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The Journal of Heredity 



family will not be burdened 

 with the hi^'hcst i)ossible rates 

 while other consumers get 

 k)wer ones; and so that these 

 utilities may be managed 

 generally to encourage home 

 building. 



(c) Cajjitalize building ]:)rograms 

 and control types of construc- 

 tion so that good homes are 

 ]jrovided and the indiv'idual 

 may not be comi)elled to 

 settle for life because he needs 

 a good house. 



(d) Plan cities, towns, and coun- 

 try side for the health and 

 haijpiness of the family in the 

 matter of streets, parks, play- 

 grounds, pools, etc. 



ie) Control food distribution 

 where it is necessary, and 

 provide market systems. 



(/) Government (jwnershijj of 

 railroads, which would enable 

 us to have : 



1. Family tickets. 



2. Week-end family excursion 

 rates. 



3. Workmen's trains. 



4. CheaiKT restaurant facili- 

 ties. 



5. Higher age limit for free 

 ])assage (jf children with 

 l)arents. 



(g) Tax reform. 



1. Tax the minimum home at 

 lower rates than other prop- 

 erty. 



2. Reduce income taxes as 

 family increases to normal 

 size. 



-•?. Reduce taxes on occasion 

 of extraordinary necessar>- 

 expenses of children. 



(/i) More free vocational and 

 viseful educational for boys and 

 domestic education for girls, 

 including dressmaking, cook- 

 ing, nursing, child rearing, 

 etc. 



(i) Free medical attendance at 

 child birth and free medical 

 advice by district nurses. 



(/) EncouragtTTient of mothers 

 to teach school. 



(k) Social insurance with its 

 aim to unite and encourage 

 the family rather than the 

 individual. 

 III. Eugenics, negative and construc- 

 tive. 



(a) Birth control to prevent the 

 Ijreponderance of births among 

 the poorer classes and to raise 

 the average quality of human 

 life by projjer ])rotection of 

 the mother and ]3ro])er inter- 

 vals between children. 

 /') The sterilization of some 

 proved degenerates and the 

 segregation of others. 



(c) The teaching of the princi- 

 ples of breeding and eugenics 

 in the higher institutions of 

 learning and the organization 

 of eugenic societies for the 

 study of the subject among the 

 ])eoi)le. 



id) The study of genealogy and 

 knowledge of one's ancestors 

 and family traits. The more 

 the normal man becomes in- 

 terested in his ancestors the 

 more likely he is to want 

 descendants of the right kind. 



ic) Instruction in parenthood, 

 its adjustments, obligations 

 and practical necessities. 



Breeding Rabbits for Fur 



A cross between wild and domesti- 

 cated rabbits, to unite the size of the 

 latter with the gamy flesh and su])erior 

 fur of the fcjnner, is rej^orted by R. 

 Zimmcrmann in the Berlin Veterinary 

 Wcck'ly (Vol. xxxii, ]). 213.) The 



txi)eriment promises to be successful: 

 ])erhaps the most interesting fact is that 

 the timidity of the wild stock is found 

 in the hybrids, a good evidence of the 

 fact that mental traits are inherited 

 just as i)hysical characteristics are. 



