Bisbee daily review., 1914-01-09
SOLONS PROPOSE
 THEIR PLANS FOR
 RACE RETIREMENT
Prominent Men and Women Assemble for First Session of National Conference

here today for the first national con ference on race betterment. The con ference. which will continue it's scs- sions several days, aims 60 devise working plan having as its uiti mate purpose the building of a per. feet race of mortals.
 Eugenics heads the list of subjects scheduled for discussion. Other sub jects that are to receive the attention of the conference are infant mortality, school hygiene, community hygiene. education for parenthood, public re. pression of the soc( evil, and the cost of living as a factor in race ! degeneracy.
 Prominent among those who have accepted invitations to address the conference are Jacob Riis. the noted sociologist and writer: pr. ,ictor C. Vaughan, president Of the American Medical Association Dr. Booker T. Washington. principal of Tuskegee Institute; Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, of Brooklyn: Mrs. Ella F1agg Young, superintendent of the public schools of Chicago: Dr. c. B. Davenport, di. rector of the Carnegie Station of Ex- perim5ntal Evolution: Judge Ben B. Lindsay, of the eDnver juvenile court, ana Governor Woodbridge N. Ferris of Michigan.
 Hygiene and Eugenics offer our sole hope for stronger men and wom- en, according to Winfield Scott VII. Hams, professor of physiology at Northwestern University in his aG- dress today. It is not possible nor desirable that men should be bred hy arbitrary rule like cattle, Dr. Williams said, but the same results may be practically obtained by control in the home, from infancy onward, of the minds of young people.
 "A young woman who has come to the ripe estate of twenty-one or twen- ty and has learned all the lessons about herself from sympathetic, c,oar visioned mother. is in a mental attitude easily to be guided in her choice of a life partner. Similarity the young man will have been broguht to recognize an5 demand a perfect woman for a Wife
 Dr. Hall said that school teachers should not be called on to assume any responsibility of teaching sex n.y. gient It was of the highest import ance. however, he declared, that teachers should supplement home teachings and should assure purity of atmosphere fin school by close super vision of recreation.
 But positive hygiene and positive eugenics can be brought about in the human race only through education" said Dr. Williams. "The first lessen regarding life should be taught 6y the mother to her questioning child. It is practically universal custom of childhood to ask the mother where they got the taby. The thoughtful twentieth century mother accepts the question as indicating the pscholog- ical moment to teach her child She first great lesson and to give it a wholesome viewpoint regarding life.
 Tt is the uniform ani universal testimony of parents that the children accept these truths as sacred, that they are drawn into much closer and confidential relationship to the parents, and that they are protected against contamination by older. low. minded associates"
 The teacher, before the child reaches the thirteenth to the fifteenth year. should not be called upon tC im- part to the child these great funda- mental truths of life which 1t is tie Inherent right of the child to hear from the lips of his parents. The tt acher must show all vigilance and tact in protecting the children of her school against bad influences. The teacher should accept every oppor' tunity to confirm in the minds cf the child the same wholesome attitude ! regarding the sacredness of fife which has been implanted by the parents. Many an opportunity will be offered the teacher for dropping a word ia
 harmony with this mental attitude in the course of nature study work. v Concerning rsotlal relationships, , Dr. Williams said Young people should have 1t very clearly set forth that the only absolute safety is not to permit the beginning of familiarity. Let the young people be taught that the embrace is Society's Sacred Sym hol of protection and that the kiss is society's Sacred symbol of Affection. Once that lessen is clearly impressed we may trust the young people 70 . guard even the threshold of familiar , fly. State laws guarding the licen- sure to marriage may help some in eugenics. but at most little can be [ accomplished through state interyen' , ticn. Most that may be hoped for through eugenics must be accom-
 plished, through, education, A girl whp . Has aedpired al home a high ideal oi manhood can bs trusted not to fall In
 love with Ia man who falls far short of this ideal.
 ' In similar way. the young man , recognizes Ideal womanhood and, hay
 ing made himself worthy Of perfect woman, looks for one for wife