Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-07-09
EDUCATORS MEET
IN WINDY CITY
National Educational AssO-
citation Opens Annual
Session
MAKES RECOMMENDATION
ONLY ONE-THiRD OF ALL PuB-
Lie SCHOOL CHILDREN
MAKE SATISFACTORY
PROGRESS.
By Associated Press.

Chicago, H., July S.-Confronted
by the demand that Congress be ask
ed TO appropriate money to relieve
what was termed "the lowly, heart
rending and tragic condition OF the
rural schools OF the country" the
National Education Association open
ed its fiftieth annual convention here
today
Reports have been submitted that
out OF the twenty million public
school children of the United States,
twelve million are being educated in
rural schools and only one-third OF
the country's boys and girls are max
ing satisfactory progress.
State School superintendent Har-
ris OF Louisiana, said that the Fed
eral government should provide
money TO remedy the situation.
Acommittee appointed to investi-
gate the subject decided 10 urge the
appointment of field workers.
The following speech was deliver
cd before the Department of Science
on the subject of Euegnics, by VIM.
A. McKecver, professor OF Philosophy
in the Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege.
The London school OF eugenists.
"biometricians" are proceeding chief
fly under the role of pathologists and
psychaitrists are out In the
field searching for degenrates in the
form OF sick bodies and degenerate
minds. ard thc- are meeting with
marked success in finding what they
are looking for. They are out with
the assumption that mankind Is
sharply divided up into stocks that
there are very few OF the better
stocks and a very large number OF
the worse or weaker stocks. They go
among the families of oxford grad
yates and others who have been IA
vored with full physical and mental
nurture as well as with the powerful
stimulus of hope and expectancy. and
take some measurements. These
mathematical eugenics then lay their
yard stick upon the members OF peas
antv. men and whomen who have
been bruised and beaten and half
starved through the workings OF an
iniquisitous caste system fastened up
on their ancestry generations ago by
the bloody hands of conquest; and
10, the children OF the better
stocks are proved to be the one to
breed from, They make a much
superior showing as compared with
the others,
What is IN general nature OF the
human race today? Is II one or
many? Is II made up OF distinctive.
seperate strains and stocks" des-
tined 10 remain permanently segre-
gated into castes and factions. which
must forever be at war with the 9TH
er. or is our common human nature
wherever found on the earth essen-
TALLY a unit out OF which may be
male 10 emerge a beautiful social
democracy This Is the most mo-
mentous question OF the ages-a very
pressing problem alike for all who
are either directly or indirectly in
,erested in the life of man or the
earth. contend with all my might
for the latter position The histor-
ian. the paleontologist, the biologist.
the natural scientist and the psyche
logist are all contributing a mass OF
evidence TO support the theory that
there Is only one humankind the
world over; that the various so-calIed
races OF man have had a common ORR
gin. AMI are inherently shaped for a
common destiny; that the great age
long instructive qualities upon which
our best civilization is built are found
alike and In abundance In every
tribe and nation under the sun: that
the great central stream OF humanity
everywhere found is prepotent at
birth in all the qualities necessary for
development. under favorable condi-
tions. into sound and substantial
manhood and womanhood. that hu-
mankind everywhere IL apparently
on the way to a common higher ply
sical and metnal being likewise the
interest OF all
The greatest menace 20 the estab-
lishment OF a mighty spiritual democ-
racy among the men OF all nations Is
the professional militarism that has
slowly grown into a monster OF i'm
pending power and destruotiveness.
fco,,i,,,cd On pava e.