Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-03-02
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CHILD WELFARE.
5000 10000 . .
Oy Dr. David II. Reedcr of Chicago J

(by Dr. David II. Reedcr of ChiCaSoJ
Fifteen years since ! organized tho
Home Health club and thus unWit.
tmgly became the h-criticiHoc
forerunner of the Eugcnics ana child
Welfare movements. The astounding
truth of Herbert Sponccrs scathin.
aIraignmcnt was and is to today, the
irresistible propclling force; Serious
ly, is it not an astonishing fact thai
though on the treatment of otisprinp
depends their lives ana deaths and
their morals, welfare and ruin, yet
not word of instruction on the
treatment of offspring is ever given
to those who will hereafter be par
ents? is it not monstrous that the
fate of new generation should be-
left to the chances Of mreasoninF
custom, impulse, fancy joined with
the suggestions Of ignorant nurses
and the prcjudicod council Of ole
women? If merchant commenced
business without the knowledge OF
arithmetic and bookkeeping we WOull
'N'N'llI at H'H l'llH "H" i''N i"l '''
astrous consequences or II before
studying anatomy, man sets up a'
a sureica. operator we should won
der at his audaclty and pity his pa
tents. But that~parcnis should bc.
gin the difficult task Of rearing chill
dreu without even having given O.
thought to the principles physical
moral ana inteIle'tual--Which ought
to guide them eNcites neither sur
prizes at the actors nor pity for tho
victims.
Recently seemingly intelligent
and well Informed young man had to
be told repeatedly by a deputy county
clerk that first cousins could not he
married in Indiana. lie insisted that
they could and would be, and lens-
thy and heated argument followed. II
is not strange, though, that so much
Ignorance prevails relative to the law
environ marriage when we consider
the fact that no provisions whatever
are made for the education of young
people relative to this most import
ant subject. Their knowledge of this,
perhaps the most vital for the we'll
being of themselves and the future o.
America, is mainly picked up at ran.
dom, by chance, If at all, ana too oft
en- the Information is CLEANED from
pernicious sources.
Ages before Spencer, another OF
the worlds master minds, Marcus
Aurelius if I'm not mistaken.
summed up thus: SHOW me the youth
of country and | Will tell you what
that countrys future Is
We can never honestly lay claim to
being fully civilized until this woeful
defect in our educational system is
romedied. The sacredness of mar
riaSe, its spiritual side. should be
thoroughly lnstilled INTO the minds OF
youth as soon as they are able to
comprehend the meaning Of the re-
.ationShlp. Thls, ana this method
only will offset the vicious and bane-
ful view which always reaches, and
often poIlutes the youthful mind.
l believe, with Dr. OliHer wendell
Holmes, that the education of the
enid should begin two hundred years
before that child's natal day so that
all who wish to provide for future
generations through posterity must
DeSih now WIN rlsht HNlns' rignt
thinking right doing. IT is a crime
TO me- the uhpardonah.e sin-to raise
chlIureh Nhere the sanitary, mental
ana moral environments are such as
10 produce lhVaIids' imbeclles and
'rl'hlhais' IN many Europe'h coun-
ui'S' phYSica' hons'rosi'ies are never
aiIoWed 10 hVe' why theh' shouid the
aphorIraI type OF uvseheIale or us
oas'u Ne"Nl'hE We aho"eu 10 ne pro-
uuceo 10 GUNNER inc earth Under
our present socl"' cohul'lohs 'here are
'u' lew women WHO are capable o"
SuV'essl ully raising large fanny by
Il iaIse iaiil'lE 40 not mean hNe girls
ana nle poys' mat Is the famlly
i"'SVu oS NY H,o''iei' anu we are an