The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-29
NUTRITION AND SIX CONTROL
MOST POPULAR SUBJECT AT TIE
SCIENTISTS CONCLAVE.

women Out In FOrcc-An indian Pot ana q
New bus Among the Contributions
From ManhattAn-A Jolt for Socialism
Many women Read Learned Papers.
The Biological Significance and Control
Of Sex" was the most popular subject
discussed before the meeting Of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement OF
Science, which was continued at Columbia
University yesterday. The announcement
Of the subject brought out a large crowd
of women. Prof. I. &. Morgan advanced
the theory that sex was the result OF nutri-
lion. IF" he said, the theory Of Landois
that males or females can be produced by
regulating the amount Of food were true,
We should expect to find a preponderance
If females among the rich" Statistics
showed that in fact this was not the case,
while carrying it to the other extreme.
Statistics failed to prove that where there
vs. q lack Of nutrition there was a pre-
ponderance of males.
" the Museum of Natural History there
vs. n.hihited last night under the auspices
oi ih" association an Indian pot said to
ro 'hr hrs; ever discovered on Manhattan.
Tde pot is a brown clay affair, and was
iourd in a street near Inwood about two
months ago by W. L. Calver, a scientific
Investigator interested in Indian relics.
The vessel is about a foot high, bullying at
the centre, and is supposed to have been
buried bv the Indians in a grave. Il is
termed a dead pot because a small piece
has teen Clipped out of the bottom 10 show
that like the man with whom il was inferred
II was through with life.
Tic doctrine of socialism, which gained
popularity among the members of the
association after Henry Laurens Calls
address on Thursday, received a setback
yesterday, when Prof. Irving Fisher of
Naie University, in a lecture before the
economic section on why the Laissez Fare
Failed" opposed IL stoutly, though he de-
Clared that we are approaching danger
ou-ly near il. Liberty, If carried too far"
be said, runs into license" He followed
this by advocating a governmental control
If some individuals wherever possible,
and the control Of one class by another.
He said in part:
there are insuperable obstacles to the sue
cess Of socis iistiC projects. Governmental
power and efficiency are limited. and there
Is always tendency to corruption. ineGiciency.
lack Of addptability to new conditions, and
abuse of power. when one class OF society
attempts 10 rule another. Socialism can
not be put in practice without opposition.
10 maintain itself, Socialists must hold the
opposing class in subsection. Nominally
Lll~ NuDJttllOn WOulu ne Il DeueNOlenI pa
tcrnalism, but in political history it is the
universal experience that the party in power
10 intrench itself against attacks soon usurps
more power. employs indefensible and OPP
pressive methods, and tries to establish itself
In the enjoyment Of special privileges.
Yesterday was termed ladies day at
the association because Of the large number
OF women who read papers before the vart-
Gus sections. They dealt with all sorts
Of subjects with high sounding names as
fearlessly as did the men. The physics
department was the most honored. Miss
Bertha NJ. Clarke's paper on The Variation
Of the Heat of Mixture With Concentration
and Temperature" had nothing TO do with
cooking; nor did the paper of Miss Fanny
&. Gates on The Conductivity of the Air
Caused by Certain Compounds During the
Temperature Change" have anything TO
do with the heating of ovens. Others who
read papers were Miss Ella H. Richards,
Miss Alice a. Knox and Miss Gertrude
Birmingham.
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. He pointed
out that in 1909 1, $50, ETS children between
10 and Is years of age were engaged in
gsinful occupations, many of which were
destructive of health and morals as well as
Of economic prosperity. He urged in be-
half Of the committee the following demands
In opposition to child labor:
The regulation of all industries In which
cnillrcn are employed.
The entire elimination Of the child under
u as an Industrial factor.
The restriction OF employm ent for children
between ia and 10. prohibiting the defective
All the illiterate and carefully regulating
tie hours OF employment of others. The
sr-eempnt of age standards in child labor
lav- and compulsory education laws and the
ftting OF our educational curriculum to the
reeds Of our population, by providing such
framing ofthe hand as will appeal to the parents
E,rromotivp OF the future industrial efficiency
o. their children.
r.. Felix Adler lectured on Ethical
7rslGlDg for Efficient Citizenship Frank
liz For1 read a paper maintaining that
the press was in its infancy and III need
Of better organization.
u was announced before the geological
s-c,l1n that a brand new bug had been
discovered in New York. This discovery
reed not cause any worry 10 insect fearing
people. for he is said to be an extremely
harmless animal and to appear in public
seldom. he has been dubbed -Astuta" or
'slyborar" because OF his unwllllngne
% appear in public and OF the fact that
he lives principally in the stems OF hardy
plants.
Henry Bird OF. the New York Entomo-
logical Society discovered him up along
the Bronx River and said that there are
. large number of this species in this city:
He is a small moth, brown in color, and
develops a short pair of brown wings as
he grows. He is extremely short lived
and inactive n subject TO ravages from
many causes, 80 a large increase OF
his family may not be expected
Prof. 3. G. Wilder of Cornell said that
he booked forward to the time when no
one would be thought to have a liberal
education who had not dissected the brain
OF a dogfsh.