The New York herald., 1921-09-25
Danish UNFIT PEOPLE,
IS PLEA BY DARWIN
Head of British Eugenist
Society Says Segregation
Is Races Only Hope.
SEES DETERIORATION
Half Wits, Drunkards and
IdlerS Put in Class Unfit
for Parenthood.
LARGER FAMILIES URGED
Son of Scientist Says Selfish
ness by Normal Persons
flinders Progress.
LARGER FAMILIES URGED

Segregation OF the unfit, and tho
raising of larger families by parents
specially fitted in body and mind is the
cure. according to Major Leonard Dar-
win, son of Charles Darwin, for a
deterioration which he sees as having
already set in and which he believes
must inevitably lead in time to an all
round downward movement"
Major Darwin, who is head OF the
Eugenist Society OF Great Britain, lee
tured yesterday before the interna-
tional congress Of cugenics, in session
at the American Museum Of Natural
History. Children, he declared, Of the
right ancestry We're the only hope of
any nation and people, and he insisted
that it was incumbent on the citizens
of this country to take measures to
insure the quality Of coming genera
tions.
What Is necessary" he said. lis to
make 1t widely and deeply felt that it is
both immoral and unpatriotic for couples
sound in mind and body tc limit unduly
the size of their families. No doubt diff
fculty will be experienced in finding out
TO what extent the duty of parenthood
Is imposed in individual cases, but the
main difficulty will be to get this duty
strongly felt by the mass OF the people.
Success in this endeavor will have a
much greater effect on the size of fam
lilies than common sense alone would
indicate.
Argues for Right Family Life.
Failure however, is certain IL the
problem is not attacked with religious
zeal There ought to be great moral
campaign against selfish regard for per-
sonal comfort and social advancement.
for these aims must be sacrificed on the
altar of family life if racial progress is
TO be insured. We must all learn that II
envy and jealousy could be banished the
happiness of our cHsldren would depend
greatly on their Unborn qualities and but
little on their place in society.
we should recognize that we should
best serve our country by bringing
healthy and intelligent children into the
world, provided we can give them q
sound education and fair start in life
All OF us should be ready to make sac
ri.ices of social position in order to obey
our country's call in this respect. The
nation that wins in this moral campaign
will have gone half way toward gaining
an all around victory"
On the subject of detectives, Major
Darwin said that after thorough study
he was convinced the state would have
TO exercise it's authority and prevent
marriages of weaklings and criminals
by confining those VINO were unfit for
parenthood.
Here in the United States" he said,
you have 100000 or 100000 unfortu-
mates. large proportion of them men
tai detectives. who by becoming parents
will pass on their ailments to many of
their children. Of whom many, though
apparently normal. will be endowed
with the power OF transmitting this to
their descendants. If the interests of
posterity are not to be grossly neglected
no feeble minded person should be al
lowed TO become a parent, and those
who have studied the problem are
agreed. ! believe. that the right method
to adopt is segregation. by which is
meant confinement in comfort. the sexes
being kept apart.
No Liberty for Feeble Minded.
I'VE all hate interfering with liberty,
but let it be remembered that liberty