Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 11, 1915, Page 18

‘. 7 W the Eudenic Marriade.s [ @%@T&amfi O%flc, G — A Woman Scientist Explains That Couples Who Sacrifice Old Fashioned Love for the Good of the State Must Logically Make Up Their Minds to Allow the State to Censor } Every Detail of Their Marriage. Jessie Dana, the Grand Niece of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Who Killed Herself Because She Thought She Had Failed as a Eugenic Mother, Alene Houck and Charles Flynn, the Eugenic Babies, Pledged to Eugenic Marriages ] by Their Parents, and Who 'Will Probably Find That the Government Will Have Mede Their Matrimonial Path Easy by the Time They Have Grown Up. By Mme. Selma Huldricksen, The Famous Norweglan Psychologist and Feminis’ WO recent experiments in eugenio In a statement unparal marriages have challenged the at- Jelled fn human annals foF tention of the world. Bugenists its personal detachment from throughout the earth are considering the the subject of the young results these Instances present of widower, Bdmund Trow- honest, earnest attempts to serve the bridge Dana, professor of cause of race betterment. philosophy and logic In the ‘The ocean, tossing up the frail body of University of Minnestoa, o woman on the beach of the New Hng- sald of his wife's departure from this land town, Nantucket, afforded o spec- plane: 2 tacle startling even to representatives of of his wife's departure from this p.ane: of success alons. They must have the help of the State, The noble plan for the improvement of the human race must - b 1 be under government control. Stlunguc+ e Jedtie Dama, grandaiass of «o.?.:f:.'li'x;,“ eviphghaeglb ycid The couple who contract a eugenio mar- i the American poet, Henry Wadsworth yandously tragic but beautitul end. For riage should be wards of the State. Their i Longfellow, by suicide, had proclaimed Mrs. Dana bringing up a child was a progeny should be its wards. { her failure. religion. She had the strongest sense of Conditions that , permit a eugenic ’ In Brooklyn two wouldbe eugenie Uty in regard to the making of a human mother to be literally worrled to death, A o oy life and consclousness, combined with parents have asked the court for & sepa whyt is rarer, a sense of the enormous im- ration. The pair, Dr. and Mrs. Charles portance of environment, all external eir- Iy desires to lend herselt to race im- E. Weber, are childless. Again written cumstances as air, food and persons. peovement should enjoy freedom from de- over against a sincere experiment is Jdke Neltszche, she had a contempt for vitalizing care. mediocrity. The baby must be brought There should be absolute censorship “Failure.” up not merely well enough, but in the Are eugenists discouraged by these slg- best possible way. nal faflures? No. The first to essay the “She had ovn;nhlhnl ph;:.nodht?l; lcl'e:- working out of a truth are always suf- . tifio nicety, and when after boiling the ferers, are in & degree, indeed, victims, baby's botties the carbonate of soda lett T \ 5! ¢ a little sediment inside it was a very ® ploneerd in & new country dle of the us matter to hes ILikewise when of the eugenlc marriage. From the mo pangs of hunger or in the fangs of wild ghd would scrub the rubber nipple with ment & man and & woman announce thelr beasts. The first squad of men to storm a bolled brush and & hair came out of the intent to form a eugenio unmion they a trench know that they will perish. brush and stuck to the rubber she would 2 should have the ald of the government Thelrs is the glory of providing a bridge MAke a blg matter of it. Worry over First in the matter of a medical exami- Pwove: By arge these details sent her into moods of nation. Had Mrs. Dana secured before messarn C on WAUA(olberiamers wil o ' melancholia. She was too weak physical- her mu-rtu‘o the advice of & consclen- . ¢ victory. ly, and too temperamental to make a tious physician, concerned not merely for So she who sleeps beneath the rude €ood mother. Her ’fl"b‘:“‘""m‘:’z';‘ her health, but taking a broadly ractal wooden slab on which s written “Little - her power .and mow I belleve . view of the matter, she might have re- " was firmly convinced that she would : Camrade” b gorved & Juriose. Bho s Lot L1 omcu o rtg by Sooed bn advoe U abialn from maler sacrificed to sclence, for by her sulcide right. That she took her life under the of medical sclence she might have seemed she shed & light upon the workings diff- circumstances was a beautiful act.” unfit for the task of motherhood. Had culties in the way of the practise of So “The Little Comrade” removed her- it discovered incursble. neurosis it would eugenics. To remedy we must first see ~ S¢If from her son's life path. The year- bave forbidden the marriage, and the roll what is to be remedied. The young wife 0\ Son. named in honor of GeGorge Bli.:: of the world's tragedies would have been Edward Shawn and Ruth St. Denis, Whose Eugenic Mar- riage Is Being Watched with Interest by All Students of Eugenics. from the subject the young wido who drowned herself because she thought t lessened by one, Governments should and minis she could not rear well her baby by her :flngt.:fidh::n:’:tnwszfiolnl’lfih e establish & bureau of medical examina- trations In case of emergency, too, the parents ot held aloft & torch shedding a lurld yo 0o ruther will go back to his profes- tion. One of the examiners should be a 5 o n tatives should have the privilege of summoning skilled neurogist and psychologist, who of the gov- government ald in the form of govern- hip at Minneapolis. Mrs. Anna Weber's statement in codrt “Cpy tory, Yould detect unfavorable symptoms that e rn ment Tt oytiaiane o Ben s 25 fuvees- at she refused to bear children because Bu‘{ow;::‘%‘w::l:?u"al:fl.an::d? ’ might escape the attentjon of the man competent to cumulated wisdom of the nation in :: L o ek money te Simply that eugenics ig right, that ft t WO concentrates upon merely physical give advice gard to child rearing should be at the » bring up and educate them, was yojentifically sound, and that it will event- "8”"‘ 5 about the command of the eugenic mother. :'lm m‘:‘ :.M‘“‘ problem. yally he accepted and generally practised. [Granted that the couple eatisfactorily care of the tl The government should have s . o 4 vision, also of the child’s education. 'g‘::re parents would have the privilege of sug- gestion and of tonference with govern- ment officials in regard to the little one's e H -3 e B g o -3 H pass this examination they should receive child. Had That Jessie Dana died, self-slain, at twen- story u!:.t‘ when Mrs. Weber asked her ¢y.nine merely shows her own errors in x“mo?:t tl; luu“w::l:on .t.‘I: ;o.,. M ,; cl: that he would mw!o? v 3:.“‘ otise Of sugesics. The big (ruth. - That theitethends iy should not Pro- {napector for * the children she might bear he slapped of the Du: udm&yc 'Vb'“fihil l: t:n‘t. a clude this ”Wl' lfi;;mlu,!;:r.i: the govern- "‘Sl{hm. but in matters which the good \er face. Shringing modesty it not, it . pair, however sealous and public-spirited, sutance B pttn:aulur::?a Sl =::‘ Dapn.n|: :houl; %:“!:“:.sr involved the government Tuete Prre Satshn.Sn e e TRAY'RO) 380liee sugenise With SRY hove 45 th for it would rid her mind yisit once right, when 1t was 'dele'mfémfifnh:"um they woul of care and body of the toxins of month the distraught little woman would the child from its parents and reer § thelr pr:.g.. Y owobe seriously taken, and y o worry. ‘The government should formally pot have magnified the importance of that according to the government's standards, in the State mould be negligible factors t ou “ Eflt Bef Y Dl Accept the responsibility of reariug the carbomate of soda sediment, or the halr Thua Kovernment supervision wears 1h hope weere , 1€ EOVernment's pride and ore 10u e il in hyeiosl comfort and Euarinies from the serubbing brush Aud she would carried lo its logical conclusion by sew Of the peren L} 1% Sensored children F you are of average welght, height, and oyt in single slices four miles would be o ve n taught how to eliminate both. Of the child when grown to maturity offices ww ) Javing come to its ert E saying, “w l appetite and live o be seventyfive you the length. Five tons of fish and 12,000 Dl that Sracebul aad besstital pale Ba: 1L Australis T St teg, ™® braach of the goverament activi- 0,40 Breat work’ of Face “Detterment s will have eaten @fty-four tons of solid eggs would stand {0 your credit, while the Ward Shawn and Ruth Bt. Denis, artists, reduces the death rats by & cemaldarabls The censored.child, product of sclentific sclentine pe c5i3t0red a5 specimens of food and fftythres tons of liquid. That normal cheese eater would easily have con- DOt should be freed such anxiety. percentage and that increases appreci- parenthood, would then thus repay the Buch 2 ereitbood. 1s about 1,300 times your own weight. sumed 400 pounds. But this is not It has made ably efficiency. Holland is looking to the Eovernment for its guardianship. lp!.uren: upeuztgd'lcour-e. and such results, are If you were to stack the bread you will The vegetables you will have eaten would :he way easy for the of a healthy, improvement of the race inthe same per- the army and navy recruited from such Flynn, a, m"’rm Alene Houck and Charles have in this number of years fll a train three miles long. You will DePDY child, healthy because its parents sonal manner, Counsel about how to source, and government berths filled more bables, have L, 2% themselves eugenio nould eaual & tairsized bulldins. have consumed some 10,000 pounds of y,LI'hY. HABPY because the mOthers bathe the baby, how to feed and clothe effciently because of that law. The e wsey ¢ Ueen pledged (o a cugenia of butter you will have used sugar and 1,500 pounda of salt. -If Tou are m{lm' has no such guests as the spectre bim, and the place and manner of his of service should be compulsory for only they xr‘,,’,, Yy their mothers. By the time 108 this bread would come to & ton and & & smoker you will have used about & of fear for the little one's future. Yet gleep would not be resented by parents & comparatively brief time. Afier the ex- women wil] ‘ot (0 WAITY, men and "*""‘"M are & lover of bacon and fon of tobrsce i pines ene i LAl government supervision should continue who before the child's birh have piration of that term it should be elective, Btate supervisi 1o 7, DAY 8coepted ~ were to that which you have eaten smoked 1,000,000 cigarettes. Wier brth him, in that sense, the ward of the gov- LOve marriages without regard for finess ried life e, *.00 in all details of mar- There should be house-to-house visits ernment. for parenthood might still 8 on. But ““Nl.:- and so these two will have aQ 3 Copyright, 1015, by the Star Compaay. Great Rritain Riwkte Baverves K \ 3 s * 4