The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-25
Barometer of Public Opinion
A Eugenic Suggestion.

Editor World; There are so many sugges-
tive things in Tho Sunday World; but the one
that appeals to me most is the opinion rendered
by Judge w. II. Taylor of oklahoma City when
he says mine times out OF ten the delinquency
OF children is directly traceable not to the chill
dren themselves, but TO their parents. IL some
thing could be done for the parent question,
the child question would take of itself"
Judge Taylor touched the keynote OF all re-
form when he made that assertion; perhaps
inadvertently. II is impossible for the human
race to accomplish much in the way of reform
or Improvement physically, mentally and espe-
cially morally, under existing conditions and
vironments. before and after birth. The remedy
remedies7
The starting point should be the condition of
the parents Cor would-bo parents) themselves
Arc they fit TO become parents Physically.
mentally. morally and last but by no means
least financially; are they Ut to bring the
house OF an immortal soul into this world? We
do not believe that any dope fiend' or dis
eased with any incurable dsease) man wom-
an; anyone with that worst disease--inhert
alcoholism: should be allowed to bring others
into the world at all: only TO perish mserably
body and soul. What possible good caz result
from such births? Are not here for the
purpos of making the world better place
In which to live" as Colonel Roosevelt
pressed himself when talking to n few years
ago Does the expert stockman improve his herd
by allowing scrub stock to have free reign
among his herd? MOI He has reduced his busi-
ness to exact science and his knowledge tells
him better than to allow any mistakes OF that
kind. Now there IL one woman (perhaps there
are more) in the world who has reduced hu-
of opposition and persecution; many times from
the very ones she was trying to help; and now
df we are rightly informod) the whole nation
OF Holland has arisen TO call Dr. Aletta Jacobs
blessed, oven the lawmakers are saying Holland
would have sunk into the but for her timely
work, And best OF all infant mortality has been
reduced incaiculably. because OF better babies
physically, Has Dr. Jacobs committed any
crime? She has steadily refused to commit muir
der Has she partaken of the Tree of Knowl-
edgo2"
Are forbidden TO know" And knowing
shall 60 on In the same old blind blunder-
Ing, stumbling way. We believe not. II is our
duty TO improve with added knowledge: TO
help others to improve--to help the whole
human race SO far as our knowledge and power
permit DO believe in scientific birth control ?''
Yes II 1t will 30 for the human race what
1t is evident 1t is doing in the animal king
dom; / answer unequivocaly, Yesl The animal
has its master, the human should have -,
master but God. Comply with the laws OF ma
ture; keep yourself pure for the service OF God
and His service only, "Know thyBelf" and
use that knowledge for better race of hu-
man beings. believe in quality rather than
quantity"
We will never accomplish any real reform SO
long as children brought into the wo.d
by criminal parents-("sp spawned" as Ella
Wheeler Wilcox wrote, hike fish upon the
beach) who are not able TO inteligently give
the pen with such swine" as the bootlegger and
his kind. Eunice Barton Davis.
Tulsa, July 20.