The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1912-09-28
BY TEN PER CENT OF THE pEo.
PIE or THE UNITED STATES
SAYS DOCTOR.
REMEDY IS BEING SOUGHT
Method to Prevent Increase OF this
Class and Their Elimination from
Society is Now Being
Worked Out.

Washington, Sept 27.-Ten per cent
OF the population of the United States
is inherently diseased is moral bur
den on the other 80 per cent. and
should be eliminated from society. as
serted Bleecker Van Wagenen of New
York, in speaking today to the fif-
teenth international congress on hy-
giene and demography. Efforts should
be made to get rid, by proper methods
OF breeding the human race, he said.
of the following classes
Paupers, feebleminded. those OF
criminal tendencies, epileptics, insane,
except acute cases not hereditary !;
those constitutionally weak, those
lredlsposed to certain diseases and
those having defective sense organs.
The method 20 be adopted to bring
this about he said, was being studied
scientifically.
A resolution declaring that not only
the gratitude OF this nation but of the
world was due to Prince A. Morrow,
founder of the American Federation
for Sex Hygiene. for his work in the
effort to stamp out the white slave
traffic, was adopted by the congress
today.
Let the churches get out of its
comfortable culb-like rooms and out OF
It's miserable self contentment ami its
anthems, and get out into this work
against the great social evil" said
DIR. Howard A. Kelly of Johns Hop
kins university, speaking of the work
being done to stamp out this social
evil. He said that the problem
should be attacked from all sides. si-
multaneously. The blame for the
traffic. he added. lies with the people
at large and Ii due to the indifference
of the public and Of the churches. IL
the fight against this evil, he said.
workers were wanted who would go
into it for life and who would pass
Ii on as heritage until final victory
was won.
Prof. Maurice A. Bigelow, of Co
lumbia university, said that sex hy-
giene should be taught in the schools
and that even If an occasional mis-
take was made by this method, it
would do far less harm than 10 allow
children to get their information OF
important sexual matters from Inn
proper and impure sources.
Users of alcohol were more subject
to tuberculosis than others, said Dr.
Jacques BertilIion, chief of the bureau
of municipal statistics, Paris. Every
one knows, he explained, that alcohol
attacks the liver but twice as often 1t
attacks the lungs. and he cited stats
ties showing that among men of from
35 to As years OF age, onsumption
caused the death of more than twice
as many drinkers than non-drinkers
Or. VIM. f. Boos. Boston, said that
alcoholic workmen between the ages
of 25 and A have more than three
times as many accidents resulting In
injuries as all other workmen put to-
gether.
Nathan Straus. New York, spoke OF
the birth and development of his in
terest In the problem of supplying pure
milk for babies and deplored the In
difference OF many municipal authori-
ties to this subject.
st. Petersburg, Russia, 1t Is said TO-
night. is the city which the permanent
international commission Of the con-
gress will recommend at the conclui-
ing sessions tomorrow as the next
meeting place OF the congress.