Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
WEBSTER COUNTY MEDICAL so
GETTY TAKES ADVANCED
GROUND.
kiME's POSITION ON EUoENics
UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED
Urges Scientific Breeding For Men
Along With Improvement Of Animals
and Grains - Difficult to Prevent
Marriage of Mentally, Physically and
Morally Unfit.

| Fort Dodge. Oct. 23.-At one of the
most extraordinary sessions of the
Webster County Medical society held
| in months, physicians of the city voted
| unanimously in favor of strenuous
measures in the practice of eugenics,
the sterilization of the feeble minded
and paupers SO they will not perpetu-
ate their kind. This was advised in a
paper read by DIR. ]. W. Kline on The
Value of ugenics-Race Improvement
by Better Breeding.
! DR.. E. NJ. Voldeng, superintendent of
the state asylum for the insane. at
! Cherokee. could not be present because
he was required at Spencer. His paper
will be read before the Mems Club al
some future date convenient to him.
The public Will be invited.
| The meeting was held in the corri-
! dor of the court house instead of in the
office of Coroner J. D. Lowry. No
lights could be obtained in the coro-
ner's office. Dignihed professional
men sat on the steps OF the stairway
or took chairs from the offices TO
which they could gain admission.
When pr: Ktr1e finished reading his
paper. the discussion -esembled a
; board of trade With everyone trying
TO talk at once. considerable criticism
Of the. sterilization doctrine was at
first advanced, but when Dr.. ". ".
ment OF the meeting. not dissenting
vote was cast.
Scientific Breeding for Men.
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mans efforts TO produce better farms
and draft animals by breeding and by
fostering better growths Of grains
and grasses.
But what OF man himself?" asked
the speaker who has given thought
10 this animal? What breeder has
Man is as ne is, and what he is be-
vival OF the ftrest.
Only those races which by brain and
Drawn have been able to fight the fight,
10 run the race. have been spared TO
people the earth of today. And the
fttest will people the earth Of tomor-
row. Will it De yours and mine! Will
it be the sons of white, black or yell
low or brown
cussion all other thought has been
dismissed. Ii the race of man is TO DE
improved il must be done along the
lines whereby we improve our horses
and cows and sheep and swiae-alons
the lines we closely follow in breeding
our corn and oats and fruits and fiow-
/ ers."
Son Like Parent.
The speaker told that new man
is but a part of it's parent transplanted.
The son OF man possesses no new
faculties" he said, no characteristics,
no qualities of mind or heart which
the parent did not possess. He is the
sum total of all the traits and all OF
the experiences Of ali The men who
have succeeded him. back 70 the father
of the race. We do not create anew
we simply pass on what has been
handed TO us
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