The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-15

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number Of States in this country authorize the steriiza
Hon Of those that ncuabe mentally and Of those that
'shabitual criminals
The sterilization authorized by law and recently approved
by the Supreme Court decision by Associate Justice
Holiness intended as punishment for the individual but
Is PROTECTION for the public
No children proceed from individual sterlized al
though all other functions Of life remain before.
The State Of Virginia passed law providing for steriza
ton Of mental detectives the feebemnded The matter
appealed the United States Supreme Court the law
Is declared constitutional
Our civilization tends to keep the feeble minded alive pro-
tecng them against early death by starvation brutality
that would overtake them in savagery
And unfortunately the febleminded often the most
prolific producing greatest number children In many
especially when BOTH parents feebleminded they
produce idiots or very weak minds.
The number Of feebIeinded persons in United States In
stuons has almost doubled in the last seventeen years.
The Virginia case appealed the Supreme Court that
Of confined in State colony for the feeble minded
The poor weakmnded unmarried and the mother
of halfidot child Her mother, grandmother of the half
idiot and also feeble minded is inmate Of the colony
Thus the before the represented three successive
generations Of mental detectives Justice Holmes in his ruling
said truly, THREE GENERATIONS OF MBECILEs ARE
ENOUGH"
There u.s. Of course knowing what and abuses
might be based such law, in extremists should get
control Of it.
It might be decided in some places to sterze all Of those
that believe in evolution and later would automatically
sterilization Of those who believe that the earth and
goes around the sun.
However, it is not probable that the VERY eebemnded
will rule.
Fourier dAlbe, author Of 1.-THE mira and the Super
World and Of "Qua vadmus recently published by Dutton
and Company, believes that sterilization will play i'm
pcrtant part in race improvement
Under civilization inferior races can only be abolished by
ABSORPTION Of them
Here and there they die out in the Pacific islands,
here North America thanks to diseases introduced by
psrior' races.
But the average white this earth hundreds Of
millions that he considers inferior He asks himself whether
he possibly find time and energy absorb 50 many
gradually changing them white by blood mixture.
Fourier dAbe interesting suggestion Is that steriza
zion Of the inferior would accomplish the necessary
results
otherwise They might be made approve of the st
lzation plan by spreading belief in reincarnation
Those Of obectional color would be told, You
won't have any children Of your own kind but when you
COME BACK to this EARTH you will in white body
Think how nice that will be-"
Also there might be small cash payment ncluded in this
plan for improving the race.
Nature has been doing pretty well the WHOLE changing
from cannibas and to vegetarans and flat
dweers from riders wild bualoes to hop" the
Atlantic
But nature only shows the first step, the GENERAL
DIRECTION Man must do the rest.
Sterilization Of idiots and confirmed criminals making
impossible for them perpeuate the Species feebeminded
otherwise, is already here.
That sterilization may be part Of world program
day
conquerors Of the oden days sometimes carried
izon projects of wide and brutal character conquered
nations.
What and conquest did brutality science and civ
Azaon may do humane with the consent and approval Of
n all concerned