Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-24
The Cultured Advanced COL
lege Type Which DR.. John
ston Thinks Is Not Nearly
So Successful as a Wife as Is
the Doll-Faced Girl.

be remeded unless We gave ar.
tention TO the problems of mother.
hood
We are actually building I'D q
race of lunatics idiots paupers and
criminals" said DR.. kellogg These
unfit persons already have reached
the proportions OF a vast multitude:
100000 lunatics. $4,000 criminals,
100000 paupers. 10000 idiots, 10000
epilcptics. and we are supporting
these detectives in idlcness like real
arstocrats, at an expense OF slOO,.
100000 a year
This mighty host of mental and
moral cripplcs is increasing. due to
unrestricted marriage and other de.
generative influences, at moro
rapid rate than the sounder part of
tho population, so that they are
bound in time to constitute the ma.
jority unless some check Is put
upon the increase Every one OF
these lnnatics possesses the right to
vote. even in States where women
are not given the right OF franchise.
"Thc breeding Of women that will
produce healthy offspring is at the
bottom Of the question OF race de.
terioration," continued Dr. Kellogg.
Look at the French. The French
woman is nothing but bifurcatcd lead
pencil and she cannot rear the proper
child.
Contrast her with the German woman
broad, strong and we'll built Her
Romeo can put his arms around her with
| ceiling that he is holding something
besides whalebone
The campaign for eugenic weddings
great thing, but we have yet to over.
ome the professional honor Of physi-
ians, who will not tell us which young
non are unfit to we'd
"One requisite to improve the condi-
ions OF parenthood is a eusenic registry
which would register two classes of per-
ons. First those who. on examination
relation to personal characteristics and
amlly pedigree. are found to measure uD
the eugencs standards Second, the
hildren born of parents whose pedigree
nd physical characteristics conform to
ne required standards. Such a registry
iou!d he the beginning of a new and
FORMED human race which some time far
own in the future will have 50 mastered
ne forces OF nature that disease and de-
eneracy will have been eliminated Hos
tails and prisons will be no longer needed
nd the golden age will have been restored
the browning result of human achieve
ent and obedience to eusenic law"
Dr. -. a. Sargent. of Harvard Univer-
~. scored the modern life. attributing
le decline Of births t0 extreme poverty.
itreme luxury. fat dwelling and the
iced of business.
the ruin of any nation starts when it's
liter class women cease to become moth
$" he said. 1T follows that slporior
ceS do not have ;lS many children as the
ferior ones. destroying. it would seem.
e doctrine of the survival of The fittest.
,-day that Is So but il is because the
estion is not one of the fittest surviving
It the fitting Of as many as possible
survive"
DR.. II. III. Reid. Of the same congress-
etched the ideal type of woman who
onld be sought as the mother of tbe
ture race His conclusions were essen
lily the same as those OF DR.. Johnston
l very interesting point of his address
; me stress he laid upon the dcsira bilII
lne brunette as mother He consid |
'd thht the brunette was much better
Gu .hdh me blonde to resist the climatic
ioition$ o. America and the derenera.
e tendencies OF our city life.