The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-01-12
MOTHERS
Must Be Selected from Stand.
point of Health for Sake of
Future Population.

BATTLE GREEK, Mich, Jan. 12
The first national conference on
Race Betterment, which has been in
session here since Thursday entered
/ thin morning upon the last day of Its
meeting. gements were made
to hold three sessions so as to com
pletc the program today. Many sub
iects were up for discussion and they
were the most varied in nature on
any day since the conference began.
The cause of the decling birth
rate and segregation" were two
Interesting subjects taken up.
EugeDics election of healthy moth
ers and provisions for the cost OF
burying and rearing children should
be made if the race is to survive. ac-
cording to DR.. J. McKeen Cattell, OF
ColumD'a University.
I'm order that the existing population
may be maintained or indeed that the
race may survive, It will apparently
be necessary to make a eugenic seiec-
tion of healthy mothers and to provide
that the cost of bearing and rearing
children shall be equally shared by
ALL"
This declaration was made here to-
day in an address by DIR. j. Mckeen
Cattel, lessor of philosophy in Co
lurnbia University, delivered before the
National Conference on Race Better
menr.
DR.. -cattellEs subject was The De
cltnlnr Birth Rate The completed
amily OF contemporary scientific man. :
said he, lis about 2, the surviving
family aboutI1.S and the number Of
Surviving children for each scientific
man about / C. twenty-five per cent
of the families are childless: only one
family in seventy-4ive is larger than
six. The same conditions obtain for
other college graduates.
..If the size of family of college
raduates should continue to decrease
as it did during the nineteenth CEN
fury, students graduating in 1922
would have no children.
"If the birth-rates in England, Ger
many and France should continue to
decrease as they have since 1850,
tlaere would be no children born a
hundred years hence.
"In France the population IS now
stationary, while in some departments
there are four deaths for every three
bir+f,s. In other nations an increaslLlsg
nonulation has been maintained
through a. decreaaiDg deathrrate; but
I'M England and elsewhere the death-
rate must increase, being now 50 low
on account of the age-constitutlon OF
the population. It Is only In japan
mat the birth-rate is increasing.
though it still remains nigh IN Russia
rive dreadnaughts built annually n
england are fragile toys compared
with five million children born annu-
ally In Russia.
ANSWERS from 461 leading sclen-
ttfic men giving the causes which iea
~ the lir11fta zion in their size OF their
- ,,,sIfee show that 176 We're not VOL
1,YtariIv limited. while 2s5 were 50
Ii-,,i+ad The cause voluntary ltmlta-
+ion being health in 1873 cases, e9epeIlse.
IN az cases, and various other ca uses
in "a cases. ,...- !,
+v,o-tl, iraes of the cases. In the stano-
ordized family of two, the co9lol1loii
il desired in six cases out OF seven seven.
.sTn over one third of the tanall l
tho limitation was involuntary Nu ,
- infsrtility and other patholosical
,s,,sae INT if these had not obtain CO.
S,oI,,nt,rv limitation would nave Oc
c,,rrad later, in nearly all or perneps
~ oil cases. Neither the prevalence
~ t,a voluntary limitation OF the ST.
~ farnfIy. nor the fact that the So
II fan,i1y Is limited directly or lna,-
,.aotI1y through fertility or hll-ael a,-
=, ,,ooya than three-fourths OF lh
80 can be regarded with sasisiaS-
~ III restriction of the propagat ton o.,
10 saah1e minded persons is necesss.ly
- tba nrod,1ction of defective oel ill,
l = Is To be avoided, declafe 81
1ue.t11 os "a Hart, of New YORK.