Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-15
CHILD CULTURE
LANDONE'S AIM
NEW SCHOOL TO DEVELOP
BEST IN YOUTH
FOUNDER OF NOVEL INSTITUTION
DISCUSSES PLANS
Physician Philanthropist Explains
There viii Be No Attempt to Rev.
oIutonize Marriages - Expert
enced in Settlement Work

Further plans for the proposed school
of evolution and institute of child cul-
ture to be established at Hollywood
were announced yesterday by DR.. Leon
Elbert Landone. the founder
Children will be selected from vari-
Gus centers throughout the United
States. and these will be used as the
subjects for evolutionary experiment.
All doubt as to the adoption of steps
leading to what the public terms ar
tificial marriage in the new school was
dispelled by DR.. Landone.
LAS far as concerns the first two
steps in evolutionary development
those called variation and crossing
they have been attended to already"
explained DIR. Landone. LAS l said
yesterday in my interview published
I'm The Herald, this country of ours is
the most crossed, as far as races go,
of any nationality on the face of the
globe.
$50 we do not have to bother about
those two points whatever We simply
take the best representatives of child
life i'm the land and work with them.
Artificial Marriages Failures
"Any effort along the line of artifi-
cial marriage is failure, since true
marriage is where each party to the
contract is honestly in love with the
other freely and of his or her own ac-
cord.
"The offspring of an artificial mar
riage would be failure.
Taking the children as, they are al
ready, developed through the first two
steps of evolution-namely, by varia-
ton and classification-we then COM
mence to develop them from that point.
II will choose in each of the first two
or three years of the schools life
twelve children, boys and girls, from
various parts of the United States, to
become pupils of my school,
"These children will not have to meet
with the requirements of the ordinary
examination: they will be simply the
examples of the best physical body
combined with the best mental quail.
fications.
"Those will be the best children for
my purposes.
''Whether they come from among the
rich or the poor 1t matters not 1 will
educate those who cannot afford to
pay; but those who can pay or whose
parents can pay for their education l
will expect to receive remuneration for
their education at my school.
Indeed, 1 have never tried to work
among and with the masses / believe
in the education and preparation of In"
dividuals for leadership of the masses,
rather than the development of the
masses. The latter is a well-nigh
hopeless task, meaning countless
years of effort.
Methods Are Unique
my methods of work with these
children will differ radically from the
ordinary methods of teaching.
For instance, you have observed,
doubtless, many a man in the business
world whose school training did not
extend beyond the seventh or eighth
grade perhaps, but whose mental
processes, and accordingly whose busi-
ness methods, were on a better plan
and We're better systematized than
those of the man who had had more
years of school and college training.
Now when, he was a child that man
of little training but of excellent abil-
ity would have been the child we would
choose for our school,"
DIR. Landone has had considerable
work besides his studies in medicine
alone. He was connected with settle
ment work in New York city and in
the south end of Boston. at Philadel'
phia and at Chicago.
methods of work as hit or MISS" he
said. 'I did independent work. being
connected with no institution whatever.
II studied abroad for years, at such
institutions as Padua, the University
of Paris, at two or three English insti-
tutions of learning and. what was of
more value to me than all the rest
combined, for three months under Her.
bert Spencer. His training and instruc-
ton were everything to me-"
DR.. Landone will lecture along the
lines of work which he is to follow at
this new school at Blanchard hall,
Broadway near Third street, this
morning at 10:30 O'clock. This is the
only work outside of his regular lines
of medical work which he has been
able to do. with the exception of pre-
paring plans for his new school.