The Sentinel=record., 1911-12-30
PLAN BETTER
 HUMAN RACE
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF AeRI CULTURE SPRINGS NEW cLAs-
 slFIcATioN OF PEOPLE.
Would Divide humanity Into Classes But for the 5etterment of the Race to Increase Number of
 Geniuse3

Washington, D. C., Dec. 29. .-Clas- sification of all the peoples of the world in great international census, giving each person a number in a single world series, to the tnd that the human race may be improved by scientific marriage was the plan ad. vocated tonight by Assistant Secretary Of Agriculture W. NJ. Hays, in an ad- dress before the American Breeders Association, cne of the organizations making up the American Assocation for the Advancement of Science.
 As means of improving the hered ity of the human family Mir Hays proposed a classification of all human | beings, both as to mental aptitude and genetie efficiency Based on such knowledge as the census would give he said it would develop a ''ra- cial religion requiring the genetically efficient to produce families larger than tihe average and those less ef- ficient to produce families smalled than the average.
 The world numbers. says Mir. Hays. would serve to jo'n geneologles into numerical system so that all rela- tionships could be traced. Each per- son wonld have a number of percent age that could be averaged so as to give the genetic or family values Of each person.
 "Modern science and charity works | against the law of the survival of the fittest,' he declared, tby keeping alive many persons who is1herit weaS- nesses, such as feble mindness or insanity By paying attention to gen- etic efficiency, a race may make itself stronger for the economic con tests among the races of the world
 The proposed plan would some what divide people into classes but the classification would be beneficient be- cause it would be based on racial eff. ficiency The wholesome consider ation of gonetie facts will lead to less of divorce. greater temperance and better morals. Raising the average efficiency of the human race prohab- ly would also increase the number Of geniuses and leaders,
 Discussion of the reasons for high prices the tendency of immigration, the development of better labor con ditions and the progress of, civic i'm. provements and social settiemen. work held attention among the various meetings today in the numerous con. venticHS. waich are mcet'as here lr der the auspices of the American As- sociatlon for the Adsa1-emop5 .f Science
 Senators Burton, l.c184 anI Smoot discussed the practical problem
 Senator Burtcn declared that a ris- ing standard of living. an increasing supply of gold and tardy develop ment Of agricultural resources and obsolete sad expensive mc.hods oi distribution or food ai.d other products were the factors contributing to the higher cost of living. Prof Irving Fisher of Yale, urged the appointment of an international commission to study the problem.
 The use of dangerous chemicals in hair toRfcs and cosmetics came in for denunciaticn by Dr. L. F. Kebld chief of the drug division of the bu- reau of chemistry, before the Amer. ican Chemical Society. He declared the standard for drugs should be made Inform and that manufacturers should not have authority or power TO estaDilsn standards of their own :.
 William Hard, of New York, a an address before the American Associ ation for Labor LegisIation, said thai employment is no longer a joke. , "The funny papers joke aboH; tramp: and hoboes are dying ont" he said | For every men who does want worl there are scores who cannot get work There are 100000 more jobs in the
 industries of New York state in Oc-
 ober than there are in January ir
 ny year"
 1 MT. and Mrs. TindaIl and Osa Den nis returned home vastardax, fro,