Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-06

n X PENDLEJ ON DU1LE4
WI has sent to this column
some interesting Enclosures,
which, he says, are forwarded with
doubts as to their suitability for
popular reading. These extracts
refer to the great time, thought,
care and skill bestowed by the gov
eminent on the breeding of fine
stock, particularly horses.
The United States department of
agriculture demands that mothers
of desired trotting horses shall be
free from "curby hooks" or other
decidedly faulty conformations.
They must be free from draft
blood" and from "bone spawn"
ring bone" "lameness of any
kind" side bone "heaves."
"stringhalt," roaring, moon
blindness" or other blindness.
OF course. the sires have been
carefully selected, and are pure in
blood and free from all dtsqualify-
ing flaws.
1t is by such persistent and sci
entifc means that perfect speci-
mems of horse flesh are produced.
In opposition to these methods.
Mr.. Pendleton places the harum-
scarum methods, as he calls them,
governing the reproduction of the
human species.
Professor BreRer, of Yale. tells Of
a nora in Cto,Xo,.;a,,4 a... $500.
ago, where a feeble minded pauper
woman. kept as a public ward. was
admired by a half witted farmer
living in an adjoining town. A Sc
lectman of the town maintaining
the woman, ito get rid of her sup
port" encouraged the marriage.
His short sishtedness. even from
the standpoint of immediate money
economy, to say nothing of racial
economy, became apparent when. a
few years later, she and her hus-
band and three idiotic children
drifted into the poorhouse of the
husbands town
Interesting records exist of two
families of criminals. the so-called
"Jukes" and the Tribe Of Ish-
mael' From the one man who
founded the luke" family came
1900 descendants in IS years: out
of these 30 were professional pau
pers, who spent an aggregate of
$500 years in poorhouses; 50 were
evil women, 7 murderers. SO habit
ual thieves and 1870 common crini-
nails
Dugdale has estimated that the
luke family was an economic
loss to the state, measured in terms
Of potential usefulness wasted.
costs Of prosecution, expenses of
maintenance in Jail, hospital and
asylums, and of private loss
through thefts and robberies of
s1,30o.00o in IS years, or over $1,000
of reach member of the family.
Similarly the Tribe of Ishmael,"
numbering 1882 individuals in six
generations, has produced 121
known evil women, and has bred
hundreds of petty thieves, Migrants
and murderers. The history of the
tribe is a swiftly moving picture
of social degeneration and gross
parasitism, extending from its
seventeenth century convict ances-
try to the present-day horde of
wandering and criminal descend
ants.
Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale,
says, in his most interesting bulle-
tin report on National Vitality,
It's Wastes and Conservations"
1t is we'll known that cultivated
plants and animals have been
greatly changed and developed by
breeding. The original apple. as
offered by nature to mankind, was
the small sour, bitter crab of the
forest. unpleasant. indigestible. in
nutritious. In 1710 DR. Davenant,
a writer of political economy. es-
timated that the average weight of
dressed cattle did not exceed $40
pounds. In 1915 McCullock stated