The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-28
INTERVIEW WITH LADY COOK
Speaks of Her BIission-Her Views
 Upon a Great Question


 New York, Dec. 2s-Pointing out what she termed the great sin of the race, Lady Cook, known on two con tinents as a pioneer in the science of eugenics. to-day gave a, special inter view to the United Press in which she planes the existence of the social. evil to the failure of mothers properly to instruct their children in the care of their bodies.
 ''I want to break down the Chinese wall of mock modesty,'' said Lady Cook. '1 want the people of this great country to realize that the body is NAe Temple of God and that the care sS the body is the best means of stamping out, not only disease but crime also"
 Lady Cook has been featuring in this country and abroad for more Gkse- fifty years. As Tenne essee C1aflin she became famous for her cries on the science of eugenics. After the death of her husband, Sir Francis Cook. she originated world tours to teach the principle that knowledge of the body and it's functions is the best means to prevent crime. She was in the midst of a lecture tour in Great Britain when, reading of the vice cru sades in New York and Chicago, she United States and deliver a last ser ies of addresses in every State from Maine to California
 The venerable eugenist began her talk with a quotation from the Bi- ble Know ye not that ye are the Ten1- pies of God. and that the Spirit of God dwelleth within you? If any man defi1eth the Temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the Temple of God is holy, which Temple ye are-
 This blessed Bible from Genesis to Revelation" said Lady Cook, refers to the redemption of the Body. The Trinity is not the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The true Trinity is the father and mother, both equal and both responsible to complete the Trin- ity-the child
 You ask me what remedy we can have for the conditions that exist in the city of New York=the conditions that have brought about the vice probe. Do you think a boy, who is imbued with pure teaching could ev- CT insult or debauch any mothers daughter? No. His respect for his mother would prevent his bringing a blush of shame to her face. We would be quite secure in that young mans society. No danger of him go- ing abroad and sowing wild oats and defling our young girls? I read in the papers about the White Slave traffic People have asked me what law could be enacted to stop it. You cannot make men good and pure by law. You must do 1t by teaching.
 eff there was not a demand there would not be a supply. We have got to stop the demand; we mothers have got to teach our boys that they can be just as pure and good as their sisters If a man would throttle an other man who insulted his sisters, 1 then let him in turn expect some oth- 1 CT man to throttle him. Had not you rather keep these young people apart?
 
 ual for one mother to have all girls | and another all boys? It is natural | for boys and girls to be brought up i together and to be taught by their blessed mother.
 Mothers should teach their daugh- ters the responsibilities of mother hood Boys should be taught the re- l sponsibility and honor of fatherhood. | We don't want many children. We l want pure children. Roosevelt talk ing about race suicidei We're hav- ing too many chiIdreni We want | quality not quantity. Again, we want children neither born nor bred in ignorance It is foolish to send | missionaries abroad How much bet ter it would be to turn them into the | slums of every town where the peo- pie breed like flies and herd like | beasts. often in a state of starvation. l
 'I have come to the United States |
 ~ OPcA SOui ChoICAeS anu chapels so that young people may | go there at any time, and your daugh- 1 ters may meet young men and let them propose marriage. am a matchma- ker. and I would like to see a great | number of your young men and young women that are fit to be mothers and | fit to be fathers marry in their youth | It is better to sow your wild oats at | home than to go out on the high way.
 Let me go back to the question of children. for that is the great question of our time, and of all time. We do i not intend to bring any more idiots. | and feeble minded into the world to | fill the streets and asylume; on the other hand, we intend to empty them, by stopping the supply read a l few days ago that the British govern ment had given large amount of l