Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-12-30
Must Have Beauty of Appolo, Intellect
of Socrates, Strength of Samson
and Be Energetic.
TEN OR MORE EWES AWAIT
HIS COMING TO GERMANY
Mittgart Bund's Rather Startling Plan
For Bringing About Improvement
Of Human Race
BY KARL H. Won wIEGAND.
Berlin Correspondent of the United)
Press.)

Berlin Correspondent of the United)
Press.)
Berlin, Dec, S0.-Is there an Ameri-
can millionaire with the beauty of an
Apollo, the intellect of Socrates, the
strength of Sampson or Jim Jeffries,
the restless energy of Roosevelt or
Emperor William, and other necessary
"'physical constitutional requirements, !"
who wants to help improve the race by
becoming one of the founders of new
Garden of Eden9 The Mittgart Bund
of Germany is looking for such man.
As reward he can be one of the first
" adams" in the new Eden and have
10 or more "Eves ''-one at a time
Each union will be only trial mar
riage" lasting from three months to
one year.
The Mittgart society is looking for a
place to locate its "human garden !"
where it can rear a race of children un-
surpassed for beauty, strength, intel
lect and wisdom, who are to become the
Tegenerating elements of the human
race and the hope of the world. The
society also is looking for philanthro-
pist to finance the "Garden." Start
ing out originally with the intention Of
establishing its "breeding farm" in
Germany for the rearing of noble hui
man beings to first regenerate the Ger
man race, the society is now casting its
eyes toward the new world for an ideal
spot and an idealist financier. The old
world doesn It want to be regenerated.
The Mittgart Bund was organized some
time ago by several Germans headed
by Dr. Willibald Hentschel, of Dresden,
who in all seriousness conceived the
idea that places must be established
whereby course of seleetivity, human
beings may be bred and reared like fine
horses, to furnish regenerating and re-
newing elements which alone can check
the steady deterioration and degenera-
tion Of the human race.
Two Curses Exist.
Two curses rest upon the human race,
according to Mittgart ideas-modern
city life and modern marriage. The one
devours the best that is in men and wo-
men, therefore the human garden will
be a farming community to give the
new race start under proper con-
ditions The other it is claimed brings
into life much that is worthless, useless
and destructive, and hinders the race
from reaching its highest development
as shown by prisons, insane asylums,
and the idle rich. The average modern
wedlock is characterized as a crime
against humanity; immoral through and
through. The racial decline, it is stat
ed in the Mittgart literature, is less
apparent in physical deteoriation as in
the degeneration of honor, morals,
duty, modesty, self control, co.opera'
ton, truthfulness and fidelity" 1t is
claimed that in the last analysis the
greater part of the misery on earth to-
day is traceable to modern welded life,
Many children by one wife is character
lied as nothing short Of numbering
the race. The Mittgartists are moi
against the Roosevelt theory but advo
cate another route to reach the same
and they say "racially far better re
suits. " This plan is many children by
many wives,
London Garden Planned!
A human garden" is planned by
the Mittgart Bund which is to have 2Ol
men selected for their physical, intel
lectual moral and spiritual perfection
and constitutional requirements. Eacl
will select wife from among the gar
den who also have been selected bu
upon which less stress is laid, the Nit
gart theory being that all the create
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