The

Eugenical News

VOLUME VI

1921

PUBLISHED BY

The Eugenics research association, cold spring Harbor,

long island, N. Y.
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Lincoln was 9 years old. Of her ori-

HEREDITY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
gin nothing is known certainly. Ac-
Abraham Lincoln had a combination cording to Hay (Encyl. Brit.) she " is
of traits such as is found in most said to have been an illegitimate
great men. He was industrious. He daughter of one Lucy Hanks." And
was excellent in meeting a situation. findings of the present author do not
His humor disarmed opposition. He encourage one to hope that this line
easily saw the weakness in his op-
of Lincoln's descent will ever be
ponent's armor. He usually knew the known. There is rather good evidence
best move to make in a difficult situ- that at least one of Nancy Hanks'
ation. Finally, he had " vision." In
sisters had a number of illegitimate
his debates with Douglas, which won
children even by more than one
him the Presidency, he waived imme- father; but the mores of frontier life
diate advantage to secure remote and
then were not what they are today in
greater aims. Though his handling our best cities.
of the Civil War had its inevitable If the maternal side shows no ade-
mistakes the northern army proceeded quate source of Lincoln's traits of
under his steadfast guidance to cer- insight and far sight, how about the
tain victory. Whence came the ele- paternal side? This is the topic
ments of this mosaic? The environ- which Rev. W. E. Barton has discussed
ment of any fraternity may direct the in his remarkable book. Lincoln's
development of its germs but the putative father, Thomas Lincoln, was
;

germs themselves came through the the son of a prosperous Kentucky

gametes. What kind of gametes were pioneer, but as a youngest son he was
they what other performance has left to shift for himself. He became
;

their germ plasm showed? a carpenter, but was easy going, with-
Lincoln had
only one full sib out ambition, slow to anger but a
Sarah (b. 1807, died in childbed, formidable adversary when his anger
1828) of her personally we know
; was aroused. He was strong, well-
nothing. She was only budding out knit, sinewy and but little over
(at 21 years) at her death. We turn medium height. " He was neither
to his mother, Nancy Hanks. She " is industrious, nor thrifty, was slow of
described as a beautiful girl with movement and of thought; was fond
pleasing manners, slender and sym- and stories." Could this man
of jokes
metrical form and above the ordinary have been Abraham Lincoln's father?
height, a brunette with dark hair andThe difficulty in affirming it has led
soft hazel eyes and a high intellectual
to rumors that have developed into
forehead." " She always wore a tales which have ascribed the paternity
marked melancholic expression which of Lincoln to Abraham Enlow, to
fixed itself upon the memory of everyGeorge Brownfield, to Abraham Inlow,
one who knew or saw her." Herndon to Martin D. Hardin, to Abraham
stated that Lincoln told him that hisEnloe of North Carolina, to a foster
mother was highly intellectual by na-son of Chief Justice Marshall, and to
ture, had a strong memory, accurate John C. Calhoun. The multiplicity of
judgment and was cool and heroic. suggested fathers throws a priori
She died at the age of 34 years when doubt on any and Barton satisfactorily
 EUGENICAL NEWS
disposes of all the stories. Who then States. They
was the father of Lincoln? So far as
the evidence goes it must be confessed
that the answer is Thomas Lincoln.
Genetically this is conceivable since
sons inherit from both mother and
father, and some of their traits ex-
clusivelyfrom the mother. It seems
probable that this remarkable mother
carried most of Lincoln's superlative
traits. With justice he said: "All
that I am or hope to be I owe to my
angel mother."
W. E. Barton, 1920. The Paternity of
Abraham Lincoln: Was he the eon of
Thomas Lincoln? An essay on the
chastity of Nancy Hanks, xiv + 414 pp.
BLOOD WILL TELL.
There has recently been published
by the Carnegie Institution of Wash-
ington a book by Dr. Wilhelmine Key,
until recently of the Eugenics Record
Office and now of the Battle Creek
Sanitarium. It is a study of a Penn-
sylvania family, of which the repre-
sentatives showed diverse intelligence
and self control. On the whole the
mentally superior and better con-
trolled married better than the
morons and feeble-inhibited. Thus
good strains and bad strains arose out
of the same community and the
;
goodness of the good was not due
merely to better environment and the;
badness of the bad was not due merely
to the worse environment. No, the
better strains had better innate
capacity for reacting to any favorable
conditions that they met with, and the
worse strains had a greater innate
capacity for reacting to any unfavor-
able conditions that surrounded them.
Thus from the same starting point
lines diverged until they came to be
socially far apart. For example, the
following cousins are contrasted IV
67 is ambitious and industrious mar-
ried a fairly energetic member of a
family in the main well-to-do, suc-
cessful in various professions in other
have two children who
are intelligent, with ability in music
and decorative arts. They live to-
gether in a home that shows evidences
of good taste and culture, in an east-
ern city. On the other hand: III 45
had no ability to figure was never;
able to learn anything at school
could, however, perform simple tasks
about the house. At 14 was scalded
to death through her own carelessness.
Her brother, III 46 was unable to un-
derstand figures failed in school.
;
Compare again, these first cousins
V 227 was a sexually immoral woman
and alcoholic and was divorced from
her first husband because of her man-
ner of life. She is very neurotic and
quarrelsome. V 239 has always been
a well-behaved boy, devoted to his
mother and fond of school. Took
normal training .was a member
. .
of the school band and orchestra had ;
charge of a boy's club in the middle
west and is in charge of athletics in a
Y. M. C. A.
The mother of V 227 was illiterate
and ignorant in matters of general
interest with a poor memory for fig-
ures and dates and only small calcu-
lating ability she married a slipshod
;
man of a strain that shows marked
mental defect. Her sister, the mother
of V 239, made good progress at
school was a woman of considerable
;
energy, intelligence, and wit. She
married a man who is the poorest
member of an otherwise honest
family. Her good qualities enabled
her to marry into this fair family and
they have prevailed in the offspring.
The study is thus made of a series
of experiments in mating and it con-
stitutes a veritable demonstration (if
any were needed!) of the indispens-
: ableness of good breeding; and the
; futility of trying to overcome by ex-
pensive and time-consuming eutheni-
cal treatments the limitations imposed
by bad heredity.
 EUGENICAL NEWS
CALIFORNIA BUREAU OF 800,000, and that number will be
JUVENILE RESEARCH. surpassed by the end of the year.
For some years the Whittier State Most of the movement is from south-
School at Whittier, California, has ern and eastern Europe. Italy,

maintained a department of research Greece, Czecho-Slovakia, and the Bal-

under the able management of Dr. J. kans are pouring the bulk of the
Harold Williams. So efficient has the stream into this country. Belgium,
work of this department become that Poland, Lithunia and Finland furnish
the state has authorized reorganiza- large numbers. Many are from Aus-
tion and increased facilities under the tria, but none is from Germany. A
name of the CaliforniaBureau of large proportion are defective and
Juvenile Eesearch. The new institu- unfit for admission. In one day re-
tion will remain at Whittier in asso- cently over 50 per cent, were detained
ciation with the State School and will at Ellis Island, most of whom will
occupy three of the buildings on the have to be sent back. The situation
state property. These will provide ac- is alarming, and it is proposed to en-
commodations for about 60 excep- act a bill in Congress to stop all im-
tional children, who will thus be migration for one year in order to give
under observation and study.
close the Government time to formulate
The work will include medical and more satisfactory laws for the restric-
psychological examinations, with field tion of immigration.
investigations of family histories and
home environment. Field workers
EUGENICS COMMITTEE OF
will be especially trained for this
NORWAY.
work and plans are under considera-
and Directors of Eugenic
Officers
tion for some form of affiliation with
and Institutions who
Laboratories
the Eugenics Record Office of the Car-
negie Institution of Washington, wish to come in contact with the Com-
whereby a more intensive study of the mittee for Eacehygiene of Norway,
factors of heredity may
be effected. may address their letters to the
In the past four years, since the De- chairman, Professor Dr. N. Wille,
partment of Eesearch began the study Kristiania Universitetets Botaniske
of the family histories of the inmates Laboratorien, or to the secretary of
of the school, more than 150 such the committee, Dr. Jon Alfred Mjoen,
studies have been prepared averaging Wenderen Laboratorium b. Kristiania.
four generations each. With the
prospective field workers in training, THE TUBERCULAR DIATHESIS.
it is hoped to secure a complete family Professor Karl Pearson, in the
history every child
of who passes Lancet for October 30, discusses the
through the Bureau. " Hereditary Factor in Tuberculosis."
" The main point made by Pearson is
FLOW OF IMMIGRATION. that the theory of an inherited resist-
The tide of post-war immigration is ance is not affected in any way by the
rapidly rising, and at the present rate well-known fact that isolated groups
of increase will in a few months reach of mankind have little resistance to
again the high mark of 1914. Accord- tuberculosis it is rather what we
;

ing to the New York Herald of De- should expect on the theory of evolu-
cember 2, the total arrivals thus far tion by natural selection with the
for the year 1920 numbered nearly transmission of hereditary character."
 EUGENICAL NEWS
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January, 1921. ular eugenic education.

ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES OF
EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE. STERILIZATION.
Biographies, 1. An articlehas been published in
Collective Biographies, 1. Social Hygiene for October on the sub-
ject of "
Eugenical Sterilization in
Becord of Family Traits, 18.
Individual Analysis Cards, 10. the United States," by Dr. Harry H.
Field Beports :
Laughlin, Asst. Director of the Eu-
Miss Bingham description, 202. :
genics Becord Office. This article is
Miss Earle description, 18 charts,
: ;
an abstract of, perhaps one should say
individuals, 155. extract from, a much larger work
6 ;

Miss Lantz : description, 84 ; charts, which has been prepared by the

4 ; individuals, 217.
author, and which is still in manu-
script. The portions of the work
which are included in this paper cover
ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. the subjects of analysis of the sterili-
Born November 25, 1920, a daughter, zation laws which have been enacted
Helen Upson, to Clifford F. and Buth prior to January 1, 1920, in fifteen
Moxcey Martin ('11), Woodbury, states also the presentation of a
;

Connecticut. model eugenical sterilization statute,

Dr. A. H. Estabrook, of the Eu-
genics Becord Office, addressed the
Indiana Conference on Mental Hygiene
at a meeting held at Indianapolis De-
cember Dr. H. H. Goddard, direc-
17.
tor of the State Bureau of Juvenile
Research, Columbus, Ohio, Dr. A. M.
Barrett of the University of Michigan,
and Dr. H. D. Singer, director of the
Illinois 'State Psychopathic Institu-
tion, also spoke.
Dr. Wilhelmine E. Key, '12, writer
and lecturer on the Bace Betterment
Foundation, was one of the workers
in charge of the Bace Betterment Ex-
hibit of the Health and Sanitation Ex-
and a brief discussion of the work
that may be done by the Federal Gov-
ernment, especially in its relations to
the regulation of immigration.
This paper will thus be found of
great usefulness to persons interested
in the legislative control of the propa-
gation of defectives in the American
population. It is suggestive of the
great value there will be in the pub-
lication of the complete work, which
is described by the editors -of Social
Hygiene as " an exhaustive and schol-
arly work on sterilization." The Eu-
genics Becord Office has constant calls
for the data collected in this book.
 EUGENICAL NEWS
struation amounts to a local haemo-
GUESSTIMATES. philia of the parts" and abnormal ;

A western
doctor has written a book haemorrhage of this type does not just-
in which eugenics is frequently re- ify the inclusion of such cases among
ferred to but he confounds eugenics true cases of haemophilia.
;
The only
and sex-hygiene. The author revives sure pathological test for true haemo-

the "conservative estimate" "guessti- philia is " the measurement of the
mate," Dr. Fulton has called that it
coagulation time of the blood in the
60 per cent, of the men who
reach 21 general circulation, during a period of
years of age become infected with a haemorrhage. Dr. Bucura (Hamophilie
venereal disease before they are 30 bein Weibe Wein, Holder, 1920) con-
:

years of age. He then adds " Is not

:
cludes that no authentic cases of
a statement of this nature enough to haemophilia in a female has yet been
rouse thinking men and women to ac- recorded."
tion? " In our opinion it is; and the
appropriate first line of action would HEREDITARY POLYDACTYLISM.
be to forbid the use of the mails to L. Crivelli, in the Medical Journal of
any publication that publishes the
Australia, Sydney, for September, re-
slander. Such ill-founded assertions
ports " an interesting case of heredi-
have done much to scare young women
tary polydactylism, extending through
away from marriage. Bad news travels five generations.
... A woman has
swiftly. Only slowly does the word
had three children. One girl had an
get around that of men between 21
extra digit on one side only one boy ;

and 30 years, draft examiners found

was without any extra digit and one ;

in the north only 1 or 2 per cent, in-

girl had the double deformity. The
fected. The average for the whole
woman herself had the double de-
country, including the greatly infected
formity and she had three sisters who
negroes and mulattoes, was about 5
had it, three brothers without it and
per cent. Precisely this kind of book
one brother with an extra digit on
is that which, it is probable, will do
one foot. One of the sisters has a
more harm than good. boy with the deformity. One brother
L. A. Stone: 1920. An Open Talk with
has one or two children without it.
Mothers and Fathers. Kansas City. The father of the woman had the de-
Burton Publishing Co. 117 pp. $1.00.
formity and so did her grandfather
and her great-grandfather. She does
H^EMOPHILA IN WOMEN. not know of any other members of
Dr. C. Bucura has, according to The the family being affected." (Journal
Lancet for July 3, collected 202 al- of the American Medical Association,
leged cases of haemophilia in women November 13.)
and has studied these cases critically.
" The majority of the cases have pre- The International Council of Women
sented some abnormal haemorrhage of is said to represent many millions of
gynaecological origin and this has been women throughout the world, and has
accepted as a manifestation of true over 10,000,000 members in the United
haemophilia, though presenting none States. Professor Marian P. Whitney,
of the features which distinguish the of Vassar College, is chairman of
disease in the male. Menstrual blood the Committee on Education of the
is deficient in some American
of the constituents " National Council of
of normal blood, so that normal men- Women."
 6 EUGENIGAL NEWS
A FAMILY OF PHYSICIANS. HEREDITY AND HAY FEVER,
Dr. George S. Bangert gives a sketch
The factor of heredity in hay fever
"
of " Seven Generations of Physicians becoming clearer as further studies
is
in the New York Medical Journal for are made on the disease. J. Freeman
August 28. This remarkable family is in the Lancet (vol. 199, page 229) has
the Shippen family of Philadelphia, found among his cases 200 with well-
in which there are to be found thir- marked examples of heredity. Sen-
teen physicians through the seven
sitiveness to animal proteins especially
generations, all in the male lines. As
is inherited but different members
Dr. Bangert himself, belonging to a
of the family may be sensitive, to dif-
female line, not included in the
is
ferent animals, as, for example, one
sketch, it is evident that there must
to cat and one to horse. Similarly in
be others in the family-net. The
food sensitiveness there may be a re-
condensed chart below shows the rela-
action in different members of a
tionships of these thirteen physicians,
family to the same food, or, more
omitting the collaterals. We wonder
often, to different foods.
if there are other American families

of physicians or other professions

with such a record. HEREDITARY SKIN DEFECTS.
Henrichs has published a paper
J.
P =Physicia7> in the Norsk Magazin for Laegeviden-
J = Jurist
skaben, Christiania, on Hereditary
S :
Scientist
M ^AWchant Mental and Skin Anomalies. " Hen-
richs gives the genealogic trees of
seven families in which an inherited
taint manifests itself in idiocy and
ichthyosis in different members of
each generation, and sometimes both
in one person. The records show
from eight to sixteen members in
each family thus affected in the course
of four or five generations. He dis-
cusses the mechanism of this heredi-
tary taint, being inclined to incrimi-
H DtC? CME drS nate the endocrine system and thyroid
in particular." (J. Amer. Med. Assn.)

SI Byd B Dyd INFORMATION SERYICE.

The National Research Council has
established the Research Information
MI Ch-A DtO* DtO' m Service as a bureau for information
on scientific and industrial research.
s. m m m Inquiries concerning research prob-
lems, progress, personnel, funds, etc.,
E. Schulman, in the Presse Me'dicale, are ordinarily answered without
September 22, describes a case of charges. Address, Research Informa-
" the pathological repetition of wjbrdjs " tion Service, 1701 Massachusetts Ave-
in a woman of seventy-six. nue, Washington, D. C.
 EUGENICAL NEWS
NORDIC FOLKLORE. DIFFERENTIAL DEATH RATE.
Professor Carl Larrson, of Kopen- It is notorious that the death rate
hagen, himself a leading investigator colored adults in large cities is
of
of folk lore, gives in the first Heft ofhigher than whites. The Metropolitan
" Nordiske Eace " the principal Scan- Life Insurance Company gives the fol-

dinavian sources for the Nordic folk lowing statistics in regard to death
character and culture history. Among rates (per 100,000 persons exposed) in
the Danish investigators he names its Industrial Department, January to
Thorkild Gravlund, Jeppe Aakjaer, September, 1920.
Axel Olrik, Larss Andersen, F. Ohrt, Cause of Death. White. Colored.
Harold Nielsen, H. F. Feilberg, All causes 956 1539
Clausen and Eist. Among scientific Measles 10.9 4.5
works of general significance are Scarlet fever 6.2 0.7
those of Birger Nerman, Martin Diphtheria and croup 20.7 5.2
Nilsson, Moltke Moe, Knut Liestol, V. Influenza 63.3 101.9
Gronbeck, Gudmund Schiitte. Tuberculosis of lungs. 109.2 272.3
Bronchial pneumonia. 38.6 46.3

BRUNETS AND BLONDS. Pneumonias, other. . . 74.2 143.9

Diarrhoea, under 2 yrs. 7.1 4.8
There is a revival of the practise
Suicides 6.1 3.7
of heliotherapj' or cure by exposure
-

Homicides 3.2 22.8

to sunlight. This exposure leads to
increase in white and red corpuscles
and the amount of hemoglobin. There HEREDITARY MIGRAINE.
is, however, this racial difference to Dr. J. A. Buchanan has an article in
reaction to the sunlight. Deep pig- the Medical Record (New York) for
mentation is the desired result sun- November 13, on " Mendelianism of
;

burn is to be avoided. Brunets form Migraine." His studies have been

pigment in the skin much better than based upon some 1,300 cases, and in-
blonds and certain blond types can not volve the histories of 127 families. In
take the treatment as they will not several methods of treatment of this
pigment and become extremely nerv- material, he finds a ratio of approxi-
ous. (Dr. J. C. Rushmore in Long mately 3 to 1 of the non-migrainous
Island Medical Journal, 14: 423).
to the migrainous offspring. He be-
lieves " that this places migraine in
HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND RACE. the mendelian ratio and definitely es-
A conference was held in New York tablishes the hereditary nature of the
City on December 3rd concerning a affection. There is no medication
uniform table of height and weight of known that will alter its course it
;

children at various ages. The U. S. is a distinct part of the patient's

Children's Bureau, American Child economy, and will have no harmful
Hygiene Association, and others were influence on longevity." It would
represented. We may remark that no seem that migraine, according to these
one standard should be adopted. The studies, is a simple recessive in type
same standard of growth should not of inheritance. Dr. Buchanan finds
apply to South Italian as to Scottish some families in which the migraine
children. They have a different build is an element of an epilepsy syndrome
from infancy on. {Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, Nov. 27).
 EUGENICAL NEWS
235 pages entitled, " Eugenia e Medi-
NOTES AND NEWS.
cina Social," published by Livraria
A union of thirty-six welfare agen-
Francisco Alves at Eio. The book,
cies of Harrisburg, Pa., is proposed.
which is written in Portugese, is of
A National Child Welfare Congress
a general nature and deals with such
is to be held at Bio de Janeiro during
matters as eugenics and the future of
the current year.
humanity, eugenics and bad behavior,
Dr. Karl Toldt, the Vienna anatom-
militarism, venereal disease, preven-
ist and comparative anthropologist,
tive medicine, consanguinity, eugenics
has recently died at the age of 80
in Sano Paulo and eugenics and hered-
years.
ity. Some account is given of eu-
It is stated that the establishment
genical organizations in different
of a psychopathic clinic with the new
parts of the world.
municipal court is contemplated by
A newspaper item of November 19,
the city of Detroit.
copied from the Arkansas Gazette,
Dr. L. Comas, of Santiago de Cuba,
states that Mrs. Mattie Deatheridge,
contributes a note to Jour. Amer. Med.
of Newport, is charged with murder,
Asso., Dec. 11, of five cases of glioma
or participation in murder, of her
of the retina in a fraternity of eleven
brother-in-law. Her father, Anderson
brothers and sisters.
Carter, was lynched on evidence of his
The National Conference of Com- having murdered a farmer in connec-
missioners on Uniform State Laws
tion with a robbery Carter was com-
met recently in St. Louis. Among mitting. Anderson's son, Bart Carter,
other recommendations was that of
brother of Mrs. Deatheridge, was sen-
complete birth records for the whole
tenced to death for complicity in this
United States. A draft of a model murder but later fled the jail and was
law for submission to State legisla- killed while robbing a store. Another
tures was approved.
brother, Anderson Carter, Jr., was
The new Government of Germany convicted of manslaughter and two
has established an advisory committee cousins of Mrs. Deatheridge were
for race hygiene, Dr. E. Baur writes,
sentenced for life for murder.
consisting, among others, of the well-
It has for some time been recog-
known geneticists and anthropologists, nized that identical twins show a
Baur, Correns, Goldschmidt, Poll and similarity in the type of their finger
Luchan. This advisory committee is prints. An investigation of this sub-
to consider all new bills from the He
ject was begun by Poll in 1914.
eugenic standpoint. had planned to continue the work for
L'Ecole d'Anthropologie announces
many years but, no doubt, the war has
its 45th course of lectures at Paris,
interrupted the progress of the work.
beginning the 25 th of November. He described his plans and some of
Professor L. Manouvrier lectures upon his results in the Zeitschrift fur
the anthropological problems of hered- Ethnologie, 1914. In one family de-
ity. Professor George Herve lectures scribed by Poll the compound whorl
on ethnology of some French regions has occurred upon the thumbs in three
and the study of hybrids. Professor generations without a break. On the
B. Anthony lectures on morphological average about half of the members
determination in biology. of a fraternity are affected. Another
Dr. Benato Kehl, a physician of study of the inheritance of finger
Eua Eosario, 174, Eio de Janeiro, prints is by Ethel M. Elderton in Bio-
Brazil, has just completed a book of metrika, in Vol. XIII, October, 1920.
 Eugenical News
VOL. VI. FEBRUARY, 1921 NO. 2

JUVENILE PROMISE OF JOHN panic seized him, and he returned. He

BURROUGHS. has always had a strong desire to
This review is an extension of one travel. At seventeen he left home to
published in the Eugenical ]\ews for teach in an adjacent county a few ;

November, 1916, just as the book re- months later he went from the Cats-
viewed is an extension of Dr. Barms' kills to New York City. In 1863 he
earlier work. The book contains many went to Washington to work, and has
of John Burrough's earliest recollec- since 'traveled in Europe, to the Pacific

tions and these are significant, be-

;
Coast, and Hawaii and, of recent
;

cause we remember best those things years, almost regularly to the South-
which most stir our emotions or inter- ern states " frequent jaunts " became
;

" customary." At seven or eight years

est, which touch our special capacities
for pleasure or pain. a keen interest in birds was first awak-
Burrough's earliest recollection is of ened by the sight of an unfamiliar
a great bird a circling hawk, which
;
warbler the fact that it was strange
;

inspired fear. Again he recalls that
at four years, someone brought in a
scarlet tanger he ran eagerly to
;
see and was stirred with emotion
it,
when he found that it was dead and
motionless. He recalls that at three
years, while he was playing at the
top of the long flight of steps which
led to his home, the " hired girl " mis-
chievously snatched the cap from his
head and threw it down the steps.
A strong individualistic reaction oc-
and bad come from distant lands
kindled his imagination. The sight of
the bird brought such emotions that
he was able to hold it in memory until,
twenty years later, he found its name.
John Burroughs is a visualist and the
beauty of form and color of birds
and mammals gives him such pleasure
that the memory of it is not readily
lost. Other sights of childhood are
stamped on his mind. The beauty of
St. Paul's Cathedral, London, caused

curred. He vividly recalls today " the almost an emotional collapse. He is

injured feeling, the helpless anger and an olfactorist also. During seventy-
the desire for justice." Truly a re- eight years he has carried the mem-
markable reaction (if correctly re- ory of the smell of camphor which he
called) for a three-year-old child. first experienced when he cut himself

Such marked egoism seems to have at five years. The smell of camphor
appeared in reactions of later life still recalls the details of that experi-
in his dislike of work, as a boy in
; ence.
his failure to enlist in the army at theBurroughs enjoys self-expression
time of the Civil War in his preference
; he enjoys it because he can express
for the solitude of a rural retreat. When
himself well and that is because he
;

things go wrong he becomes especially has the necessary elements of literary

seclusive (sulks). He is markedly ab- capacity. What these elements are we
sorbed in his own affairs. may not fully know; one, is the in-
When four or five years old, John stinct to form suitable sentences
" ran away," as many children do. He easily one may say, automatically.
;

went a considerable distance down the His earliest writings were hardly full
road out of sight of home. A sudden self-expression; they were laborious
10 EUGENICAL NEWS
and imitative but at about twenty- July, 1918, from recent census returns
;

three years of age he " let himself go," of the various countries, has accord-
following the " inner voice ;" and with ingly considerable political import-
the years and added experience the ance, and some racial and eugenical
" voice " grew clearer and more valu- interest. The relative fecundity is got

able and of better quality stamped by dividing the total number of chil-
;

with that special quality that comes dren under five years by the total
from an adequately endowed brain and number of females of the child-bearing
sense perceptive apparatus surrounded period, usually taken as 15-45 years.
by the varied and attractive stimuli This total gives an arbitrary measure
that rural life affords. of the number of children to a unit of
Clara Barrus."John Burroughs: Boy the women of child-bearing age in the
and Man." New York. Doubleday, country. Thus, in the case of Serbia,
Page and Company, 1920. 385 pp. $3.50.
there were in 1900 407,308 children
SUICIDAL ATTEMPTS. under five years to 520,390 women
A study of 46 cases of unsuccessful aged 15-45 years. The quotient of
attempts at suicide has been made by children by women is .783.
Dr. L. G. Lowrey of the Psychopathic The order of arrangement of the
Institute, Boston, in Jour. Ncrv. and countries is a descending one for size
Mental Diseases for December. He of fecundity rate.
remarks on the fact that only about Index of
one third showed depression 7 fol- Country.
; Year. Fertility.

lowed the dictates of hallucinations Serbia 1900 .783

or delusions, 6 were impelled by an Bulgaria 1905 .716

attempt to escape persecution and 7 Russia (European) .1897 .675 .

to escape physical or mental suffering. Greece 1897 .625

The analysis is instructive but in Japan;

1913 .622

criticism it must be said that suicides Hungary 1910 .596

of depression are less commonly un- Finland 1910 .582

successful than are the other types. Italy 1911 .566

R. A. F. McDonald, 1915. " Adjust- The Netherlands .... 1909 .562

ment of School Organizations to Vari- Austria 1910 .555
ous Population Groups." New York.
VPeachers College, Columbia Univer- Bavaria 1910 .544
sity. 145 pp. Norway 1910 .543
RELATIVE FECUNDITY. Prussia 1910 .540

To a
large degree interracial troub- Denmark 1911 .538

les are due to relative increase of pop- Baden (Germany) . .1910 .537

ulation by reproduction. France, with German Empire 1910 .525

low fecundity, was afraid of Germany, Sweden 1910 .521

with its high fecundity and Germany

;
Spain 1900 .513

in turn was beginning before the war Elsass-Lothingivn ..1910 .500*

to feel the need of French territory Scotland 1911 .465

in order to expand in it. Similarly Switzerland 1910 .462

we learn that the rapid increase of the Ireland 1911 .444
Japanese, through reproduction, makes Belgium 1910 .441
it necessary for them to look for new England & Wales... 1911 .429
territory. The following table of the France 1911 .389
relative fecundity of various peoples, *From sum of males and females 15-44
compiled by Miss Mary T. Scudder in
years. The quotient is multiplied by
two for purposes of the comparison.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 11

THE POKTEUS SCALE. HEREDITAKY ASTHMA.

A decided advance is marked by S. An extensive study on " The Be-
D. Porteus' " Study of the Personality havior of Bronchial Asthma as an In-
of Defectives with a Social Eatings herited Character " has been completed
Scale " (Publication No. 23, Training by Miss June Adkinson, of the Peter
School at Vineland, N. J., Department Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass.,
of IJesearch). Proceeding- by quantita- and published in the July number of
tive studies, he reduces a long list of Genetics. Our .space will not permit
traits by elimination and combination, us to give a full abstract of this ex-
to seven groups as follows Lacking- : tensive and interesting research, but
planning capacity irresolution and
; we may call attention to the conclu-
oonf usability nervousness and excit-
; sions which have been drawn as to the
ability ; silliness and obtrusiveness hereditary factor. " In the family his-
simpleuess and suggestibility impuls- ; tories presented the
. .asthmatic
.

iveness and imprudence moodiness.

; condition is found not to be con-
The value to be assigned to the degree genital or transmitted by the mother
of development of each of these traits to the foetus or through the milk, but
in the individual is obtained by the it behaves as a true inherited trait,

army rating method, except that three
grades (or, in extreme cases, four) are
used instead of five grades. To rate a
boy for any trait, such as impulsive-
ness, one selects a dozen individuals
transmitted in the germ-plasm of both
parents alike, and following closely in
the family histories the theoretical ex-
pectation of a Mendelian character re-
cessive to the normal condition. . . .

who vary in this regard. The individ- " The nature of the inherited factor

ual who shows this trait to excess is is unknown. Whether it is due to the
rated 3 the one who shows it least is
; presence in the germ cells of affected
rated 1 an individual near the middle
; persons of something not found in
of the scale is rated 2. The position normal individuals, or the absence of
of the propositus is then assigned something normally present, all the
thus his impulsiveness may be greater theories as to anti-bodies and pro-
than the least but not so great as the tein split products have failed to ex~
mid-grade, call it 1.5. By a similar plain. But it is the tendency or power
procedure the grade of each trait in to develop asthma, whether caused by
the propositus is determined. By cor- sensitization to proteins or not, which
relating grades of each trait with a is transmitted and not the condition it-
general social estimate of each per- self."
son tested it was found that certain Valuable as is this piece of work in
traits were more valuable as indices its unfortunate that
findings, it is
of 'social fitness than others. Accord- more exhaustive studies of the family
ingly weights were assigned as fol- histories involved could not have been
lows lack of planning, 6
: suggesti-; made for as the author states, " Time
;

bility, 3 excitableness, 2
; obtrusive- and opportunity were lacking for in-
;

ness, 2 impulsiveness, 2
; irresolution, terviewing members of the families
;

2; moodiness, 1. An incidental result and investigating the records of dis-

of the application of the method is to tant relatives, as would have been
show that the Porteus scale is a better done, in accordance with the methods
index of social fitness than the Binet of " the Eugenics Record Office, " if a
scale. Thus there is being rapidly fieldworker could have been assigned
evolved a measure of behavior. to the problem."
12 EUGENICAL NEWS
417 East Spruce St., Sault Ste. Marie,
EUGENICAL NEWS. Michigan.
Published monthly by Miss June Adkinson, '12, has an
article on " Bronchial Asthma as an
THE EUGENICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION,
Inherited Character " in the July, 1920,
41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa.
number of Genetics. Reference to this
and Cold SpringJEarbor,
article has already been made else-
Long Island, N. Y.
where in this number of the Eugeni-
Subscription fifty cents per year, postage free in cal News,
the United States and island possessions also in ;

Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Canal Zone. In all

other countries add ten cents for postage. STATE EXAMINATIONS.
Entered as second-class matter May 10, 1916, at
the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of The New York State Civil Service
March 3, 1879.
Commission has issued a notice for ex-
February, 1921. aminations to be held February 26.
Among the many positions to be sup-
ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES OF plied are the following which may be
EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE. of special interest to readers of the
Biographies, 3. Xews :

Record of Family Traits, 28. Instructor in Manual Training,

Individual Analysis Cards, 25. Rome State School.
Field Reports : Occupational Therapist, State Insti-
Miss Bryant : description, 128 tutions.
chants, 11 ; individuals, 379. Physical Instructor, State Institu-
Mr. Olark : decription, 14 ; charts, tions for Women.
1 ; individuals, 30. Rehabilitation Work, State Depart-
Miss Covert : description, 58 ; charts, ment of Education State Agent ;

2 ; individuals, 63. $4000 an Assistant $2500 to $3000

; ;

Miss Earle : description, 173 ; charts, a Social Agent $3000 to $3500.

2 ; individuals, 43. Supervisor of Child Hygiene Centers,
Miss Lantz : description, 85 ; charts, State Department of Health $3000.
4 ; individuals, 199. General Teacher and Kindergarten
Teacher, State Charitable and Re-
ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. formatory Institutions.
At Letchworth Village, Thiiells, Rock-
Mrs. D. Lucille F. Brown, '11, re-
land County, Head Teacher, a
ports the birth of her second child, a
Teacher in Gymnastics, a Teacher
son,, Hugh Emerson Brown, born Sep-
of Manual Training.
tember 3, 1920.
All of these positions are open to
Miss Elizabeth Greene, '13, has re-
non-residents and are filled by un-
cently taken a position as psychologist
written examinations, experience and
with the New York Probation and Pro-
education being the chief qualifica-
tective Association.
tions. Applications should be sent to
Miss Mina Sessions, '13, has returned
the State Civil Service Commission,
to Baltimore to take part in the sur-
Albany, N. Y.
vey of Maryland which is being- made
by the National Committee for Mental S. de Stefano reports in Pediatria
Hygiene. (Naples) for October 1, 1920, five cases
Miss Marjorie Emmons, '16, was of familial spastic paraplegia in two
married on July 28 last to Mr. John families. " The condition was progres-
Alden Sessions, and is now living at sive both physically and mentally."
 EUGENICAL NEWS 13

EUGENICS EDUCATION SOCIETY. '

Sweden is in a position to become one
Announcement has been issued for of the leading culture states in this
the Galton Anniversary Meeting- under subject. The geographical position of
the auspices of the Eugenics Education the country and the relative race
Society which is to be held February purity of the northern population in
16 at the Gonnaug^ht Rooms, Great the separate provinces afford the race
Queens Street, King-sway, London. biologists a rich field of study.' Add
There is to be a Galton dinner followed to this that Sweden has already a
by the Galton lecture, which is to be group of race biologists, genealogists,
given by Mr. W. Bateson, F.R.S., on geneticists, archeologists. Names like
the subject, " Common Sense in Racial Nilsson-Ehle, Heribert Nilsson, Pontus
Problems." Pahlbeck, Herman Lundborg, Harry
In this connection Major Leonard Federley, Oskar Montelius, Carl Furst,
Darwin, President of the Eugenics Nils von. Hofsten and Robert Larsson
Education Society, issues a strong ap- awaken hope that this country and
peal for funds in support of the work with it the Scandinavian northerners

of the Society. Owing to the financial will take a leading position in this
stress which is so critically felt in all science and its practical application
European countries, it is feared that to social politics."
the Eugenics Review may have to be
discontinued. It is to be hoped that INDEX OF BUILD.
many Americans who are interested in A suitable index of build has long-
the progress of eugenics may see their been sought, especially as a basis for
way to contribute to the subscription comparison in the development of
list of this valuable publication, as it children. To this end some form of
would be unfortunate to the interests the ratio of heigtfit to weig-ht has
of world eugenics if it should cease its seemed to be moist practical, but it has
existence. been such a form of the
difficult to find
ratio as fit every
will satisfactorily
EUGENICS IN SWEDEN. case. In conformity with the mathe-
A note in Den Nordiske Race, No. I, matical properties of a sphere the
states " In Sweden there is in hand an
:
ratio of the weight to the cube of the
enterprise of significance not only for height has been largely used, but the
our special sciences but in general for human body is not really a sphere
the future of Scandinavia. The Carol
'
and the index thus obtained is of
inska Institute,' Stockholm, as is well doubtful value.
known, designates the Nobel prize for In a paper on the " Height- weight in-
medicine. Now the Rektor of the dex of build " in the American Jour-
Lehrerkolleg-iums, Professor Lenn- nal of Physical Anthropology for Oct.-
malm, has proposed from the accumu- Dec, 1920, Dr. C. B. Davenport has dis-
lated funds to establish a Nobel Insti- cussed this problem and concludes that
tute of race biology. A polling of the for " young adult males the best in-
college gave the result that the estab- dex of build is apparently obtained by
lishment of the institute failed by only dividing weight by the square of
one vote (9 against 8). This decision stature." For other periods of de-
will be laid before the Riksdag.' The
'
velopment neither this or any other,
plan has found zealous support in the as yet proposed indices, are entirely
Scandinavian press. In the Kristi- satisfactory. The problem awaits
ania Dagbladct Dr. Mjoen writes: further work.
14 EUGENICAL NEWS
" EUGENIQUE." should have been this decline in mor-
It is pleasant to receive a number under the strained economic
tality
of the organ of " La Societe f rancaise conditions, even when there was a
d'Euentique," covering the period marked increase in the birth rate.
June, 1914, to May, 1920. Many deaths
of members during this period, chiefly NATURE AND NURTURE.
due to the war, are named. On ac- Two teachers in the Illinois State
count of high cost of printing the Normal University have prepared a
journal Eiigciiique will be issued only biographical reading book. There are
annually. Conferences are being held 24 sketches of eminent men, and
during the present winter under the women, mostly Americans, each with a
general subject, " The Eugenic Conse- photograph. They are Wilson, Edison,
quences of the War." They are by E. Bell, Roosevelt, Pershing, etc. As one
Perrier, C. Richet, L. March, E. Apert, looks through the brief biographies
G. Papellault, G. Schrieber, B. lloursy one notes that the conditions of child-
and Doumer, the roster of leaders hood were varied f* some were born
P.
in eugenics in Paris. We congratulate rich, some poor; some in the city,
the Society upon the resumption of its some in the country some lost a ;

work. parent early, some did not some ;

worked hard in childhood, others

POST-WAR INFANT MORTALITY. loafed. The one thing that seems to
The Berlin correspondent of the have been common was an hereditary,
Journal of the American Medical constitutional! equipment that enabled
Association for January 15 reports theni to succeed or rather forced them;

that an article by Geheimrat Schloss- to succeed under the varied opportuni-

man presents an encouraging aspect ties afforded by the United States.
of the birth rate and infant mor-
C. M. Sanford and Grace A. Owen,
tality since the war. For the dis- 1918. "Modern Americans." Chicago:
trict of Dusseldorf, which may be Laurel Book Co. 204 pp.

taken as probably more or less

typical of conditions in, Germany, the CENSUS RECORDS SAVED.
number of births in 1914 was A
statement appeared in the press
105,500.
This rapidly dropped during the war that the Census Records from 1790 to
and reached its lowest figure in 1917 1890 inclusive had been ruined by fire
of 52,000. In 1918 the number rose to and water. A letter from Samuel L.
55.000 and in 1919 to more than 70,000. Rogers, director of the Census, states
A more remarkable fact, however, is that "the census records from 1790 to
the accompanying decline in infant 1870 inclusive have not been injured.
mortality since the war. During the A few of the records for 1830 and 1840
period from 1901 to 1905 the infant were wet but are now being dried and
mortality was 16.46 per cent. From will be in just as good condition as
1906 to 1910 it was 14.40 per cent. ever. The only records that were
The decline continued to the time of badly damaged were those of the cen-
the war and in 1918 was reduced to sus of 1890. A large portion of these
12.1 per cent, and in 1919 to only 10.6 schedules have been burned and so
per cent. In fact in one section of thoroughly water-soaked as to be of
the Dusseldorf district the infant mor- little value. The returns of all of the
tality was reduced to 7.3 per cent. It other censuses are in very good con-
seems quite remarkable that there dition."
 EUGENICAL NEWS 15

BREEDING FOR MORALITY. with over 2,000,000 births per year, the
Sir Charles Walston (Waldsteiii) would be about $2,400,000,000
cost for
gave an address entitled "Eugenics, the twelvemonth, or $200,000,000 per
Civics and Ethics," before the " Sum- month. So much for the pension ; add
mer School of Eugenics, and $100,000,000 for administration.
Civics
Ethics " held at Cambridge, England, The amazing thing about these
in the summer of 1919. The lecture is mathematicians ds that their work is

published as a brochure. He sums up wholly quantitative for the cripples,

;

" Eugenics as well as civics must take feebleminded and other defectives the

cognisance of Ethology," i.e., ethics. nation shall pay the same. The good
Surely this is correct. Eugenics is point in the scheme, to which the
the genies which will produce a gen- originators do not allude, is that
eration capable of living long, happy where our money goes there a certain
and effective lives and of showing a right of control goes. A nation that is
conduct that is in acordanee with the paying over a billion and a quarter a
mores (i.e., ethical). Ethics is, how- year for children will come eventually
ever, not a science and it is not made to want to see that it is not wasted.
;

such by changing its name to ethology. If we are going to pay for children,
Ethics is instruction as to the mores we must examine into quality. Only a
and how to conduct oneself so as to fool buys a horse with his eyes shut.
meet the mores. The mores themselves K. Anthony (and others), 1920.
are a curious thing variable between " The
;
Endowment of Motherhood."
New York, B. W. Huebsch. 75 pp.
peoples variable in one people from 50 cents.
;

period to period ;but in the place RACE DIFFERENCES OF

and time the most important of hu- IMMIGRANTS,
man " ideals," to sustain wthich men Immigration officials according to
will die themselves or destroy other
Dr. A. J. Nute (in Journal of Nerv.
men who will not act in accordance
and Mental Dis., Dec.) must know the
with the mores.
nationality (race?) of the man pass-
Sir Charles Walston, 1920. "Eu- ing before him. " If he cannot do this
genics, Civics and Ethics." Cam-
bridge University Press, 56 pp. he is not a competent examiner. The
stolidity which is to be expected in a
FAMILY ENDOWMENT. Pole, for example, might be indicative
A British Committee on Family En- of a dementia in an Italian." Who
dowment proposes a scheme of paying else has so good a comparative knowl-
mothers of children the sum of 12 s. edge of racial differences as an immi-
6 d. per week for eight weeks before gration officer of experience.
confinement and as long as they
have one or more children under five RACE AND BODY-SIZE.
years old; in addition 5 s. per week II. J. Hansen studying the growth

for the first child and 3 s. 6 d. a week of 10,000 school children of Copen-
for each child under five years beyond hagen and 3 provincial towns concludes

the first. This as a starter to work that neither density of the population
up to children until school-leaving age, nor the social economic conditions
say fifteen. The cost at the start to can explain the difference in weight
the United Kingdom would be 154,- and height found and consequently
;

000,000 (or $770,000,000) per year and the racial type is probably the most
;

for the later scheme about $1,200,000,- important factor the differences are
000 annually. For the United States, hereditary ones.
10 EUGENICAL NEWS

FOREIGN LANGUAGE CHURCHES. voted to heredity has been established,

under the presidency of a well-known
The element in
racial religions
psychiatrist and neurologist, Dr.
bodies is well brought out in the Cen-
sus Report on Religious Bodies, 1916,
Sohnurman Stekhoven, of Schoolstraat
recently published. Of the 227,000 27, Utrecht. The president will be
glad to receive papers on genetics.
church organizations 26,000 (with 11,-
In the Archives Medicales Belgcx,
000,000 members) conduct services
wholly or partly in a foreign language.
for July, 1920, p. 578, F. Dauwe de-
scribes twelve cases of inherited
Of these about 6,000 use German, 1,500
achylia or hypersecretion. The in-
use Hebrew and 705 more Yiddish,
1,000 are Spanish, 979 are Polish, 927
'herited condition has a definite period
of incidence in each family. (Jour.
are French, 810 are Italian, 542 used
A. M. A., Jan., 1921.)
Amerindian, 431 Dutch, 383 Slavic, 362
J. Le F. Burrow describes a case of
Bohemian, 290 Finnish and Esthom'an,
familial tabes dorsalis following ven-
214 Magyar, 214 Slovak, 211 Welsh,
ereal infection. Five of six surviving
145 Lithuanian, 108 Greek, 94 Sloven-
ian, 88 Portuguese, 82 Ruthenian and
members of a family of eight are af-

Ukrainian, 72 Japanese. 62 Armenian.

flicted with the trouble. Burrow
thinks the condition "cannot be at-
59 Syrian, 41 Russian, 39 Croatian, 36
tributed to a special strain of spiro-
Arabic, 32 Chinese, 21 Rumanian, 13
chete introduced at the initial infec-
Lettish, and fewer than
each 10
tion, but is much more likely to be
Korean, Persian, Albanian, Bulgarian,
due to the spirochete acting on tissues
Serbian and Turkish.
specially sensitized, either by natural
family peculiarity^ or by certain
NOTES AND NEWS. methods of treatment." (Jour. A. M.
The editor of Genetics, Dr. George A., Jan., 1921.
H. Shull, writes us that the pages of C. L. Morgan in the Journal of

Genetics are open to the fundamental Neurology and Psychopathology, Lon-

contributions to the knowledge of hu- don, for November, 1920, proposes the
man hereditj'. He notes that the jour- addition of a psychologist to the staff
nal has received too few papers thus of the medical school. On this " the
far in this field. work should be given by a psychologist
Astudy of inheritance of deaf who has been trained not only in a
mutism has been made by Soren Han- school of philosophy but also in a
sen in Meddelelser om Danmarks school of biology. He must not be out
Antropologi, Bd. II. He concludes that of touch with his colleague, the physi-
in hereditary cases it acts as a re- ologist. He must know not only about
cessive that is why it so often fol- the emotions but about internal secre-
;

lows consanguineous marriage. tions. And he must have adequate

Dr. M. A. van Herwerden of Utrecht, acquaintance with the manner in
Holland, writes us that since the war which what he teaches shall be ap-
a Dutch institution, called " The Dutch plied in the practice of the profession.
People " (established 1915, with the If he himself be a member of the
purpose of studying the spiritual and profession, so much the better but he ;

somatic constitution of the Dutch must be a psychologist." Thus we see

population in different parts of the progress toward the recognition of
country) has come to new life. A mental conditions in the practice of
preliminary division especially de- medicine. (Jour. A. M. A., Jan., 1921.)
 Eugenical News
VOL. VI. MARCH, 1921 NO. 3
HEREDITY OF E. L, genic organism, but the course of the
TRUDEAU.
Dr. Edward L. Trudeau, born in disease is largely determined by in-
New York City, October 5, 1848, spent ternal (mainly hereditary) factors.
the early years of his life with his Trudeau's brother succumbed rapidly
grandparents in Paris. He prepared to the disease and when at 16 his ;

to enter our Naval Academy, but aban- grown daughter returned from her
doned his plans to care for a brother, city school ill, he " felt from the first
who soon thereafter died of tubercu- this was the same type of disease my
losis. After trying various things, he brother had the type that progresses
;

entered the College of Physicians and rapidly and against which treatment
Surgeons, graduated ('71), married, isof no avail." This is the Indian and
traveled in Europe, and begun medical Polynesian type, lacking the elements
practice. But in May, '73, tuberculosis Trudeau himself, well-
of resistance.
having developed, he went to the Adi- to-do, and always a lover of the open,
rondaeks and, with slight exceptions, first 'showed symptoms at 22 years and
lived there thenceforth. In November, these reappeared after severe strain
1876, he settled at Saranae Lake, prac- until his final breakdown. But a
tised among guests at Paul Smith's fair natural resistance and excellent
and Saranae, and in 1884 started a conditions enabled him to combat the
sanitarium for persons with tubercu- disease for nearly 50 years.
losis. Thenceforth for 30 years he de- The disease led to Trudeau's life in
voted himself to the care of patients the heart of the Adirondacks. But he
that ever increased in number, to rais- had been to the Adirondacks first two
ing money for expansion, and to mak- years before the disease broke out,
ing researches on the tubercle bacil- and his second trip was determined
1

" only by my love for the great forest

lus, on the diagnosis of the disease,
and on the means of combating it. and the wild life, and not at all be-
He wrote his autobiography in 1914 cause I thought the climate would be
and died from tuberculosis in Novem- beneficial in any way." This love of
ber, 1915. the woods and of hunting runs like a
The name Trudeau connotes physi- red thread through his life. " The love
cian, tuberculosis, Adirondacks and of wild nature and hunting was a real
personality. He came of a race of passion " with his father, and it ruined
physicians. His father, Dr. James his professional career. He accom-
Trudeau, was a member of a well- panied Audubon on many of his ex-
known New Orleans family. His peditions and he went with him on the
" mother's father, Dr. Francois E. Fremont Expedition to the Rocky
Berger, was a French physician whose Mountains; like many naturalists he
ancestors were physicians for many could draw, paint and model well.
" inherited the
generations, as far back as they could Both of Trudeau's sons
be traced." Trudeau's two sons were same love of wild
. .nature
.
for . . .

physicians. The successful physician both loved the wood and the hunting."
has innate capacities for that profes- But it was Trudeau's personality
sion. which enabled him to build up a great
Tuberculosis depends on a patho- sanitarium in the forest. His warm
18 EUGENICAL NEWS
French temperament, his venture- Doengas Venereas Dr.
; Fernando
someness (illustrated in his childhood Azevedo, The Eugenics Society,
etc.
by his assault on the Confederate, whose rooms are at Bua do Oarmo 6,
Slidell, in France), his assumption of Sao Paulo, published in 1919 the " An-
responsibility (accepting a position as nals da Eugenia," a thick volume com-
house physician of a city hospital be- prising the principal papers read
fore graduating- in medicine), his during 1918. The active secretary of
humor, his geniality and his enthu- the Society has given numerous ad-
siasm, made and kept him a host of dresses, and published numerous ar-
friends who gave lavishly to the ticles and leaflets, his last book,
growth of his institution. So his " Eugenia e medicina social " having
mother's father had very many been referred to in the News for Janu-
friends ; his own brother's character ary. Other works published by mem-
was and beautiful, and his
unselfish bers of the Society are as follows Dr.
:

son Ned had " that

wonderful gift of A. Tepedino, " Eugenia " (thesis of the
personality which made friends for Faculdade de medicino da Bio de Ja-
him with everybody." neiro) ; Dr. Alcantara Vilhena, " On
"
Edward L. Trudeau, 1916. An Auto- continence and its eugenical factor ;

biography. N. Y. Doubleday, Page &

:
Dr. Joao Enrique, " On the eugenical
Co. 322 pp.
concept of the Brazilian habitat " Dr.
;

Fernando Azevedo, " The secret of

EUGENICS IN BRAZIL. Marathona " (conference of the Eu-
For several years past students in genic Society).
Brazil have participated in the evolu- Besides the Eugenic Society of Sao
tion of the eugenics movement with Paulo, there is the Eugenic Society of
great sympathy and special interest. Amazonas, with headquarters at
Many physicians, advocates and culti- Manas, presided over by Dr. J. Mi-
vated elements of the country are en- randa Leao, director of servigo sani-
gaged in supporting it by publishing tario of that citA'. Also there is the
books, leaflets and articles. The Eugenic Society, filial of the Sociedade
names of the founder of the doctrine, de Neurologia e Psychiatria, founded
Galton, as well as its principal pro- by Professor Juliano Moreira, director
moters, become each day more fa- of the Hospicio Nacional de Aliendos,
miliar. of Bio de Janeiro.
In Brazil there has been functioning" Dr. Benato Kehl.
since 1918 the " Eugenics Society of
Sao Paulo," due to the initiative of PROPOSED EUGENIC LEGISLATION.
Dr. Benato Kehl, of Kua do Bosario
Oregon.
174, Bio de Janeiro, its present secre-
tary. This society, comprising 140 The following is the principal part
physicians and other members, is in- of a bill that Dr. Owen-Adair, a
tensively active in Eugenics. The so- woman legislator of Oregon, has intro-
ciety has held numerous conferences, duced (Jan., 1921). The motive is
conducted by Professor Bubiao Meira, primarily eugendcal. We publish it
of the Fac. Medicina e Cirurgia, Sao without comment.
Paulo Dr. Olegario Moura Dr. Os-
; A Bill for an act providing for the
;

waldo Portugal, Fac. Medicina e Cirur- examination of all applicants for mar-
gia, Sao Paulo Dr. Benato Kehl, Ser- riage license as to health and mental
;

vico de Prophylaxia da Lepra e f^ttess to enter the marriage relations

 EUGENICAL NEWS 19

and providing- that this act shall be hereby authorized and directed to set
submitted to the people for their ap- aside two pages in the official pamph-
proval or rejection at the next general let for the publication of arguments in
election and providing for arguments support of this bill.
in the official pamphlet. Section 6. A committee of two Sen-
ators and three Eepresentatives shall
Be it enacted by the people of the
be appointed to prepare said argu-
State of Oregon:
ments for publication in said pamph-
Section 1. That from and after the let.
passage of this act it shall be unlawful
for the county clerk of any county in South Dakota,
the State of Oregon to issue a mar- The state of South Dakota has un-
riage license to any person or persons der consideration a bill based on the
applying for the same, until after such Wisconsin marriage law which re-
applicants shall have received a certifi- quires for a marriage license a cer-
cate for health and normality from a tificate from a registered physician as
regularly licensed and responsible to the applicant's unimpaired health,
physician. If one or both applicants physical and mental fitness as deter-
failso to pass the normal test then mined by physical examination, and
they cannot marry unless that one or requires also the giving* of an outline
both are rendered sterile. of the applicant's family history. This
Section 2. The physicians' certifi- bill recognizes the importanice of
ca/te herein provided for shall be made heredity as a factor in determining fit-
under oath, and in addition to contain- ness for marriage.
ing a statement as to the mental quali-
fications of the applicants for mar- There is also before the Indiana leg-
riage license, the said certificate shall islature a bill requiring, before issuing
show on its face the educational a license to marry, a certificate from a
qualifications of the physician making reputable physician showing that the
such certificate. parties are not feeble-minded or af-
Section 3. Any applicant who fails flicted with venereal or other trans-
to secure a marriage license on ac- missible disease.
count of physical or mental unfitness
and who feels that the examination PUERICULTURE.
was unfair, or the ruling of the county The French are naturally alarmed
clerk therein unjust, shall have the by the lack of births in that country
increase of births is the obvious rem-
right to appeal to the county court of
the county in which the application is edy but saving the babies is the next
;

made, and the court shall call compe- best thing. So the publication of a
little book of instruction to mothers
tent physicians to make a re-examima,
tion of the applicants, and after taking and nurses is regarded as useful. In
the evidence of such physicians, shall eight lessons are described puericul-
make and file with the county clerk its ture and infant mortality, physiology
findings and ruling thereon, and said of nutrition, infant hygiene, the ma-
findings and ruling shall be final. ternal milk, artificial feeding, sanitary
Section 4- This act shall be submit- surroundings, illnesses and maternity

ted to the people for their approval or assistance.

rejection at the next general election. Mme. de Dr. Clothilde Mulon, 1920.
Section 5. The Secretary of State is
Manuel elementaire de puriculture.
Paris: Masson. 200 pp.
20 EUGENICAL NEWS

EUGENICAL NEWS. FIELD WORK AT CONNECTICUT

STATE HOSPITAL.
Published monthly by The report of the State Hospital at
THE EUGENICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, Middle-town, Conn., for the past year,
mentions, with strong approval, the
41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa.
field work of the institution carried on
and Cold Spring Harbor,
Long Island, N. Y.
by Mrs. Estella M. Hughes, 1917.
Such work has not only been the
"
Subscription fifty cents per year, postage free in
tha United States and island possessions also in ; means of increasing knowledge of the
Canada, Mexico,. Cuba, and Canal Zone. In all
other countries add ten cents for postage. inheritance of family traits, but it has
Entered as second-class matter May 10, 1916, at
supplied the hospital with definite in-
the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of
March 3, 1879. formation regarding the mental status
of patients prior to admission, to-
March, 1921.
gether with an accurate statement as
ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES OF to their social reactions, home and in-
EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE. dustrial environment, economic status,
Genealogies, 8. and all possible factors bearing upon
Biographies, 16. the physical and mental condition of
Biographical Pamphlets, 2. the patient and the patient's imme-
Collective Biographies, 2. diate family. Mental disease cannot
Eecord of Family Traits, 13. be adequately understood if attention
Family Distribution of Personal be directed -only to a patient's condi-
Traits, 1. tion on admission to a hospital. For
Individual Analysis Cards, 6. such a cross section view of a patient's
Field Reports : life there must be substituted a longi-
Miss Bingham: Description, 121. tudinal view, embracing all significant
Miss Bryant: Description, 111; facts preceding the mental breakdown..
charts, 3 ; individuals, 129. Only thus is it possible to understand
Miss Oook : Description, 20 ; charts, and properly evaluate the numerous
2 ; individuals, 42. etiological factors which culminate in
Miss Covert : Description, 124 a psychosis. Interpretative psychiatry
charts, 8 ; individuals, 483. must supplement merely descriptive
Miss Earle Description, 248.
: psychiatry if the best therapeutic re-
Dr. Estabrook Description, 127. : sults are to be obtained. Hence the
Mrs. Hughes Description, 21 : necessity of field work as a means to
charts, 1 ; such end.
individuals, 15.
Miss Lantz :
" In addition to the primarily im-
Description, 68 ; charts,
1 individuals, 144.
; portant work of obtaining detailed
and accurate anamneses, the Field
ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. Worker has investigated home condi-
Born on November 14, 1920, to Mrs. tions of patients about to be paroled
Charles Winfield Pitcher (Helen Mar- or discharged, thus rendering it pos-
tin, 1913), a son, Charles Winfield sible to advise them and their families
Pitcher, Jr. The father is over six in a direct and specific manner. . . .

feet in height and the child was The Field Worker makes psychometric
twenty-two inches at two months, examinations in indicated cases, while
which is considerably above the aver- another, and by no means least impor-
age. In physical characters the child tant activity is the establishment of a
appears to resemble the father. sympathetic and confidential relation-
 EUGENICAL NEWS 21

ship between patients' families and MIGRAINE.

the hospital, by giving the former an Dr. J.Comby in a paper in Archives
intelligent comprehension of the hos- de Medicine des En f ants, Paris, Janu-
pital's work. Not infrequently the ary, emphasizes the "
hereditary na-
Field Worker has also been able to ture of migraine in children, and that
find friends and relatives of patients it isby no means rare, affecting both
whose respective whereabouts were boys and girls. There is always pho-
unknown to each other, the result of tophobia." In the Bulletin dc VAcad6-
which, in some instances at least, has mie, Paris, December 28, 1920, Drs.
been to greatly aid in the patient's Remond and Rouzand have a paper on
restoration." "Pathogenesis of Migraine " in which
they reason that migraine is the mani-
EXCITABILITY IN DELINQUENT
festation of intoxication progressively
BOYS.
Miss Mildred S. Covert, 1917, hats increasing until it reaches a crisis.
(Jour. Am. Med. Asso., Feb. 12.)
published a study of the above subject
in the Journal of Delinquency for No-
vember, 1920. Under the general defi-
BIRTH STATISTICS, 1918.
The "Birth Statistics" of the United
nition of excitability she accepts the
States Census, for the year 1918, has
classification of Southard as to the
been distributed. It contains data of
behavioristic elements, as " destruc-
eugenical interest. Thus first and sec-
tiveness, homoeidal tendencies, irrita-
ond born children form over 50 per
bility, psycho-motor excitement, and
cent, of all children born to native
violence," to which she adds " violent
white mothers whereas such children
;

temper, the hysterical istate, and the

constitute only 37 per cent, of all
marked lachrymose state." Out of 100
children born to foreign-born mothers
uniselected delinquents Miss Covert ob-
tains 37 excitable in one or more of
but this latter per cent, has prob-
ably been depressed by the war and
the above listed behavioristic elements,
lack of immigration. The average
and 63 non-excitable boys. She con-
number of children ever born to moth-
firms the finding of others that ex-
ers of 1918 and the average number
citability is more frequent among de-
living is as follows white 3.3, 2.9
: :

linquents than in the regular public

white mothers born in- IT. S. 3.1, 2.7
: ;
school population. As to heredity the
white mothers, foreign-born 3.9, 3.3: ;
excitability of the boys follows the
colored: 3.8, 3.2.
temperament of the mother more than
As to interracial matings, Scandi-
that of the father. The pedigree
navian mothers have married a good
charts show conformity of violent re-
many British and German men Brit- ;

action to the law of a dominant trait.

ish-born mothers have married Irish,
THE SEX RATIO AND WAR. Canadian and " Russian " born men.
It is often asserted that the sex Italian mothers rarely marry outside
ratio (number of males -f- females) is the race about 1 per 1000 of their
;

increased during and after wars. A husbands are " Austrian," and about
study by Bela of German statistics in- one-third as many each British and
dicates that the assertion is un- Irish; matings with Scandinavians
founded. The sex ratio was 106.3 be- constitute 1 per 10,000. The twin
fore the war and is between 106 and ratio is 11.5 for the whole registration
107 for the years 1914-17 (J. Amer. area; it is 11.0 for whites and 15.6
l/r(/. .4.s-.s-y/., Feb. 5). for " colored."
22 EUGENICAL NEWS
FIELD WORK.
Field work on man is making first
hand observation of human phenomena
by going to the places where these ob-
servations can best be made. It is
opposed to the " closet V method of
deductive reasoning; or even the lab-
oratory method of analysis of isolated
phenomena. It is just one method,
AMERICANIZATION.
For a generation the American
people have been so absorbed in de-
veloping their industries and exploit-
ing their natural resources, during a
period of profound peace from with-
out and undisturbed by iany supremely
great divisive policies within, that as
a people we have almost forgotten the

and implies no superiority over or re-
placement of other methods. Field
work is described and analyzed by
Professor F. S. Chapin of Smith Col-
lege in a useful book. The author lays
stress on the schedule as the chief me-
chanical instrument of field work, but
the field worker comes first and his
training is more important than the
tremendous physical, mental and moral
struggle through which the character
of the nation was developed. The re-
cent world catastrophe, the consequent
economic stress, and the consciousness
that American institutions and ideals
are about all the hope left to the world
for its rehabilitation has awakened us
to the importance of re-emphasizing

schedule. Dr. Ohapin's work deals es-

the American principles developed and
pecially with economic and sociologic
preserved to us by the struggles, sac-
statistics, very little with genetical or
rifices and courage of our fathers.
" Sketches of America and Americans "
engenical there is, however, a section
;

on medico-social case investigation. is a readable series of essays on events

The last chapter deals with the reduc- and characters that have served to
tion of the data a/nd their interpreta-
inaugurate and to establish our fun-
tion.
damental Americanism and is well
suited to place in the hands of the
F. S. Chapin, 1920. Field Work and
Social Research. N. Y.: Century. 224 pp. young citizen or the new immigrant
who needs to perceive our institutions
EUGENIC OR HYGIENIC 2 through the perspective from which
they have sprung.
Under the caption " Eugenic Mar-
riage Law " the Journal of the Amer- Geo. I. Haight: Sketches of America
and Americans. Hanson Roach Fowler
ican Medical Association for February Co., Chicago. 1920.
5 reports that a bill has been intro-
duced in the North Carolina legisla- PSYCHIATRIST WANTED.
ture, " which stipulates that all appli- Announcement is made of New York
cants for marriage licenses shall State Civil Service Examinations for
furnish with their application a cer- March 26. Among positions to be
tificate from a reputable licensed filled by unwritten examination is
physician resident in the county in that of psychiatrist at New York
which the marriage license is sought, State Reformatory for Women, Bed-
or by the county health officer, testi- ford Hills ; $3,000 and maintenance.
fying that the applicant has submitted Candidates must be licensed physi-
to an examination and has been found cians with special training or experi-
in sound and healthy condition, physi- ence in psychiatry. For application
cally and mentally." Whether eugenic form address a postal card to State
or hygienic this is a good bill as far Civil Service Commission, Albany, N.
as it goes. Y., before March 24th.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 23

INHERITED INSANITY. than those without." If his investiga-

The Bucharest, Rumania, corre- tions are confirmed we may have to

spondent of the Journal of the Ameri- recommend marriage into tuberculous

can Medical Association for January families to insure non-tuberculous off-
spring.
1, p. 50, reports that " according to
Dr. Kener, director of a large lunatic
asylum, insanity when transmitted, oc- RACIAL REACTIONS TO SUNLIGHT.
curs at an earlier age in each succes-
That white children are more un-
sive generation." This, it may be
favorably affected in growth than col-
stated parenthetically, is probably a
ored by the heat of the Cuban sum-
mere statistical, not a biological fact.
mer, has been shown by measurements
While the family predigrees gives a
great variety of neuropathic manifes-
made on 4000 Cuban children by Dr.
tations, he finds that a " neurotic in-
Rouma, as communicated to the So-
ciety d'anthropologie de Bruxelles.
heritance is liable to bring about the
establishment >of certain morbid
mental habits and when such an in-
;

heritance is strong, there is great risk FAMILIAL SITUS INVERSUS.

of the development of organized de-
A case of " Eamilial Situs Inversus,"
lusions. Proper care may keep the complete lateral transposition of the
latter tendencies in check ; but an viscera, is described by K. Ochsenius in
improper environment in which there Monatsschrift
fur Kinderheillcunde for
is temptation to drink, evil compan-
October, 1920, p. 27. He states that
ions, and the like, may result in in- "
this is only the fifth case of familial
sanity, crime or suicide. In a third situs inversus totalis in non-twins re-
generation these inborn tendencies
ported in the literature," and claims
may appear in a more intensive form, that situs inversus totalis is " not a
resulting in congenital imbecility and
deformity in the true sense of the
feeblemindedness. Dr. Kener has term," but situs inversus partialis al-
found this to be the case when two
ways is. (Jour. A. M. A., Jan., 1921.)
first cousins, nort insane but cominc
of a tained stock, have married and
borne children."
WATER AND GOITER
The Buenos Ayres correspondent
TUBERCULAR UOIUN1TY. of the Journal of the American Medi-
It is suggested by A. Adams, in a
cal Association reports that goiter is
paper which appeared in Tubercle, endemic in important zones of South
London, for January, on " Heredity in America, especially the Andes region
Tuberculosis," that an hereditary im- and certain mountainous territory in
munity is being acquired "which is tropical South America. Recently
steadily raising our resistance to the Houssajr has succeeded in producing
onset and course of the disease." He experimental goiter in white rats
analyzed the records of 1,000 patients after feeding them with water from
admitted to a sanatorium and found the province This investi-
of Salta.
over 60 per cent, gave no family his- gation tends
to confirm the theory
tory and "the percentage of patients that water is
one of the transmitting
who failed to respond to treatment agencies of goiter. (Jour. A. M. A.,
was less among those with history Dec.)
24 EPICAL NEWS
NOTES AND NEWS. Prof. Dr. E. Malinowsky, of the
A clinical description of a pair of Academy of Agriculture, Warsaw, Po-
one-egg twins is given by F. Rohr land, organized during the war (about
(Zeitschr. f. Kinderheilk., 26, p. 304). 1916) a genetical Station at Mory,
During- the month of observation the near Warsaw. Here have been made
curves of weight of the 3 months' old hybridization experiments on ver-

boys showed closely similar fluctua- benas, wheats, nicotiana and radishes.
tions they reacted similarly to nutri-
;
E. E. Debenedetti in PolicUnico,
tive changes. Dr. Rohr writes us
Rome, for November 29, 1920, describes
that, after leaving the clinic, their
a case of a cousin marriage resulting
medical histories ran parallel ; and
in all four sons having alkaptonuria,
that they died on the same day, within
but the two daughters are without the
fifteen minutes of each other.
disease. (Jour. A. M. A., Jan. 29.)
Ichthyosis in its hereditary aspects
is described by J. Henricks (Norsk. L. Dubreuil-C'hambardel in the Bul-
Mag. f. Laegev., 1920). The paper is letin <le V Academy de Medecine, Paris,
accompanied by eight pedigree charts. for November 30, 1920, describes five
instances of " hereditary congenital
In these charts generations are fre-
quently skipped. The disease appears dislocation of hip joint," in which the
not to be a simple dominant. mothers had congenital dislocation
corrected in childhood. Their chil-
Similarity in the abnormality of " presented the same type of dis-
dren
the secretions of has
gastric juices
location as the mothers had been born,
been found by F. Dauwe (Arch. Med.
with." (Jour. A. M. A., Jan. 29.)
Belg., July, 1920) between a mother
and two sons, and, in numerous cases, An article on " Parturition Injuries
between two sibs or between parent and Feeble-Mindedness," by Schott, ap-
an^d child.
peared in the Arehiv fur Oynaekologie,
An American Foundation in France Berlin. The second part of the paper
for prehistoric studies has been organ- deals with epilepsy. " The possibility
ized and budget guaranteed for the
its of a combination of birth injury and
first year. The work
to be undertaken a spasmophilous diathesis in one or
is to be excavation at La Quina at both parents, as a conponent contrib-
Charonte, France, a region noted for utory cause of epilepsy, cannot be de-
its moustieren discoveries. Everything nied. But there are no data showing
discovered, except human remains Oi a direct causation from birth injuries
special interest, may come to Ameri- without an anamnesis showing nerve
can Museums. Workers learn how to lesion in one or both parents." (Jour.
excavate. The most important prehis- A. M. A., February 5.)
toric stations of France will be visited.
The London Lancet of October 23
Address, Peabody Museum, Cambridge,
contains a paper on "Family History
Mass.
in Case of Angioneurotic Edema," by
" Legislation which ignores the C. Cameron. He is able to trace the
facts of variation and heredity must condition to "the patient's paternal
ultimately lead to national deteriora- grandmother," and "both males and
tion." "The Declining Birth Rate," females participated in the transmis-
by the National Birth Rate Commis- sion and were equally affected by the
sion, London, 1917 (p. 45). condition."
 Eugenical News
VOL. VI. APRIL, 1921 NO. 4
HEREDITY OF ADMIRAL MAHAN. use of poisonous gases in warfare, se-
Alfred Thayer Mahan, was born Sep- cured recognition of the Monroe doc-
tember 27, 1840, at West Point, New trine, and was opposed to the ancient
York, where his father was Professor American contention of immunity of
at the U. S. Military Academy. After private property at sea. His later
two years in a boarding school, and years were spent largely in writing
some months at Columbia College, he books. His lives of Farragut and
entered the U. S. Naval Academy at Nelson are among the greatest biog-
Annapolis, whence he was graduated raphies ever written. His "
Seapower,
in 1859 and went on a cruise in the 1793-1812 " "
and Seapower in its Ke-
frigate Congress to South America lations to the War of 1812" are
and Africa. Commissioned lieutenant classics. His " Types of Naval Offi-
at the outbreak of the Civil War, he cers " is superb. " From Sail to
was stationed with the South Atlan- Steam" is an autobiography.
tic blockade squadron. At twenty- Mahan was a marked hypokinetic.
five years he was made lieutenant He was not cursed with a multiplicity
commander, and for some years as- of trivial ideas tending to distract
signed to the Asiatic station. Since him from his main course. When the
the gunboat Aroostook, to the com- " inspiration " came to him of the in-
mand of which he had been elevated, fluence of sea-power on history, his
was sold, Mahan returned to Wash- life work was marked out. This hy-
ington by way of India, Suez and pokinesis showed itself in the thor-
Europe. For fourteen years longer, oughness with which he worked it ;

until 1884, Mahan was on active naval took him months to write the books
duty. In that year, however, he ac- that had, indeed, been incubating for
cepted an offer to become associated many years but they were in a class
;

with the Naval War College, in charge by themselves for philosophic insight
of naval history. He served as Presi- and accuracy. His classic tempera-
dent of the College from 1886 to 1889 ment showed also in his precise chi-
and during 1892-93. In 1890 his "In- rography, and in a tendency toward
fluence of sea power upon history, melancholy and toward religion. His
1660-1783 " was published, and quickly father was a hypokinetic also. As
became the leading textbook on the professor of engineering at West
subject in all naval colleges of the Point, his work was characterized by
world. In recognition of that and extraordinary thoroughness. His trea-
other books, he was given honorary tise on field fortification passed
degrees in 1894 by Oxford and Cam- through six editions and was regarded
bridge and later by leading American as the best of its kind. His hypo-
universities, and in 1902 was elected kinesis developed as he grew older
president of the American Historical until he sought relief in self-destruc-
Association. He was a member of a tion. His father's brother was pro-
naval board of strategy during the fessor in a theological seminary.
war with Spain, and was a delegate Mahan had a gift of literary ex-
to the Hague Peace Conference, where pression. His writing was clear, con-
he opposed the resolution against the densed, unaffected, vigorous. His
26 EUGENICAL NEWS
father's books are stated to be terse edge. There is much in the book that
and clear. Literary
expression de- is interesting reading and it contains ;

pends on the sentence-forming- capac- no doubt much truth; but doubtless it

ity, which is a cerebral function often lacks proportion, as all special plead-

quite involuntary. And the person ing must.

whose brain forms sentences easily
R. M. Binder, 1920. Health and Social
and satisfactorily enjoys expression Progress, N. Y.: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
just because it fulfills his instincts. 295 pp.

His works were logical because his

brain was a logical one. It is prob-
SERIALS OF SOCIAL AGENCIES.
able that his imagination and vivid-
The Russell Sage Foundation has is-
ness were greater than his father's
sued a list of the serial publications
yearbooks, re-
because of the' vivacious French blood in its library, including
ports, bulletins, and proceedings which,
which his mother brought into the
combination. because they are free and expensive
to keep and bind, are rarely to be
C. C. Taylor, 1920. The Life of Ad- found in libraries. There are about
miral Mahan: naval philosopher. N. Y.
Doran. xiii + 350 pp. 4,000 institutions and organizations
included. Institutional series are
DISEASE AND NATIONAL DECLINE. listed alphabetically by places. There
A
professor of sociology has dis- is The book
also a subject index. is

cussed the relation of health to social very valuable not only as an index to
progress. He opens his book with the the extraordinarily complete collec-

reminder that in 1800 A.D. the popu- tion of the Foundation, but also as a
lation of the globe was 600 million check list and a guide to librarians in
and in 1900, 1600 million, an increase selecting reports.
of 270 per cent. At the same rate,
Elsie M. Rushmore,
1921. Social
in 2000 it will be 4,320 million, and Workers' Guide to the serial publica-
where will they get food? The an- tions of representative social agencies,
with an introduction by F. W. Jenkins,
swer is from the tropics provided Librarian of the Foundation.
Russell Sage Foundation.
N. Y.:
174 pp.
sanitation makes them inhabitable. $3.50.
Incidentally it may be remarked that
the alarming increase in population INTELLIGENCE AND SOCIAL
noted is due to improved sanitation REACTIONS.
one way to diminish the rate of in- Despite the remarkable success of
crease is to increase the death rate. the Binet Test as a measure of intel-
The book is an elaboration of the ligence, it is a hopeful sign that psy-
opinion the author has adopted that chologists are still concerned with
bad health retards human progress. improving such tests. Berry and Por-
He accepts the suggestion that has teus favor using more than one kind
been made that the introduction and of test. They have measured the skulls
spread of malaria caused the down- of feebleminded as a means of esti-
fall of Greece and Rome, and that the mating A comparison
size of brain.

success of the Nordics is due to their of brain capacities of normals and ab-
freedom from tropical diseases, espe- normals shows that, despite the pres-
cially malaria and hookworm. The ence of many abnormally large heads,
northern races are more efficient and the average of cubic capacity of the
live longer, so that they can more brains of mentally deficient is far
be-

effectively pass on the torch of knowl- low that of normal boys of the same
 EUGENICAL NEWS 27

age. There is a fairly high correla- and make little provision for excep-
tion between grip and mental tests tional children. That this is errone-
(0.4 for boys of 9 years) and a still ous is made clear by Contribution to
higher one between " vital capacity Education No. 75 of Teachers College.
and mental tests (r =
0.55). The The book takes up in turn the provi-
child's reaction to the printed maze sion for the deaf, the juvenile delin-
is used as a measure of his foresight, quent and unruly, the blind, the de-
capacity for planning and self-control. pendent and neglected, the feeble-
Performance with the maze corre- minded and epileptic, the crippled, the
lates somewhat higher with social non-English-speaking immigrant, the
capacity than does that with the tubercular, the speech-defective and
Binet test. the exceptionally gifted. There is a
R. A. Berry and S. D. Porteus, 1920. history of the development of each of
Intelligence and Social Valuation these special services and a list of in-
Publ. No. 20 Training School at Vine-
land, N. J. 100 pp. stitutions for each class. There are
twenty-two cities which maintain spe-
CASE HISTORIES OF DEFECTIVES. cial schools or classes for the excep-
There is a strong and justifiable tionally gifted.
tendency to demand all of the details
R. A. F. McDonald, 1915. "Adjust-
in case studies, and not merely gen- ment of School Organizations to Vari-
eralizations derived from study. For ous Population Groups." New York,
Teachers College, Columbia Univer-
the feebleminded, many such cases sity. 145 pp.
have been published by Goddard. Dr.
Martin W. Barr, a physician of long SOUTH CAROLINA DEFECTIVES.
experience with the feebleminded, af-
The State Board of Public Welfare
fords in the present book many more
of South Carolina came into existence
such histories. Brief case histories in the early part of 1920. From its
and photographs are given of idiots, Quarterly Bulletins and First Annual
idio-imbeciles, low-grade to high-grade
Report it is evident that this Board
imbeciles, moral imbeciles, backward
has done noteworthy work among the
children, dementia prsecox, idiots sa-
feebleminded and those otherwise
vants, epileptics, mongolians, micro-
socially handicapped. In September,
cephalics, and sundry special types in-
1920, the State Training School at
cluding microcephaly, hydrocephaly,
Clinton was opened for feeble-minded
pilosity, precocious physical develop-
ment, castration, cretinism, and other

children the first institution of its
kind in the state. That there was a
endocrine conditions. For the stu- need for such an institution is seen
dent of the feebleminded the work is
by the results of mental tests which
important because it is derived from
have been given to inmates of other
the rich experience of one of the
institutions, such as the South Caro-
earliest American students of defec-
lina Industrial School for Boys at
tives.
Florence, where tests showed that ap-
Martin W. Barr and E. P. Maloney, proximately 20 per cent, of the boys
1920. Types of Mental Defectives.
Philadelphia: Blakiston. ix + 179 pp. are mentally defective. It is esti-
mated that there are between 5,000
EDUCATING THE ABMODAL. and 6,000 feeble-minded in South Caro-
sometimes assumed that city lina, at least a third of
It is whom need
schools deal with children en masse institutional care.
28 EUGENICAL NEWS

EUGENICAL NEWS. Watson, A. Mjoen, William S. Sadler,

Published monthly by Vernon Kellogg.

THE EUGENICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, Efforts are being made to raise
funds to bring from Europe and re-
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and Cold Spring Harbor,
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of the
representative workers in the field of
Long Island, N. Y.
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the United States and island possessions also in
Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Canal Zone.
;

In all
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Entered as second-class matter May 10, 1916, at
the Post Office at Lancaster. Pa., under the Act of each, to be expended for this purpose.
March 3, 1879.
The Carnegie Institution of Washing-
April, 1921. ton has made a grant of $2,000 toward
the entertainment of delegates to the
II. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF Congress and toward the expenses of
EUGENICS. certain European scientists. The fol-
Plans of the Second International
lowing individuals or organizations
Congress of Eugenics to be held in
are already enrolled as patrons Race :

New York City from Sept. 22-28, 1921,

Betterment Foundation, through Dr.
are progressing. A provisional pro-
John H. Kellog'g, Charles K. Gould,
gram is being prepared under the four
Archer M. Huntington, Cleveland H.
general sections which we mentioned
Dodge, John T. Pratt.
in the preliminary statement concern-
Anextensive exhibit of the results
ing the Congress appearing in the
of research in genetics and eugenics
February issue of Eugenical News.
is planned. This will be situated on
Under the first section dealing with
the first floor of the American Museum
Genetics and Human Inheritance,
of Natural History, and will be of
papers have already been received (or
both public and scientific interest. It
are reasonably expected) from the
will probably include the most com-
following: H. J. Muller, Otto L. Mohr,
prehensive collection of data on these
Leo Loeb, C. E. McClung, Mr. Lidbit-
matters that has been exhibited. For
ter, Hazel E. Stanton, Lucien Howe,
the purpose of this exhibit Mrs. E. H.
A. J. Rosanoff, H. A. Cotton, M. F.
Harriman has contributed $2,500.
Guyer, C. R. Stockard, Sewall Wright.
For any information concerning the
Under the second section, dealing
Congress address Dr. C. C. Little,
with the Human Family W. S. Ander- :

Secretary-General American Museum

son, Helen Dean King, Roswell H.
Johnson, Arthur H. Estabrook, W. F.
Wilcox, Wilhelmine E. Key, Ann Mor-
gan, G. S. Crum, H. H. Laughlin, Hilda
Noyes.
Under the third section, dealing
with the Factor of Race Emery Fil-
bey, Maurice Fishberg, A. Hrdlicka,
Paul R. Radosavljevich, Robert Ben-
nett Bean, T. Wingate Todd, W. K.
of Natural History, 77th St. and Cen-
tral Park West, New York City, N. Y.,
U. S. A.
ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES OF EU-
GENICS RECORD OFFICE.
: Biography, 1.
Individual Analysis Cards, 14.
Record of Family Traits, 22.
Field Reports :

Gregory. Miss Cook Description, 63 charts

: ;

Under the fourth section, dealing 3 ; individuals, 108.

with Applied Eugenics Dean Inge, : Miss Covert : Description, 51 ; charts,
Raymond Pearl, E. M. East, Mrs. Frank 5 ; individuals, 77.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 29

Miss Earle : Description, 108 ; charts, an infection of tu the popu-

tu this,
5 ; individuals, 39. Proceeding in accordance with
lation.
Miss Lantz : Description, 44 ; charts, this method it appears that the highest
2; individuals, 119. rate of venereal infection in any " sec-
Miss Stanton: Description, 146; tion " of the country, as shown in
charts, 2 ; individuals, 235. " Defects Found in Drafted
Men,"
(War Department, 1920), was 122 per
ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. Assume
1000 for section 5, Texas.
Miss Helen T. Reeves, '10, is now
this to be the rate corresponding to a
located at the State Institution for
male population every member of
Feeble-Minded at Frankfort, Ky.
which acquires a venereal disease dur-
Miss Euth H. Liddle, 1920, has re-
ing the age period 21 to 30 years.
ceived appointment as Social Worker
Then, for New York City, where the
at Letchworth Village, Thiells, N. Y.
rate is 14 per 1000, or 11% of the
Jaime de Angulo, 1911, is engaged
Texas 5, we would draw the conclu-
in research in anthropology at Car-
sion that the most probable propor-
mel, California. He gave two courses
tion of men who become infected dur-
in psycho-anthropology at the Uni-
ing the period of 21 to 30 years is
versity of California last summer. He
11%. Of course, in rural regions of
is especially interested in studies on
the North West the venereal rate is
the Indians.
far less than this thus South Dakota
;

GUESSTIMATES, AGAIN. 2 has a rate of 5.33 per 100 or 4.4% of

Our note " Guesstimates " in the the rate for Texas. Thence, it follows,
if our method be justified, that only
News for February has brought out
the criticism that the number of per- about 4% of the young men of this
sons found by draft surgeons to be region ever get infected with venereal
infected with venereal disease on a disease. There is no use in discussing

given day of the draft examinations the rate for the United States as a
gives no clue to the proportion of whole, since about 10% of this rate is
males who get infected. Attention made up from colored persons and
must be called, however, to the facts negroes, who have a so much larger
that returns of draft examiners are rate than the whites as to distort the

based sometimes on two or more ex- average.

aminations, that a given attack pro-
duces lesions which are obvious for
some days, or even weeks, so that each
case reported represents the findings
for a considerable period and the
total is the accumulated cases for a
noteworthy fraction of the year.
There is, however, another way
getting light on this difficult statis-the central powers are invited to at-
tical subject. This method is to take tend
TROUBLES OF CONGRESSES.
In international congresses the atti-
tude of the French men of science has
to be reckoned with. Recently the
French Committee on the second In-
ternational Congress of Comparative
Pathology to be held at Rome, 1921,
of voted to refrain from attending it, if
since the latter have not yet
;

the highest rate of infection found by " proclaimed, by a public act, that
draft officers as representing 100% they repudiate all connection with the
of infection by men of ages 21 to 30 government and the military leaders
in that group. Then a rate of half of Germany in 1914 as regards the
this will represent a 50% infection of anti-social acts committed by these
the young male population; a rate during the war."
30 EUGENICAL NEWS
HEREDITARY EXOSTOSES. pital. These were done at the direc-
A
short article descriptive of a fam- Board of Eugenics.
tion of the State
ily showing" Hereditary multiple car- no untoward or un-
It is stated that
tilaginous exostoses " is published in favorable results have occurred, and
the Journal of the American Medical the operations have been beneficial in
Association for February 26, by H. H. all cases. The hospital has found it
Maynard, M.D., and Clifton K. Scott, rather difficult for the public as well
M.D. The article is illustrated with as the patients and relatives to get
Koentgenograms and a family pedi- the right point of view and appreciate
gree chart showing four affected gen- the immediate and remote benefits to
erations. " The disease shows a be derived from this means of prevent-
marked hereditary factor and is trans- ing the increase of insanity. It is,
mitted by male or female." The fam- however, the belief of Oregon authori-
ily history does not support theories ties that the increasing enlightenment
of infection. There are some fourteen of the people will cause these opera-
citations from the literature. tions to be resorted to much more
extensively in the future.
HEREDITY IN BRONCHIAL
ASTHMA. SCIENCE AND SENTIMENT.
Dr. S. Piness in a paper on " Eti-
" As an animal breeder of some
ology of Bronchial Asthma" in the
years' experience I have no doubt
California State Journal of Medicine
whatever that almost any breeder of
for January claims that " Heredity is
average intelligence, if given omnipo-
an important predisposing but not ex-
tent control over the activities of hu-
citing factor in from 25 to 50 per
man beings, could in a couple of gen-
cent, of the cases." (Jour. Am. Med.
erations breed a race of men on the
Asso., Feb. 26.)

average vastly superior by our pres-

HEREDITY OF AINHUM.
ent standards to any race of men
now existing in respect of virtually
Ainhum is a supposed tropical dis-
every quality or attribute but as a;
ease characterized by a gradual am-
practical person I am equally sure
putation of one or more toes, chiefly
that nothing of the sort is going to be
the little toe, by the formation of a
done, by legislative action or any dele-
constricting band at the base. The
gation of powers. Before any sensible
cause of the disease is unknown. Dr.
going to entrust
Keith M. B. Simon of Belize, British person or society is
control of its germ-plasm to sci-
Honduras, reports that it is fairly the
common in that country and he be- ence, there will be demanded that sci-
lieves it to be hereditary. A case is ence know a great deal more than it
described with illustration in the
now does about the vagaries of germ-
plasms and how to control them.
Journ. Amer. Med. Ass. for Feb. 26,
" But because of the altogether more
p. 590.
impersonal nature of the case, most
STERILIZATION IN OREGON. men are perfectly willing to let any-
In the state of Oregon, during the body do anything he likes in the direc-
biennial period ending September 30, tion of modifying the environment or
1920, thirty sterilizing operations have trying to, quite regardless of whether
been performed, according to the surg- science is able to give any slightest
ical report of the Oregon State Hos- inkling on the basis of ascertained
 EUGENICAL NEWS 31

fact, whether, the tion, claiming that they are unable

outcome will be
good, bad or indifferent. Hence, many- to do so. As a consequence the flow
kinds of weird activities and propa- of the matrimonial current is seri-
ganda flourish and we go on paying ously impeded. Whether the fault is
large sums of money." Kaymond in the form of the law or in the in-
Pearl, Lowell Lectures. terpretation which the physicians are
putting upon it seems to be the point
MARRIAGE HYGIENE. which is exciting considerable con-
Iowa. troversy and editorial comment. As
The Iowa state legislature has be- the penalty for a false affidavit is
fore it a bill forbidding marriage severe, it is not strange that the phy-
without a certificate attesting mental sicians are shy until an interpretative
and physical fitness. (Jour. Am. Med. ruling has been made as to the full
Asso., Mar. 5, p. 661.) significance of the law.

Minnesota.
The Minnesota legislature has under
consideration a bill for marriage reg- INSTITUTION FOR CRIMINAL
ulation, which is hygienic and not eu- RESEARCH.
genic, as commonly reported by the Chicago has under consideration the
press. establishment of a laboratory in Cook
Oregon. county for the investigation of all
The Oregon legislature passed a bill, problems connected with crime. It is
Feb. 19, requiring an examination as urged that the laboratory should be
to mental and physical fitness of wo- the largest and most complete in this
men before granting a marriage li- country and perhaps in the world, as
cense. A law has been in force requir- Chicago has ample material for such
ing similar examinations of men. investigation and research. As re-
ported by the New York Times, an in-
Michigan.
stitution is proposed to cost $8,000,000
The bill which was before the Mich-
to $10,000,000, equipped with all facil-
igan legislature " requiring applicants
ities " for investigation, study, re-
for marriage licenses to file physicians'
search and analysis, with probable dis-
certificatesregarding their mental and
coveries of causes and effects of crime,
physical qualifications," has been de-
the probable invention of better meth-
feated in the Senate by a vote of 16
ods of handling crime, and the obtain-
to 4.
ing of desirable and substantial re-
EUGENICS IN NORTH CAROLINA. sults in the prevention of crime." It
The recently enacted law in North is proposed that all the agencies which
Carolina requiring affidavit from a handle crime be housed in the proposed
physician in good standing, showing structure. By this means it is hoped
that neither party applying for a to make Chicago a rival of certain
marriage license is afflicted with tu- European cities in the suppression and
berculosis, or is mentally defective, is prevention of crime. The founding
stirring up a good deal of trouble in of such an institution, if rightly or-
that state. The difficulty appears to ganized, would mark the beginning of
be chiefly in the matter of the mental a great advance in the clear under-
affirmation. Many physicians decline standing and in the effective control
to make affidavit as to mental condi- of the criminal forces of society.
32 EUGENICAL NEWS
DRYING UP THE SPRINGS.
A special appropriation of $135,000
to the Ohio Bureau of Juvenile Re-
search has been asked for. The object
is for facilities for making mental ex-
aminations of about 4,000 persons in
institutions annually in order to de-
tect the feebleminded. It is planned
by the new state board of administra-
tion, as soon as authorization and
funds can be procured, to segregate
permanently the feebleminded and the
submental criminalistic type, devel-
oping the state farms for this pur-
pose. The ultimate aim is eugenical,
as might be expected since the plan
to a better figure than has
67,946,
been reached for a long time. France
has recently enacted a much more
stringent law to prevent the dissemi-
nation of information on methods of
birth control. (Jour. Am. Med. Assoc,
Mar. 5, pp. 665-6.)
HYGIENE CONGRESS ABANDONED
The International Congress of Hy-
giene, which was to have been held in
Geneva in May, has been abandoned,
for the reason that the low value of
the currency of many countries and
the high value of the Swiss franc make
it impossible for many countries to

has been worked out by, or in con- send delegates. Fully 600 delegates
junction with, Dr. H. H. Goddard, in from all parts of the world had been
charge of the Bureau. It is hoped by expected to attend. It was proposed
the plan to cut off the stream of by Great Britain and the United
hereditary defectives. No doubt a States, that they be permitted to sub-
very great deal could be done by sidize delegates of nations with ab-
carrying out this plan. Probably, in normally low exchange, but these
another generation, the feebleminded delegates, regarding it as a form of
rate in the state would be half what alms giving, refused the offer.
it now is. And homicide, rape and
burglary would become relatively NOTES AND NEWS.
much less common. Dr. Victory B. Anderson of the Na-
tional Committee on Mental Hygiene
BAD CHILDREN AND BAD GERMS. is conducting a mental hygiene sur-
A marked change in behavior, char- vey of the state of South Carolina
acterized by purposeless, impulsive under the direction of the Child Wel-
motor acts, marked irritability, dis- fare Commission.
orders of (attention and variable mood,
The Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Es-
inadequate and inconsistent emotional
tudios Historicos Americanos, founded
reactions, marked insomnia and
in Quito, July 24, 1909, and which has
some/times eroticism, has been shown,
been concerned in part with questions
by Leahy and Sands (J. Amcr. Med.
of race and anthropology in Equador,
Assn., Fob. 5), to follow "sleeping
has now become the Academia
sickness " in some children, 5 to 15
Nacional de Historia of the republic.
years of age.
Columbia, Mo., is reported to have
POST-WAR VITAL STATISTICS. more twins in proportion to its popu-
The French bureau of statistics has lation than any place in America. It
just published the vital statistics for is a college town and out of a total
France for the first half of 1920. This resident and student population of
includes for the first time since the 15,272 there are thirty-two pairs of
war the invaded departments. The twins, or one pair to every 477 per-
excess of births over deaths amounts sons in the place.
 Eugenical News
VOL. VI. MAY, 1921 NO. 5
HEREDITY OF D. A. TOMPKINS. a " talent for business " and " ener-
Daniel Augustus Tompkins was getic nature " managed the planta-
born in Edgefield County, South Caro- tion, while her " easy-going " hus-

lina, October 12, 1851, on his father's band was in the war, better than it
cotton plantation, worked by slave was managed by him. When the war
labor. From country school and ended, leaving the fortunes of most
South Carolina College, he went to Southern families wrecked, she sold
the Eensselaer Polytechnic Institute, her hoarded cotton for $20,000.
working- summers at the Bessemer Tompkins was by nature and train-
steel works, Troy, and graduating- in ing a tactician. For ten years after
1869. He was draftsman in Brook- leaving the Polytechnic he devel-
lyn for a time, and head draftsman oped as a head draftsman and plan-
for the Bethlehem iron works, 1879- ner of machinery and patterns. He
81 went to Germany as constructing was always meeting situations with
;

engineer for some months ; and intelligence and action was based on
settled in 1882 as engineer, machin- knowledge. In his addresses, which
ist and contractor at Charlotte, were numerous, he relied largely on
North Carolina. He first became statistics. As a boy, his favorite
agent of the Westinghouse Company, study was mathematics. His father
then formed the D. A. Tompkins was a practising physician, more de-
Company which built cotton oil mills, voted to science than to his planta-
promoted and installed cotton mills tion a ready and fluent speaker. His
;

in the South, and developed their own brother Arthur has been a success-
machine shops and foundry. There ful lawyer in the ancestral county.
followed 25 years of ever widening As a strategist Tompkins was re-
activity:

cooperative mill building, markable. From youth he had the
promotion of industrial and technical definite " plan of life " of becoming
education, including textile schools an engineer and iron master of the
writing of books owning and manag- South.
; This is because mechanical
ing the " Charlotte Observer " lec- pursuits made overwhelming appeal.
;

turing, serving on the U. S. Indus- As a boy, his chief delight was his
trial Commission, developing plans father's blacksmith and carpenter
for marketing cotton, and building- shops and making water wheels for
;

homes for mill workers. After a the plantation grist mill. At 16 years
paralytic stroke he retired to a moun- he built a bridge for which his father
tain home, where he died after five had taken the contract. This strong
years of invalidism, October, 1914. instinct led him to the Polytechnic,
Tompkins had the three attributes led him to the Bethlehem iron works,
of a preeminent man industry, tac- to the formation of his engineering-
:

tics and strategy. He was clearly a company, to the sale of engines, mills
hyperkinetic, rich in ideas, 'driven, to create a demand for engines, in-
generous and with a fund of humor. vestigation of the utilization of cot-
This hyperkinesis was shown in his ton seed and of the economics of cot-
mother also, who rose early and with ton spinning to create a demand for
34 EUGENICAL NEWS
mills, and the upbuilding of mill A BIOLOGIST'S VIEWS
communities to promote the health A biologist has as much right to
of the mill hands. Mechanical in- express his opinions as anybody else
stinct and patriotic devotion to the and in view of his special knowledge
nascent South brought success. they are apt to be different opinions
non-biologist. Also,
G. T. Winston, 1920. A Builder of the from those of the
New South, being- the story of the life since the biologist has special knowl-
work of Daniel Augustus Tompkins. N. man is
Y. Doubleday, Page & Co. x + 403 pp. edge about organisms and, as
:

$3.00. an organism, his opinions about man

are especially worth listening to. Dr.
FREUD, JUNG AND McDOUGAL. Conklin is one of our most famous
The " new psychology," which is biologists. He holds "that nothing
the outgrowth of the teachings of which concerns man is wholly foreign
Freud and Jung, has received many to the fundamental principle of life
expositions in recent years but there and evolution, and that the future
;

still remains room for a comprehen- progress of mankind depends upon a

sive sketch which the present work rational application of the principles
supplies. The whole work revolves of science to all human affairs."
around the three fundamental men- The book comprises three parts:
tal the cognitive or the
processes :
I, Paths and possibilities of human
knowing process the affective or the
;
evolution; Evolution and democ-
II,
emotion-arousing process and the ;
racy III, Evolution and religion. We
;

conative or the motion-inciting or find that part I sticks closest to biol-

response process. The author's treat- ogy and is most interesting. There is
ments of the unconscious complexes certainly much probability in Conk-
and the libido are clear and simple, lin's opinion that all races of the
as are those of diversion and sub- earth will soon be hybridized. He
limation of the libido (wish or de- concludes that there is no present in-
sire), and' the resulting conflict. dication that a new and higher species
Dreams and their modern interpreta- of man will develop on earth.
tions are elucidated. A chapter is Every intellectual human being will
devoted to the fundamental instincts, want to read this book.
of which McDougall distinguishes
E. G. Conklin, 1921. The Direction of
twelve, viz : fright, pugnacity, repul- Human Evolution. N. Y.: Scribners.
sion, curiosity, self-assertion, self- 247 pp.
abasement, parental instinct, repro- EUGENICS LEGISLATION.
duction, feeding, gregariousness, ac-
Among various bills effecting the
quisition and construction. The marriage laws of New York there is
author discusses more fully the psy- now before the State legislature a
chological aberrations associated bill suggested by Dr. Lucien S. Howe
with self-assertion, gregariousness of Buffalo, an eye specialist of nation-
and reproduction. It is regrettable al reputation, and introduced by Sen-
that the author's fundamental con- ator W. W. Campbell of Niagara Falls.
cept of psychic energy seems still The provisions of this bill seek to
vague. The book is a valuable one the marriage of persons
prevent
for every student of human behavior.
likely to transmit serious eye defects
Tansley, A. G., 1920. The New Psy- by heredity. None of these marriage
chology and its Relation to Life. N. Y. regulation bills is likely to be passed
Dodd, Mead & Co. 283 pp. $4.00.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 35

THE SATURDAY CLUB. and other sources Dr. Emerson has

About the middle of the last cen- built up his pen portraits of this re-
tury the city of Boston with its en- markable group. More than thirty
virons attained the proud position form the center of the picture, while
of being- the intellectual metropolis many others are more or less dis-
of the new world. Within her vicin- tinctly outlined in the background.
age there sprang up or were trans- It is impossible to list all the im-
planted many of the literary and in- portant names and it is difficult to
tellectual masters of American life. select where all are so eminent. As
This close association of creative a sample of the group we may name
mentalities furnished an atmosphere Agassiz, Emerson, Lowell, Motley,
and provided a stimulus so conducive Hawthorne, Sumner. As a whole the
to intellectual productivity that the work is a valuable as well as inter-
results have never been surpassed by esting character study.
any similar locality in this country.
Edward Waldo Emerson, 1918. Bos-
The nucleus of this intellectual meta- ton:Houghton Mifflin Co. xii 515 pp.
bolism, to use a biological figure, was
to be found in "the Saturday Club. CYCLICAL CHANGES IN STATURE.
Here from month to month the work- Dr. Clelia D. Mosher analyzes, in
ers gathered in synapsis to receive the California State Journal of Medi-
that enzymatic stimulus from the cine, 1921, the measurements of
interplay of minds that sent them women entering Stanford University,
back to their laboratories and studies California. The average statures for
with new ideas and fervent inspira- the three decades considered are :

tions for expression in new products. 1891-1900 1,116 cases 63.2 inches
In the present work Dr. Edward 1901-1910 1,200 cases 63.5 inches
Waldo Emerson has opened to our 1911-1920 1,707 cases 63.8 inches
view the mental reactions and inter- The writer concludes that the re-
play of these informal gatherings. sult is probably due to (1) more hy-
Although no records were kept and gienic dress; increased physical
(2)
scarcely any form of organization activity. Shethinks these figures
existed, he has gathered from the
' " point to a more fully developed and

diaries, letters and other writings more perfectly functioning woman."

of these men the impressions which The author does not consider the
each made upon his fellows. In this possibility that we have to do
social circle no man was upon dress with an hereditary, racial change
parade it was merely " a friendly
; of the population, rather than a mere
group ... a pleasant, utterly in- improvement of conditions. Measure-
formal company of men more or less ments of drafted men and soldiers at
eminent dining, or rather having a demobilization indicate that Californ-
long lunch, together on the last Sat- ians and men from other Pacific and
urday of each month." Here each Great Basin states have a tall stat-
man relaxed, if relax he could, and ure. There a large proportion of
is
revealed the more intimate workings the tall European races among them.
of his mind in unconscious confidence Again men found with tuberculosis
to his fellows some of whom
were have a stature much above the aver-

keen and competent to observe and age probably because the tall races
record. From these first hand studies are' less resistant than the shorter ones.
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OF EUGENICS.
It is expected that a large number The following program has been
of institutions and learned societies arranged, and will be added to. Sec-
from all over the world will send dele- tion I, dealing with Genetics and Hu-
gates to this Congress, which is to be man Inheritance, is under the secre-
held in the American Museum of taryship of Dr. Helen Dean King. The
Natural History, New York City, Sep- leading address in this section will be
tember 22-28, 1921. A partial list given by Dr. Lucien Cuenot, Professor
follows : American Association of of Zoology at the University of
Anatomists, Ross G. Harrison Amer- ; Nancy, France. Dr. Cuenot is dis-
ican Association for the Advance- tinguished for his numerous zoolog-
ment of Science, J. McKeen Cattell ical researches, especially those deal-
American Philosophical Society, G. H. ing with the inheritance of color in
Shull American Public Health Asso- mice.
; The result of his investiga-
ciation, Louis I. Harris American tions led to the formulation of the
;

Neurological Association, Henry H. factor hypothesis which underlies

Donaldson American Sociological
;
practically all of the important mod-
Society, Rudolph M. Benda, Robert ern advances in genetics. It is, there-
P. Chaddock, E. L. Earp, Maurice fore, a matter of great interest to all
Parmlee Barnard College, Henry E.
;
eugenicists and geneticists that Dr.
Crampton Bernice Pauahi Pishop
;
Cuenot will be able to attend the
Museum, Honolulu, L. R. Sullivan Congress.
Dartmouth College, John H. Gerould Among other speakers in this sec-
Danish Anthropological Committee, tion will be E. G. Conklin, of Prince-
August Wimmer, Soren Hansen Gir- ;
ton University, "The Role of Cyto-
ton College Kings College, Univer-
;
plasm in Heredity"; H. A. Cotton,
sity of London, R, Ruggles Gates Le- ;
New Jersey State Hospital, " Inher-
high University, Robert W. Hall; Le- itance of Mental Diseases " Lucien ;

land Stanford Junior University, Howe, Buffalo, " Inheritance of Eye

David Starr Jordan Mount Holyoke ;
Defects p H. S. Jennings, Johns
;

College, Miss Abby H. Turner; New Hopkins University, " Inheritance in

York Academy of Sciences, Henry E. Unicellular Organisms " Mr. Lid- ;

Crampton; Pratt Institute, Mrs. Lucy better, London, " Inheritance of De-
M. Paul, Miss Janet Hale; Royal An- fective Stock in London " Leo Loeb, ;

thropological Institute, W. McDoug- Washington University, " Inheritance

 EUGENICAL NEWS 37

of Cancer in Mice " McChmg, Roswell H. Johnson, University of

; C. E.
National Kesearch Council, " Evolu- Pittsburgh, "Mate Selection"; Helen

tion of the Chromosome Complex " Dean King, Wistar Institute, " Is In-
;

T. H. Morgan, Columbia University, breeding Injurious ? " Dr. Hilda ;

" Physical Basis of Inheritance " H. Noyes, Kenwood, N. Y., "The Oneida
;

J. Muller, University of Texas, " Eate Community Experiment in Stirpicul-

of Mutation " Abraham Myerson, ture " Miss Hazel E. Stanton, State
; ;

Boston, " Inheritance of Mental Dis- University of Iowa, " An Experimen-

eases " ; A. J. Eosanoff, Kings Park, tal Investigation of Musical Inher-
" Inheritance of Mental Disorders " itance " W. F. Wilcox, Cornell Uni-
; ;

C. E. Stockard, Cornell University versity, " The Distribution and In-

Medical College, " Inheritance of the crease of Negroes in the United
Effects of Alcohol"; Sewall Wright, States"; Frederick Adams Woods,
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, "Inher- " The Conification of Social Groups,
itance of Tuberculosis." Evidence from New England Fam-
The secretary for Section II, deal- ilies."
ing with the Human Family, is Under the third section, whose
Howard J. Banker. Dr. Herman secretary is Clark Wissler, papers on
Lundborg will give the leading ad- the Factor of Eace will be read by
dress of this section. He is the Emery Filbey, " Vocational Problems
author of the great work of a dozen with Eespect to Eacial Groups "
years, the " Medizinisch-biologische Maurice Fishberg, " Intermarriage

Familien forschungen " ... in Sweden between Jews and non- Jews their ;

(Provinz Blenkinge)
a work which Eacial, Social and Political Effects " ;

stands as a model of field work. He A. Hrdlicka, U. S. National Museum,

is also the author of the sumptuous "The Physical and Physiological
"iSvenska Folktyper," an iconograph- Characteristics of Old Americans";
ic work. It is expected that Dr. Lund-Paul E. Eadosavljevich, "Eugenic
borg, now in Uppsala, will become Problems of the Slavic Eace " Eobert ;

head of a race-biological institute, B. Bean, Univeusity of Virginia, " The

the establishment of which the Distribution of Human Types " C. E. ;

Swedish parliament has under con- Seashore, University of Iowa, " Eacial
sideration. Differences in Musical Ability " T. ;

Other papers arranged for this sec- Wingate Todd, " Skin Color and
tion are as follows: W. S. Anderson, Skull Form in the American Negro."
University of Kentucky, " Effect on Section IV deals with Applied
the Germ Plasm of Isolation in a Eugenics. The secretary is Frederick
Mountain Section";- Arthur M. Cal- L. Hoffman. H. H. Laughlin, of Cold
houn, White Plains, " The Economic Spring Harbor, will speak on " Ster-
Factor in the Problem of Eugenics " ilization " and " Nativity in State
;

Frederick S. Crum, Prudential Life Institutions," and Wm. S. Sadler,

Insurance Co., " The Size of Families"
Chicago Therapeutic Institute, on
in the U. S. from 1680 to 1890"; A. " Eugenic Aspect of Medical Hor-
H. Estabrook, Eugenics Eecord Office,mones."
" The Tribe of Ishmael a study in ; Word has recently been received
Cacogenics " Miss Elizabeth Greene, that Major Leonard Darwin hopes to
;

Waver ley House, New York, " A Study attend the Congress. It is expected
of a Group of Adolescent Eunaways " that he will deliver one of the leading
;
 38 EUGENICAL NEWS
general addresses to all Sections of genics and genealogy.
Group V. Spe-
the Congress combined. Dr. Darwin, cial Institutions and
Methods Per- :

born in 1850, is a son of Charles Dar- sonal. Institutions of Eugenics;

So-
win, and was formerly a major in the cieties of eugenics and organizations
Royal Engineers. He is eminent as for race betterment; Methods of col-
an economist. For the past ten years lecting and recording eugenical data;
he has been president of the Eugen- Books, journals pamphlets and other
ics Education Society of London, and publications Biographical and per- ;

was president of the First Inter- sonal data letters and photographs ;

national Congress of Eugenics in 1912. of eugenicists.

An Eugenics Exhibition will be Any one interested in obtaining
held beginning September 22 in the further information concerning the
American Museum of Natural His- Congress may secure it by writing to
tory. The exhibits should be of a na- Dr. C. C. Little, Secretary-General,
ture which the man of ordinary in- American Museum of Natural History,
telligence and education, but without New York City. The second announce-
special scientific training, may readily ment containing full information
comprehend and appreciate. Charts, about classes of membership is now
maps, pictures, models and scientific in press.
apparatus are considered proper
means for displaying and demonstrat- EUGENICS RESEARCH ASSOCIA-
ting eugenical facts and principles. TION. ANNUAL MEETING.
All exhibits should be started in time
The ninth annual meeting of the
to reach the Museum on or before July
Eugenics Research Association will
15, 1921. They are to be labeled : Dr.
be held at Cold Spring Harbor on Fri-
H. H. Laughlin, Eugenics Congress, day, June 24, 1921. The guests will
American Museum of Natural History, take the train from Pennsylvania
New York City. Station, New York, at nine o'clock
The exhibits will be classified as (daylight saving time). They will be
follows Group I. Heredity. General met at Cold Spring Harbor.
:
The
Genetics Human Heredity Physi- morning session will begin at 11
; ;

ology of Reproduction. Group II. o'clock and continue until one, when
The Human Family. Fecundity The lunch will be served on the grounds
;

differential survival of various of the Eugenics Record Office. The

strains Mate selection. Group III. remainder of the program will be
;

The Factor of Race. Evolution of given in the afternoon, the guests re-
man Photographs of human racial turning to New York at half past four.
;

types Maps of past and present dis-

;
The full program of this meeting
tribution of races Race in relation ;
appear in the June number of the
will
to history Facts of race migrations
; Eugenical News. The president,
and intermingling. Group IV. Ap- Irving Fisher of Yale University,
plied Eugenics. Human constitutional win give the principal address.
differences and applications
Records Others on the program will be Dr.
;

of racial facts Eugenical surveys Arthur Hs Estabrook, field investiga-

;

Eugenics in relation to treatment of tor for the Eugenics Record Office,

those under state care (feebleminded, who will speak on the " Tribe of Ish-
insane, etc.) National hereditary mael " Dr. S. J. Holmes, University
;
;

qualities and national greatness Eu- of California, " The selective elimina-
;
 EUGENICAL NEWS 39

tion of male infants under different the fate of a nation, like his own, that
environmental influences " Professor is blind to genetics in relation to
;

Roswell H. Johnson, University of mankind. Blind (amaurotic) to the

Pittsburgh, " The relation of income facts, lacking that humility of spirit
to quality and fecundity" ; Dr. Wil- that recognizes self-ignorance, Eng-
helmine E. Key, Battle Creek, Michi- land (like America and all other
gan, " Genetic interpretation of state highly-civilized countries that wor-
and sectional history" Miss Elizabeth ship the false gods of race improve-
;

Greene, Waverley House, New York, ment by " improved conditions of

" Families with anti-social conduct " life" and "human equality") is ;

Dr. C. H. Danforth, Washington Uni- being led along the path to destruc-
versity Medical School, " Some racial tion as Greece and Rome were.
and hereditary factors in the distribu- And apparently it is not possible
tion of hair " Charles B. Davenport,
;
to break the combination. Satisfied
" Heredity of build " Dr. Lucien with a false formula whose successes
;

Howe, Section of Ophthalmology, are remembered and whose numer-

American Medical Association, Dr. ous failures are overlooked, and in-
Stewart Paton, of Princeton, and Dr. sistent that society shall be con-
H. H. Laughlin, of Cold Spring Har- trolled by that false formula, nations
bor. float on toward the cataract, deaf to
those who warn hastening
of the
ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES OF until the
roar
waters and distant
EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE. Bateson
truth has been recognized, as
Biography, 13.
says " too late."
Collective Biography, 9.

Genealogies, 4.
UNITED STATES BIRTH STATIS-
Town Histories, 2.
TICS, 1919.
Record of Family Traits, 13.
The annual record of births of the
Individual Analysis Cards, 11.
United States of America is constant-
Field Reports
improving in scope. Unfortunately
:

ly
Mr. Brammer Description, 132 the
in this last volume Rhode Island,
:

charts, 16 individuals, 589.

;
miss-
most densely populated state, is
Miss Cook: Description, 36; charts,
ing, but South Carolina becomes
2 individuals, 37.
;
" negro" children
available with more
Miss Covert Description, 65
:

born than white. In South Carolina

charts, 5; individuals, 171. children is
the sex ratio for white
Miss Earle Description, 82 charts,
: ;
The twin
107 for negro children 102. ;
4; individuals, 118. about 1.4
ratio in South Carolina is
Miss Edmundson Description, 50 :
per cent,
per cent, for whites and 1.9
charts, 2 individuals, 69. regis-
for colored. Taking the entire
;

Mrs. Hughes Description, 35 :

the
tration area, in size of family
charts, 2 individuals, 49.
;
a
fecundity of Italian mothers is in
Miss Lantz Description, 48 charts,
: ;
only na-
class by itself. Italy is the
4 individuals, 85.
;

tion whose mothers in this country

AMAUROTIC NATIONAL IDIOCY. have had six children more often than
Bateson, in his Galton Lecture one only. Native white mothers have
(Eugenics Revieiv, April) before the six children less than one-fifth as
Eugenics Education Society, discusses often as one child only.
40 EUGENICAL NEWS
MARRIAGE HYGIENE.
A requiring all males to pre-
bill
A STUDY OF DELINQUENCY.
sent health certificates when applying The University of Texas Bulletin
for marriage license was passed by a for March 1, 1917, presents a study on
vote of 58 to 20 in the house of dele- the " Mental Aspects of Delinquency,"
gates of West Virginia, April 15, and hy Truman Lee Kelley. In this study
now goes to the senate. The bill is of a group of delinquent boys by a
undoubtedly purely hygienic, al- series of mental tests Dr. Kelley finds
though, as usual, announced in the that inreference to size and vital
press as " eugenic." capacity, the delinquent boys are
slightly larger than normal boj^s,
MENTAL HYGIENE IN SOUTH which Dr. Kelley thinks may be in
AFRICA. part due to the healthy, regular liv-
During 1920 the work of various ing and abundant food in the institu-
mental hygiene societies in the Union tion. In other respects, such as pu-
of South Africa has been consolidated bertal development, grip of hand,
by bringing into being " A National tapping and mental ability, there is
Council for Mental Hygiene and for a decided advantage on the part of
the Care of the Feeble-Minded." Of the normal boy, and in respect to
this council Mr. George W. Cook mental capacity this becomes more
of Pot chefstroom has been elected pronounced " the higher the type of
first president. Dr. Cook writes that mental activity considered." The
he believes the " National Council point of greatest interest to eu-
may learn much " from the exper- 2-enicists
the statementis made
ience of other countries on this ques- that "the weight of evidence in this
tion, especially from America which study warrants the belief that hered-
is always in the vanguard." Mr. ity is the largest and most important
Cook will be materially assisted by factor, in that it supplies the nature
being provided with copies of various that is potentially delinquent despite
forms used in the collection of data the conclusions of Spaulding and
by the organizations and institutions Healy that there is no evidence that
engaged in the study of mental hy- criminalistic traits as such are in-
giene and the study of the feeble- herited. The actual crimes com-
minded. mitted are certainly made possible
by the environmental opportunities,
NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSO- and in this sense, but only so, does
CIATION. there seem ground for their state-
The seventeenth annual meeting of ment." This is followed by the cita-
the National Tuberculosis Associa- tion of a number of authorities bear-
tion is to be held at the Waldorf As- ing evidence to the same conclusion.
toria in New York on June 14-17 in- Not the least important feature in
clusive. According to the preliminary this thorough-going study is the an-
program, which has been announced, notated bibliography which forms an
we learn that one of the proposed appendix of thirty-eight pages and
papers will be on " Further observa- contains a list of 145 numbers with
tions on heredity as influencing extended comments as
more or less
natural resistance to tuberculosis," to the character of the papers. This
on
by Paul A. Lewis, M.D., and Sewall will be found valuable for workers
Wright, Ph.D. the problems of delinquency.
 Eugenical News
VOL. VI. JUNE, 1921 NO. 6
HEREDITY OF HENRY S. HOLLAND. party " Of course, the overcoat was
:

Henry Scott Holland, born at Led- somjebody else's. Overcoats always

bury, England, January 27, 1817, are. I am sending it back in disgrace

graduated from Oxford, 1870 accepted ;

and tears." Or to his hostess of a cas-
a studentship at Christ Church, Ox- sock left behind, " It hangs like a
ford, for five years, and remained black ghost on the silent peg in the
there, after taking orders, lecturing dark corner, glum, morose, despair-
and preaching, until 1884. Then he ing. It is the mere shadow of the form
was appointed Canon of St. Paul's, that filled it. It has hung itself in
. . .

London, where he remained for a fit of morbid depression." His hand-

twenty-six years, conducting services,
preaching, writing, organizing church
movements, traveling and receiving
all kinds of scholastic honors that
writing was very illegible. Yet, in
later years, he had fits of depression.
He was not an excellent general stu-
dent he hated algebra and cared noth-
;

were available for a leading " high ing for science. He seemed out of
churchman." In 1910 he was appoint- touch with reality the imaginary was ;

ed Professor of Divinity at Oxford, reality for him. At twenty he writes

and died there March 17, 1918. his brother of the Eucharist, " It is
Holland was a hyperkinetic. His the body and blood of your Saviour
spirits were gay like his mother's and which are given to you, the same
his mother's unmarried sister, " Aunt
which really hung on the cross," etc.
Jane " Clifford. His father also had a Even at five years he was asking ques-
" chuckling sense of humor." He loved
tions on theology, and theological
laughter and chaff, and indulged in
philosophy remained his contant chief
wit and irony and shouts of laughter.
interest. This religious tendency was
On a vacation walk he would go
found in his father The vivid-
also.
" prancing ahead, waving his stick
ness of the unreal made him a good
enthusiastically at each point of view."
actor, like his brother,Lawrence.
His ideas were numerous, abrupt, and
Holland had a well developed speech
led to "quick changes of talk." His
talk often took the form of fantasy.
center. " He preferred talking to writ-

Thus he wrote to a correspondent in ing." Preaching gave him " divinest

later years " It is, believe me, very

:
joy." He had a voice of great range,
difficult for my silly old head to ar- and he was fond of the echoes it raised

range itself to Avrite letters. It is al- in the great cathedral. He was fond
ways asking to be let off. It bolts to of expression in print also.
bed and I can't wake up. It turns Like his father and brother Arthur
round and round inside and I can't he was affectionate, responsive to ap-
stop it. It gets topsy-turvy and be- peals to the paternal instinct. Un-
gins to sob and weep if I stick it married, weak humanity became his
strait. Poor little knob I suppose child.
! He began at twenty-six years
it does its level best, but that is not to preach in the streets and visit the
saying much." slums. He organized the Christian
He was unmethodical always. He Social Union to help the " working
would write back to his host after a man " ; started the papers " Good-
42 EUGENICAL NEWS
Will " and the " Commonwealth," de- and trachoma, hookworm, pellagra
voted to advancing" " causes." and typhoid fever abound.
Holland got great pleasure through This is the people with whom the
his senses. Color and music made author lived for twenty-five years, a
great appeal. He loved travel (like teacher and investigator of the Eussell
his and especially architec-
father), Sage Foundation. He has scientific in-
ture and landscapes. Yet he liked to terests, seeks precise knowledge on
retire for reading and meditation, and
difficult and crucial points. His book
would scourge himself and fast on oc- is an important document for all
casions.
students of this too-little known race.
Stephen Paget, 1921. Henry Scott
Holland. N. Y.: E. P. Dutton. 336 pp. John C. Campbell, 1921. The South-
$5.00. ern Highlander and his Homeland.
Russell Sage Foundation. 405 pp.
$3.50.
THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDERS.
Among the many racial groups that
are forming in the United States, none A YANKEE HUMORIST.
-ismore interesting to the anthropolo-
Issac H. Bromley, born in Norwich,
gist than the inhabitants of the South-
Connecticut, became a newspaper re-
ern Highlands, frequently known as
" porter and editorial writer. For 40
mountain whites." The area they
years he wrote, wielding with satire
occupy includes the Allegheny-Cumber-
and humor a great influence. For the
land belt, the Blue Eidge belt and the
valley lying between them, from Penn-
25 last years of his life he was the
sylvania to Northern Alabama. These writer of an editorial column in the
people are mostly of Scotch-Irish New York Tribune containing humor-
origin. Those of English and German ous observations on men and things.
origin are present in next largest Leading traits of Bromley were
numbers. There are fewer than 10 humorous exaggeration, as when he
percent, negro, except in cities. The told a newspaper colleague (who was
Scotch came largely into this territory wont to blow to pieces those whom he
from North Carolina, the Germans critically reviewed) to " scrape off the
from Pennsylvania, and the English blood and feathers " from his desk.
from Virginia. Some of these people Also, sympathy " I like the human
:

were certainly derived from those who
came, as they say euphoniously at Sid-
ney, Australia, " free passage
" in
convict ships.
Physically they are tall the tallest
family," he said; and, to his grand-
children, to the end, he played Santa
Claus at the Christmas tree. He was
a pronounced patriot and a dangerous
foe to sham and pretense and very
;

population in the country, and they timid as to his own capacities, es-
are correspondingly slender. Three- pecially when called upon for an im-
foiirths of them live outside of com-
promptu speech though he was one of
munities of 1,000 inhabitants or over. the choicest after-dinner speakers.
Instinctively they are individualistic,
Like many another humorist he passed
are fond of swapping horses and other quickly from fun to deep emotion-in-
barter, of " moonshining " and of tot- spiring seriousness. Labilit3r of mood
ing a gun. Eude in their life they is a trait of the humorist.
are but hospitable, very fond of
:

religious exposition and indeed of re- Norn's G. Osborn, 1920. Isaac H.

ligious emotions. Sanitation is bad
Bromley. New Haven: Yale Univ.
Press. 42 pp. $1.00.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 43

A PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITAL REVUE D'EUGENIQUE.

FOR TORONTO. A new eugenical publication has
It is reported that plans have been been started in Belgium by Societe
made for building a Psychopathic Beige d'Eugenique. This is the Revue
Hospital in connection with Toronto d'Eugenique, a quarterly whose first
University to be fully equipped for number appeared in January, 1921.
research problems. The Department The first two numbers have been re-
of Psychology at the University will ceived at the Eugenics Record Office,
be related to the Hospital and its and are of a high order.
facilities will be ultilized in the study The Societe Beige d'Eugenique,
of practical social problems concerned founded over a year ago, is fully
with elementary schools, feeble-mind- awake to the needs of the time in con-
edness and juvenile delinquency. It nection with the preservation of the
is believed that studies in human race. Its leaders realize that the safe-
heredity will be encouraged. guarding of public health through
hygienic measures is not sufficient,
UTAH WELFARE WORK. but that due attention must be paid
The State Welfare Commission of to the prevention of the transmission
Utah in a meeting held in the gov- of hereditary traits that would have
ernor's office on May 5, outlined a pro- an injurious effect on the race. The
gram for its activities that promises Revue has been founded with the idea
well for the efficient service likely to of educating the public along these
be rendered by the Commission. As lines, and broadening the sense of
the foundation of the work, there is responsibility of the people as regards
planned a course of education in social marriage and offspring.
welfare problems to be carried out in Belgium was represented at the First
the state beginning with the subject of International Congress of Eugenics,
eugenics. Dr. George Thomas, state held in London in 1912, by Drs. Ensch
superintendent of public instruction, and Querton. They became so inter-
especially advocated the teaching of ested that, in 1914, M. Govaerts, the
eugenics and the presentation of its present secretary of the Societe Beige
practical side to the school children d'Eugenique, was sent to London to
of the state. All welfare agencies in study the work and organization of the
the state will be invited to cooperate Eugenics Education Society. A num-
to the fullest extent with the Com- ber of the leading scientists in the
mission. It is expected in time to country are taking part in this move-
formulate proposed legislation to cor- ment, which is also receiving the sup-
rect social evils and aid in solving wel- port of the government, and it is to be
fare problems in Utah. The Commis- expected that with such leadership and
sion is limited to fifteen members, but enthusiasm much will be accomplished
others will be invited to cooperate as in Belgium within the next few years.
consulting members. The following
committees have been appointed with EUGENICS AND STATISTICS.
their chairmen Defectives,
: Dr. Eugenics cannot progress without
George S. Snoddy Delinquents, Pro- statistics.
; It is noteworthy, accord-
fessor George Q. Coray Dependent ingly, that Iowa and West Virginia
;

and neglected, Mrs. A. H. S. Bird; have recently adopted the model law
Health, Dr. T. B. Beatty Public rec- providing for registration of births
;

reation, Professor Arthur L. Beeley. and deaths.

44 EUGENICAL NEWS

EUGENICAL NEWS. Miss Marjorie Peeples, has been'20,

Published monthly by serving as assistantthe medical

to

THE EUGENICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, inspector of public schools in Ham-

41 North Queen
monton, N. J.
St., Lancaster, Pa.
and Cold Spring Harbor,
Miss Mae C. Graham, '19, is instruc-

Long Island, N. Y.
tor in zoology at the University of
"-"""lETf
Subscription fifty cents per year, postage free in Pittsburgh, Pa.
tht United States and island possessions also in William V. Silverberg, '18, graduates
;

Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Canal Zone. In all

other countries add ten cents for postage. from ,the College of Physicians and
Entered as second-class matter May 10, 1916, at
the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of Surgeons of New York in June.
March 3, 1879. Miss Blanche F. Pooler, '19, is su-

June, 1921. pervisor of field work in the School of

Hygiene and Public Health, Balti-
ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES OF more, Md.
EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE. Miss Mina A. Sessions, '13, is a psy-
Genealogies, 7. chiatric social worker for the National
Biographies, 10. Committee for Mental Hygiene, whose
Collective Biographies, 9. headquarters are at 50 Union Spuare,
Town Histories, 4. New York City.
.Record of Family Traits, 9. Miss Elsie E. Pickels, '16, is a bac-
Individual Analysis Cards, 5. teriologist of Providence, R. I.
Family Distribution of Personal Miss Bertha Pfister, '17, is a field
Traits, 1. worker in the State Institute for the
Field Reports : Feeble-minded at Spring City, Pa.
Mr. Brammer : description, 57 Miss Anna M. Petersen, '14, is su-
charts, 3 ; individuals, 92. perintendent of the Connecticut State
Miss Covert : description, 57 Farm for Women.
charts, 2 ; Daniel W. LaRue, '13, who is head of
individuals, 56.
Miss Edmundson description, 31 the Department of Education at the
:

charts, 1 individuals, 31.

; State Normal School, East Strouds-
Miss Lantz description, 53 charts, burg, Pa., has published a " Psychol-
: ;

3; individuals, 109. ogy for Teachers " through the Ameri-

can Book Company.
Miss Mabel A. Robey, '13, is principal
ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. of the Special Health School, Washing-
Miss Marion Collins, '11, is com- ton, D. C.
pleting the third year of her medical Miss Mabel Huschka, '14, is Assistant
course at the Woman's Medical College Director of the Westchester County
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Child Welfare Department at White
Harry A. Boger, '18, is at Saranac Plains, N. Y.

Lake, N. Y., under treatment for tuber- Mrs. Mary Storer Kostir, '13, has
culosis. been acting as temporary instructor
Miss Jessie Taft, '12, is director of in zoology at the Ohio State Univer-
the Mental Hygiene Clinic of the Child- sity, Columbus, during the absence of
ren's Bureau at Philadelphia. her husband who has been in attend-
Miss Sadie R. Myers, '15, has been ance at Columbia University, New
engaged in post-graduate work at York, during the past semester.
Columbia University, New York, for Miss June Adkinson, '12, is labora-
the past year. tory assistant at the Peter Bent Brig-
 EUGENICAL NEWS 45

ham Hospital, Boston, Mass. She Ruby K. Badger, '16, is superinten-

published the results of some of her dent of the Park Ridge School for
studies in a paper on " Bronchial Girls, Park Ridge, 111.

Asthma as an Inherited Character William L. Dealey, '13, is assistant

which appeared in Genetics last year. educational director in the United
MacGregor Walmsley, '20, is con- States Public Health Service.
tinuing his travels in this country and Dr. Elizabeth B. Muncey, '11, has
his studies of our social and psycho- returned from a four months visit in
logical institutions. He has spent a England, where she left her daughter
large part of the present year in and two grandsons in excellent health.
Chicago and has contributed several Dr. Muncey has taken up the duties of
papers to " National Education " of archivist at the Eugenics Record Office.
Wellington, New Zealand. Miss Louise Nelson, '16, who has
Dr. Frederick L. Reichert, '16, has been long employed as archivist at the
been assistant in surgery at the Surg- Eugenics Record Office is now engaged
ical Hunterian Laboratory of Johns in special field work in connection
Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore. with the Office.
Laura B. Garrett, '11, has established Clara P. Pond, '14, who is now Mrs.
a Summer Camp for boys and girls at Theodore Dwight Richards, is living
Canaan, Conn. The camp is beauti- at Perry, N. Y.
fully located on the mountain side Mrs. Herbert G. Smith (Florence
above the Hoosatonic river and is Davis, 1911) is the mother of a second
supplied with an abundance of pure child, Florence Sylvia, born in Decem-
spring water by a gravity system. ber, 1920.
Ruth Taylor, '11, is director of the The following members of the Train-
department of child-welfare, West- ing Class in Eugenics have been lost
chester Co., N. Y. track of. We should be glad to receive
Helen T. Reeves, '10, is special agent information concerning any of them.
for the Kentucky State Board of Miss Hazel Thorpe, '13.
Charities and Corrections. She is at Mrs. Mabel Irwin, '19.
present engaged in a thorough investi- Paul Wander, '17.
gation as to the condition of the 2200 Miss Marion Sweet, '16.
pauper idiots who are receiving an Miss Nina M. Cage, '12.
annual pension of $75.00 each from Miss Adele McKinnie, '11.
the state. OUK FOREIGIV-BORN POPULATION.
Karl M. Cowdery, '15, has been act- Reports from the Census Bureau
ing superintendent of the State School show, as was to be expected, a relative-
at Whittier, California, during the ly small increase of our foreign born
past year. white population during the past
Margaret Andrus, '20, has been en- census period 1910-1920. The total
gaged as field worker at the Eugenics increase for the whole country was
Record Office since January first. 358,442 or only 2.7 percent., over the
Dorothy Osborn, '16, takes the posi- foreign-born population of 1910. The
tion of assistant to the Assistant greatest absolute increase has been in
Director of the Eugenics Record Office California, Michigan, and Texas, each
on June first. of which reports over 100,000 in-
Adeline E. Dartt, '20, is assistant crease. Minnesota, Pennsylvania and
socialworker at the State Hospital, Wisconsin report a decrease of over
Kings Park. 50,000 each.
46 EUGENICAL NEWS
IMMIGRATION LIMITS FOR THE studies and announce the following
TEAR ENDING JULY 1, 1922. results : The Census of 1910 recorded
13,515,886 foreign-born inhabitants in
Under the percentage
so-called "
the United States. per cent, of this
3
limitation " law which Congress re-
number of foreign-born persons will
cently enacted, immigration will be
therefore, be permitted to enter the
limited during the fiscal year July 1,
United States as immigrants during
1921-June 30, 1922, to 3 per cent, of
the year 1921-22. The committee has
each of the several nationalities of
distributed this number among the
foreign-born residents enumerated in
several nations as follows
the United States under the Census of
United Kingdom 77,206
1910. This law automatically ceases
to be operative after the expiration of
Norway 12,116

one year. The purpose of this is two- Sweden 19,956

fold :first, to protect the country

Denmark ; 5,644

against an influx of immigrants from The Netherlands 3,602

southern and eastern Europe, pending Belgium 1,557

a study of the matter of immigration Luxemburg 92

and second, to try out the percentage France 5,692

scheme and thus determine whether Switzerland 3,745

it is, as has been argued, an effective

Germany 68,039

means of limiting immigration to Danzig 285

more desirable and more readily
Finland 3,890

assimilable human stocks.

Africa 120

The Departments of State, Labor and Portugal 2,269

Commerce each two represent-

detailed Spain 663

atives to act as a committee for the Italy 42,021

purpose of determining the number Russia 34,247

of immigrants who under the law, may Austria 7,444

be admitted into the United States Hungary 5,635

during the fiscal year. This committee Rumania 7,414

consists of H. A. McBride, chief of the Bulgaria 301

vise section, and Major Lawrence Mar- Greece 3,286

tin, division of Western European Czecho-slovakia 14,269

affairs, for the Department of State Jugoslavia 6,405

William Hunt, chief statistician for Albania 287

C.
population, and Dr. Joseph A. Hill, Fiume 71

chief statistician for revision and re- Poland 20,019

sults, for the Department of Com- Eastern Galicia 5,781

merce ; Ethelbert Stewart, Commis- Other Europe 86

sioner of Labor Statistics, and W. W. Armenia 1,588

Palestine 56
Husband, Commissioner General of
Immigration, for the Department of Smyrna District 438
Syria 905
Labor.
Changes in the boundary lines of Other Turkey 215
Other Asia 78
many European countries since the
Atlantic Islands 60
United States Census of 1910 made the
Pacific Islands 22
task of this committee particularly
difficult, but they have completed their Total 355,825
 EUGENICAL NEWS 47

ALIENS: 1910 AND 1920. than the " Upper " and least fertile

It is interesting to note that in the

classes, while the group of the Miners
last ten years the number of foreign- have a fertility record the highest of
born white persons an the United all and much higher than that of the
States has increased in some parts of Unskilled Laborer. In this connection
the country much more than in others. it may be well to remind ourselves
The figures for New York City as that the Unskilled Labor group is
our chief port of entry for immigrants doubtless the one which is most heav-

show that the increase of foreign- ily loaded with defectives whose un-
born white for the city has been controlled propagation has excited so
61,513. Out of a total population of much alarm. But these data would
5,620,048 the city now has a foreign- indicate that there is some restraining
born white population of 1,989,216. factor operative here.
The nationalities most largely repre- In respect to the causes of the var-
sented are Russia 479,481, Italy 388,427, iations in birth-rate the including
Ireland 202,833, the Central Empires general decline, Yule presents evidence
combined about 555,789, and only to confirm his that the
conclusions
12,754 from all Asia. " fall in fertility
has not been effected
One is surprised to find that Illinois solely or mainly by the use of arti-
with its great city of Chicago and
ficial methods of contraception." Call-
having already a foreign born popula-
ing attention to a striking similarity
tion of more than 1,200,000 shows an
in the curve for " percentage increase
increase of only 1,843.
of population " to the curve for " av-
erage price-levels," more fully develop-
THE BIRTH-RATE. ed in a previous publication, he ex-
presses the opinion that " the nexus
In a paper read before the Cambridge is economic, and that it probably
University Eugenics Society on " The operates via psychology rather than
Fall of the Birth-rate," G. Udny Yule
directly through physiology," and
reviews the statistical data bearings

adds, " I doubt in fact I disbelieve
upon this question. In general his
its being wholly conscious, or as the
conclusions conform to the commonly
phrase now goes volitional.' " It is
'

accepted views of the decline in birth-

unsatisfactory that the paper drops
rate and that marriage fertility is on
the subject without any intimation as
the whole graduated continuously
to the psychological process. If the
from a very low figure for the upper
cause of decreased fertility operates
and professional classes to a very
much higher figure for unskilled labor. psychologically it is difficult to con-
However, he calls attention to a sig- ceive how this can be
accomplished
nificant fact not usually noted except through a conscious or " voli-
that;

" continence or contraception.

" there are some very marked occupa- tional

tional differentiations which cut right That there may be physiological fac-
across the social gradation." Thus it tors operative without conscious con-
appears from the Report of the Reg- trol seems more understandable. The
ister General of Eugland and Wales present writer believes, however, that
that the two groups of Textile Work- contraception is neither the explana-
ers and Agricultural Laborers show tion nor the solution of the birth-rate
each a fertility record scarcely higher problem.
48 EUGENICAL NEWS
INHERITED TONGUE-TIE. and Vera Cruz has certain zones with
In a Hindu family of Bengal the 8 to 10 per cent, of the population
second son was tongue tied i. e., the affected." (Jour. Am. Med. Asso., May
;

frenum of the tongue extended for- 7, 1921.)

ward to the gum in front. No his-
tory was obtained of this condition PHYSICAL STANDARDS.
in earlier generations.
A conference has been recently
The disadvantages of the tongue held upon height-weight
standards
tied condition are (1) that the articu-
for children. Dr. Bird T. Baldwin is
lation, especially of the consonant
of a committee to formulate stand-
" L," or words starting with " L,"
is ards. Two suggestions are here
not distinct, (2) the tongue can not offered:
(1) The height-weight stand-
be fully extended as, for example, ard for Scotch or
Scandinavian child-
when requested by the physician who ren should not be the same as for
wishes to make an examination. To South Italians
and Russian Jews.
overcome these deficiencies the young That is, the same
standards are not
man, named " S " was operated upon applicable to Minnesota, North Caro-
at the age of 22 years to remove the
lina and New York City. (2) If a
defect. This has helped him to ar- child's " build " is to be expressed,
ticulate clearly.
weight
One of the sisters of " S," herself the formula is better
(stature) 2
normal, was mated to a normal man
weight weight
belonging to a family in which there than or
was no known case of tongue tie. stature statures.

This mating produced two sons, of

whom the younger, now about four
years old, inherited the tongue tie.
INDIANA STERILIZATION LAW.
Thus the character has skipped the A decision of the Supreme Court of
maternal generation. Indiana has declared the sterilization
In another family of Bengal, it is law of the state unconstitutional.
stated, a tongue tied husband had by The chief ground of the decision is
a normal wife two daughters and one that the statues does not give the
son all of whom inherited the char- person concerned a hearing before a
judicial body where he may present his
acter. S. Sinha, Prof, of Botany,
and evidence. The
side of the case
Berhampur College, Bengal.
question is also raised as to steriliza-
tion being an extra punishment not
DISTRIBUTION OF GOITER. ordered by a court.
In a paper published in the " Re-
vista Mexicana de Biologia," Mexico,
for November, 1920, F. Castillo Najera FLORIDA LAWS.
shows that goiter is prevalent up to It is reported that a so-called " Eu-
20 or 25 per cent, in parts of the state genics Marriage Bill " was passed in
of Guerrero. " It does not seem to be the house of representatives of Florida
endemic in the central states nor in on May 19. The provisions of this bill
the federal district nor in the penin- are not given, but a second bill provid-
sula of lower California, but the prov- ing for the treatment of venereal dis-
ince of Mexico has a few endemic foci, ease only .by licensed physicians was
as also the states on the West coast defeated.
 Eugenical News
VOL. VI. JULY-AUGUST, 1921 NOS. 7 and 8.

EUGENICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION NUMBER

NINTH ANNUAL MEETING. general undercare of the children
The annual meeting of the Eugenics
Research Association was held on the
grounds of the Eugenics Record Office
on Friday, June 24, 1921. The associa-
tion was called to order af 11 :25 A.M.
by Dr. Charles B. Davenport, who in-
troduced Dr. Lucien Howe, who pre-
sided over the morning session. At
one o'clock luncheon was served to the
members and guests, and at 2 :08 P.M.
and
other noncombatants who will be the
parents of the next generation.
Of all human inventions those re-
lating to birth-control probably have
the most direct bearing on the birth
rate and its selective possibilities.
This subject is one especially deserving
eugenic recearch. Where will birth-
control really take us? There are
three possibilities: (1) it may cause

the association was again called to-
gether and presided over by Professor
S. J. Holmes, of Berkeley, California.
The following are abstracts of the
several papers presented.
1. Presidential address, Future
Re-
search inEugenics, by Professor
Irving Fisher, New Haven, Conn.
The eugenist is interested in the
quality of human beings rather than
their quantity, and one of the great
depopulation and ultimately bring
about the extinction of the human
race; (2) it may reduce the reproduc-
tion of the prudent and intelligent and
the economically and socially ambi-
tious, leaving the future race to be
bred from imprudent, unintelligent and
happy-go-lucky people, thus resulting
in race degeneration, or (3) it may
cut off the strain of the silly and sel-
fish, the weak and inefficient who will

problems to be seriously considered dispense with children for the very

is whether our boasted progress is not good reason that they lack physical
an illusion whether, after all, the
; stamina or ability to support a large
human race, in spite of its rapid mul- family.
tiplication and its increase in per Cattell finds that the average Har-
capita wealth, may not be deterior- vard graduate is the father of three-
ating. We know that affluence often fourths of a son and the average
ruins men and women, and history has Vassar graduate the mother of one-
at least produced a strong suspicion half of a daughter and that the
that it was the cause, or a cause, of average family of American men of
ruin of many civilizations now dead. science averages only 2.22 as com-
There are many startling evidences pared with an average of 4.66 for the
of racial decay. One is that the war country. Popenoe and Johnson give
has damaged the potential fatherhood similar results summarizing many
of the race by destroying over seven statistical studies of Yale, Harvard,
million young men, medically selected and other educational institutions.
for fighting but thereby prevented At present then our educational system
from breeding. seems to be destroying the very
Similarly there should be considered material on which it works Colleges !

the possible effects on future gener- seem to be engines for the mental
ations of the undernourishment and suicide of the human race
 50 EUGENICAL NEWS
But the truth that we cannot yet terms as servants and then to be set
is

tell what will ultimately happen as free in this country. After 1650 the
the net result of birth control deportation of confirmed criminals,
whether race degeneracy, depopulation i.e., felons, to the American Colonies
or race improvement, or, as I have sug- was a common Not only men
practice.
gested, all three in succession. but also female offenders and lewd
Another factor to be considered in women were sent. The family names
connection with the character of our of some of the Tribe members are the
future inhabitants is the character same as some of these undesirables
of the present immigration. thus sent no actual lineage connec-
;

The eugenist will find the remedies tion however has been made.
for the problems which I have sug- The pauper and criminal families
gested in different directions. One which comprise the Tribe of Ishmael
of the most important eugenic devices, in Indiana and the neighboring states
if it be granted that war is disgenic, number about ten thousand people.
will be a League or Association of Na- They have been in the almshouses, the
tions which wall prevent or minimize penitentiaries. They live by petty
war. stealing, begging, ash-gathering. They
2. The Tribe of Ishmael, by Dr. A. Ii. receive poor relief from the township.
Estabuook, Indianapolis, Indiana. They are wanderers. Many are feeble-
The tribe of Ishmael is a large
group minded.
of degenerates descended from There are three outstanding charac-
several
hundred different family heads, with teristics of the Tribe pauperism, :

the Ishmael family itself the central licentiousness and gypsying. Some
and most degenerate one of the whole. of these people have been professional
These people have lived mostly in paupers and beggars for several gen-
Indiana and the neighboring states. erations, receiving both public and
The different families of the Tribe private relief. The names of these
came to Indiana, separately in most families are found year after year on
cases, on the general tide of migration the poor books of the various places
west from the original thirteen colo- where they have lived. The profes-
nies along the seaboard just following sional beggars have toured the town
the War of the Revolution. The early begging, with all sorts of excuses for
immigration into Indiana was mainly not working and many using vitriol
from southwestern Ohio and Kentucky. water in the eyes to simulate blind-
These people in turn had come from ness. The licentiousness among the
Virginia and the Carolinas. The make- Tribe folk is striking. The loose
up of the population of Virginia in marriage relation has been common.
colonial times is interesting as giving Wives have been changed with little
a clue to the source of the cacogenic legal sanction. Divorce in Indiana
families comprising the Tribe of has always been very easy. Prosti-
Ishmael. Labor was scarce in Vir- tution has been very common. At one
ginia at that time and the Vir- time the greater proportion of the
ginia Company to fulfil its contracts women keeping houses of prostitution
brought to this country many idlers, in Indianapolis belonged to the Tribe.
youthful vagabonds and paupers. Members of the families of the
Later, convicted criminals, some polit- Ishmaels often were the immates of
ical but more the common, the anti- these places. Many illicit relationships

^ON soEfal^fefcre brought to serve out their have occurred. Some incest has been

Of
JU i )4Q
r ^
 EUGENICAL NEWS 51

found. The other marked character- system. This is particularly marked

istic of the Tribe has been the wander- However, the
in the digital regions.
ing or " gypsying " as it has been hair on the scalp and, in the male, on
called by the Ishmaelites. The first the face shows what appears to be a
trips, about 1840, were towards the progressive tendency, being in these
Ohio River from Indianapolis. As places relatively more specialized than
this region became more settled the in the' anthropoid apes. Two regions
trips turned north toward the Miami showing these contrasted tendencies
Indian Reservations, where the have been studied in several hundred
Ishmaels were welcomed because of individuals representing both sexes
their half-Indian blood. It was upon of the white and negro races.
these trips that many of the earlier The hair of the face has been inves-
intermarriages in. the Tribe took place. tigated by Miss Mildred Trotter, who
Ordinarily these gypsy ings began in finds that the actual number of hairs
the spring and ended in the fall. present on the lips and cheeks is
Sometimes a family did not return in about the same in both sexes and in
the fall but spent the winter away, both races. The apparent differences
returning to Indianapolis the next are due chiefly, if not entirely, to dif-
year. Often on these longer trips the ferences in the number of hairs that
winter was spent in some poor-house. enlarge, acquire pigment, and become
These people traveled in wagon s. noticeable. The sum of the beard
begging or stealing as they went hairs and the down hairs on the face
sometimes in a group, with several of the negro man, or the women with
wagons or families, but more often hypertrichosis, is essentially the same
alone.
as the sum of the beard hairs and the
Briefly, the individuals in this large down hairs on the face of the white
group of the Tribe of Ishmael are man, but the relative numbers of the
still mating like to like, reproducing two kinds vary in the different groups.

their feeblemindedness and reproduc- Many individuals show a development

ing the same antisocial folk. Few of facial hair in excess of that typical
have risen from the mass. The story for their group. In women this con-
is the same as that of the Jukes or the dition passes as hypertrichosis, in men

Nams, the antisocial traits are con- it is generally overlooked. The condi-
tinually reappearing and no check has tion may be transmitted by either
been placed upon it by society. sex directly from parent to child be-
3. The Selective Elimination of Mule having, apparently, as a simple dom-
Infants under Different Environ- inant trait.
mental Influences, by Professor S.
In the region of the fingers the
J. Holmes, Berkeley, Gal.
higher -apes and man show a marked
4. The Relation of Income to Quality
tendency toward the loss of hair. In
and Fecundity, by Professor Ros- the human species it has entirely dis-
well II. Johnson, Pittsburgh, Pa. appeared from the terminal segments
5. Some Racial and Hereditary Factors of all the digits. The middle segments
in the Distribution of Hair, by C. H.
are free from hair in about twenty-
Danforth, St. Louis, Mo. five per cent of white people and in
As compared with his anthropoid nearly all negroes. When hair is
man shows on the whole a present on any of the fingers it is
relatives,
degenerate condition of the pilary almost invariably found on the ring
52 EUGENICAL NEWS
EUGENICAL NEWS. factors or, it may be, one main gene
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and several modifiers.
THE EUGENICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION,
It is of interest to find that both on
41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa.
the face and on the hands more abun-
and Cold Spring Harbor,
dant hair is dominant to less abundant
Long Island, N. Y.
hair, despite the fact that evolutionary
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;
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aways, by Elizabeth Greene, New

July and August, 1921.
ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES
OF E. n. 0.
Biographies, 2.
Genealogies, 4.
Record of Family Traits, 57.
Individual Analysis Cards, 48.
Field Eeports
Miss Andrus description, 26 charts,
York, N. Y.
Among the so-called delinquent girls
who pass thru the Mental Clinic of the
New York Probation and Protective
Association the largest group is that
of the runaways. This group is es-
pecially interesting from a eugenical
:
point of view but by no means a homo-
:
geneous one. Within it we find true
;

3 individuals, 186.
;
wanderers, hyperkinetics, and inade-
Mr. Brammer : description, 129 quates.
charts, 6 ; individuals, 218. The statistical facts show us a group
Miss Covert : description, 34 ; charts, of young girls, the oldest 23, the
3 ; individuals, 78. youngest 14, who left home for various
Miss Earle : description, 81; charts, reasons. The largest number have
16. been factory workers but they are by
Miss Edmundson : description, 53 no means a defective group. Over a
charts, 2 ; individuals, 66. half fall into *the normal or dull
Miss Lantz : description 45 ; charts, normal classes while about a quarter
3 ; individuals, 157. are defective. While only a fifth are
foreign born a very large group are
(program continued.)
the children of immigrants, in fact a
finger. In the majority of cases it is much larger group than in the general
also found on the middle and little population of New York State.
fingers, and occasionally also on the These girls are most of them adoles-
index. A study of seventy families cents with all the restlessness and
showed that with two exceptions (in impatience with authority which that
one of which the parental distribution term implies and they are growing up
was atypical) the amount of digital in a generation which at a very early
hair in the offspring did not exceed age feels capable of managing its own
that of the most hairy parent. These affairs nevertheless it seems fairly ;

data indicate that any amount of dig- evident that their wanderings are more
gital hair is in general dominant to dependent upon their inherited traits
any less amount, but they also show and individual characteristics than
that the presence and the absence of upon any other one thing.
hair in the mid-digital regions do not 7. Educational Value of Legislation in
represent simple alternative condi- Eugenics, by Ltjcten Howe, Buffalo,
tions. Possibly there are epistatic N. Y.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 53

As the program has already been will probably come, but it does not
changed, I will venture to change it seem wise now, and it seems to me it

still further, and if permitted, I will is not practicable. We must make

devote all my time to a discussion of the appeal to the tax-payers, and we
education concerning eugenics by leg- must depend upon this fundamental
islation, as an indirect method of in-
principle that it is unjust for me to
struction. It is generally admitted pay taxes because those two people
that education is an important way of want to marry and produce children
getting people to take notice of for which I have to assist in support.
eugenics. If we can argue in favor of A committee from the Sections of
more attention to eugenics, we cause Ophthalmology of the American Med-
them to see what that is. Thus far we ical Association on the Prevention of
have made comparatively little prog- Hereditary Blindness agreed in general
ress. Very little attention is given to to a law something like this : That if
the subject of eugenics in the schools one person knew of two persons who
and colleges. When we come to ask were about to marry, and feared that
the cause, it would seem to be due the outcome of such a marriage would
partly to the geneticists themselves, probably become state charges, then
for this reason, that these men, like he should appeal to a judge and ask
all true scientists, are interested in that judge to give an injunction
science and not in progress. Second, against the marriage. The facts of
there is a general apathy on the part the case should then be passed upon
of the people at large in regard to the
by two persons one an expert eu-
whole subject which makes it unpop- genicist and the other an ophthalmolo-
ular. gist. The judge, after receiving the
What we need is another way of ap- testimony of these two individuals,
proach, and that is through legislation. could at his option issue a statement
It is useless to try to influence people to prohibit the marriage, or place them
on theoretical The most
grounds. under bond that the issue of the mar-
direct way is to deal with the economic riage should not become a public
aspect of the matter. We do know, charge.
for example, that we have a total num- One of the Senators of New York
ber of blind in the United States 75,000 State embodied this in a bill which
to 100,000, and 7.5 per cent, of them was presented at the last session of the
are blind from /heredity, or about legislature, simply for its educational
5,000. When we come to the question value There is one great disadvan-

of the insane, the number varies. We tage that is persons could fall back
could take the statistics gathered on the old common law marriage.

during the war 1,600,000 to perhaps But in many states that has been
2,000,000, of which 65 per cent, are done away with. (Map showing
hereditary. The point we want to territory in which common law
make is that from an economic marriages are valid.)
standpoint the expense of taking care We are now preparing for the Con-
of these people is enormous, and the gress of Eugenics, which will call the
way to prevent their increase is attention of the whole country to this
through legislation. subject. There is the opportunity to
But such legislation must not be of educate the country, the opportunity
an extreme character at all. Naturally to put before them some law which
we think first of sterilization. That shall say, " That couple shall not
54 EUGENICAL NEWS
marry," and if 3^011 get the public dis- or capacities. Of matings between
cussing that you have an argument for non-musical stock, 25 children were
the importance of eugenics. Those measured and them were non-
all of
who have that Congress in charge musical. From mating of a
the
should take men who are competent musical parent on one side and a non^
to speak from the standpoint of con- musical on the other, there were 17
stitutional lawyers, to speak to the offspring, 6 of high-grade musical
legislators and to have an outline of capacity and 11 non-musical.
a law ready to say, " That has been I should have said before that these

endorsed by the International Con- tests are independent of training, that

gress of Eugenics." We should lessen is if the tests show that the person

the number of the unfit, and in so has a capacity for distinguishing pitch
doing make the Congress become an of 50 per cent., apparently any amount
epoch in the history of the human of training will not alter that capacity.
race. We are dealing here with some con-
8. Inheritance of Musical Capacity. stitutional peculiarity which is not al-
Discussion by Dr. Charles B. Daven- tered by training, so we have a good
port of results obtained by Miss Hazel chance to study the inheritance of
M. Stanton, during field investigations special capacities not alterable by en-
carried on by Miss Stanton among 8 vironment.
families as a field-worker for the Miss Stanton has igone into the
Eugenics Record Office. matter in still further detail. Thus
Miss Stanton used for measuring she has studied the inheritance of the
musical capacity an apparatus inven- different special capacities, and she
ted by Professor C. E. Seashore of the has invented an interesting method of
University of Iowa, who has made re- representing quantitively those capaci-
cords on phonographic disks, by tun- ties.
ing-forks for pitch, and by other 9. Nativity of Institution Inmates, by
methods for intensity, for time inter- Harry H. Laughlin, Cold Spring
valsbetween notes, and also for testing Harbor, L. I.
tonal memory. These methods are This is a progress report of an in-
quantitative ones, and we can measure vestigation now being made for the
exactly the fine niceties of discrimi- purpose of determining the absolute
nation. and relative numbers of native and
Miss Stanton came east and started foreign born inmates and members of
with the Record Office an intensive state custodial institutions of the usual
study of musical 'fam/ilies.
( She ten classes into which the socially in-
measured 85 members of her families adequate are divided. These classes
with these disks, and worked on re- are: (1) the feeble-minded; (2) the
lated members, getting qualitative insane (including the psychopathic) ;

evidence of 500 altogether. Then she the criminalistic (including the

(3)
divided the results of measurements delinquent and wayward) (4) the ;

into 8 grades. Her result can be pre- epileptic; (5) the inebriate (including
sented very briefly as follows Where drug habitues)
: (6) the diseased (in-
;

both of the parents came of musical cluding the tuberculous, syphilitic,

stock, then out of 11 children leprous) (7) the blind ;(including
measured, all were musical excepting those with greatly impaired vision) ;

one whose normal growth was stunted, (8) the deaf (including those with
and who had no musical tendencies greatly impaired hearing) (9) the ;
 EUGENICAL NEWS 55

deformed ruptured and General notions exist on the matter

(including
crippled) (10)
; and dependent a few scattered data have been col-
the
(including orphans, soldiers and old lected but no systematic analysis has ;

folks in "homes"). been undertaken. It is hoped and

Up to the present time, there have believed that the superintendents and
been received only fragmentary bits boards of trustees of the several state
of facts relative to the comparative institutions will grasp the importance
incidence in institutional population of the problem in its relation to state
of native born persons, foreig-n born costs for the socially inadequate, as
persons, and descendants of recent im- one major feature but above that its ;

migrants. The investigation in hand relation to the conservation and im-

will list approximately one million in- provement of the American stock is
mates of state institutions for the ten the most vital aspect.
types of the socially inadequate. In The investigation has barely begun,
each case nationality or social descent and but few of the returns have as yet
will be correlated with the social or come in. Thus from eighty-one insti-
clinical diagnosis of the particular tutions, scattered over the country at
personal handicap. With these figures, random (but not selected), six for the
it will then be possible to work feeble-minded, seven for the insane,
out ratios in which it can be shown one for epileptic, thirty-five for the
what the tendencies of specific national- criminalistic, five for the blind, six for
ities in America during the past decade the deaf, nine for the dependent, ten
were in reference to specific types of for the tuberculous, and two for the
misconduct and handicap. Some na- lepers, 17,199 inmates were reported.
tions in America are charged with an The following table gives a short
undue percentage of crimes of summary of the findings of these 81
violence ;others with crimes against returns.
property still
; others with crimes These preliminary returns are frag-
against chastity. In the institutions mentary, but they are unselected, and
for the insane, if we take them as. a therefore possibly indicate " which
whole in the country, but little is way the wind
blowing." They tend
is
known concerning the relationship to show that our recent immigration
between nationality of a given type is not so valuable racially nor so
and psychosis of a given type. stable socially, as the older immigrant
stock, measured in percentages of
Nativity Ratios.

Total Pop. In 81 State Ratio Inst. Quotas to

nsts. .Ian. 1,
U. S. 1910* Inst. Findings
1921

1. Native, both parents native. . 64.47% 58.05% 100 : 90.04

2. Native, one parent nativ<
born, one parent foreigi
born 6.60% 7.67% 100 : 116.21
3. Native, both parents foreign
born 14.23% 19.44% 100 : 136.61
Total native born (1,2 and 3) . . . 85.30 85.16 100 : 99.83
4. Foreign born 14.70% ~14.84%~~ 100 : 95.00
Total foreign stock (2, 3 and 4) . . 35.53 41.95 100 : 118.69
* Figures in reference to nativity of parents not yet (July 1) available for
the 1920 census.
56 EUGENICAL NEWS
persons who do not become socially Also change the word " two " in sec-
valuable but who fall into the custo- tion 3 of the By-Laws to " three," so
dial care of the state for social hand- that this section shall read
icap or misbehavior. This is indeed a "
Also president shall hold office for
vital matter. Definite statistics in this
one year, the secretary-treasurer for
field are important in working out a
three years, and the members of the
permanent and effective immigration executive committee for three years.
policy. In doing this latter there is no
The latter shall fall into three classes
reason why the American people can- of three persons each, elected an-
not devise a plan whereby future im- nually."
migrants shall on the average be en-
" .Membership Membership in the
:

dowed with hereditary qualities better

Eugenics Research Association shall be
than the average American stock,
of four classes first, active
: second,
;
rather than, as during the past few
associate third,
; supporting, and
3 ears, not equal to the natural endow-
r

fourth, patron. The annual dues of

ment of our earlier immigrants.
NINTH ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING OF determined from time to time by the
THE EUGENICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. Executive Committee."
June 24, 1921.
In Treasurer's Statement No. 11,
dated June 23, 1921, the Treasurer re-
ported a balance on hand of $235.34.
The auditor, Dr. Howard J. Banker,
reported the Treasurer's accounts cor-
rect as shown by the books and bank
account.
The Executive Committee, acting in
the capacity of nominating committee,
submitted the following ticket, which
was duly elected: President, 1921-
1922, Lewellys F. Barker Secretary-
;
Treasurer until 1922, Harry H. Laugh-
lin members of the Executive Com-
;
each of these several classes shall be
The membership invitations sent out
by the authority of the Executive Com-
mittee were confirmed by the formal
vote of the association.
The committee on management of
the Eugenical News reported the
paper in prosperous condition, and
recommended that as soon as the re-
sources of the Association justify it,
occasional numbers of the Eugenical
News be printed in issues of 50 to 100
pages with covers, which would enable
the publication to include longer origi-
nal contributions to eugenical re-

search. It was agreed that such an

mittee until 1924, Irving Fisher, A. J.
enlarged issue might at first appear
liosanoff, Frederick L. Hoffman.
quarterly, perhaps, in place of the reg-
The following amendments to the
ular January, April, July and October
constitution and by-laws as printed
issues, and that later possibly every
in the annual program were duly rati-
other issue could be of the more ex-
fied by the unanimous vote of the as-
tensive magazine type, and that finally
sociation :

the issue for each month could be thus

Executive Committee : Change the
word " six " to " nine " in the last sec- converted. It was thought that the title
" Eugenical News," having been well
tion of the Constitution, so that said
section shall read established and well received, should
The officers shall consist of a pres- be retained for the name of the larger
"

ident and a secretary-treasurer, who journal, and that the news items con-
with nine other members elected by cerning the personnel of the profes-
the association shall form an executive sional eugenical workers be retained
committee." and developed as a permanent feature.
 Eugenical News
VOL. VI. SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1921 NOS. 9 and 10
HEREDITY OF AUGUST indeed all men. There was a psycho-
STRINDBERG sexual fixation on his mother. His
August Strindberg was born in first marriage seemed partly dictated
Stockholm, Jan. 22, 1849, of a serving by jealousy of the first husband and
girl who had been seduced in her a desire to cause him pain. It was as
future father-in-law's household. The a recluse that he poured forth the
boy had little love of study, decided revelations of his introspections. Iso-
to become an actor and later a play- lated, subjective, anti-social, his dia-
wright and novelist. At 22 he had tribes on society awakened admiration
received recognition from the king. in some people because of their very
He did newspaper work, served as extreme, pathological nature. His
amanuensis in the Royal Library and psychosis naturally took the paranoi-
wrote numerous books, largely of an acal trend. He was not understood,
autobiographical nature. He married he doubted if his wife's child was his
first a woman who got a divorce from own, considered himself the object of
her first husband on his account, and persecution by his friends, feared
was fourteen years later divorced from assassination at the hand of one of
Strindberg. He now combined author- them, took up new quarters to avoid
ship, painting and chemical experi- poisonous gases and electric currents
mentation. He married twice again, that were being prepared to kill him.
but was each time soon divorced. His His mother was given to moods, suf-
plays became a popular rage, and he fered an attack of hysteria and grew
poured out poetry, novels and histor- more nervous toward the end of her
ical and' philosophical works. He died life, which came at 39 years, from
in 1912. tuberculosis. His eldest brother suf-
Strindberg was strikingly schizo- fered from hysteria.
phrenic i.e., out of contact with his
; Strindberg had the gift of expres-
social environment. This shows it- sion in words its exercise brought
;

self in many details. First, he was passionate pleasure and this deter-
exceedingly shy and sensitive as a mined his main vocation. His father's
child and his environment was a father had a similar gift and wrote
source of pain to him. His playfellows three plays. He had a prevailing
caricatured his sensitiveness and melancholy and this he probably
tears school for him consisted of got from both sides of the house from
; ;

scolding, hair pulling, beatings. In his neuropathic mother and from his
the streets he would, as a boy, step father who became an " uncommuni-
out of the way of people. Strong pre- cative, melancholy solitaire."
cocious erotic impulses, which he The Oedipus complex in Strindberg's
feared, led him to fight them with the life is clear
; but that is only part of
emotion of religion. Afraid of the the story and not the whole cause of
world, he found refuge in his mother's his psychosis. With his unsocial
lap until she died when he was 13. nature, probably combined with abnor-
When his father in a short time mal gonadal secretions, his life is
married again he was at outs with his linked with his mother. No woman
stepmother and hated his father and can displace her to him, just because
:8 EUGENICAL NEWS
of the insufficient masculineness of his population having comprised a greater
sex instincts. Strindberg's deficiency in number of males than females at every
the social instincts with his abnormal census for which separate returns for
sex reactions are the cause rather than natives have been made.
the result of his controlling- passion,
Sex Distribution : 1920.
that of unbridled love of his mother.
At any rate, Strindberg's voluminous The preponderance of males over
self confessions make his life of in- females in 1920 appears for every state
tense interest to the student of ab- in the Union except Massachusetts,
normal personality. Rhode Island, New York, North Caro-
South Carolina, Georgia, and Ala-
lina,
A. Uppvall, 1920. August Strind-
J.
bama, in which states the number of
berg: A psychoanalytic study with spe-
males to 100 females ranges from 96.3
cial reference to the Oedipus complex:
Boston: Badger. 95 pp.
for Massachusetts to 99.9 for North

POPULATION OF THE UNITED Carolina. The District of Columbia

STATES BY SEX. shows a far greater excess of females
The United States Bureau of the than appears for any state, its ratio

Census recently issued the following being only 87 to 100.

statement The sex ratios are lowest, as a rule,
in the eastern and southeastern states
Sex Distribution: 1820-1920.
and are highest in the western states.
The total population of the United Among the states east of the Missis-
States, 105,710,620, comprised 53,900,376 sippi River, Michigan, with 110.8 males
males and 51,810,244 females. The fol- to 100 females, is the only state in
lowing statement gives the number of which the ratio is in excess of 110 to
males to 100 females for each census 100; but of the 22 states west of the
year from 1820 to 1920
Mississippi, 12 North Dakota, South
1920.. 104.0 1880.. 103. 6 1840.. 103.7 Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming,
1910.. 106.0 1870.. 102.0 1830. .103.1 Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Ne-
1900.. 104.4 I860.. 104.7 1820.. 103.3 vada, Washington, Oregon, and Cali-
1890.. 105.0 1850.. 104.3
fornia show higher ratios than this,
At censuses prior to 1820 the enum- the highest of all being that for Ne-
erators' returns showed the sex dis- vada 148.4 to 100.
tribution of the white population only,
for which the ratio of males to females AMERICAN IMMIGRATION.
was 104 to 100 in 1810 and 1800 and In relation to immigration, Profes-
103.8 to 100 in 1790. sor Commons is a restrictionist. He is
Thus it will be seen that in the such, not because he would boost the
United States there has been a pre- wages of laborers already in the
ponderance of males at every census United States, but because immigra-
from the earliest to the latest. This tion does not add to the population of
condition is due in large measures to
America it only displaces the increase
the fact that the total population in- by births from the old stock by the in-
cludes a considerable proportion of crease through immigration. For

foreign-born persons about 13 per every immigrant from the " convict

cent, in 1920 among whom the males towns of Italy admitted, one child of
greatly outnumber the females. The the Lowell, Adams, Walcott families,
excess of males is not, however, due for prudential reasons, is not born.
wholly to immigration, the native The non-selective immigration of
 EUGENICAL NEWS 59

recent decades has swollen the cities, ANALYSIS OF PERSONALITY.

has diminished the proportion of farm
The matter of analysis of the per-
hands, and has increased the cost of
sonality being developed by psychol-
is
living. America is exporting- manu-
ogists. Since it is one of the most
factured goods, rather than food, and
complicated of phenomena progress
thus is being- brought into conflict
is slow. Any suggestions are of in-
with European interests.
terest to all. The following " Pupil
To the student of migrations, this
Progress Record " is in use in the Park
work will be found of great interest.
School of Baltimore.
The eugenicist will find its discussion
of races and their differences highly- I. Intelligence (in terms of Binet
illuminating. Intelligence quotient).
II. Social Relationships ; a, cooper-
John R. Commons, 1920. Races and ation h, participation c, initiative
Immigrants in America (New Edi- ; ;

tion). New York: The Macmillan Co. d, control.

242 pp. $2.50.
III. Characteristic Qualities : a,
habits (physical, hygienic, order, re-
LEARNING FROM THE IDIOT.
sponse) ; b, work habits (care, neat-
The normal is best understood by
ness, consideration, attention, self de-
studying the abnormal, just as an
pendence) ; c, moral habits (honesty,
artist's caricature throws new light
truthfulness, though tfulness) ; d, use
on a personality. Goddard's " Psy-
of time
free (negative, economy,
chology " is the more illuminating for
choice, accomplishment)
the normal conditions because he is so
IV. Interest and effort : a, interest
well acquainted with the feebleminded.
&,type; c, duration (presistent, rhyth-
The book is in two parts. First, the
mic, erratic) d, problems (success, ;

nervous system and the mental proc-

perseverance) e, working interest ;
esses and, second, applied psychology.
(individual, group).
The description of the nervous mechan-
V. Health and reactions to physical
ism properly is based on the neuron
stimuli a, health
: b, playground ;

and the whole work revolves on the

spirit and skill (apparatus, games,
neuron, or perhaps one should say on
project plays).
the neuraxis. We are " slaves to our
VI. Interest in and power to use
neuron pattern." This pattern deter-
subject matters: a, language (oral,
mines our mental life. The author
written, spelling, vocabulary, origi-
has little to say about endocrine
nality) ; Z>, literature (appreciation,
glands, though he touches on them in
reproduction, creativity) ; c, nature
a brief chapter on Temperament. He
(response, observation, special in-
voices again a conviction, that some
terest) ; d, human activities (informa-
may regard as overemphasized, that
tion, participation, initiative)e, read- ;

intelligence controls the emotions and

ing (mechanics, content, expression) ;
in proportion to its degree. This book,
/, number (mechanics, speed, use).
like all of Goddard's, will be read b}'
VII. Interest in and response to the
all who are working with the feeble-
arts: a, music (rhythm, voice, ap-
minded, and should be read by those
preciation) &, dramatic plays (inter-
;
who have occasion to try to under-
est, performance, creativity) c, fine ;
stand the normal minded.
arts (color, form execution) d, man- ;

H. H. Goddard, M.A. Psychology of ual arts (interest, execution, creativity,

the Normal and Subnormal: New York:
Dodd Mead and Co., 349 pp. writing).
60 EUGENICAL NEWS

EUGliNICAL NEWS. monthly or monthly, depending prin-

Published monthly by upon funds of the Association.
cipally
THE EUGENES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION,
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ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES X)F
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EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE.
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: ;

September and October, 1921.

individuals, 56.
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charts, 2 individuals, 108.

CIATION, 1922.
;

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The calendar year is also the fiscal 7.
year of the Eugenics Research Asso- Miss Covert : Description, 94 ; charts,
ciation. During' the first half of the 4 ; individuals, 262.
year 1921, the Eugenical News ap-
peared monthly. During- the second
half of the year it has and will appear ASSOCIATION MEMBERS.
bi-monthly. Issues will bear the dates Dr. Mary M. Sturges, '11, of 2675
of July-August, September-October, Morris Avenue, New York City, is now
and November-December. This cur- on the Cancer Ee search Staff of the
tailment is due to the high cost of Montefiore Hospital, and is also doing-
printing", and an impending- change in clinical work at the Neurological In-
editorial policy. stitute, 149 East 67th Street, New

planned by the Association to

It is York. For the next few weeks, how- *

attempt the development of the Eu- ever, she will be engaged in preparing
genical News into a periodical of for publication a preliminary account
magazine proportions which, in ad- of a general eugenical survey which
dition to its present usual features, she made of certain islands off the
will contain extended accounts of Maine coast from 1911 to 1914.
original researches in eug-enics. In Estella M. Hughes, '17, has accepted
order to enable the Association to ac- an offer from Dr. Herman Ostrander,
complish this purpose, the annual dues Superintendent of the State Hospital,
for the year 1922 will, by formal vote Kalamazoo, Michigan, to organize and
of the organization, be as follows direct a new department of social
:

work. Mrs. Hughes plans to include

Active Members $2.00
within the scope of her researches,
Associate Members 5.00
family history studies which profes-
Supporting Members 10.00
sional field workers in eugenics are
Life Patrons 100.00
accustomed to make.
Associate members under the former Sarah L. Funnell, '15, who, since
scheme are eligible, under the new 1919, has been Corresponding Secre-
plan, to active membership. The con- tary at the Eugenics Eecord Office,
templated Journal of Eugenics "will has resigned her position and was
probably appear first in January, 1922, married on September third to Dr.
and thereafter either quarterly, bi- Warren P. Kortwrig-ht.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 61

Dr. Frederick L. Reichert, '16, this 2. On July 15, the group visited the

year again assisted in the Training Brunswick Home for the Feeble-
Course for Field Workers. Previously minded, at Amityville, N. Y. They
Dr. Reichert had assisted at two other took with them apparatus used for
courses, those for 1917 and 1918. making mental tests. The day was
Bertha Pfister, '17, has resigned her spent in making applications of the
position Field Worker at Penn- standard tests, and in trying out
as
hurst, Pa.,and has announced her en- several of the newer schemes for men-
gagement to Mr. Benjamin M. Wailes tal measurement.
of Amherst, Virginia. 3. On July 21 the Ellis Island Im-

Sadee Devitt, '10, and Estella M. migrant Station was visited. Dr. B.
Hughes, '17, are attending the Smith Onuf, of the Medical Service, con-
College Course for Social Workers. ducted the class through the Detention
Hospital, and explained the clinical
1921 TRAINING CLASS FOR FIELD symptoms and conditions present in
WORKERS. certain types of would-be immigrants,
The 1921 Training Class for Field which caused such persons to be de-
Workers in Eugenics began work at tained pending deportation. On the
the Eugenics Record Office on July 6 evening of the same day, the class
and ended its studies on August 16. visited the side shows of Coney Island
The members of this group were and held impromptu clinics at the
Margaret R. Babcock, Watertown, N. stalls ofvarious human " freaks,"
Y. ; Jessie A. Blauvelt, Thiells, N. Y. particularly the dwarfs, giants and
Corinne S. Eddy, Indianapolis, Indi- microcephalic idiots.
ana Grace M. Joy, Newmarket, N. H.
; 4. On July 28, Dr. Henry L. Taylor,

Bess L. Lloyd, Sycamore, 111.; Mildred of the New York Hospital for the
H. Lockwopd, Madrid, N. Y. Pauline ; Relief of Ruptured and Crippled, gave
A. Mead, West Acton, Mass.; Phyllis a clinic in which he emphasized the
F. Pointon, Rouse's Point, N. Y. Laura hereditary aspect of certain types of
;

C. Russell, Massena, N. Y. Isabelle M. human, handicap which came for treat-

;

Whitefield, Canton, N. Y. ment to this hospital. He discussed

Including the 1921 Training Class, especially the cases of radio-ulnar
two hundred and fifteen persons have synostosis which he has been studying
received this special training for prac- from the hereditary point of view in
tical eugenical field investigation. collaboration with the Eugenics
Record Office.
CLINICAL AND FIELD STUDIES On
the afternoon of the same day.
OF THE 1921 TRAINING CL^SS. Dr. Walter B. Weidler, of the Manhat-
The clinic'al instruction and actual tan Eye and Ear Hospital, gave a
field experience received by this year's special lecture on hereditary eye de-
Training Class were especially valu- fect, and then gave a clinical demon-
able : stration in which he illustrated each
1. Dr. Aaron J. Bosanoff, of the particular types of hereditary
On July 8,

of the Kings Park State Hospital, in blindness and defective vision. For
accordance with his annual custom, this purpose he had assembled a group
gave the class a lecture on the prin- of specially selected patients.
cipal clinical types of insanity, and, 5. August 2^the class visited Letch-

with appropriately selected cases, worth Village, at Thiells, N. Y., a

demonstrated each particular type. modern state institution for the feeble-
62 EUGENICAL NEWS
minded. The history and methods of opportunity was given to inspect the
the village were explained by Super- work of the boys, and to listen to a
intendent Dr. Charles S. Little, after lecture by the assistant superintendent
which Dr. H. W. Potter presented cases on the nature of the particular
of feeble-minded liess in which malfunc- problems involved in handling delin-
tion of the endocrine glands seemed to quent boys.
play important parts. He demon- 7. On August 8, due to the courtesy
strated also a special chart which he of Dr. George A. Smith, Superin-
had prepared for the occasion which tendent of the Central Islip Hospital,
showed the upset of structure and Dr. George W. Mills, the director of
function which accompanies malfunc-
clinical psychiatry, lectured on the
tion of the several endocrine organs.
subject of " Mental Mechanisms," and
In the afternoon of the same day,
followed the lecture with a clinical
the group visited the State Hospital
demonstration of the principal patho-
for Crippled Children, at West Haver-
logical mental activities which he
straw, N. Y. Thanks to the kindness
had stressed in his lecture.
of Dr. J. J. Nutt, Superintendent, the
8. On August 9, the class proceeded
students were shown the principal
to Commack, Long Island, where they
types of congenital and hereditary
hurriedly mapped the village and
defect which caused children to be sent
divided it into ten sections. Each
to this hospital for treatment.
6. On August 5, through the cour-
student then proceeded to make a
tesy of Dr. George H. Kirb}^, Director census and
an eugenical and histor-
of the Psychiatric Clinic at Ward's ical survey of the territory in his

Island, N. Y., Dr. Clarence 0. Cheney particular district. This study re-
gave a lecture and clinic, in the first sulted in securing a genealogical and
part of which he demonstrated several trait record of practically all of the
cases of the so-called war psychoses." present inhabitants of this village.
"

In the second part he showed the re- The next few days were spent in pre-
lation between the endocrine secre- paring the pedigree charts and analyz-
tions and certain types of mental dis- ing the records secured in the field.
orders. 9. On August 11, the class again
In the afternoon of the same day, repaired to Rings Park, where the
the class continued to Randall's Is- clinical director had selected a number
land, where it first visited the New of cases of patients who came from
York City Children's Hospital. Dr. homes on Long Island. The students
John S. Richards, Medical Superin- examined these patients and studied
tendent, had kindly prepared a recep- their hospital records.
tion which enabled the students to 10. On August 12, in the manner of
examine at first-hand large numbers field workers, the class proceeded to
and a great variety of mentally and the home territories of the particular
physically defective children. They patients examined the day before at
visited also the island's Psychological the State Hospital, and in the field
Laboratory which was recently estab- secured first-hand historical, personal,
lished. and pedigree data concerning these
Still later in the afternoon, the patients. August 13, 15 and 16 were
House of Refuge on. the same Island spent in writing up and analyzing
was visited. Here, under the direc- these field notes and preparing pedi-
tion of Superintendent E. C. Barber, gree charts.
 EUGENICAL NEWS 63

REGISTERING SOCIAL WORKERS. '

registered social worker ' as herein
A bill has been introduced into the used is declared to meana social
Senate of the California legislature worker who has had issued to him, and
by Senator Gates, and referred to Com- who holds, an unexpired and uncan-
mittee on Public Charities and Correc- celled certificate of the bureau of ex-
tions, which is entitled, " An act to amination and registration of social
provide for the examination and reg- workers certifying to the fact that the
istration of social workers, creating holder is a registered social worker."
an examining body therefor, and pro- Other sections provide for the ap-
viding for an association of registered, pointment of a board of examiners to
social workers." serve without compensation, and who
Section one reads as follows " The shall have charge of the examination
:

term social work as herein used is and registration of social workers.

'
'

declared to mean (a) all Applicants for registration are re-

protective
and preventive work, such as applies quired to deposit a fee of five dollars,
to traveler's aid, dance hall supervis- and those who pass the test success-
ion, social hygiene, and other pro- fully are to be given a Certificate of
tective and preventive work ( b ) all Registration which is to be valid for
;

relief work, such as applies to relief one year and is renewable annually
organizations or to medical social upon the payment of a fee of one
service; (c) all child-caring work, in- dollar. Certificates may be cancelled
cluding character building work in and declared void at the discretion of
children's institutions; (d) all correc- the board of examiners. Both men
tional work, including that generally and women, twenty-one years of age,
performed by probation officers, parole who have had at least one year's work
officers, prison workers, workers in cor- on full time, or two consecutive years
rectional schoolsand detention homes, on half time, in an agency whose stan-
and workers with the subnormal or dard of work is satisfactory to the
mentally handicapped; (e) all welfare bureau of examination, are eligible
workers, including that generally per- to examination for registration. Ex-
formed by noncommercial employment amination shall be both oral and
agents, personnel managers and wel- written.
fare workers (/) all settlement work,
; By this bill it will be illegal for any-
including that pertaining to commu- one not registered after examination
nity organization, settlement club as above described to call himself or
work, physical training in settlement herself a " registered social worker."
work, playground work and the like For persons who do so, the law pro-
(g) field investigation, in its bearing vides punishment by fine upon convic-
upon housing and immigration, or tion.
upon supervisorial agencies for welfare The legal registration of nurses has
work, or upon endorsement agencies, proven to be of considerable use both
or in scientific research work; (h) the to the nurses themselves, to the med-
work of social service executives ; (?) ical profession,and to the community
allwelfare work in educational insti- at large. A similar benefit would be
tutions (j) all forms of social welfare
; expected from the registration of
work. The term social worker as
'
' social workers, and perhaps a little
herein used is declared to mean a later some legal provisions for the
person engaged in social work, as that registration and certification of eugen-
term is herein defined. The term ical field workers will become desir-
64
able. Certainly the latter
workers constitute a specially trained
group of persons who, in order to do
their work, must enjoy certain privi-
leges in the homes of families which
have one or more members in custodial
institutions of one type or another.
At present this contact is engi-
EUGENICAL NEWS
class of in the fact that reaction of any kind
is extremely intense and extensive.'
While the neuropath may never be-
come insane he has within him the
potentiality of bringing into the world
those with a neuropathic taint who are
badly fitted to withstand the trials and
troubles of life.

neered entirely by diplomatic skill on " The tables of the California hos-
the part of the worker. Registra- pitals willshow that not more than 20
tion would make simpler the relation per cent, of cases due to heredity were
between field investigators and the admitted to the hospitals, but this
families to be studied, and would also figure is undoubtedly below the real
insure the public against abuse of any situation. It is exceedingly difficult
confidence which might be given to a to obtain knowledge of the hereditary
field investigator. Also registration tendencies in patients by reason of
would probably enable the person reg- the fact that many of our patients are
istered to testify in court as an expert foreigners, single men with no family
in matters involving the analysis of connections here and family histories
human pedigrees. are impossible to get. In similar in-
stitutions in the East, heredity is
HEREDITY IN INSANITY. given as a cause in from 30 to 35 per
In the Tenth Biennial Eeport of the cent."
California Commission in Lunacy Dr.
F. W. Hatch, General Superintendent, MONGOLIAN IDIOCY AND
says " Heredity, wherein the weak- HYPOPITUITARISM.
nesses, the disturbances of the mental Dr. Walter Timme has found an
ab-
and nervous systems are transmitted normality in form of the sella turcica
by parents to descendants in more or in twenty-three out of twenty-four
less modified form, is recognized as the cases of Mongolian idiocy. There is
most prominent cause of insanity. much in the habitus of these defects
Descendants do not universally inherit that suggests dispituitarism stunted
the active troubles of their ancestors, growth and imperfect development of
but in many of them there is an in- the genitalia. By injecting anterior
heritance of a weakness favorable to lobe extract, some improvement has
the development of mental or nervous followed. (Arch. Neurol, and Psy-
trouble that does not exist in the man chiatry, May, 1921.)
free from inherited traits. Because
of their inherent weakness, trouble, SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE BY RACE.
grief, stress, strain, alcohol and drugs A statistical bulletin from the Met-
are not well-borne. The result of bad ropolitan Life Insurance Company
inheritance may not be insanity but (February, 1921), remarks on the ex-
in its stead there may be nervous traordinarily high suicide and homi-
disease, epilepsy, feeble-mindedness, cide rate over the county daring Jan-
or a condition known as the neuro- uary. Suicide is a very minor cause
pathic, wherein the equilibrium of
'
of death, in America, among colored
the mental functions is very delicately persons; but the homicide rate of
established and under the influence colored persons is many times greater
of slight causes is lost and further,
; than for whites.
 Eugenical News
VOL. VI. NOVEMBER-DECEMBER, 1921 NOS. 11 and 12

INTERNATIONAL EUGENICS CONGRESS NUMBER

SECOND EUGENICS CONGRESS. delivered by Dr. V. V. De Lapouge of
The Second International Congress Poitiers, France, entitled "Race
of Eugenics was held in the American Among Mixed Populations." Section
Museum of Natural History, Septem- IV. " Eugenics and the State," Dr.
ber 22-28, 1921. The Congress opened Louis I. Dublin, Secretary. The prin-
with an informal assembly in the Hall cipal address was delivered by Major
of the Age of Man
at 3 P.M., Thursday, Leonard Darwin of London, Eng-land,
September The formal opening entitled "The Field for Eugenic Re-
22d.
occurred at 8 P.M. the same day in the form." In all, 108 addresses and
Auditorium of the American Museum. papers were delivered.
The principal features on this occasion The Executive Committee of this
were a formal address of welcome by Congress has provided for a Publica-
Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of tion Committee under the chairman-
the Congress, a response by Major ship of Dr. Charles B. Davenport. This
Leonard Darwin, President of the Eu- committee will direct the publication
genics Education Society of Great of the proceedings and papers of the
Britain, and an address by Dr. Charles Congress. Due announcement will be
B. Davenport, Director of the Depart- made in later issues of the Eugenical
ment of Genetics, Carnegie Institution News concerning the progress of these
of Washington, on " Research in Eugen- publications and the availability of
ics." Following the formal addresses the printed volumes.
was the general reception in the Hall
of the Age of Man. INTERIM COMMITTEE OF INTER-
The Congress met in four sections. NATIONAL EUGENICS
Section I treated the subject of CONGRESS.
" Human and Comparative Heredity," Pending the first meeting of the
under the secretaryship of Dr. Helen international Eugenics Commission,
Dean King. The opening address, which will probably take place in the
entitled " Adaptation and Modern early fall of 1922, the international
Genetic Conceptions," w as deliveredT
eug'enical business pertaining to the
by Dr. Lucien Cuenot of Nancy, commission will be transacted by an
France, at 10 A.M., Friday, September Interim. Committee appointed for this
23d. Section II, on " Eugenics and the ourpose by the President of the Second
Human Famity," was held under the International Congress. The Commit-
secretaryship of Dr. Howard J. tee consists of Irving Fisher, Chair-
Banker. The principal address in this man, Charles B. Davenport, Vice
section was delivered bj Dr. Lucien Chairman, Judge Harry Olson and
r

March of Paris, France, on " The Con- Madison Grant, members at large, and
sequences of War and the Birth Bate C. C. Little, Secretary. By invitation
in France." Section III, " Human Dr. A. Govaerts, Secretary of the Per-
Bacial Differences," Dr. Clark Wissler, manent Commission, will meet with
Secretary. The principal address was this Committee.
 66 EUGENICAL NEWS
THE EXHIBIT OF THE SECOND Iff.
Booth 3 Breeding of Domestic
TERNATIONAL CONGRESS Animals, Systems of Breeding, Systems
OF EUGENICS. of Recording.
An
exhibit of researches into, and
\Booth 4 Human Heredity, Pedi-
the practical application of, eugenics grees Showing the Method of Inherit-
and allied sciences was held in con- ance of Specific Traits, Embryology.
nection with the Second International
Booth 5 The Family, Genealogy,
Congress of Eugenics in the American Family Records, Mate Selection, Dif-
Museum of Natural History, New York ferential Fecundity.
City. The exhibits were shown in two
Booth 6 Aristogenic Families, Pedi-
sections : first, relating to Human Evo- grees Showing the Inheritance of
lution, in the Hall of the Age of Man, Specific Talents.
fourth floor second, Special Eugenics
;

Booth 7 Cacogenic Families, Pedi-
Exhibits, which occupied the entire grees Showing the Inheritance of Spe-
sixteen booths of the Forestry Hall cific Degenerate Qualities.
and the adjoining two booths of Dar-
Booth 8 Variation under Artificial
win Hall. Selection, Secondary Sexual Traits.
The exposition opened on Septem- Booth 9 Variation
under Natural
ber 22d and continued until October Selection. Also the exhibit of the
22d. Eight hundred and twenty per- Smithsonian Institution showing Vari-
sons registered at the exhibit as being ation in American Families.
especially interested in some partic-
Booth 10 State Administration and
ular phase of eugenical research, but Institutional Management of the So-
during the month many thousand visi- cially Inadequate, Eugenical Education
tors examined the displays. There and Research, Books and Papers on
were in all 131 exhibitors. The ex- Eugenics.
hibits consisted principally of racial jBooth 11 Races of Man.
casts and models, photographs, pedi- Booth 12 Races of Man.
gree tables and family history studies, Booth 13 Human Migrations, Im-
graphical and statistical charts on migration.
analysis and movements of population Booth 14 Anthropometry.
;
material showing the principles of
Booth 15 Mental Testing. Psychia-
heredity in plants, animals and man try.
motion pictures, maps and analytical
Booth 16 Population, Vital Statis-
tables demonstrating racial vicissi- tics.
tudes, anthropometric instruments, Booth 17 Engenics and Euthenics,
apparatus for mental measurements, Hygiene.
books and scientific reprints upon Booth 18 Geographic Environment,
eugenical and genetical factors. Human Evolution.
The particular subjects of the ex- In response to the numerous re-
hibits of the eighteen booths were as quests from visitors, the Exhibits
Com-
follows mittee, on dismantling the exhibit,
Booth 1 Office of the Exhibit, In- photographed the individual charts,
formation, Registration, Guides, Eu- diagrams and other displays,
in ordei
genical Organization, Societies, Asso- that permanent records
might be pre-
ciations, Eugenics Record Offce, Eu- served.
genics Research Association. The committee in charge of the ex-
Booth 2 Genetics, Principles of hibitwere H. H. Laughlin, chairman,
Heredity in Animals and Plants. Clark Wissler, and L. V. Coleman.
 EUGENICAL NEWS' 67

THE INTERNATIONAL EUGENICS matters which may require action in

COMMISSION. the interval between congresses.
On September 27. 1921, at the busi-
ness meeting's of the Second Interna- THE EUGENICS REVIEW
tional Congress of Eugenics, at the (BRITISH).
American Museum of Natural History, The Eugenics Research Association
New York City, the officers of the In- learns that the demand for copies of
ternational Eugenics Commission, to the earlier volumes of the Eugenics
hold office until their successors shall Review has so depleted the supply that
be installed by the Third Interna- libraries which desire to possess com-
tional Eugenics Congress, were duly plete sets of this publication for bind-
nominated and elected as follows :
ing should order the earlier issues
Chairman Major Leonard Darwin, while the supply is still available.
London, England. This journal has been issued quar-
Vice Chairman Henry Fairfield Os-
terly the four numbers constituting
born, New York. a volume. Vol, I, No. 1 is dated April,
Secretary Dr. x\lbert Govaerts, 1909; Vol. XIII, No. 3, October, 1921.
Brussels, Belgium. Numbers will be sent postpaid for
These were instructed to in- fifty cents each.
officers
vite to the membership of the Com- There are also available a few copies
mittee, of which they constitute the of " Problems in Eugenics " which is
nucleus, one member duly nominated the official publication containing the-
by the leading national eug'enical papers communicated to the First In-
society and one by the leading ternational Congress of Eugenics,
national eugenics institution in each which was held at the University of
of the several countries, provided that London, July 24-30, 1912. Volume I.
there be not more than three cloth, $2.25 postpaid.
shall Volume II,
members from each of the " cooperat- cloth, $.80 postpaid.
ing countries." The nations at Catalog' of the exhibition of the
present recognized as "cooperating First International Congress of Eugen-
countries" are: Belgium, Czecho-Slo- ics, 1912, $.35.
vakia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Orders may be placed directly with
Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Mie Secretary-Treasurer of the Eugen-
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, es Research Association, Cold Spring
Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, United harbor, Long Island, N. Y.
States of America, Australia and New
Zealand. The Commission may add AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION.
to this list on request of three mem- Bulletin No. 84, the Quarterly Sum-
bers of the Commission by three-fifths mary of Australian Statistics for June,
vote of the Commission, or drop from 1921, under the authorship of G. H.
the list by a four-fifths vote, in either Knibbs, reports that during the first
case of the total votes cast. quarter of 1921, 23.309 persons of
The business of the International white races arrived in the common-
Commission shall be to determine the wealth, while only 1,141 of colored race
place and time of the next ensuing or nationality were permitted to enter
Congress. It shall also function as an during the same period. Of the white-
Interim Committee, and is authorized nationalities, the British furnished!
to act on other international eug'enical 121,832 immigrants; the United States
68 EUGENICAL NEWS
435. The next highest nation was Greece 18,000
Italy with 186, then the French with Luxemburg 8,000
162, and the Dutch with 103. No other Total male excess 266,000
white nationality furnished as many
Taking Europe as a whole and ex-
as 100 immigrants during the partic-
cluding Turkey, there were thus, in
ular quarter.
round numbers, about 7,750,000 more
females than males in Europe. Owing
THE BALANCE OF THE SEXES. to the ravages of the war, this dis-
From Current History for November, parity, which shows itself in an excess
1921, we learn that the British census of females
doubtless over males, is

recently gathered data on the balance greatly increased, notably in those

of sexes among the white races of countries which suffered heavily dur-

Europe. Ten 3 ears ago seventeen ing the war.

r

'countries showed an excess of females The review in question quotes a

as follows :
correspondent of the Medical Record,
Russia (estimated) 2,500,000 who notes that since 1915 there has
Great Britain l f
323,000 been a preponderance of male births
Germany 841,000 in Great Britain. Specifically we learn

France 683,000 that for the three months ending Sep-

Italy 628,000 tember 1. 1921. the sex ratio in births
Spain 550,000 was 1057 boy babies to 1000 girl babies.
Austria 506,000
Portugal 303,000
Hungary 196,000
UNITED STATES SEX RATIO
BY RACE.
Sweden 125,000
The analysis of the census returns
Norway 111,000
for 1920, according to an announce-
Denmark 84,000
ment made bj^ the Bureau of the Cen-
Switzerland 62,000
sus November 7. shows the following
Belgium 60,000
sex ratios for 1920. and compares them
Netherlands 60,000
with the findings for 1910:
Finland 22,000
Ireland 6,000 This decline in the relative number
of males among- the white population
Total female excess... 8,06~07600
is attributed to the shutting off of
Only five countries showed an excess immigrants during the war, among
of males whom there was a great excess of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. . 91,000 males. The second, but much less im-
Bulgaria 79,000 portant factor, is the losses in the
Serbia 70,000 male population due to the war.

1910 1920
Female VEale Female Male
Total United States 100 106 100 104
White Population 100 106.6 100 104.4
Negro Population 100 98.9 100 99.2
others
Indian, Chinese, Japanese and all 100 185.7 100 156.6
 EUGENICAL NEWS 69

ALCOHOL AND THE SEX-RATIO. WHAT HINDERS THE BIRTH CON-

Dr. Agnes Bluhm (Berlin-Dahlem) TROL PROPAGANDA.
has shown that alcoholized
recently The daily press publishes a " story "
male white rats produce a great excess of correspondence between President
of males (as compared with their Harding and an Italian woman who
non-alcoholized sibs). This she attrib- has 16 living children. In congratu-
utes to a selective annihilation of the lating her the President writes " My :

female-producing sperm. (Sb. Preus. mother bore 8 children and raised &
Akad. Wiss., 1921.) of them to maturity. One after-
noon . . she
. . said
. . .that she
. .

SEX FACTOR IN DISEASE. had been happy to bear 8 children and

In a paper on the " Susceptibility if she had her life to live over she
of the Sexes to Disease," published in would have no desire to change it ex-
the Finska Lakaresallskapets Handlin- cept to bear 8 more." Here we see-
gar, Helsingfors, for January-Febru- expression of the maternal instinct
aiy, 1921, R. Ehrstrom "has compiled which in fully normal women is not
statistics which show the preponder- less strong- than the mating- instinct.
ance of certain diseases in one or the
other sex, and discusses the causes CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY.
for the lesser resistance in one sex. " Laignel-Lavastine begins his study
Gout heads the list with 40 men to 1 of this taibject by repudiating the term
woman affected color blindness, 10 to 'criminal responsibility' and using
;

1; Thomsen's and Leber's diseases, 10 instead 'penal capacity,' analogous to

and 8 to 1 chloroma. 3 "to 1 diabetes, the expressions earning capacity and
; ;

bronchial asthma, paralysis agitans, civil capacity. He discusses this from

and hereditarjr nystagmus, each 2 to 1. various standpoints, reiterating in con-
In contrast to this, vasomotor neuroses clusion that the medicolegal expert
are found in 20 women to 1 man ex- does not have to pass judgment on the
;

ophthalmic goiter 15 to 1 osteoma- penal capacity. All he has to certify

;

lacia, 10 to 1 arthritis deformans. to is Vanormalit4, la nocivlte. Vlm-

;

6 to myxedema. 5 to 1 gallstones i>i(Jsirit(\ VintimidaMlit6 et hi per-

1 ; ;

and scleroderma. 3 to 1 endemic- fectibility of the accused. It is for the

;

goiter and chorea, each 2 to 1. These court to decide from these premises
are pathologic conditions in which whether the penal capacity is normal,
endogenous factors participate, and attenuated, or nil." (J. Am. Med. A.)
the predilection for a certain sex sug-
gests that the sexual organs and sex- WHITE AND COLORED CHILDREN.
ual characters are P. W. Schwegler and Edith Winn
involved in their
mechanism. demonstrates further, give in the Journal of Educational
It
he adds, that the influence of the Research for December, 1920, the re-
secondaiy sex characters is more pro- sults of a comparative study of the
found and far-reaching than has been intelligence of white and colored chil-
realized hitherto." It must be remem- dren. It is concluded that the g-eneral
bered, however, that in at least some intellectual endowment of the colored
of these cases there is involved the children is about eighty-five per cent,
principle of sex-linked inheritance, that of white children, and that the
as in color blindness. (Jour. Am. Med. superiority of the whites shows in the
Asso., April 30, 1921.) higher mental processes.
70 EUGENICAL NEWS
sistant to the Assistant Director of the
EUGKNICAL NEWS. !

Published monthly by Eugenics Record Office, has resigned

THE EUGENES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, her position and announced her en-
41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa. gagement to be married December
and Cold Spring Harbor, 17th to Dr. Halsey J. Bagg, Research
Long Island, N. Y. Fellow in Biology of the Huntington
Subscription fifty cents per year, postage free in Fund for Cancer Research. Dr. Bagg
the United States and island possessions also in
is stationed at the Memorial Hospital
;

Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Canal Zone. In all

other countries add ten cents for postage.
of the Cornell Medical College, New
Entered as secoiid-class matter May 10, 19 6, at
the ost Office at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of York City.
M*rch 3, 1879.

ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES OF 1921 TRAINING CLASS OF

EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE. EUGENICS RECORD
September, 1921. OFFICE.
Records of Family Traits, 5. Babcock is making
Margaret R.
Field Reports :
become an as-
special preparation to
Miss Bryant Description, 48 : ; charts, sistant at the Eugenics Record Office
1 ; individuals, 53. on January 1, 1922.
Miss Covert : Description, 97 ; charts, Jessie Blauvelt has returned to
A.
5; individuals, "123. her original position as -parole officer
Miss Edmundson : Description, 25 : at Letchworth Village, Thiells, N. Y.
charts, 1 ; individuals, 25. Corinne S. Eddy has been added to
Miss Lantz : Description, 76 ; charts. the staff of field workers at Letch-
4 ; individuals, 139. worth Village, Thiells, N. Y.
Miss Pfister : Description, 138
Grace M. Joy was married August
charts, 18 individuals, 742.
to Mr. Palmer Place. Their
;
18th
Whittier School : Description, 76
present address is 207 S. Millake Ave-
charts, 3, individuals, 76.
nue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
October, 1921. Bess L. Lloyd has been appointed
Biographies, 1. Department of Anat-
assistant in the
Collective Genealogies, 10. omy ofthe Washington University,
Town Histories, 1. School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.
Record Family Traits, 302. Mildred H. Lockwood, Phyllis F.
Individual Analysis Cards, 254. Pointon and Laura C. Russell have been
Field Reports : added to the staff of social workers
Miss Lantz Description, 55
: ; charts, of the Kings Park State Hospital,
3 ; individuals, 134. Kings Park, L. I.
Miss Earle : Description, 36 ; charts, Pauline A. Mead has succeeded
10. Bertha Pfister, '17, as field worker at
Whittier School : Description, 237 the State Institution for the Feeble
charts, 9 ; individuals, 401. Minded at Pennhurst, Pa.
Isabelle M. Whitefield is finishing
ASSOCIATION MEMBERS. her senior year at St. Lawrence Uni-
Mildred Slaughter, '14, is a member versity, Canton, N. Y.
of the Army Nurse Corps at Fort The supply of field workers at
William McKinley, Rizal, P. I. present is not equal to the demand.

Dorothy Osborn, '16, scientific as- Had the class of 1921 been twice as
 EUGENICAL NEWS 71

large, it is probable that all of the trol. We

have five persons devoting
graduates could have been appointed their time to field work as mem-
full
to satisfactory positions. bers of our staff, as follows
" 1. Mr. W. W. Clark, sociologist, in
HEREDITY IN TUBERCULOSIS. charge of field work division.
Drs.Sewall Wright and Paul A.
" 2. Miss Mildred S. Covert, instruct-
Lewis have analyzed (in Amer. Natur-
ing field worker at central
alist, Jan.-Feb., 1921) the factors that
laboratory.
make for resistance of guinea pigs to " 3. Miss Edythe K. Bryant, instruct-
tuberculosis. They found one extra-
ing field worker at central
ordinarily resistant family. Crosses
laboratory.
between this family and others were " 4. Miss Elizabeth Edmundson,
I.
superior in resistance to this family
field worker stationed at Pres-
itself,indicating dominance of resist-
ton School of Industry.
ance over susceptibility, and also the " 5. Miss Thelma R. Coffin, field
possible xjresence f complementary
worker stationed at Sonoma
factors. The factors which determine
State Home.
the resistance of a family to tubercu- " Among the other students who
losis are not closely related to the
have taken our training course are
other elements of vigor, including rate
Miss Perry, who is now our clerk:
of growth and adult weight, frequency
and Miss Hyiner, who has charge of
and size of litter, the percentage of
the special ungraded room at the
young born alive and the percentage
laboratory. The other students have
of these raised to weaning. Thus ge-
returned to their respective universi-
netical studies in mammals are con-
tiesand colleges.
firming and rendering more precise
"Our Whittier Social Case History
'

the view long held by acute medical

Manual is now in press. This is de-
'

observers of a tubercular diathesis in

scriptive of the work developed here
man.
during the past few years, being an
FIELD WORKERS IN CALIFORNIA. attempt to adapt your methods to
Dr. J. Harold Williams, Director of what we have considered the research
the Bureau of Juvenile Research at needs of this state."
Whittier, writes under date of October
14, 1921:
" Some of the new names on our WHITTIER, CALIFORNIA.
histories are of students who were in Whittier, California, must be looked
training with us during the past sum- upon as a center of very earnest
mer. Our alumni student body has eugenical activities. It is the site of
reached the number of eleven, one a the State School, of which Fred C.
Ph.D., one a candidate for the Ph.D., Nelles is Superintendent, and Karl M.
six more were university graduates, Cowdery, '15, is Assistant Superin-
and the rest were advanced students. tendent. It will be remembered that
We have employed six of these stu- Mr. Cowdery introduced modern eugen-
dents as members of our staff, four of ical studies into the activities of the
whom are now with us. According to Whittier State School six years ago.
the new legal reorganization in this Besides this custodial institution,
state, all institution research work
another feature of eugenical activity
is
placed under our direction and con- at Whittier is the Bureau of Juvenile
72 EUGENICAL NEWS
Research under the Directorship of J. can fellowships. American universi-
Harold Williams. The third feature ties name the candidates for fellow-
of especial interest is the Journal of ships subject to the approval of the
Delinquency, which is published by C. R. B. Educational Foundation. The
the Bureau just named. " This maga- Belgian students are selected in like
zine appears monthly, and is devoted manner by Belgian universities and
to the scientific study of problems re- approved by the Fon elation Universi-
lated to social conduct." All of these taire, a Belgian organization founded
associated activities are housed by by the Comite National which was
and function as a part of the Whittier associated with the C. R. B. in ad-
State School. ministering war relief activities in
Belgium.
FOREIGN NOTES. Professor Vavilov, Russia.
Haskovec, Czecho-Slovakia.
Prof. Professor N. I. Vavilov, of the Pet-
A section of eugenics, under the rograd Agricultural Institute, has re-
leadership of Professor Ladislav Has- cently made a visit to the scientific
kovec, has been organized in the establishments of the United States.
Anthropological Society of Czecho- During his recent visit to the Eugen-
slovakia at Prague. ics Record Office, he left the following
Dr. Govaerts, Belgium. memorandum :

Dr. Albert Govaerts, a graduate of " Two years ago in Petrograd and in
the University of Brussels, Belgium, Moscow was founded the first Russian
arrived in New York September 12 Eugenics Society.
with eighteen other Belgian students, " The President of the society, Dr.

holders of fellowships awarded by the X. K. Koltzov, asked me to get all new

Commission for Relief in Belgium
Educational Foundation of which Her-
bert Hoover is chairman.
Dr. Govaerts proceeded to Cold
Spring Harbor, where the Carnegie In-
stitute provided special facilities for
advanced work in the study of eugenics
literature on Eugenics. As you know,
Russia was isolated for four years
from all scientific literature. I should
like to ask you to help, if it would
be possible, Russian biologists to get
this literature. It could be sent to
address Prof. X. I. Vavilov. care of
:

at the Eugenics Record Office. Dr. W. P. Anderson, 512 Fifth Avenue,

Govaerts has been commissioned by Xew York.
the Belgian government to make a " Notwithstanding all difficulties of

careful study of the science of eugen- life, the real famine and the greatest

ics during his year in America with a poverty, Russian scientists try to con-
view to the establishment of an In- tinue their scientific work. The great
stitute of Eugenics in Belgium. problems of evolution and inheritance
During the war Dr. Govaerts served in man interest them as much as all
in the Belgian medical service with biologists of the world.
the rank of lieutenant. " During the last years, by our well-

The Belgian exchange fellowships known best geologist, Prof. A. P. Pav-

are awarded annually and serve as a lov, was prepared for publication a
perpetual memorial to the work of the new original book on Ancient Man,' '

Commission for Relief in Belgium dur- which is written in French and Rus-
ing the war. There are twenty-four sian. During the last two years many
Belgian and a like number of Ameri- data were collected by Drs. N. Iv. Kolt-
 EUGENICAL NEWS 73

zov and Filipchenko on nature and immigration is encouraged, present

nurture of Russian men of science. tendencies unchecked will orientalize
" Many original works cannot be the whole territory of Hawaii.

published. Printeries stop or are used

for political purposes. Notwithstand- THE AMERICAN NEGRO.
The census records for 1920 show
ing- all obstacles, the scientific life
that during the decennial period from
still exists in Russia.
" Many
1910 to 1920. the American negro in-
Russian biologists would
creased 6.5 per cent., whereas his in-
have liked very much to take part in
crease in the preceding decade from
the International Congress of Eugen-
1900 to 1910 was 11.2 per cent., but the
ics, but could not on account of polit-
most striking feature of the negro
ical situation."
census returns is his redistribution.
With the advent of the World War and
HAWAIIAN CENSUS.
the shutting off of European immigra-
The report of the Bureau of the
tion, the demand of the North and
Census on the population of Hawaii
the West for unskilled labor was sup-
shows that in 1900, to 100 females
plied largely by the northward and
there were 223.3 males. In 1910 this
westward inter-state migration of
ratio had dropped to 178.9 in 1920 to
;

negroes. Thus during the decade just

144.3. This preponderance of males is
ended, the negroes in the South in-
due largely to the influx of Porto
creased only 1.9 per cent., in the North
Rican, Chinese, and Japanese laborers.
43.3 per cent., in the West 55.1 per
Among the native Hawaiian s. the sex
cent. The total numerical increase in
ratio in 1920 was 102.2 males to 100
the negro population during the decade
females.
was 635.368. Of this increase. 472,564,
The Japanese in 1900 comprised 39.7
or nearly three-fourths, took place in
per cent, of the whole population in ;

the North and West, while only

1910, 41.5 per cent.; in 1920, 42.7 per
162.804, or about one-fourth, was re-
cent. ;while the pure Hawaiian stock
ported for the South, despite the fact
declined 19.3 per cent, in 1900, to 13.6
that about 85 per cent, of the total
per cent, in 1910, and 9.3 per cent, in
negro population is still found in the
1920. The Hawaiian hybrids increased
Southern States.
from 5.1 per cent, of the total popula-
tion in 1900 to 6.5 per cent, in 1910, PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS.
and to per cent, in 1920. At the
7 Bulletin No. 49 of the Russell Sage
latter date, Caucasian-Hawaiians com- Foundation Library, October, 1921.
prised 4.3 per cent., and Asiatic- has for its subject a " Bibliography of
Hawaiians 2.7 per cent, of the total Psychological Tests in Industry." It
population. Thus it is clear that the lists in all forty-five books and papers
native Hawaiian race is being sup- on the subject. This is of special in-
planted by Orientals and Caucasians. terest to eugenicists, because in the
In 1920 the Caucasians of all types standardization of measuring human
comprised 21.5 per cent, of the total traits, whether physical traits by the
population. This was a decrease over scientific method of anthropometry,
the 22.8 per cent, in 1910, which latter, or mental traits by modern psycholo-
however, was an increase over the 18.7 gical tests, the eugenicists finds use
per cent, in 1900. Unless Caucasian for each advanced scheme of quanti-
74 EUGENICAL NEWS
tative measurement of human traits. gether again." His brother Kermit
In the usual pedigree study, the busi- says this bent for mechanics was not
ness of the field worker is to trace the inherited, but his mother's grand-
family distribution of specific quali- father, Daniel Tyler, was an artillery
ties. Standardization in measurement officer who went to France to secure
of human traits therefore means great additional technical training he was
;

aid in placing the science of human also a railroad man. Quentin also
heredity upon the quantitative basis. was devoted to reading and had con-
siderable literary ability like his
HEREDITY OF QUENTIN father ; this ability showed itself in
ROOSEVELT. stories he wrote at 18 years.
Quentin Eoosevelt was born in One of the most outstanding traits
Washington, D. C, November 19, 1897; of Quentin's was an interest in people
attended the schools in that city,
and, like his father, Theodore Roose-
spent the summer of 1909 in Europe
velt, a capacity for securing their de-
where he was impressed by his first
voted attachment " he was one of the
sight of an aeroplane entered the
;
most popular officers in the organiza-
Groton School and then, in 1915, Har-
tion." This devotion was partly a rec-
vard College. He attended a Platts-
ognition Quentin's fidelity to his
of
burgh military training camp in 1916
trust; he displayed the same ubiqui-
and when war was declared in April,
tousness while training his cadets that
1917, he, with his three brothers, en-
his father did as police commissioner
tered military service and Quentin
of New York City. When his detach-
went to the flying camp at Mineola,
ment needed supplies and they were
Long Island. In July he sailed for not available
through regular channels
France where he was sent to Issoudun
he went on night expeditions and
to take charge of transportation and, " stole " the
required materials he cut ;

for a while, supplies also. He was red tape as his father did in the Span-
put in command of a flying squadron
ish-American war. Finally he showed
and made commanding officer of the
a capacity for excitement while fight-
headquarters detachment of 600 cadets
and 39 other first lieutenants. On
ing which
rendered him blind to
fear facing the enemy in superior
;

June 18, 1918, he took his place at the numbers inside their lines only in-
front as a member of a pursuit group.
creased his desire to fight and he met
;

On a Boche " and on

July 11 he " got
his death through a bull-dog inability
July 14th he was shot in the head in
to loose his hold of a stronger antag-
an aerial combat by a German aviator pugnacious, perti-
onist. Versatile,
and fell to his death within the
nacious, conscientious, impetuous, dar-
enemy's line.
ing, quick to condemn the wrong and
Though not 21 years old Quentin praise the right, in sympathy with his
Roosevelt showed marked qualities. men and insistent on their punctilious
Even at 12 years " he had always been
behavior, full of humor and fond of
interested in mechanics " and when entertainments,
;
Quentin Roosevelt
his "
parents once suggested that he
showed a combination of hyperkinesis
and Archie should be given a commer- and sense of duty which nearly dupli-
cial automobile the latter explained
cates his father's.
that it would be quite useless ... as
Kermit Roosevelt: Quentin Roosevelt:
Quentin would spend all the time tak- A sketch with letters. New York;
Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1921, ix + 282 pp.
ing the motor down and putting it to- $2.50.
 EUGENICAL NEWS INDEX
VOLUME VI., 192

INDEXPERSONS. Comas, Dr.

Commons,
L., 8.
J. R., 59.
Aakjaer, Jeppe, 7.
Adkinson, June, '12, 11, 12, 44 Conklin, E. G., 34, 36.
Anderson, Larss, 7. Cook, Geo. W., 40.
Anderson, Dr. V. B., 32. Cook, Helen, 20, 28, 39.
Anderson, W. P., 72. Coray, Prof. Geo. I., 43.
Anderson, W. S., 28, 37. Cotton, H. A., 28, 36.
Andrus, Magaret, '20, 52, 45, 60. Covert, Mildred S., '17, 12, 20, 21, 28, 39.
52, 44, 60, 70, 71.
Angulo, Jamie de, '11, 29.
Anthony, K., 15. Cowdery, Karl M., '15, 45, 71.
Anthonv. Prof. R., 8.
Crampton, Henry E., 36.
Apert, E., 14. Crivelli, L., 5.

Azeuedo, Dr. Fernando, 18.

Crum, F. S., 28, 37.
Cuenot, Dr. Lucien, 36, 65.
Babeock, Margaret R., '21, 61, 70.
Badger, Ruby K., '16, 45. Dakin, H. D., 36.
Bagg, Dr. Halsey J., 70. Danforth, Dr. C. H., 39, 51.
Bangert, Dr. Geo. S., 6. Dartt, Adeline, E., '20, 45.
Banker, Howard J., 37, 56, 65. Darwin, Major Leonard, 13, 37, 38, 65, 67.
Barber, E. C, 62. Davenport, Chas. B., 13, 39, 49, 54, 65.
Barker, Lewellys F., 56. Davis, Florence, '11 (see Smith, Mrs. H.
Barr, Martin W., 27. G.), 45.
Barrett, Dr. A. M., 4. Dealey, W. L., '13, 45.
Barrus, Clara, 10. Deatheridge, Mrs. M., 8.
Barton, Rev. W. E., 1, 2. Debenedetti, E. E., 24.
Bateson, W., 39. De Lapouge, Dr. V. V., 65.
Baur, Dr. E., 8. Devitt, Sadee, '10, 61.
Bean. Rob't B.. 28, 37. -
Dodge, Cleveland H., 28.
Beatty, Dr. T. B., 43. Donaldson, H. H., 36.
Beeley, Prof. A. L., 43. Doumer, P., 14.
Beel, Alexander G.,14. Dublin, Dr. L. L, 65.
Benda, Rudolph M., 36.
Berrv, R. A., 27. Earle, Mabel L., 4, 12, 20, 29, 39, 52, 60,
Binder, R. M., 26. 70.
Bingham, Esther, '19, 4, 20. Earp, E. L., 36.
Bird. Mrs. A. H. S., 43. East, E. M., 28.
Blauvelt. Jessie A., '21, 61. 70. Eddy, Corinne S., '21, 61, 70.
Boger, H. A.. '18, 44. Edison, T. A., 14.
Bonnevie, Kristine, 36. Edmundson, Elizabeth J., 39, 52. 44, 70, 71..

Brammer, G. A., 39, 52, 44. Emerson, Edward W., 35.

Bromley. Isaac H., 42. Emmons, Marjorie, '16 (see Sessions, Mrs.
Brown, Mrs. D. L. F., '11, 12. J. A.), 12.
Brownfieid, Geo., 1. Enloe, Abraham,_ 1.
Bryant, Edythe K., 12, 20, 70, 71. Enrique. Dr. Joao, 18.
Buchanan. Dr. J. A., 7. Estabrook, Dr. A. H., '10, 4, 20. 28, 37,
Bucura, Dr. C, 5. 38, 50.
Burrow, J. Le F., 16.
Fahlbeck, Pontus, 13.
Cage, Mina M., '12, 45. Federley, Harry, 13.
Calhoun, A. M., 37. Feilberg, H. F., 7.
Calhoun, J. C, 1. Filipchenko, Dr., 72.
Cameron. C, 24. Filbey, Emery, 28, 37.
Campbell, J. C, 42. Finlayson, Anna Wendt, '12, 70.
Campbell. W. W., 34. Fishberg. M.. 28, 37.
Carter, Anderson, 8. Fisher, Irving. 38, 49, 56, 65.
Cattell, J. McKeen,
36. 49. Freeman, J., 6.
Chaddock, Robert S., 36. Freud, Sigmund, 34.
Chapin, F. S., 22. Funueri, Sarah L.. '15 (see Kortright. Mrs.
Cheney, Dr. C. O., 62. W. P.). 60.
Claflin, Mrs. G. H. (see Garrett, Laura Fiirst, Carl, 13.
B., '11). 45.
Clark, Willis. 12. 71. Garrett, Laura B., '11 (see Claflin. Mrs.
Clifford, Jane. 41. G. H.), 45.
Coffin, Thelma R., 71. Gates, R. Ruggles, 36.
Coleman, L. V., 66. Gerould, John H., 36.
Collins, Marion, 44. Gill, Isabelle Kendig, '12, 70.

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76 EUGENICAL NEWS
Goddard, Dr. H. H., 4, 27, 32, 59. Liddle. Ruth H., '20, 29.
Gould, Chas. K., 28. Liestol. Knut. 7.
Govaerts, Dr. Albert, 36, 43, 65, 67, 72. Little, Dr. C. C, 28, 37, 65.
Graham, Mae C, '19, 44. Little, Dr. Chas. S., 62.
Grant, Madison. 65. Lloyd, Bess L. '21, 61, 70.
Gravlund, Thorkild. 7. Lockwood, Mildred H., '21, 61, 71.
Green, Elizabeth, "13, 12, 37, 39, 52. Loeb, Leo, 28, 36.
Gregory, W. K., 28. Lowrey, Dr. L. G., 10.
Groubeck, V., 7. Lundborg, Dr. EL, 13. 36, 37.
Guyer, M. F., 28.
McBride, H. A.. 46.
Haight, Geo. I., 22. McClung, C. E., 28. 37.
Hale, Janet, 36. McDonald, R. A. F., 27.
Hall, R. W., 36. McDougall, W., 34. 36.
Hanks, Nancy, 1. McKinnie, Adele, '11. 45. 70.
Hansen, H. J., 15. Ma'linowsky, Prof. E., 24.
Hansen, Soren, 16, 36. Maloney, E. F., 27.
Hardin, Martin D., 1. Mianouvrier, Prod!. L., 8.
Harriman, Mrs. E. H., 28. March, L., 14, 65.
Harris, Louia I.. 36. Martin, Helen. '13
(see Pitcher, Mrs. C.
Harrison, Ross G., 36. W.), 20.
Haskovec, Prof. Ladislav, 72. Martin, Ruth M., '11. 4.
Hatch. Dr. F. W., 64. Martin, Major L.. 46.
Henrichs, J., 6. Mavnard. H. H., 30.
Herve, Prof. Geo.. 8. Mead, Pauline A.. '21, 61, 71.
Herwerden, Dr. M. A. van, 16. Meira. Proi. Rubiao, 18.
Hill. Dr. Joseph A., 46. Mills, Dr. G. W., 62.
Hoffman, F. L.. 37, 56. M.ioen. Dr. John A., 28.
Hofstein, Nils von, 13. Moe, Moltke. 7.
Holmes, Dr. S. J., 38, 49, 51. Mohr. Otto L.. 28.
Hoover, Herbert, 72. Molliard, M., 36.
Howe, Lucien, 28, 34, 36, 39, 49. 52. Morgan, Ann, 28.
Hordlicka, A., 28, 37. Morgan, C. L.. 10.
Huebsch, B. W., 15. Morgan, T. H. 37,
Hughes, Mrs. E. M., '17, 20. 30. Ho. 01. Mosher, Dr. C. D.. 35.
Hunt. W. C, 46. Moura, Dr. Olegario, 18.
Huntington, Archer M., 28. Muller, H. J., 28, 37.
Husband, W. W., 46. Mulon. Mme. ^e Dr. Clothilde, 19.
Husehka, Mabel, '14, 44. Muncey. Dr. E. B.. "11. 45.
Myers. Sadie R.. '15. 44.
Inge, Dean, 28. Myerson, Abraham, 37.
Irwin, Dr. Mabel, '19, 45, 70.
Nelles, Fred C, 71.
Jenkins, F. W\, 26. Nelson, Louise A.. '16, 45.
Jennings, H. S., 36. Nerman, Birger, 7.
Johnson, R. H., 28, 37, 39. 51. Nielsen, Harolrl. 7.
Jordan, David S.. 36. Nils'son, Heribert. 1 3.
Jov, Grace M., '21, 61, 70. Nilsson, Martin. 7.
Jung, C. G., 34. Nilsson-E'hle, Dr. H.. 13.
Noyes, Hilda, 28. 37.
Kehl, Dr. Renato, 8, 18. Nuti, Dr. A. J. 15.
Kellev, Truman L.. 40. Nutt, Dr. J. J., 62.
Kellogg, Dr. John H., 28.
Kellogg. Vernon, 28. Ochsenius. K.. 23.
Key, Wilhelmine, 2, 4, 28. 30. Ohrt, F., 7.
Kindred, Dr. John J., 70 Olson, Judge Harry, 65.
King, Helen Dean. 28, 36, 37. 05. Olrik, Axel. 7.
Kirbv. Dr. Geo. H., 62. Onuf. Dr. B., 61.
Knibbs. Mr. G. H.. 67. Osborn, Dorothv. '16, 45, 70.
Koltzov. Dr. N. K., 72. Osborn, Henrv F.. 36. 65, 67.
Kortriffht. Mrs. W. F (spp. Funnel!, Sarah Osborn, Norris A., 42.
L., '15), 60. Ostrander, Dr. Herman. 60.
Roster, Mrs. TV. J. (see Storer. Mary, Owen, Grace A., 14.
'13), 44.
Paget. Stephen, 42.
Lantz, Beatrice, 4, 12, 20, 29, 39. 44. 52, Papellault. G.. 14.
60, 70. Parmlee. Maurice. 36.
La rr son, Prol Carl, 7. Paton. Dr. Stewart, 39.
La Rue, D. W., 44. Tnni, yrrs. Lucy M.. 36.
Lars son, Robert, 13. Pavlov. ProL A. P.. 72.
Lnnghlin, H. H., 4, 28, 37, 38, 30, 54, 56. Pearl, Dr. Raymond, 28.
66. Pearson. Prof. Karl.. 3.
Lea, Dr. J. Miranda, * 8. Peep'les, Mariorie, '20, 44.
Lennmalm, Prof., 13. Perrier, E., 14.
Lewis. Dr. P. D.. 40. Pershing, John .7.. 14.
Leabitter, Mr., 28. 36. Peterson, Anna M., '14, 44.
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Pfister, Bertha, '17, 44. 61, 70. Toldt, Dr. Karl, 8.

Pickles, Elsie E., '16, 44. Trotter, Mildred, 51.
Piness, Dr. S., 30. Turner, Abby H., 36.
Pitcher, Mrs. C. S. (see Martin. Helen,
'13), 20. Uppvall, A. J., 58.
rointon, Phyllis F.. '21, 61, 71. Vavilov, Prof. N. I., 72.
Pooler, Blanche P., 44. Vilhena, Dr. Alcantara, 18.
Pond, Clara P., '14 (see Richards, Mrs. Vogt, Ragnar, 36.
T. D.), 45.
Porteus, S. D., 11, 27. Wailes, Benj. M., 61.
Portugal, Dr. Oswaldo, 18. Walmsley, Mac Gregor, '20, 45.
Potter, D. H. W., 62. Walston (Waldstein), Sir Chas., 15.
Pratt, John T., 28. Wander, Paul, '17, 45.
Watson, Mrs. F., 28.
Rdosavljevich, Paul R., 28, 37. Weidler, Dr. W. B., 61.
Reeves, Helen T., '10, 29, 45. Whitefield, Isabelle M., '21, 61, 71.
Reichert, Frederick L., '16, 45, 61. Whitney, Prof. Marian P., 5.
Rice, C. H., 36. Wilcox, W. F., 28, 37.
Richards, Dr. J. S., 62. Williams, Dr. J. Harold, 71.
Richards Mrs. T. D. (see Pond, Clara F., Wilson, Woodrow, 14.
'14), 45. Wimmer, August, 36.
Richet, C, 14. Winston, G. G., 34.
Robey. Mabel A., '13, 44. Wissler, Clark, 37, 65, 66.
Rogers, Samuel L., 14. Woods, F. A., 37.
Roosevelt, Quentin, 74. Wright, Sewall, 28, 37, 40, 69.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 14.
Rosanofi!, Dr. A. J., 28, 37, 56, 61. Yule, G. S., 47.
Roursy, B., 14.
Rushmore, Elsie M., 26.
Rushmore, Dr. .7. C, 7.
INDEX SUBJECT.
Abmodal, Educating the, 27.
Russell, Laura C, '21, 61, 71.
Adolescent Runaways, a Study of. 52.
Ainhum, 30.
Sadler. W. 28, 37.
S.,
Aliens, 47.
Sanford, C. M., 14.
Schrieber, G., 14.
Amaurotic Idiocy, National, 39.
Schiitte, Gudmund. 7.
American Immigration, 58.
Americanization, 22.
Scott. Clifton R.. 30.
Scudded. Mary T., 10. Angioneurotic Edema. 24.
Seashore, C. E., 37, 54..
Archives, Accessions to the, 4, 12, 20, 28,
30. 44. 52, 60 v 70.
Sessions, Mrs. J, A, (see Emmons, Marjorie.
'16), 12.
Association Members, 4, 12, 20, 28. 44, 60,
70.
Sessions, Mina A., '13, 12, 44.
Shull, Dr. Geo. H., 16, 36. Association, Eugenics Research, 38, 49, 56,
Silverber^. W. V.. '18. 44. 60.
Simon. Dr. Keith M. B., 30. Asthma, 11.
Simpson. Sutherland, 36. Asthma, Bronchial, 30.
Singer, Dr. H. D., 4.
Sinha, Prof. S., 48. Bologist's Views; A, 34.
Slaughter. Mildred, '14, 70. Birth Control Propaganda, What hinders
Smith, Dr. G. A., 62. the, 69.
Smith, Mrs. H. G. (see Davis, Florence, Birth-rate, The, 47.
'11), 45. Birth Statistics, U. S. 1919, 39.
Snoddy, Dr. G. S.. 43. Blondes, and Brunettes, 7.
Stanton. Hazel. 28. 29, 37, 54. Rndv-size and Race, 15.
Stefano. S. de. 12. Boys, Excitability in Delinquent, 21.
Stekhoven, Dr. Schnurman, 16. Brazil. Eugenics in, 18.
Stewart, Ethelbert, 46. Breeding for Morality, 15.
Stockard, C. R., 28, 37. Brunettes and Blondes, 7.
Stone. L. A., 5. Build, Index of, 13.
Storer, Mary, '13 (see Koster. Mrs. W. Bureau of Juvenile Research. Calif.. 3.
.1.), 44. Burroughs, Juvenile Promise of John, 9.

Sturges. Mary M.. '10, 60.

Sullivan, L. R., 36. California Bureau of Juvenile Research, 3.

Sweet, Marion, '16, 45. Capacity. Inheritance of Musical, 54.

Case Histories of Defectives, 27.
Taft. Jessie, '12, 44. Census, American Negro, 73.
Tanslev, A. G.. 34. Census, Hawaiian, 73.
Taylor. C. C. 26. Census Records saved, 14.
Taylor, Dr. H. L.., 61. Children and Bad Germs, Bad, 32.
Taylor, Ruth, '11, 45. Churches, Foreign Language, 16.
Tepedino, Dr. A., 18. Clinical and Field Studies of 1921 Train-
Thelberg, Dr. E. B., 36. ing Class. 61.
Thomas, Dr. Geo., 43. Club, The Saturday, 35.
Thorpe. Hay,el, '13, 45. Congenital Dislocation of the Hip, 24.
Timme. Dr. W., 64. Congress. Second International Eugenics,
Todd, T. Wingate, 28, 37. 28. 3G, 65.
78 EUGENICAL NEWS
Congresses. Troubles of, 29. Situs Inversus, 23.
Conn. State Hospital, Field work at, 20. Skin Defects, 6.
Criminal Research, Institution for, 31. Spastic Paralysis, 12.
Criminal Responsibility, 69. Tongue-tie, 48.
Tuberculosis, 69.
Death Rate, Differential, 7. Heredity of
D'Eugenique. Revue, 43. Holland, Henry S., 41.
Defectives, Case Histories of, 27. Lincoln, Abraham, 1.
Defectives, South Carolina, 27. Mahan, Admiral, 25.
Delinquency, A Study oi, 40. Roosevelt, Quentin, 74.
Delinquent Boys, Excitability in, 21. Strindberg, August, 57.
DifferentialDeath Rate, 7. Tompkins, D. A., 33.
Disease and National Decline, 26. Trudeau, E. L., 17.
Drying up the Springs, 32. Highlanders, The Southern, 42.
Education Society, Eugenics, 13. Hip, Congenital Dislocation of, 24.
Endowment Family, 15. Histories ol Defectives, Case, 27.
Eugenic Legislation, Proposed, Oregon, 18. Homicide and Suicide by Race, 64.
Eugenic Legislation, Proposed, South Da- Humorist, A Yankee, 42.
kota, 19. Hygiene Congress Abandoned, 32.
Eugenics and Statistics, 43. Hygiene, Marriage, 40.
Eugenics Commission, The International, 67. Hygiene in South Africa, Mental, 40.
Eugenics Committee of Norway, 3. Hypopituitarism and Mongolian Idiocy, 64.
Eugenics Congress, Second International,
28, 36, 65. Ichthyosis, Heredity in, 22.
Eugenics Congress, Second International, Idiocy, Amaurotic National, 39.
Interim Committee, 65. Idiocy, Mongolian, and Hypopituitarism, 64.
Eugenics) Education Society, 13. Idiot, Learning from the, 59.
Eugenics in Brazil, 18. Immigration, American, 58.
Eugenics in North Carolina, 31. Immigration, Australian, 67.
Eugenics in Sweden, 13. Immigration, Flow of, 3.
Eugenics, Future Research in, 49. Immigrants. Race Differences ol, 15.
Eugenics Research Association, 38, 49, 56, Immunity, Tubercular, 23.
60. Income. The Relation of, to Quality and
Exhibit of Second International Congress Fecundity, 51.
ol Eugenics, 66.
Index of Build, 13.
Eugenique, 14. Indiana, Sterilization in, 48.
Excitability in Delinquent Boys, 21.
Infant Mortality, Post-War, 14.
Exostoses, 30. Information Service, 6.
Institution Inmates, Nativity of, 54.
Family Endowment, 15.
Insanity, 64.
Fecundity, Relative, 10.
Intelligence and Social Reactions, 26.
Fecundity and Quality, The Relation of,
Interim Committee, 65.
to Income. International Eugenics Congress, Second,
Field and Clinical Studies of 1921 Train-
28, 36, 65.
ing Class, 1.
Iowa, Marriage Hygiene in, 31.
Field Work, 22. Ishmael, The Tribe of, 50.
Field Work at the Connecticut State Hos-
pital. 20.
Field Workers, Training Class for, 61. Juvenile Promise of John Burroughs, 9.
Florida Laws, 48. Juvenile Research, California Bureau of, 3,
Folklore, Nordic, 7. 71.
Foreign Language Churches, 16.
Language Churches, Foreign, 10.
Gastric Juices, Heredity in Secretion of, Laws. Florida, 48.
24. Legislation, Proposed
Germs, Bad Children and Bad. 3.!. Oregon, 18.
Goiter and Water. 23. South Dakota, 19.
Goiter, Distribution of, 48. Legislation, E'ugenics, 34.
Guesstimates, 5, 29.
Male Infants under Different Environ-
Haemophilia in Women, 5. mental Influences, The Selective Elimina-
Hay Fever, 6. tion of. 51
Height, Weight and Race, 7. Marriage Hygiene. 40.
Heredity in Marriage Hygiene in :

Ainhum, 30. Iowa, 31.

Angioneurotic Edema, 24. Michigan, 31.
Asthma, 11. Minnesota, 31.
Bronchial Asthma, 30. Oregon, 31.
Congenital Dislocation of Hip, 24. Members, Association, 4, 12, 20, 28, 44,
Exostoses, 30. 60. 70.
Hay Fever, 6. Mental Hygiene in South Africa. 40.
Ichthyosis, 24. Michigan, Marriage Hygiene in. 31.
Insanity, 64. Migraine, 7. 21.
Migraine, 7, 21. Minnesota, Marriage Hygiene in, 31.
Polydactylism, 5. Mongolian Idiocy and Hypopituitarism, 64.
Secretions of Gastric Juices, 24. Morality, Breeding for, 15.
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Mortality, Post-War Infant, 14. Sex Factor in Disease, 69.

Musical Capacity, Inheritance of, 54. Sex, Population of the U. S. by, 58.
Sex Ratio, U. S: by Race, 68.
National Amaurotic Idiocy, 39. Sex Ratio and Alcohol, 68.
National Decline and Disease, 26. Sex Ratio and War, 21.
National Tuberculosis Association, 40. Sexes, Balance of the, 68.
Nativity of Institution Inmates, 54. Shippen Family, 6.
Nature and Nurture, 14. Situs Inversus, Heredity in, 23.
Nordic Folklore, 7. Skin Defects, Heredity in, 6.
North Carolina. Eugenics in, 31. Social Agencies, Serials of, 26.
Norway, Eugenics Committee of, 3. Social Reactions and Intelligence, 26.
Nurture and Nature, 14. Social Workers, Registering, 63.
South Africa, Mental Hygiene in, 40.
Oregon, Marriage Hygiene in, 31. South Carolina Defectives, 27.
Oregon, Proposed Eugenics Legislation in, South Dakota, Proposed Eugenic Legisla-
18. tion in, 19.
Oregon, Sterilization in, 30. Spastic Paralysis, Heredity in, 35.
State Examinations, 12.
Personality, Analysis of, 59. Statistics, Birth, 1918, 21.
Physical Standards, 48. Statistics, U. S. Birth, 1919, 39.
Physicians, A Family of, 6. Stature, Cyclical Changes in, 35.
Polydactylism, Heredity in, 5. Sterilization, 4.
Population, Our Foreign-Born, 45. Sterilization in :

Population of the U. S. by Sex, 58. Indiana, 48.

Porteun Scale, The. 11. Oregon. 30.
Post-War Infant Mortality, 14. Studies, Clinical and Field, of Training
Psychological Tests, 73. Class, 61.
Psychopathic Hospital for Toronto, A, 43. Suicidal Attempts, 10.
Puericulture, 19. Suicide and Homicide by Race, 64.
Sunlight, Racial Reaction to, 23.
Quality and Fecundity, The Relation of, to Sweden, Eugenics in, 13.
Income
Tongue-Tie, Heredity in. 48.
Race and Body Size, 15. Toronto, A Psychopathic Hospital for, 43.
Race Differences of Immigrants, 15. Training Class of Eugenics Record Office,
Race, Height and Weight, 7. 1921, 70;
Race, Suicide and Homicide by, 64. Training Class for Field Workers, 61.
Racial and Hereditary "Factors in the Dis- Tribe of Ishmael, 50.
tribution of Hair, Some, 51. Tubercular Diathesis, The, 3.
Racial Reactions to Sunlight, 23. Tubercular immunity, 23.
Research Assoc, Eugenics, 38, 49, 56, 60. Tuberculosis Association, National, 40.
Research, California Bureau of Juvenile, 3.
Research in Eugenics, Future, 409. United States Birth Statistics, 1919, 39.
Review. The Eugenics (British), 67. Utah Welfare Work, 43.
Revued'Eugenique, 43.
Runaways, A Study of Adolescent, 52. Vital Statistics, Post-War, 32.
Russell Sage Foundation, 26.
War and Sex Ratio, 21.
Science and Sentiment. 30. Water and Goiter, 23.
Selective Elimination of Male Infants undpr Weight, Height and Race, 7.
Differential Environmental Influences. 51. Welfare Work, Utah, 43.
Sentiment and Science, 30. Whittier School, 70, 71.
Service, Information, 6. Women, Haemophilia in, 5.
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