The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-09-17
Or the Last Child Will Be
Born Before 2O12,
SAYS PROMINENT PHYSICIAN
Some Valued Opinions Show
ing That Human Race
Is Degenerating.
FACULTIES GETTING USELESS


of manageable age are unmarried.
Two-fifths of the men of this coun-
try of manageable age are unmar-
ried. The birth rate is decreasing
in the United States at the rate of
81 per cent. If things keep on as
they are going; If the capacity for
motherhood continues to diminish
as rapidly as at present. the last
child will be born before 2012, and
in the year 2O17 there will be a
world in which there will be no ba-
bies TO Zoo" and to "agoO," since
the youngest child will be ) years
old. Also neuter type, consisting
of women set apart to do the worlds
work outside the home. will be
evolved"
This is the opinion of j. H. KEEL
logg, NJ. d., f. X. S. NJ, of Battle
Creek, Mich, who delivered an ad-
dress before the American Public
Health Association tonight. Dr.
hellOSS Sdiu Ill part.
"As long as race snuggles to
natures heart; as long as the open
air is it's habitat. and it takes its
food from the hand of nature, the
chances for longevity are good.
THE oyster is held up as an ex-
ample of how living simply means
living lengthily since this mollusk
has race history extending far be-
yond that of man who. by the way,
is one of the most recent arrivals in
the animal world. After brief ex-
istence. however. man is showing I'M
mistakable signs of degeneration.
I'm England, especially in its
manufacturing centers. il has been
found necessary to recruit the pO-
lice from the country districts. since
to find enough men of mans size
for the task. On authority of DR..
Forbes Winslow. .one of the great
medical experts of the world, it is
learned that the entire race is des-
tined to become insane.
I'm New York insanity has in
creased 104 per cent. in 20 years.
while the population of the State
has increased only so per cent"
Insanity is a disease OF civiliza-
ton. explains DR.. Kellogg, as is
shown by the rarity with which this
condition has been observed among
the North American Indians. DR..
Kellogg says that THE fertility of
the American wives is decreasing at
the rate of | per cent. per year."
and that everywhere he turns lin
sanity and idiocy are on the in
crease" Quoting DR.. Holt. of New
York, DR.. Kellogg says
AT least three out of every four
children born into the humes of the
well-to-do classes are fed at some
other fount than the maternal
breast, and the eminent professor
of entomology of the University of
California insists that conditions
are evolving a neuter type CORES
ponding to the working class of
bees and ants.
BY this same token women are
losing their maternal instinct and
the capacity for motherhood, and
few generations will suffice to pro-
duce large class of whom mar
riage will be interdicted and who
will be, by society as well as by ma
ture, set apart as a working class.
What is more, We are not as we
were when Eden was founded.
Weidersheim of Freiberg, the
worlds greatest authority on com
parative anatomy. says that $50
different organs that used to be on
the job are now utterly lazy or ut
iterly useless.
I'VE need not return to savagery
TO become normal" says DIR. Kell-
logg. but We must see that the air |
We breathe is clean as that which a
savage breathes; that the food we
eat is wholesome as the water we
drink. We must give our pale skins
more contact with the sun and must
keep the inside of our bodies as
clean as the outside. We must cui-
Iivate clean blood instead of blue.
Society must establish laws and as
sociations which will check the OPP
grafton OF heredity In the multiple
,ation OF the unfit"