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It was therefore with a feeling akin to horror that many- 

 read in the public press in 1915 of the action of Dr. Haiselden 

 of Chicago; who, with the consent of the child's parents, 

 refused to perform an operation which would have saved to 

 a life of suffering, an infant, which by his refusal was allowed 

 to die. This question however is not one of eugenics proper, 

 although closely related thereto. But it is one which the 

 thoughtful student of human life will do well to ponder 

 carefully. 



And yet a final duty of the eugenist is to combat those 

 anti-social measures which put a premium on celibacy, and 

 a discount on parenthood, such as the payment of non-living 

 wages to workmen, the industrialization of women, the 

 penalization of teachers for marriage or motherhood. A for- 

 ward step in the right direction has been the payment by many 

 states of mothers' pensions, while further action should be 

 taken to relieve the mother during the early months of 

 maternity from the necessity of bread winning. 



We have come already a long way in the paths of social 

 righteousness, but the way is never-ending and the forces of 

 selfishness, reaction and ignorance beset us on every hand, 

 so that it behooves us to gird up our loins in order that we, 

 like Paul, may ' ' run with patience the race that is set before 

 us." 



