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and methods of schools and collej^'cs. 

 Public opinion must be created by our 

 leaders of literature and thought both 

 without and within the educational 

 institutions, and it is high time that 

 this hne of action is pushed to results, 

 before the best blood of the American 

 people becomes dried out of the race. 



2. More strong men are needed on 

 the staffs of ])ublic schools and women's 

 colleges, and in all of these institutions 

 more married instructors of both sexes 

 are desirable. The catalogue of one 

 of the colleges referred to above shows 

 114 professors and instructors, of whom 

 100 are women, of whom only two ha\'c 

 ever married. Is it to be expected 

 that the curriculum created by such a 

 staff would idealize and pre]3are for 

 the family and home life as the greatest 

 work of the world and the highest goal 

 of woman, and teach race survival as a 

 patriotic duty? Or, would it be ex- 

 ]Dected that these bachelor staffs would 

 glorify the independent vocation and 

 life for women and create employment 

 bureaus to enable their graduates to get 

 into the offices, schools and other 

 lucrative jobs? The latter seems to be 

 what occurs. 



3. Some people are advocating coed- 

 ucation as a solution of these difficulties, 

 but we cannot now make assured state- 

 ments on that matter, because there 

 are not sufficient data available for 

 final conclusions, and time onlv can 



show the effects of the coeducational 

 institutions of the other parts of the 

 country. If by coeducation we merely 

 enable the women to get a man's 

 education and prepare for a man's work, 

 then certainly this is not a full solution, 

 even though the environment of college 

 life would be more normal and lead 

 to some marriages. 



4. Women college graduates are not 

 greatly sought after as mates, to share 

 in the work of getting a living and 

 founding a family, because they are not 

 pre])ared psychologically and technically 

 for the jobs of cooking, sanitation, 

 nursing and child rearing, and are not 

 seeking that mode of life except under 

 specially selected conditions. They 

 have culture and intelligence and de- 

 mand high standards in husbands and 

 homes, but they are not prizes in the 

 matter of efficiency in domestic life. 

 The i^rinciples of supply and demand 

 are effective in this as in other things. 

 If college women could combine their 

 culture with domestic ideals and effi- 

 ciency there would be a higher demand 

 for them as helpmeets and mothers of 

 the new generation. The American 

 people as a whole have idealized 

 individual independence in both men 

 and women, instead of the family 

 which must be the fundamental basis 

 of race .survi\'al, and as long as we 

 maintain that attitude our race suicide 

 statistics will be portentous. 



Lectures in Eugenics 



At the request of the Young Men's Christian Association of Washington, the 

 American Genetic Association arranged a course of ])ublic lectures on eugenics 

 which has been largely attended. The sj^eakers secured were the following: Feb. 

 4, Alexander Graham Bell on Heredity and Marriage; Feb. 11, Paul Poixnioe on 

 the History of the Eugenics Movement; Feb. IS. Dr. L. E. Cofcr, assistant surgeon 

 general, U. S. Public Health Service, on the Relation of Immigration to Eugenics; 

 Feb. 25, G. N. Collins, Bureau of Plant Industry, on How Heredity is Measured; 

 March 4, Roswell H. Johnson, University of Pittsburgh, on the Young Man and 

 Marriage; March 11, Alexander Johnson, the Training School. Vineland. N. J., on 

 Feeblemindedness; March 18. Dr. Elnora Folkmar on Negative Eugenics and 

 Racial Poisons; March 25, Paul Popenoc on Heredity vs. Environment; April 1, 

 Paul Po])enoe on the Birth Rate; April 8, Daniel Folkmar of the Bureau of the 

 Census on the Evolution of Man. 



