Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-14
100000 HOME
FOR A SCHOOL
OF EVOLUTION
PHYSICIAN PLANS TO DEVELOP
HUMAN RACE
HoEGEE RESIDENCE TO BE GEN.
TER OF GREAT EXPERIMENT
Dr. L. E. Landone Buys Show Place
in Hollywood and viii Con-
duct the Marvellous
Institution

To do for child life what Luther
Burbank has done for plant life-to
develop the best that can be obtained
from them--is the aim of DR.. Leon FL
bert Landone, 1908 South Beacon street,
who has just bought the magnificent
William IL. Ioegee residence in Holly
wood for 100000 for school purposes.
"This school which l will start in
the Hoegee residence" explained DR..
Landone yesterday, sis for the pur-
pose of developing children.
II will make a trip throughout the
United States this coming summer and
select twelve children for the school.
You know Burbank's great gift was
that of being able to select out of
bed of several hundred tulips, say,
that particular plant which would
grow the best. That one he would
plant, and throw away the others. and
perpetuate that particular bed of tu-
lips, always transplanting the choicest
of them all. and ultimately selecting
the most perfect from the entire group
of hundreds.
Burbank can pick the winner, as
the saying goes. Other horticulturists
Burbank does in determining peculiar
tiles of growth, and so on but in that
one respect-in his ability to see the
lasting and enduring qualities in
flower or plant-he is supreme.
Evolution of Human
Now, there are four steps in evo-
lutionary development which are true
in the human, animal and plant life.
Burbank recognizes the gradations in
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the breeding of fine horse stock. Even
so they figure in the human race, in
the development of children.
"These four steps or gradations are
as follows: First, variation; second,
sex crossing to carry on the qualities
by heredity; third, selection; and,
fourth, cultivation and development.
"Dr. Jordan, president of Stanford
university recognizes these same steps
in a recent work of his on evolution.
The first two steps are easily enough
ACCOMPLISHED and have been taken
for u.s. in fact, in this land This
country of ours is. for instance. the
most crossed country on the globe, as
far as the intermingling of races goes.
for we have represented in the Aineri-
cans many nations-Irish, French,
German, and so on
"As for selection. you have that
point illustrated by the educational
fields represented by the public and
the private schools In the former
the schools are compelled to take all;
while at the latter, they take only
those who pay.
Selection of Children
al will select from ten to twelve
children from various parts of the
United States, for each of the first two
or three years. In these children l will
seek to develop the best there is in
them.
my process of education will be abb
solutely different from any used in the
United States heretofore"
Although Dr. Landone does not speak
of himself as a philanthropist, yet such
. he must be in the most practical sense.
He is aiming to apply his experience
in slum work, in which he has been
interested in children especially. to this
new educational system which will
develop the best that is in the young
ones whom he places in his new in
stitution
His whole manner, his tone of voice,
the kindly light of his eye. betoken
the philanthropist, when he speaks of
things which he feels certain he can
do for these young lives to be brought
to the beautiful school at Hollywood.
"Time and again they told Luther
Burbank, the plant wizard, that new
structures or species could not be
grown And those who told him that
were men of experience in horticul-
Theories Are Shattered
'But one day an eminent scientist
was visiting Burbank. The latter
asked him that same question about
the impossibility of growing new struc-
ture.. and received the reply, 'Impos
stsjlei
"Then Burbank, telling his visitor
that q certain flower never was known
to have seed corpuscles save in multi
pies of three-that is. it had three,
six, nine, twelve corpuscles, and so on
led this scientist into the garden
where some new plants raised under
Burbank's directions, were to be seen.
There he plucked one of this particu-
lar kind of plant and showed 1t to the
visitor who found there were fifty
seven seed corpuscles.
Burbank had proven the old-time
theory vulnerable. He had changed
the plant structure.
Furthermore, when they all de-
clared his freak plants. flowers and
fruits would not stay the same. he
proved most decidedly that not only
in America, but even when planted IN
foreign countries as in distant Bor-
neo and Africa, they would remain
the same as he had cultivated them
plants of an entirely different struc-
ture from those of old.
81 had to meet the same opposition.
L intend 10 prllS e'pou' OH eo9oiute
change in brain structure, hence in
brain functions, in these children at
my school.
MANY have believed this impossi
BILE. and have been quite frank in tell
ing me so.
Now we are not able to examine
the brain of a human being. But the
brain of collie dog. for instance, /
have proven that normally there are
from 600 to HOO cells per square milli-
metre of gray surface of the brain.
And in one years development along
the line of discriminating between col
ors, have counted in that dogs brain
from 600 to 2000 cells per square milli-
metre.
To Reconstruct Brain
THE basis of my system of edu-
cation for these children will be in
the reconstruction of structure.
"The common way of changing a
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