Leading Articles in the Reviews. 



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DON'T PENALISE PARENTAGE! 



Ei'GENic Plea for Endowed Motherhood. 

 If Eugenics remain unknown, it will not be for want 

 of vigorous dissemination in the magazines. In the 

 London Magazine for July Mr. H. J. Forman puts the 

 question. " Race-Culture or Race-Suicide ? " and gives 

 facts and suggestions as derived from Professor Karl 

 Pearson at the Eugenics Laboratory. He says that 

 as the Factory and Education Acts limited the labour 

 of children the population began to decline. The 

 purport of the data adduced is this : " The child had 

 ceased to be an economic asset under the age of twelve, 

 and prior to si.\tecn became of very limited produc- 

 tivitv. Children had ceased to pay." Children, 

 therefore, ceased to appear as numerously as formerlv. 

 Parenthood was placed at a vast disadvantage. Tlie 

 trouble of it is that the first and second children born 

 from any marriage are generally the most likelv to 

 be abnormal. So '' the great fall in the birthrate 

 limiting the families has automatically increased the 

 weakness of those allowed to be born." Celibacy in 

 those of tainted stock should be commended, and 

 social condemnation should follow marriage into such 

 stock. Public opinion should also condemn the selfish 



LUXURIOUS CONDITIONS. 



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celibacy of the fit which flows from the desire for the 

 increased powers of enjoyment resulting when no 

 hostages have been given to fortune. Professor Karl 

 Pearson is quoted as demandinp; : — 



(1) The economic value of the child shall be restore^i, and 

 parentage he no longer penalised ; 



(2) The iiandicap of the fit parent as against the unfit 

 be removed ; that is, that the State should hold dearer the 

 heahhy child of good stock than the defective child of poor 

 slock, which, thanks to liberal unsystematised provisions, is in a 

 fair nay to taint the entire nation ; 



(3) Multiplication of the unfit should be in every possible 

 way discourageil, and, on the other hand, the multiplication of 

 the soimd and healthy encouraged ; 



(4) The study of Eugenics l)e made an important part of 

 scientific and academic research, with a definite role in educa- 

 tion ; and 



(5) The eugenic ideal be widely preached and promulgated. 



In the cellar : A six-child flat with one room. 

 ONE PHASE O.- THE EUGENIC PROBLEM. 



AIR SEWACiE AND OZONE. 



■' Increasing Human Efficiency by Ozone " is the 

 title of a paper by Mr. \V. H. Radclilfe in Cassier's 

 for June. The writer refers to the foul indoor air laden 

 with decaying organic matter which comes from the 

 continual decomposition going -on on the surface of 

 our bodies, as well as in our noses, mouths and throats, 

 which form what he calls air sewage. To dispel this 

 an open window is not sufficient. The ozone machine 

 meets the need. He explains that ozone is a concen- 

 trated form of o.xygen. ■with three atoms of oxygen to 

 a molecule as against the usual two atoms. The third 

 atom is eager to cut loose and seek union elsewhere. 

 It at once attacks the carbon found in decaying* 

 organic matter, and oxygenises it. Diluted to the exter.t 

 of one part ozone to a million parts of air. the odour 

 of ozone is not too strong. It resembles that of freshly- 

 bleached linen. 



THE OZOMSER. 



The machine for generating ozone is simple and 

 small, and can be worked by switching on the 

 ordinary current used for electric I'ght. The electric 

 ( urrent is discharged into the atmosphere and breaks 

 up every three ox\gen molecules of two atoms each 

 intcj two ozone molecules of three atoms each : — 



One type of machine delivers 10,000 cubic feet of ozonised 

 air per hour at a cost of less than half a cent, or one farthing, 

 mil there are larger ui.achines that generate and discharge up to 

 jo,ooo cubic feel of ozonised air per hour, which, in turn, 

 mildly ozonises several times this volume of additional air. 



Claims have I een made that ozonisol air promotes deep 

 iirealhing, and thereby strengthens the lungs and increases the 

 weight. I'or t)ie purpose of letting the truth of these claims, 

 ilie Kirst National Bank of Chicago ni.ade an interesting experi- 

 ment a short tin\e ago on six employes who were working in 

 one of the rooms of the auditor's department. Their individual 

 weights and chest measurements were taken when an ozoniser 

 was installed in the room, and again at the end of two mon hs 

 ulieii it was found that eveiy one of the men had gained in 

 weight as well .as in chest measurement. 



In I.omlnn, the unilerground railways arc soon to be frcet.1 of 

 all diikagrceable inlours by forcing ozonised air through thcin at 

 the rate of 900 cubic feel per passenger i>cr hour. Throughout 

 Kuropc, theatre*, banks, restaurants and homes arc supplied with 

 ozonised air. 



