The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-28
1OPER CENT OF US. PEOPLE DEFECTIVE Economic and Moral Burden
 on Others ARE NOT DESIRABLE Should Be Eliminated-Strau Tells of Fight for Pure Milk-St- Peters
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Washington, September I.-Ten per cent of the population of the United states is inherently defective and is an economic and moral burden on the other 90 per cent and should be eliminated from so- ciety. asserted Bleecker Van Wagenen of New York, in speaking today to the fif- teenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography. Efforts should be made to get rid by proper methods of breed- ing the human race, he said, of the fol- lowing classes.
 "Paupers, Predetermined, those of crilni- nal tendencies, epileptics insane, except acute cases not hereditary; those constitu- tlonally weak, those predsposed to cer- tain diseases and those having defective sense organs. The method to be adopted to bring this about he said. was being studied scientifically.
 resolution declaring that not only the gratitude of this nation but of the world was due to Dr. 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.
 Must Work With Women
 Most of the pure food work of the future lies with the women who do the buying, pr. H. F. Barnard, Indiana food commissioner asserted today. With sanitary food laws on the statute books. the work of the state food commissioners, he said would be large ly one of educating the people to de- mand sanitary food conditions and report filth at "the corner gorcery store"
 .'If there Is any fault with cold storage it is financial and economic not hygienic, Herbert D. Pease of New York said. Ut is q mistake to believe the only advantage of cold storage was q means of trying to pool the market on eggs, poultry or some other produce or product
 The speaker recommended hard freezing as opposed to the chilled pro cess. He said it was more hygienie- The death rate from pneumonia and other lung affections in Pittsburg was on the increase according to pr. Will liam Charles White of the University of Pittsburg, who declared that 1t was due to smoke nuisances.
 Church Criticised
 '1et the church get out of it's comfort able club-like rooms and out of it's ms erable self-contentmen and its anthems and get out Into this work against ths great social evil" said pr. Howard A Kelly of Johns Hopkins university, speak ing of the work being done to stan. out this social evil He said that th, problem should be attacked from all sides simultaneously The blame for this traf flc. he added lies with the people al large and is due to the indifference o the public and of the churches. In th, fight against this evil. he said. worker, were wanted who would go into it foi life and who would pass it on as a hefi tage until fnai victory was won
 Prof. Maurice A. Rigelow of Columbia university. New York. said that sex hg giene should be taught in the schools an that eyen if an occasional mistake va; made by this method il would do fi less harm than to allow children 10 ge their information of important sexua matters from improper and impuSf sources.
 Users of alcohol are more subject '. tuberculosis than others said pr. Jacqiel Bertlllion, chief of the hureau of munici pal statistics. Paris. Everyone kno.es he explained that alcohol attacks tn l liver but twice as often it attacks th' i lungs and he cited statistics showini I that among men of from 5 to 45 year of age consumption carsed the death c more than twice as many drinkers thal non-drinkefs. Dr. William E. Boos, Ros
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