The evening world., 1911-04-08
Less Than That Number to a
Family a Sign of Sterility,
He Says.
FEARS RACE
Three Children Not Enough
Even Though One Should
Be Another Lincoln.

n tho American Government 1. TO
pend entirely Upon a larger navy, an
army able to cope with the worlds
powers. the Government supervision OF
non-contrlbuting trusts. nor even upon
The Hague Peace Congress, or the Pan
anna quick route to a hgh, in case The
Hague fail-the salvation OF the nation
mIst be accomplished by a much more
personal method:
Every home must rave four children.
Who says so? Well. you have Just one
guess. and please don't go all over San
Juan Hin. where He never led a charge
except In tho magazines, in order to
register the guess. Col. Theodore Roose-
welt. who put Oyster Bay on the map
OF Long Island, takes his pen In hand.
and In the Outlook proceeds 70 lay
down the plans and specifications for
the only sort OF family that does not
hold It's dual head up TO the contempt
Of all right-thinkinz people.
About Race D%ecadenee.r
Under the heading of Rae De-
cadence" he tells the public thai not
only the American stock has utterly
failed to turn out tho proper number
Of voters and s~uffragettes. but that the
strangers within our gates. who came
from their home lands with the idea
that a family ought only he limited by
the square foot area OF the tenement,
figured on four TO a cot. are rapidly
falling into the habit OF curtailing the
visible supply of little ones.
Those who nave watched the east side
streets, where one household usually
supplies a full dancing set for the
hurdy-gurdy a had no idea Of the
rapid gait that Is being taken by the
new coners toward the ultimate I'M
doing OF the race. But the Colonel las
investigated and IS sure that Norway,
Sweden, Germany. Italy. Russia. Po-
land. Austria-lIungary and Persia are
forgotten by the late inhabitants OF
those lands. and that they have picked
up the new thought on family extension
work to such an extent that the poll
ticians won't ave to he nominating
candidates to catch a particular vote.
And. viewing with alarm the laxity in
demand for go-carts and nursing bot
ties. Col. Roosevelt lays down the rule
with authentic force that no man and
no a hope to sneak off with
three children to their credit and try to
set up a claim OF maintaining a family.
1t takes four to do the Job.
Less Than Four a Failure.
ANYTHING short OF that number Is
entirely worthy OF being classed as
eta,nn eap,lIr s1,at nvplsHaQ a
Lincoln, an Edison and a Jane Adams
Is to loo condemned II It does not add a
fourth member to the circle. and the
ideal citizen IL one who has 10 have
an architect constantly on the payroll
In order to keep the house growing
along with the family. .
The dictum easily places Senator
O'Gorman In a class by himself as the
first citizen OF high official life in
America and leaves President Taft
among those who are to be watched
because he has failed In the prime es-
sential Of national salvation.
II believe In a fun equality OF rights"
says the Colonel. III women wish to vote
I favor II, although 7 do not think II
anything like as important for them or
for the state as many other things they
can and should do. but the extent OF
my reverence for and belief in a woman
who does her duty measures also by
my contempt for the m who shirks
her primal and most essential duty.
The man who Is either responsible for
or acqulesces in stcrility in marriage is
even more contemplate than the
woman. but ne is the only person who
Is more contemplate.
Exactly as our regard for the soldier
who does his full duty in battle is the
measure OF our scorn for the coward
who fees, so tho Measure OF our re-
spect for the true wife and mother is
the measure of our contemptuous alb
horrence for the wife who refuses to be
O mother
Blames the Men.
Men, says the Colonel. are as much 10
must have a mental cleansing before
they realize the. happiness of having a
home chuck fun OF youngsters.
The race cannot keep ahead. or even
hold Its numbers" he says. unles o
be made the common denomination of the
household.
Goodness, sehishness and love Of ease
he declares 10 have cursed the native
American line with sterility, and the
foreign element is asserted to have
learned the idea as soon as II hit the
new land OF promise,
II for one would heartily throw my
lot with the men OF alien stock who
were true to old American principles"
he says, but he does not And the alien
stock a bit better In racial matters,
Are americans really content that
| this land OF promise, this LAND OF the
future, this Astounding and vigorous
nation shall become decrepit in what
ought 10 be the flower OF its early man