The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-06-06
To Rebuild Our Race.

NV NllllIU'l HNf NlllEfU saws
/ Everybody is familiar with the won.
dcriul results acl:iy.cd hv Luther
Burbank, the wizard OF III. flowers
who has revolutionized the plant
lite oi the earth hy crossing and re-.
crossing, tearing down and build
ing up species, until It is said h.
can produce almost anything de.
sired IN fruit, vegetable or cereal.
Science vas slow very slow to
believe in Burbank's theories. In
tact. 1t was not until h. demon.
stratcd to the world his wonderful
ability and its results that the
scientists would admit him ANYTHING
else than a tool.
But Burbank persisted and he
has rcvolutlonized sciences so lar as
plant lite IS concerned.
But is II possible to apply Blu
banks art to the human racer Can
the human passion, Imagination,
will and natural inclination I've sub
lcctrd as Burbank has suhlecte,
~" plant to scientific culture.
new scientist, DR.. Leon Elhca
Landonc saws the feat can be a.
complishcd, Just as once Burhauk
said the same OF plant lie.
What the scientist hopes to &C
compllsh and the methods he cN.
poets to pursue are set forth IN the
following news story. There is Ger.
tainlv much food tor thought IN
this project OF science:
'Dr. Leon Gilbert Landonc, Eng.
lIsh scientist, who proposes to do
Tor children what Luther Burbank
has done Tor plant lite, will have the
pick OF 10000 children in selecting
twelve OF the most perfect physical
and mental types. lie expects to
.ducate them along the lines they
are deficient in at his new theory
,chool to lc established at the old
Hodge home at Hollywood in DC.
tobcr. Dr. Landonc has twenty
teachers IN training Tor the work
Ot bringing out the best there is in
the twelve children he will select
this summer. His chlci idea is TO
develop their functional powers.
IhcSC teachers, every one as much
at m enthusiast IN applying the
plant theory as a test to children rs
Dr. LlndDne, already ave passed
,iN months with him IN the training
school. They are working with him
N his philanthropic plans on a co.
operative basis.
VIEWS oi Or. Landone IN apply.
ing the ideas OF Luther Burbank.
the plant scientist IN the education
OF children have been looked upon
as the theories oi an idle man, but
since he has made several practical
demonstrations those who doubted
have been convinced. when he lee.
tured AZ Blanchard hall one morn.
ing to TOO club women Interested
IN original educational work. he
placed his plan before them in a
convincing way. He held their at
tcntlon by describing to them a
striking case. that OF the cure OF a
child who would, be- cx.
planned, have been an inmate OF an
ASYLUM tor insane II his tendency
to dcstruCtlvencSs had been per.
mltt"d To have continued It's SWAY.
Ont OF the remarkable instances
IN my application OF the
plant theory TO deficient children,
aid Dr.. Landonc, was that OF a
hoy oi ! wears old, who DESTROYED
everything hc laid his hands on.
lie could not help doing this, and
his parents had no control over
HIM. He tossed costly vases and
through the windows
and wrecked furniture, smashed
TOYS and dishes on the table.
lie was healthy physically. hut was
Ill mentally, and when | learned OF
disease ! determined to direct
his brain to constructive channels.
And | did.
His parents lent him to me for
tour months. | prepared a room
with no windows, the light hltering
INTO the room through a hole IN the
ceiling. | removed all the iurni.
ture and had peepholes cut into the
walls. The child was was not pi,.
TODD Tor about twcnty.four hours
and then placed in the room. lie
himself on the floor in a par.
pNism OF rage, There was nothing
there Tor hun to destroy, so he
pounded his heels and head upon
the floor and cried until he was ex.
hausted. Before placing him in
the DON had a heavy table con.
Structcd. There were twelve round
and square holes in the table, all
'i different dimensions, and there
blocks that htted each. When
the boy was less excited showed
The table into the room and threw
he blocks upon the floor to test NV
believed the child would
display interest IN the blocks and
he holes in the table and would
seek to it the blocks into the holes.
I rs my idea that to bring ont the
'est there is in deficient children
hey must be rewarded when they
lcTlOYm the TASK W. deSiy. rh.