200 LENA K. SADLER 



The call now to the citizenship of our country is for the reading, thinking 

 half to become students of the great problems of race betterment; to form- 

 ulate their ideas, revise their opinions, reach sound conclusions, and then, 

 in turn, to become teachers of the other, the unthinking and the careless 

 half which are driving on heedlessly toward racial decadence and national 

 ruin. 



The hour has come to sound the rallying cry for that part of our citizen- 

 ship which is willing to look the facts in the face and then with intelligence 

 and determination to lay the axe of prevention to the root of the tree of 

 tainted heredity, which is responsible for this increasing harvest of human 

 unfitness, defectiveness, and degeneracy. 



