Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-08-21
PRiIlSH SANANT DIST SsEb
ICGENICs REEORE CONNEN-
IiON YESTERDAY
POSSIBLE TO IMPROVE RACE
suggests Regulation of Marriage
Preventing Those Physically
Unfit From propaging
Themselves

SlDNE1 Austfilla AUX q"
Continuing an address ON "Heredily
which he began at Melbourne last
week. Professor William Batesman.
pr, idenl OF the British Association
tor the Advancement of Science. in
terested the members of that famous
organization here today with many
observations upon heredity IN the
ease OF man. particularly touching
th. problem of eugcnics.
The remedies proposed IN Amer
lea, 20 far as they al mat the eugen-
b. REGULATION of marriage on con
greheu8iye scale" he said. struck
hin Co.'S devised without regard To
the needs of either Of individuals or
o modern state
On this point he made these FUR
ther remarks
Undoubtedly n the y decide to
breed their population of one uni
orm puritan grey. then can DO II IN
. few generations, but ! doubt II
umid rosectability viii make ma
ZION happy and ! am sure that qual-
titles Of different sort are needed
iru Is To compete with more yigor-
on. aud more yarid commpnities. Ey-
,ryone must have preliminary sym
pathy with the aims OF eugenics both
abroad and Al home Their efforts
al the least are doing something TO
discover and spread truth as To the
phy siolOgical structure of society.
The spirit Of such organizations
nuwey, r., almost of necessity suffers
from a bias towards the accepted and
ordinary, and II they had the power
il would 20 hard with many ingerd-
tents of Society that could be I'll
fuarod IL l. not the eugenists who
viii give us what Plato has called
divine releases from the common
WAYS II some fancier with the
c.thohcity OF Shakespeare would
axe MS in hand. well and good but
would no, trust even Shakespefres
meeting as q committee. Let Us re-
member that Beethoyen's father was
an habitual drunKard and that his
mother died of consumption.
out he saw the possibility that
inrorqh genetic research nation
might elect by what sort OF beings
IA will boz represented not very many
penerations hence 1t Will be very
surprising indeed II some nation does
max, trial OF this new power, ne
.rl1. They may make awful mis-.
takes. but think they will try
The definitely feeble-minded We
NAV with prupriety restrain he
,outipued. "as We are beginning "a
ca even in England and we mas
safely prevent unions In which Ootf
parii,. are defective. for the evl
den,e shows that as q rule such mar
riage, though often prolific, com
monl, produce no normal children al
All The union OF such social yermir
Ne should no more permit than W
would allow parasites 10 breed on ou'
bodi, Further than mat III re
straiuf of marriage We ought not u
go, 90 least not yet
Something too may be- done by
retorr of medical ethics Medica
student are taught that II Is theii
duty to proloug life at whatever cos
IN suffering They may have beer
rieh, when diagnosis Wa uncertain
and 1ut,rpruece usually OF ~mAll 81
iect. bui deliberately To intereier'
NOW Tor 'H preservation of an inian
"a gravity diseased that u can ncve
40 bappt or come 20 any good Is ver'
lke wantou cruelty In private lev
men defend interference MOS
wbo has. .ten these cases ilngerihl
an sst fnat the system b. deplorabl
tu,.a.t where eau any line be drawn
mo b.pfn.l.f would reply that IN Al
noes ..rH decisions have been mad
bv civilized communities with iai
.ncce.. both iu regard 10 'lme an
in the closely analogous case oi lu
macy SD Y0H as cientiiic kno" leds
becom.. common property view
NOR. .g.unabIc and may add
more humane are likely 10 prevail
.To .U these great biological
problau iHat modern society mus
sooner or later face there are man
,snecf. besides the obvious one'
Iniant mortality Xe are asked 10 ia
mont without fhe .iightest ihouEN
of whaf th. world would be- ike
the maIoritt oi these infants we're :
syrvi,. Tho decline Boa the birih-rai
In tha coautr., already os"r-pop'
lated often depiored and ~e ar
to,d tIat 81 aauor in which popni'
lion q NOT rapidly increasing mus
be on decline The slightest az
quantapra with biology. or eve
scbool.lu, natural history show
that th. inference may be- entirel