The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-09-09
DIR. LESSING AT PESHASTIN


much malnutrition in the country as
there is in the city. When you know
that in the country balanced ration
could be had more easily than in in
the city, where it could be much more
sanitary, without countless vehicles
passing by and flurrying dirt and filth
ir. food. Fortunately this has been
protected by our sanitary inspectors
in cities.
TO summarize these figures we can
well understand that unless you are
less than one-half the chance to be-
voloped that the city child has, while
you have many greater opportunities
than guardians in the city. 1t is all
a matter of education, and it is this
little matter Of education that brought
me into this country community,
where | was known and could be eff
fective, after leaving the city and
army.
Mental defects or feeble-minded-
ness begins in infancy and early
childhood, due to defective develop
ment from lack of nutrition or hered-
itary weakness. A Predetermined per-
son is born so, or develops it in in
fancy. Then let us look at it from a
broad standpoint from the beginning
Our heredity goes back about eight
generations, or rather as many as you
see fit to use, but if you divide your
blood eight times, that is, if you take
the blood from eight different parents,
multiply by two, which is sixteen,
and divide the blood of yourself six
teen times, the divided parts would be
81 small that the hereditary instinct
of part would be of minor conse-
quence and scarcely forceful enough
to play an important role in the de-
velopment, mental and physical, of
the offspring. For instance, syphilis
would hardly be transmitted through
eight generations and become a fatal
disease in the ninth, so we can at
tribute our hereditary back eight gen
erations. Then to reconstruct let us
begin to build the foundation for the
mental development of new nation
now, figuring that after eight genera
tons it would be entirely new and
perfect, providing sufficient attention
is given to the mating of parents, as
to their physical makeup and mental
ity, etc, lettering the stock as gener-
ations pass. By this method in eight
generations we could have a super
man and woman, perfectly poised
This might be the standard of civili-
cation for which we have to strive.
Probably after such a period we could
lessen the high cost of living as many
per cent as it has risen in the last
twenty years, to ar expense COMBAT
lple WIN our living income. IT Is re-
markaole now, after no intellectual
selectioh III mating, humanity mas
continued TO grow without marked
ie.IogteSsioii, DIS animals 90 when
pelIillt.eu 70 i've Inc same we nave
standardized horSes, hocgs, chlckens,
logs, cats, ana IN medical way, even
Wwil W wiite MICE puV humanity mas
neceiveo no ae!ehCloh. frequently
Woiiuer What IL properly applied the
na.ioh coulu ne puilt 10; III pace OF
every Jay apparent purely selhsh' IN
Sane ussile one person mas 10 get the
pen. Vi alother' Iegaroiess OF cost,
Seil-respect or anything decent. Pure
~ Super,selhSh desire to satisfy
3ne greco, anu What Is the gam
roi every person just ilVes ana dies
me same; why Is one at tne top oil
eiie sociai STATUS announcer IN sing
,olhS why 90 we PUNISH one and
,aud others TO inc SKIES. and why all
inc cause OF thls promlscuous reas-
9nmg is II not because OF no stan
dard OF iiVlng or education? Then If
eGucatiohai systems were sttandardlz-
eo, mace particularly and equally
comprehensive, people would think
very much aiike, act very much alike
ahc 90 unto others as they would be
done by ana cease strife, wars, graft,
eIeed' selIlshnesS ana these things
when make TO MI up prisons, asylums
homes OF detention, schools of reform
ana thousand other things for mas
culIne women and feminine men to
MAKE their living IN the office of a
pubic position for which we pay an
overwhelming tax to support. Why
not start this evolution of better de