The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-12-25
MONARCHS ARE
POOR BUSINESS MEN
Woods Hutchinson Says No
Member Could Earn
a Living.
GENERATION ENDS ABILITY
Declares Edward VII Was Grossly
Ignorsnt-Aristocracy Is
Artificial.

New York. Dec. 24.-"American kings
Of finance are men abnormally deveI-
oped in one direction. like Blind Tom.
the negro pianist. but idlotic in every
thing else
With the exception Of William the
sudden. there is no member of royal
family I'm Euronc with brains enough
10 make a living behind a linen coun-
ter.
"Thc cure or poverty. the disease. is
question Of sanitary science or bio
logical engineering"
These are some OF the statements
made by Or. Woods Hutchinson. che
famous physician and biologist. in
he made before the League FOR Physi-
cal Education the other day.
The gamut OF human achievement is
run in one generation DIT. Hutchinson
declares "Biolocically speaking. the
great man is a sport Many forms of
greatness are accompanied by a lack
Of balance, and while the great man
| breeds true. his descendants are just
as apt TO inherit his lack or balance as
his genius.
His greatness. however. wins riches,
generally speaking. and enables bis de-
scendants TO keep up certain arth
cia1 arfstocraCy. but / believe the time
will come when the transmission OF
great fortunes will be forbidden hF
lawn fact, when IT will he impossible
to transmit from one generation 20 am
other a sum greater than 10000.
become
| tho great private fortune2'
1t will revert to the state-to the
people TO whom 10 really belongs" Dr
Hutchinson replied.
| a great man is the product or his
! community. OF his environment. Eight
| teuths OF our great men come from
poor families. They receive their edu-
! cation from the community.
| Poverty is a disease which. event
| uallv we will be able TO control an,
| conquer like any other. when wealt'
| is not concentrated I'm the hands Of q
/ few and when the laboriug man gets
] more than one or one and n half PEI
/ cent OF his earnings"
1T sounds like socialism" was sug
Or. hutchinson grinued good-uatur
I cdly. 81 call 10 sanitary science ~
/ biological engiueerinC. he said. "
/ contend there fs no such thing as
| self made man. that a man iS prod
| uCt OF his ancestors and his environ
mcut Investigation has demonstrate
I that a certain amount Of real taleu
I has been developed I'm aristoCratic Fam
1 flies. but not 10 the extent that wouI'
I Justify their subSidiZation 10y the gov
| erumcnt-the robbing or the people
which has taken place i'm European
There is not member or roya
/ family I'm Europe. with the exception q
William tho sudden who could maxi
! q living behind linen counter br
/ Hutchinson exclaimed
| Queen Victoria had not brain
enough Co earn her living 200 any ca
pacity- Her son. the late King Edward
! was even worse
Gle never read anything except th'
I sporting ncws-the pink un' and thing
I like that. lie chose his friends amoni
/ shady financicrs and shady actresses
| vet when ne died Won would h1N
Thought the world had suffered an Dr.
! remarkable loss.
I NO derby winner was ever the sol
Of q derby winner or the sire or
/ derby winner. You must look 70
aristocrats i'm the strains That haven
I produced them.
"The best opportunity for develop
iurr a great man is i'm the city. a. fam
uv with am income OF $4,000. and i
the country an income Of $500. be
Iicve I'm the aristocracy or the aVcrag
normal man and the avcra GO norma
woman" declared Dr.. Hutchinson
| ..rI. 70 Is no nLhcr.-.