South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-25
PRIZE OFFERED
FOR wSUPER-BABY
Parents of 100 Per Cent Child
viii Receive $1,000-Phy-
SiCianS Give Necessary Quail
fiCatiOnS.
BY NIxoLA GREELEY-sNuTH.
Copyright, 1913, by the Newspapel

Copyright. 1913. by the Newspaper
Enterprise A-ssociation.)
The s~uper-baby, that still imaginary
infant who is TO unite in one small
person all the mental, moral n
physical projections Of the human
race, has ceased suddenly to be a the
DRY of eugenics and. If a learned body
of physicians and sociologists in New
York is TO have its way, Will SooH
become a living, breathing and, 1t may
be, squalling fact!
The sociological fund Of the Medi-
cal Review of Reviews has offered a
prize of $1,000 to the mother n
father who shall produce this loo per
cent infant.
100 Percent Parents" Necessary.
According to the mathematical the
DRY os eugenics, the 100 percent Dapy
can result only from the marriage OF
a 100 percent father and an equally
perfect mother. SO any young man
or woman who wishes to apply for the
$1,000 priZe-it is TO be paid IN Two
installments Of $500 each, the first at
the time OF the Super-marriage, the
/ second at the birth of the s~uper-oapy
must send. with an application TO
Frederick II. Robinson, zoe Broad
WAY. q history of his family for three
I generations. To qualify for the prize
the applicant must establish his men
tai. moral and physical fitness.
Beauty won't count" Mr.. Robin-
| son observed when he outlined his
! plan for the eugenic baby. Mr.. Rob
inson is the president OF the u with
the seven league name. What we
( are seeking" he continued, lis health
moral. mental and physical. Oh
course, after we have found a man
and woman who can meet all the re-
- - 80 ~
which will be made up of men ana
women physicians, the problem VIII
still remain of making them fall IN
love with each other. We will intro
duce them and hope for the best.
Love Important Factor.
of they don't like each OtheT, Ihdl
will end matters, for love Is "a very
important factor In the p~rouucIioh VI
the super-baby.
rs there any age limit TO the CON
test ," injured. you know Dr.
/ Gorton. father of the eugene twins
of Brooklyn, was more than 80 at the
time of his marriage"
THAT was a freak of nature, MT
/ Robinson replied. Generally speak
ing. the best age for marriage, from a
eugenic standpoint. is between 70 ana
% for a woman and between 20 ana
20 for a man. but we won't set any
age limit in the eugenic baby contest:
/ AnV man or WOman irrespective Va
birthdays. who comes nearest TO pass
ing II 100 percent examination VIII
win the $1,000 prize. l believe that a
woman's choice of a father for her
children should be absolutely unham-
pered." ...
Mr.. Robinson added earnestly:
the present time her selection is nam
pered and limited by the fact that
has to seek a good p%rOvider as well as
a. good father. This has done a great
deal to injure the quality of the hu-
man baby, because it not only limits
a woman's choice in the first instance,
but IT tends TO restrict her to that
! choice no matter how foolish IL may
/ prove to have been.
Best Mother Self-SuStaining.
Under prevailing social condltlons
) many children are born that should
never come into the world at all. They
are the offspring of drunkards or NOR
al imbeciles whose wives continue to
live with them through fear or from
their lack of training to make a llv-
ing for themselves. 1t is my opinion
that. other things being equal, the wo-
man who earns her own living makes