Harvard and Yale Birth Rates 
During the same period the total births 
in families having foreign-born parents 
exceeded the total deaths by nearly 
527,000. Comment is unnecessary. 
TABLE III.—Children of American-born Women 
of 45 Years or under, Married Ten to Nineteen 
Years. (Second Decade of Married Life.) 
City of 
Cleveland 
Rural 
Minnesota 
City of — 
Minneapolis 
Number of 
children! 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.4 
“The birth rate of college women is 
quite the most pathetic spectacle of 
all. Johnson and Stutzmann showed?! 
569 
that for Wellesley College, period 1879- 
88, only about half the graduates 
married and that the mothers had only 
1.56 children each. Per graduate there 
was but .86 of a child each. Among the 
honor girls (Durant and Wellesley 
scholarships) those that married had 
about half this number of children, or 
just about half a child each! 
“Tt is the writer’s hope that these 
pages may fall among some readers 
who will take serious thought of the 
lesson they teach. Each generation 
has new duties and new distractions, 
but amidst the whirl of modernism let 
us not forget the oldest duty of all, 
that of the fathers and mothers of 
America in their care for the future of 
their country and the ideals of their 
face: 
Prosperity and Eugenics 
As people become more prosperous, 
there is a general tendency for their 
birth-rate to decrease. Now it is well 
for a nation that its people should have a 
reasonable amount of material comfort; 
but it is ill for a nation if their material 
success, which in itself is usually an 
evidence of some ability, leads to race 
suicide. The balance of these factors, 
therefore, gives justification to a ques- 
tion that at first sight seems paradoxical: 
“From the standpoint of eugenics, is it 
dangerous for the nation that its citizens 
should be morally and socially uplifted?” 
The Berlin Race Hygiene Society 
has been asking this question for some 
time, but without getting an answer that 
balanced the advantages and disadvan- 
tages in a satisfactory way. Five years 
ago it offered a prize for the best essay 
on the subject, and a number of papers 
were sent in, but none was considered 
of any merit, save one on ‘the Jews by 
Dr. Felix A. Theilhaber; and as the 
author later withdrew this paper, the 
prize was never awarded. Dr. Theil- 
haber reworked his contribution into 
two books: ‘‘Das sterile Berlin’’ (Berlin, 
1913, Marquard), and ‘“‘Der Untergang 
der deutschen Juden” (Mitinchen, 1911, 
Reinhardt). The Berlin society has 
now renewed its prize offer and has 
received a dozen or more papers; a 
member of the American Genetic Asso- 
ciation, who has examined these papers, 
observes that none of them appears 
noteworthy. The contest has not yet 
been closed. 
Plan to Propagate Wild Game 
A group of Chicago men is buying 
10,880 acres of land in Wisconsin for a 
game farm, according to a letter from 
A. B. Hulit, secretary of the American 
Wild-Life Association, 175 Jackson 
Blvd., Chicago. The plan is to propa- 
gate all sorts of animals suited to that 
climate, such as elk, deer, moose, cari- 
bou, bison, and smaller fur-bearing 
animals, as well as some birds. The 
work of the American Wild-Life Associa- 
4 JOURNAL OF HeEreEpitTy, Vol. vi (1915), pp. 
tion is described as (1) arousing public 
sentiment for the better protection of 
wild life; (2) cultivating among school 
children and others a better knowledge 
of the habits of birds and animals; (3) 
formation of cooperating State and local 
organizations; (4) securing protective 
legislation; (5) maintaining a bureau of 
information. Samuel Evans (of the 
Wallace Evans Game Farm, St. Charles, 
Ill.) is president. 
250-3. 
