Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-12-30
Re WEIR CHILDREN
ADVOCATED BY
RICH WOMAN
Quality Not Quantity Needed;
"SWiftWater Bill" Has Turn
ed Up in PARKWAY Peru,

Especial Correspondence to Morning Journal
Spokane, Wash, Dec. 27.-"There
are already too many children in the
world. What We want now Is quality
and not quantity. Parents should be
taught the responsibility of bringing
children into the world, ana then,
when they have been taught that
nine-tenths of the babies born every
year are nothing more or less than
human eulls. believe the birth rate
win decrease and we shah have a
better and stronger race
This Is from Mrs. Helen La RENE
Baker, the richest woman in Spokane
also suffragist, reformer, philanthropy
list, humanitarian ana apostle of
brotherly love, known throughout the
northwest as the Little Mother OF
Unfortunate Children
Mrs. Baker is anything but conven-
tional. She is young ana attractive,
is highly educated and widely Travelled
and has plenty of money TO crafty
every whim. She looks upon Thomas
Paine as her patron saint, and believes
Bernard shaw, Ebert Hubbard. Moses
Harmon and Luther Burbank are the
four greatest men in the world.
'Eugenics is the technical term for
the work | am engaged tn she said.
III relates to the propagation of man
kind, and | mean TO devote all my
time To teaching children the right
way of living. You cannot mould
character after the child Is twenty
years.
MY studies of children an over the
world have convinced me that not
more than ten per cent OF them are
children of Owe. The other ninety
per cent are not wanted. and this
leads me to believe that ten years
hence To be the father OF a family Of
ten OF twelve children will be MS much
of q disgrace as being "a confirmed
drunkard is at the present time. With
in the next decade we shall he able To
teach these things to children and tho
result win be "a new race of men and
women
'Swiftwater BilT' In the Nndcs.
"SwfttWater hin" Gates. mining
prospoetor Of Spokane. who has found
a half dozen fortunes In the great
white, silent north, and In The Pacific
northwest. only to lose them In other
ventures. has turned up in the Andes
mountains in Peru. where he IS ex-
aiming a placer mine discovered and
worked by Cortez and his men moro
than $40 years ago. His partner, l..
A.. Wilson, now in spokane. SAYS that
Gates is TO haVe a half interest In tho
property FOR his work in opening the
mine, the cost al this being StG5.O 50.
As Gates has ample backing il is he
lieNed he win be able TO clean up an
other fortune. The mine IT, thirty
miles from the cOast az an elevation
OF 1,000 feet and So far has only been
scratched There is "a canal l30
miles in length through the place.
ground and il is purposed to use its
water in washing out the gold. Gates
advised Wilson that the mountains
IA Peru fairly reek with yellow metal
AS is evidenced by the fact that an adj
property is producing $500 |
oO0 in gold a month. He adds there
viii be a rush 10 the new fields as
as FUN information is available.
Don't Need society SpcIi flinders
society spellbinders from the east
and Nassar girls are not needed in
this state To assist In the battle for
the ballot. said Mrs. May Arkwright
of spokane. president oT the !
Washington Political Equality league. |
hen advised that Mr. August Bel
and Mrs Clarence Mackay are
10 be asked 10 send eastern women 10 !