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Race Hygiene in Germany 
The semi-official ‘‘Deutsche Zentralstelle fur Volkswohlfahrt,’’ corresponding 
to the United Charities in America, held a three days’ meeting in the parliament in 
Berlin from October 26 to 28, 1915, with about 1,000 delegates attending. The 
conference was called ‘““Tagung fir die Erhaltung und Mehrung der deutschen 
Volkskraft,’’ with the purpose to find ways and means against the evil consequences 
of war and modern civilization which menace the vitality of the race. The war 
kills the best, the bravest, the healthiest, eradicating once for all the finest strains 
in the race; and city life with all its attendances causes a declining birth rate. 
The discussion was marked by a unanimity seldom seen in such a large audience. 
The dominating undertone was race hygiene. Whereas eugenics in America has 
a restrictive tendency, seeking to check the propagation of the unfit, race hygiene 
in Germany always was a positive conception aiming at the multiplication of the 
fit. Thus the conference laid much stress upon everything which may elevate the 
birth rate of the best in the nation, but thought the introduction of sterilization 
of defectives or of marriage certificates untimely as yet. Simplicity in customs 
and mode of life, a full understanding of individual duty towards society, a high 
valuation of family life, inner colonization (‘‘back to the farm’’ movement), the 
system of one-family houses, garden cities, and chiefly the assistance of large 
healthy families in every way; these were the main remedies proposed, the details 
of which were fully discussed but cannot be enumerated in a short review. A 
standing committee representing all societies concerned is now in formation with 
the view to see the propositions worked out in practice. 
G. von HOFFMANN, Berlin. 
An Important Character in Grains 
Certain varieties of wheats, oats and barleys are characterized by fragile 
articulations, so that the ripe grains easily fall from the head, thus causing a con- 
siderable loss of grain before threshing. In crosses, such a defect not infrequently 
manifests itself, and it would be of great advantage to the breeder to know how to 
avoid it. G. von Ubisch has been investigating this character in barley and states 
his conclusion in the Zeitschrift fir induktive Abstammungs-und Vererbungslehre, 
July, 1915, that it depends on two Mendelian factors, both of which must be present 
to produce this effect. If his conclusions are sustained, they will be of great value 
to breeders of cereals. 
