The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-11
HUMAN STOCK SHOWS
URGED BY PHYSICIAN
DR.. Kellogg Would Award Blue
Ribbons to Perfectly De-
velOpcd Persons.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Jan. 1o.-Human
stock shows with blue ribbons for the
most perfectly developed men and women.
are worthy of consideration. said Dr.
j. II. Kellogg Of Battle Creek to-day in a
paper read before the National Confer
ence on Race Betterment
He advocated lacking human pedigrees
TO every perfect person born in the world.
II would show the physical, mental and
moral makeup OF his ancestors and per-
haps carry some asides on their morals
the human stock show, he believed,
would be "A natural sequence.
The Rev. Newell Dwight Hills Of
Brooklyn said that the laboring class
Is To-day In the worst condition 1t ever
was in and that methods for relieving the
conditions are not necessarily associated
with medicine as much as economies
Dr. Hills, who is closely identified with
the foundation OF the present conference,
attacked the factory conditions In this
country BY comparison with those of
Great Britain. showing that although
matters were terrible In that country
there was concentrated Government
movement to correct the evil. He pleaded
for a similar study in the United States
"A crowded district like the New York
Bowery presents a problem that cannot
be solved by physicians" continued Dr.
Hills. AN inventor will solve II and Il
will BE- done by producing an electric car
that can travel 200 miles in fifteen min
utes. Then the workman can live In the
country.
The breeding OF women that will pro-
duce healthy offspring is at the bottom
OF the question OF race deterioration. Look
at the French. The French woman is
nothing but IA bifurcated lead pencil and
she cannot rear the proper child.
Contrast her with the German woman
broad. strong and well built Her
Romeo can put his arm around her with
a feeling that he Is holding something be-
sides whalebone.
THE campaign for eugenic weddings In
a great thing, but We have yet to over
come the professional honor OF physicians
who Will not tell us which young men are
UNIT TO wed"
DIR. ID. A. Sargent OF Harvard rniver-
sity scored the modern life. attributing
the decline Of births to extreme poverty
extreme luxury. fiat dwelling and the
speed OF business.
The ruin of any nation starts when
its better class women cease 10 become
mothers" he said. 1T follows that su-
psror races do not have as many children
as the inferior ones. destroying. II would
seem. the doctrine of the survival OF the
fittest. To-day that is 40. but Il Ia be-
cause the question is not one of the fit,est
surviving. but the fitting of as many as
possible to survive"
strict laws should be made regarding
marriage and sanitation said DR.. s. A.
A.. knopf Of New York There should
he law against marriage between tu.
berculous persons II Ia as important as
any OF the marriage laws proposed. be-
cause the offspring OF such marriages are
weak and they deteriorate the race.
Finally there should be a school for
paternity operated by the State and
compulsory for every male. Fathers need
10 know as much as mothers"
8. 8, Mcclure. the publisher. talked on
the tobacco question at an impromptu ses-
sion Of the conference.
Cigarette smoking heroes In the modern
magazine are. believe. inserted into
stories by the editors Of publications con-
trolled by the big interests" said Mrs.
Amanda Holcome
well. I will talk for the publisher"
said Mr.. Mcclure. IL have never inserted
cigarettes I'm heroes mouths. have taken
them out lots of times. As "A general thing
We let the authors copy alone and the
boys. Richard Harding Davis and others,
generally use pipe for their heroes.
NO magazine Is controlled by an in
terest. because magazine Ia designed to
make money and to do this II must please
the public, An editor cannot serve two
masters. and tobacco ads are not used be-
cause OF any control"