The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-12-05
mature Has Always Married the
Wise Man to the Fool and Blessed
Wedding of Beauty and Beast

state physicians under the direction
Of = state eugenics board. He thinks
certain members Of society should be
segregated during the entire period In
which they might have children, and
he holds that when q couple to whom
the state eugenics board has refused
Q license to marry do have children.
this defiance Of law should be punish
Cd by sterilization OF the male.
I'VE do not inherit. strictly. from
our parents, nor from our grandpar.
ents. nor from anybody" said DR.. Dav-
export. but, rather. We inherit from
something ont of which our grand
parents. our parents. and we our
selves, have all developed; and 1t IL
because we have this same source
that we are alike. This material, or
which each one of us Is a part In com.
mon with other members OF our ram
lily, 10 called the germ-plasm.
In order that you may get sharp
er notion of the germ-plasm, let me
compare 1t with something that may
be more familiar--the strawberry
plant. A. you know, this sends out
runners. and at intervals the runner
sends down rootlets, and up springs
q young strawberry plant. About the
same time II sewers it's connection by
\ whitening away Of the runner, from
the first and older plant The young
plant. in turn, sends out a runner, and
this takes root and sends up plant.
Now. you will see that the youngest
Of these successive plants has not
arisen from the next older plant, but
that the whole series OF plants has
arisen from the common runner. And
80 1t is in human heredity. We all
arise from this common germ-plasm.
What IL truly inherited, wnat
streams down through the germ-plasm,
IL not any character or trait itself,
but some little, invisible particle
which determines the nature Of the
trait and which we call. for short. the
determiner."
DR.. Davenport is a strong believer
In what he calls constructive eugen'
les. As instances Of families wherein
intelligent mating has resulted In spe-
cial ability, he cited the Abbott strain
for authorship. which includes Dr. Ly-
man Abbott, the Mitchells for astron-
omy, the Booths for acting, the Colts,
Wholesalers and Pomeroys for the
manufacture of arms.
I'VE think we did q great thing
when we won the cup for supremacy
in the sport of yachting" he said.
"yet without the Herresho6s we
should have had no chance. For three
generations they have shown a COM
bination OF artistic and mechanical
and nautical interests and abilities,
which have enabled them TO make
these sailing crafts that cannot be
beaten. Four of the seven sons OF
the illustrious head of the family were
inventors and boat designers"
withstanding this array Of eu'
genie talent, could not help reflect
ing that the worlds greatest men and
women might nearly all have exclaim.
cd with Napoleon. II am an ancestor
Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lin
coin were NO more "eugenic products
than that puny. young nobody from
Corsica who wrote his name upon the
map OF Europe for all time. But. OF
course, eugenics as constructive
force IL still undeveloped. In hnai
article will give DR.. Davenport's de-
tailed plan for our racial regenera-
ton