Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-23
Dean Scarlett, One of the
 Foremost Advocates of Eu- geniCs In Southwest, Takes
 Issue With Vice-President
LATE INTERVIEW OF
 MARSHALL IS CITED
Rector Declares Vice-Presi- dent Has Either Been Mis- informed or Has Secured Unpublished Statistics

Although expressing considerable reluctance at the idea of taking ev- ception to the views of Vice-Presideut Marshall for whom he entertains the highest personal respect and cou- siderable degree of regard for many well executed public services, Dean Scarlett of Phoenix. who milht well be termed the father of the eugenic marriage propaganda in Arizona" yes- terday went on record as diametrical- ly opposed to most of the expressions on the eugenic marriage problem. credited to the vice-president in a re- cent interview published in the Ari- zona Republican.
 Dean Scarlett, more than any other man undoubtedly deserves whatever credit is due for introducing the eu- genie marriage theory into active con great measure due to his efforts that the measure, calculated to assure such marriages, was twice introduced into the Arizona Legislature, both times passing the Senate, but failing Of ad- option in the House
 Such a measure as favored by Dean Scarlett would require that every per son appearing for a marriage license must present a certificate of health. signed by a physician of repute, stat ing that. SO far ss the physician knew, the applicant was not affected with mental uusouudness chronic alcohol ism, open tuDercular trouble or any venereal disease.
 Dean Scarlet is the clergyman who came into national attention. by an- that he would not perform the marriage ceremony unless both parties presented a certificate show ing themselves to be in good health
 The dean declared, when pressed for an interview he had not pursued the eugenic marriage theory Co the de- tailed degree followed by some. In other words, he said. he had not en- tered far into the scientific phase re- lativc to acceutuated methods for purposes of pure breeding
 My interest in eugonics,' he said, 'is not as thorough-eoing as that of some proponents of the theory. am, however keenly interested in the health certificate idea, making it rec uuisite that a health certificate be pre- sented before a license for marriage can be issued
 "I would like to know where Vice. President Marshall gets his authority for the statement, as published in interview. in which he is put on record as declaring that ninety nine out of one hundred marriaees based on eugenics end in the divorce courts after six months trial It would seem to me that a preponderant percentage of good would be achieved under the eugenic method, notwith- standing a possible few exceptions to this rule
 'I remember reading several weeks ago the remarks of the vice-p president on the subject of eueenics gave what he said little thought as l felt that either he had not been correctly reported or else that he was speaking at random, as l imagine one who is SO frequently interviewed probably does at times. For l remember won dering, at that time, just where he had found the figures which justified his statement that ninety-nine out of every one hundred marriages based on eugenics ended in the divorce courts That gave me an impression he had not been correctly reported. pr he had gotten hold of some hither- To unpublished statistics.
 "1 recall feeling that Mir Marshall. if correctly reported, was seizing hold 1f the eXtremest view Of eugenics, by which to ridicule the whole idea. Of course it is always easy to set up a straw man and joyously knock him down. Far from aiming al breeding a race of prizsaghtsrs' or running a
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