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history, conveying to their offspring a reasonably adequate legacy. If the "fit only are born" we start with a healthy stock. What a significant and tremendous advantage this is. At once we rid the world of the potential inefficients-the feeble-minded, the insane, the criminal, the deaf-mute, the drunkard. If we are correct in assuming that the reason why all former civilizations have failed and passed

onment counts for very little,-we must never forget that. Heredity and environment are the two important determining factors in the life of every child born. If eugenics furnishes the heredity by ensuring the birth of the "

our part. Every mother must become an enthusiastic eugenist. If she begins to teach, and preach, and practise its principles now, she will contribute to the heredity of unborn generations. To those of us who are alive

ing our race stream pure. This is no small task, and the only way it will ever be satisfactorily accomplished is for each mother to realize her individual trust. The average individual does not realize the actual conditions that prevail. When recently the question of the public health was investigated by competent authorities

hat document the annual financial loss from needless

are believed to be increasing in their ravages. Minor ailments, believed to be nine-tenths preventable, are now costing the nation many dollars throug

rtment of health. The work of this department would be varied. It would include direct work in promoting health on the part of the government, such as administering the food and drug act; aiding the h

momentous of the conservation movements in this country, and that of all the n

ven times dirtier than Germany and ten times as unclean as Switzerland." He declares that: "Lack of interest in preventive measures against diseases is slaughtering the human race." He tak

0,000,000 annually. Typhoid fever is estimated by Dr. George M. Kober, dean of th

rtheless, of the 90,000,000 people now living in the United States at least 5,000,000 will be lost through this disease because adequate effort is n

tality by improved milk and water supplies and by educ

is country it would be found that the little hearses would reach from New York to Chicago. If we sh

ed, the rates from chronic diseases have been steadily increasing

urth to one-half by proper measures is asserted. In other words, there might be saved every

t would be to preserve the public health. It has proved rather the reverse, however. We have been able to inaugurate various species of conservation,-of lands, of forests, of water,-but the conservation of human l

the spirit of an inspiration, at the time when women are about to be enfranchised, is significant. It may be that destiny has decreed that the one shall be the complement of

er daughter's offspring, and to find pleasure in the society of her grandchildren. She should, therefore, devote all her efforts to ascertain the truth, with reference to the physical and mental equipment of her future son-in-law; his ability adequately to s

eserving of the slightest consideration. We are treating of the sacred things of life-of life itself. If parents combine to crucify and betray their daughters-to sell them body and soul into bondage for social or other advantages; if they preserve silence when they should speak and

ivilized world some woman (a daughter of some mother) is being unsexed because of th

few years ago. It was found from a mass of statistics that there were two recent instances when the death rate of infants decreased suddenly and quite decidedly. The first instance was when the Civil War in this country caused a cotton famine in England. As a result of the famine the factories of Lancashire were all closed and the employees being th

the besieged inhabitants of the capital suffered from hunger and disease. The death rate of

at mothers' milk, even the milk from badly-nourished, poverty-stricken mothers is infinitely better than an abundant supply of artificial food combined with neglect. In view of the fact that there is a distinct tendency to evade this maternal duty these facts should be suggestive

n growing better, coming nearer the truth, and that as a result of this patient progress, there has been evolved the eugenic idea that is to solve the problems of the human family. If the "fit only are born" think of the possibilities of education and of environment. Each child is born with a great potential promi

he children, in other words the nation's manhood and womanhood, must be considered and included in their platforms. They know that the time has gone when statesmen will exclusively decide what shall be done with the sons and daughters which women bring into the world. They know that the mothers of the race must have a voice in deciding for peace or war since they create every soldier that will lie dead when w

eugenic club. The object of the club should be to further the eugenic idea. Pape

when any legislative proposal is made having a eugenic interest. Find out what they know about the public health as contained in the report on page 48, and if they will vote in favor of a Public Health Bureau. You should know how your representatives stand on the Pure Food and Drugs Act; if they really appreciate the significance of the measure; if they would be in favor of pensioning mothers and wi

short time. If the various States concede to women the right to vote-as they will sooner or later-such mothers' clubs would have a l

one by mothers to direct the authorities as to just what is needed to e

ould maintain a trained nurse to care for the sick and helpless, to teach the people how to live, and how to

really deserving of help and sympathy and inspiration. The women who do this work for the work's sake are amply repaid by the good they find to do.

ible. They will gain the confidence of these mothers and they will tell them all they know, in tactful and diplomatic and common-sense language so that they may appreciate the eugenic reasons for everything they do regarding the care and well-being of the baby. In every city in the country this work is needed and is waiting for the missionaries who will volunteer. To teach mothers the need for boiled water as a necessary drink for baby and older children is alone a worthy avocation. To impress upon one of these willing but ignorant mothers the absolute necessity for washing her hands before preparing baby's food, that she must keep a covered vessel in which the soiled napkins are placed until washed, that she should frequently sponge her baby in hot weather,-and explain thoroughly why these are important details,-is a work of true religious charity. They should be taught to rid their houses of flies, and especially to keep them from the baby and from its food, bottles, and nipples. They should be instructed to discontinue milk at the first sign

pon a sound financial basis because, to be successful, it would have to bestow much material aid. I know of clubs t

y in the United States; that these clubs will be guided by, and be an instrument of, a National Eugenic Bureau, composed of women, that will co?perate and harmonize the work as a whole, so that the conservation of human life will be effected to its maximum extent; that the excessive infant mortality will be overcome, because ignorant and incompetent mothers-the greatest cause of infant mortality-will be e

nterest of the race, we shall begin to see the dawn of a promise that will achieve its

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