and fifteen years of age We're engaged
in gainful occupations, many of which were
destructive of health and morals well
as of economic prosperity. He urged in be-
half of the committee the following de-
mands in opposition to child labor:
The regulation of all Industries in which
children are employed.
The entire elimination of the child under
fourteen an Industrial factor.
The restriction of employment for chill
dren between fourteen and sixteen, prohib
ting the defective and the illiterate and
carefully regulating the hours of employ
ment of others. The agreement of age
standards in child labor laws and compul
sorry education laws and the fitting of our
educational curriculum to the needs of our
population, by providing such training of
the hand as will appeal to the parents as
promotive of the future industrial efficiency
of their children.
Dr. Felix Adler lectured on ethical
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