El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-26
To Improve Human Race
Day VIII Come When It's PrOPngn-
ffon VIII Be Under Strict Law, with
Religion to Aid Science.
Nv Ella Wheeler Wilcox --


~HAT dav is not as near, yet such
a day must come. a day when
= the propagation OF the human
family, viii be under as strict a law
as the breeding of fine fowls or
bIooded stock. with the additional ele-
ment of religion to aid Science Fine
animals are bred by Science-the
science of careful selection and wise
But it requires more elements to
produce a splendid specimen OF the
human family than perfect animal,
Fine feathers make fine birds, ana
tender flesh and certain prOducllEs
and salable qualities complete the wen
bred fowl
The high-bred horse needs fine
points, speed and carriage But the
perfectly bred human being, such as
the world waits to welcome, must De
mentally equipped and morally en-
dOwed, as well as physically developed,
and all these traits should be equally
balanced.
The man Of stunted or deformed
body or giant proportions, the aneTnlc
and undevelOped temperament or the
OVer-sensuOus and self-indulgent, the
materiaI-minded OF the spiritual bigOt,
are all types to be eradicated The
ideal race-the coming rhOrOughDredS
will be men of good stature and
strong vitality, Intellectual and rev
erent. and all animated with an amD1-
ton TO work together toward the bet
terment Of this beautiful world
Science viii establish laws and par
ents VIII abide by them No criminal,
no diseased person, no drunkards VIII
De allowed to produce his kind
Before marriage license can be
procured, in that day to come, a com
mlttee viii Investigate the conditions
and decide whether the parties are
proper people to become parents This
viii lead TO the preparation Of men
IA Hrn ma = p
hood-the most important occupation
OF life
Women will be guarded and pro-
teCted before the birth of children
and taught the wonderful import of
parental influence. Men viii lift their
hats to an eNpectanL mother, and the
child viii be welcomed with rejOic-
ing and reared as carefully as he was
born
Women VIII be Carefully Guarded
This was done in the days Of old
Z the Intellectual freedom which is hers
| today, and the world was more cruel
Z and possessed less scientific knOWl-
edge
In the next hundred years, Science
I is to make marvellous religious truths,
only known now to the few enlight-
ened minds universal facts. and that
viii help men and women to go about
the propagation of q higher order Of
| human beings with reverence and pa
/ thence.
The time viii come when it will
seem a matter Of surprise TO the den
liens Of the earth that diseased and
vicious people were ever allowed to
produce offspring Meantime let
mothers remember how much they can
do today by keeping their minds up
lifted and their hearts full of love for
the unborn child they are moulding
And let them think before they be-
come wives OF the manner OF men they
are choosing for the fathers Of their
children.
Every well-bOrn child which comes
into the world TODAY will helD along
that time Of which Miss SickIes writes
the time still far away. but coming
nearer and nearer, when men and
women shall realize what il means to
populate the earth-COpyrigh 1913 by
[ American OurnaI- Examiner