The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-13
ABRAM JACOBY
 THE GREAT

-I1E GKEAI
 I have just been re-reading the in auguraI address of the revered Nestor of modern medicine, pr. Aoram Ja- cobi-Jacobi the Great.
 The American Medical Association paid itself the highest possible honor when it elected to it's Presidential socioIogist, and greatest of all special ists in the diseases of children. Pro lessor Jacobi's unique contribution to the welfare and progress of humanity, scientifically directed radicalism. z When a man of his attainments and prestige openly advocates the marvel ous1y advanced and logically correct principles Of limitation of offspring, steriliza ton of the degenerate and un- fit, abolition of wars,-.the cynosures of coarse politicians to take the places that should be filled by statesmen as he epigrammizes it; abolition of child labor, and regulation of industrial n1al-conditions, it is high time for the ignorant the narrow minded, the pro- vincia1 and the Puritannical oIojectors to so1emnly aequiesce, or confess themselves fncompetents.
 STERILIzE THU UNFIT
 AND RESTRICT BIRTHS
 There have been thca1ss-.ds of books written, millions of sermons pree ched, and triI1ions of words uttered Ov~f the subject of racial betterment. No one but has some cherished scheme, which. if put into operation, would regener- ate the world and bring about the E1ysiuna which Is the dream of the Idealist
 Professor Jacobi, however, strikes di- -reetIy at the root of the vicious tree of evil. He points, with unerring ac- curacy, to the concers of our bloated civilization. He says the strong word on behalf of the weakling. against whom the greatest of all crimes has been committed; to whom an frrep- arabic wrong has been done = who. without asking twhither" or whence" must fight the stern battles of life. with broken, mis- Shapen weapons contend with swords of Ia tn against the cruel oppression of individualistic competition.
 Out of the dead Silence of the To Be. comes the pitifu1 moan, the groan of anguish, the dreadful ghriek, of the the twisted soul, beseeching that it be not born; or. being born, die as quickly as possible. If the world would but listen to, and heed, this message.
 .'Is there no way to prevent those who are born into this world from be- coming sickly, both physically and mentally? It seems almost impos- sible as long as the riches provided Iby this world are accessible to a part of the living only. The resour- ces for prevention or cure are 1nacces- sibIe to many-sometimes even to a. ma ajority. That is why it has become an indispensable suggestion that only a certain number of babies should be an American family has had ten chil-- dren but only, three or four survived Before the former succumbed they were a source of expense, poverty and morbidity to the few survivors. For the interest of the latter and the health Of the community at large they had better not have been born.
 As the official representative of 75,- GOO doctors men who, in the main, have the best interests of humanity at heart, this grave and learned patr1- arch stands-a noble priest at the mo- bIest altar ever erected-The Altar of stretches for pity ing hand, to the countless millions yet to be born through ignorance; yet to suffer in agony and misery the sin of being thrust into Life His great heart beats with tenderness for their have been dedicated to their interests HUMAN SOCIETY SHOULD
 HAVE PITY ON ITSELF.
 On the profoundly important ques- ton of eugenics-the physical, mental and moral enhancement of humanity pr. Jacobi says:
 idiots are permitted to propagate their own curse. Human society should have pity on itself and on it's crate, imbeci1e and criminal should be prevented. We have come to this: That half Of us are obliged to watch, and nurse and support the other half, most of whom should never have been born In morals and in money, the degenerate are an expensive detri- ment.''
 No living man has studied the eco homie and sociological causation of disease, or is more competent to speak authoritatively on these subjects than is the President Of the American Med ical Association. His self-appointed task it has been for over sixty years to weigh and analyze the relation of occupation, heredity and environment to depraved physical and psychical His conclusions are the convictions, ha1f-baked vaporings Of cracked brained pthusiast-hysterica with emotion.
 BANISH WAR.
 Modern industry reduces the vfgor and vitality of man, woman and child labor exhausts the mothers and fath- CTS of the future and present genera tions Millions of men are prevented from contracting marriage by pecun-
 The infatuated mental infants who consider war as the highest and mo- blest occupation of man should read carefully what this learned scholar and humanitarian thinks of it and of it's foolish devotees.
 diers and marines of all the nations of the globe, whom we are urged by our self styled leaders to initiate. with drew the vigorous men from the nat ural modes of living, labor and pro- pagation, and prevent them from marrying in time; and war, the cyn osures Of our coarse politicians who take the places that should be filled by statesmen, kill and cripple and de- teriorate the best muscle of the land, and tempt them into perdition Only the swea klings' are left-anG their off spring, It is sad, to contemplate the short sightedness of our loud mouth ed leaders and their heelers and of the people who elect them to rule over us.''