Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-08-12
LECTURER SAYS
NEWSPAPERS GET
AHEAD Of FACTS
Dope on EugenicS Is Some
times Too Swift, Declares
Professor Humbert in Ad-
dress to Summer School.

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Santa Fe, Aug. 1.-THE law Of the
survival OF the fittest. to a certain ex-
tent, is not dominant among the hui
man race. according to Prof. r.. +.
liumbert, of the State college. who add
dressed the summer school this fore
noon. Mr.. Humbert decried the tcn-
dency of the newspapers Co get ahead
of scientific facts IN speaking of Gu
genics or euthenics but admitted that
more care is exercised In breeding
horses than human beings.
II was an intensely interesting lee
ture that gave survey OF eugenics
and dwelt upon it's application to the
human race. The speaker emphasized
three negative courses To prevent the
reproduction of undesirahles: Strcter
inspection Of immigrants. which
should begin In the foreign country
by tracing the ancestry of the pros
pective immigrant: by scientific mar
riage laws and by sterilization OF un-
desirables. Among the positive meas
ures he urged the encouragement of
men of genius and the setting of a
premium upon desirables TO propa'
gate their kind.
However. he laid the stress upon
universal peace as great eugenic
force as war such as the present one
in Europe kills off the young and vi
rifle and leaves the inferior and Grip
pied TO propagate the race. However.
even eugenie court may ut times
go astray and Professor llumbert cit
ed Elizabeth futile, first wife of jon
athan Edwards, whose descendants in
clude an abnormally large number
of college presidents. governors, Unit
ed states senators, scholars and other
men of great attainments and yet she
was immoral in the strict sense OF
the word and would be condemned as
an undesirable.
The Pre- Aztecs.
DR.. Edgar L. llewett led his audi
ence into Mexico and showed them by
means of lantern slides the great
monuments of the pre-Aztecs. known
as "Toltecs, that is the builders.
Science has not yet clearly estab-
lished who these people were, but DR..
Hewett again emphasized that all the
races of the Americas of whom sci
ence has any knowledge, were Indians.
Cholula, Militia and other famous
spots were visited and their great
monuments studied. In conclusion,
types of the present-day Inhabitants,
direct descendants of the Aztecs. were
shown.
In tracing the causes of the French
revolution. DR.. Frank H. Fl. Roberts
brought out that a game of tennis
was one Of the causes of the uphe-val
and that the making of a lock led to
the death of the king, showing that
even the most trivial event may have
mighty consequences lie described
In detail the system Of taxation under
which France groaned at the time,
the onerous road tax, akin
to that levied in New Mexico, the ex-
emption from taxation of the church
and mobiles, the salt and actroi or oc-
cupation taxes and other forms Of rev.
enue, indirect taxation being farmed
out to favorites. The follies of Queen
the degeneracy of the
the establishment of the ma
tional assembly, all passed in review
so Interestingly that the audience in |
sisted that DR. Roberts continue dur
ing the period allotted Or. d r. Boyd, |
who was delayed by washouts on the
Santa Pc.