The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-12
Two B Debris Left f Wreck Federal pess After Removal of Dead and Injured

public offices, one was vice-president of the. United States, three were Uni ted States Senators, several were gov- ernors members of congress, mayors of cities and ministers to foreign courts and almost every department of social progress and of public veal has felt the impulse of this healthy and long-lived family It is not known that any one of them was ever convicted of a crime.
 This is, demonstratio beyond ca vii of the strength of heredity. in per petuating ancestral traits, both in virtuous and criminal.
 Dr. Sharpe says that the children iof syphilitics are almost sure to be detectives, Alcoholism, drug habits and immoral excesses are some of the common causes of mental and ner- vous exhaustion that render a per s l incapable of begetting normal children. Overwork and many physi- cal maladies which produce in the sufferer profound mental depression are also responsible for defective off spring. Thus 1t is that we frequent ly find that the children of ministers, lawyers, doctors and other profes- sional business men have pronounced disorganized minds, manifesting the same by immoral, criminal or insane acts.
 Hence the necessity for a clearer comprehension of eugenics. Educa- tion, in respect to the grave responsi- bilities of parental influences, prena- tai maternal impressions, and scienti- fic child breeding and nurture is urgently demanded by exfgent condi- tions.
 It is safe to say that every honest man or woman who understands the profound effect of debility, nervous exhaustion, or latent or inherited neuronal conditions, will refrain from perpetuating these conditions, possi- bly a hundred fold magnifed, in their offspring. Every child has an in right to be we'll born. This fact will be universally recognized in time. With the irresponsible, the weak, vicious, criminal and degener- ate, who seek but the temporary gratifida ton. of sexual desire, regard less of all consequences, there re- mains, to my mind, but one course to be pursued.
 Segregation has been advocated. and has been practiced with some small degree of success, but it is ob- vious that the penalty. is out of all proportion to the crime. As Omar says:
 What! from his helpless creature be Pure gold for what he lent him dross
 alloyed;
 Sue for a debt he never did contract And cannot answer-Oh, the sorry -.,. trade"
 Next to the instinct of self-preser- vation (perhaps stronger in some in- is the procreative desire, and Mrs. Burlington stood an infinitely better chance of being successful in her efforts to sweep back the incom- ing tide than would be any restric- tive legislation directed against pro- creation.
 Marriage of defectives has been forbidden by Minnesota, Michigan Delaware, Connecticut Indiana, New Jersey and North Dakota and legis- lation to this end is pending in sew erai other states, but unfortunately is not necessary to propaga- ton. The undesirables continue 10 perpetuate their kind, the difference consisting in that now illegitimacy is added to degeneracy.
 What do we propose to do about it?
 There is remedy, an absolutely safe, certain remedy. It consists in the very simple operation of vasec- tony in the male, and either cor or ligation of the Fallo- plan tubes in the female.
 Dr. H. c. Sharpe of Indianapolis, Ind, is the originator (so far as I know) of the operation of vasectomy. He says: Since October, 1899, have been performing an operation known