The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-30

London. July S0-Women outnum
Ibered the men. at the opening ses
sion OF the International eugenics
lccnsress hece~ oyer tQg,heiPG pFfssefppI
Mai LeqRard Darwin httiRely car
[red on the spirit OF Ms fafnoas' htsn
lfts teachings bl saving, in' his sresi'
dental address,;
! lsSEugenics should be regardeds as
Ithe natural sequence TO the accept
labGe of thesaeetrine OF evolution
After making the assertion that
lferedity was the. soutr OF eusenics'
Darwin procanded- 10 discuss its in
II uence on destlny and on the human
race. The knowledge OF the laws OF
Leredity. he 6saiti. however, perfect
they might become. would be of little
use as a method of insuring the pro-
gress OF mankind until il was not only
widely known, but actually incorpor-
lated in the moral code OF the peopie'
Our first effort must be 10 estao-
lish such moral cSde as Will insure
the welfare of the unborn and be
held in view in connection with all
questions concerning both the marri-
age of individuals and the orsaniza-
ltion OF the state, said Major Dar-
win.
Eueenics Make For
National SUPREMACY
AS an agency making for progress,
conscious selection must replace .the
blind force of%lathral selection anu
men must utilize all the knowledge to
he acquired by studying the process
,tf evolution OF the past in order TO
promote moral and physical progress
III the future. The nation which Shrst
takes the great work in hand viii
met only win in all matters OF com
Ipetition, but Will be given place OF
frnor in the history of the work
The Improvement in stature---fff
Hany European countries during the
Ipast fifty years was the subject OF
an interesting paper read by DR.. Sor-
en- Hansen, of Copenhagen.
I'm Denmark said DR.. Hansen,
there has been an unmistakable in
Iorease of one and one-half inches in
the height of the average Dane in the
past fifty years Similar increases
lhuve been noted in Norway and Swe-
den, and the increase suggests that
II ere may have been more or less
periodic waves of increase and de-
crease in height, since. on one hand
we cannot imagine such an increase
loontinuing indefinitely, and on the
lciher we know men Of, say 1000
Years ago, who we're as tall as those
lCf today
Weight OF English
Babies Is increasing
The weight, of newborn children
lis said to have increased in England
| by two and three ounces during the
rast twenty years In Denmark there
has been an increase of one and one
half ounces in the past thirty-hye
years The average height OF the
adult woman in France has also in
Creased by one and onehalf inches in
The last eighty years"
| II has long been maintained that
TX e blonde type5is due simply to a
loss of color from the brunette type,
very similar to the manner in which a
garment loses It's nrst color, gradual
lily, and with time Eugenists differ
from this general views however, and
contend that the blonde and brunette
TYPES are two characters, clearly
marked out.
In paper pres ented by Prof Gauf-
frida Rungeri the famous Italian
eugenist says:
| One may generally accept the rule
mat blonde parents will have only
blonde children. In the researches
loi such famous eugenists as the Dav-
enports It was found that in a total
OF 115 families in which both parents
were fair only l S-4 per cent of the
offspring were dark.
Color Of Eyes
Can Be Determined
IF there are for instance four
children in a family, two dark and
two fair, it amounts TO the same
thing as saving that so per cent of
the children's ancestors were blonde
and 80 per cen. brunette, Again, the
rule which applies to the color of
The hair is applicable to the color of
| The eyes. If two men with blue eyes
marry two women with brown eyes,
they may have children with dark
eyes, and if these latter marry among