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000.00 in 1916, as there were at that time 2,000 members of that socially- 

 unworthy clan. We have no idea what the cost may have risen to now and 

 there are many such clans in our civilized society. 



It should be kept in mind on the other hand that there are those who 

 believe that our population has already attained a greater number than is 

 necessary for efficient functioning of the race as a whole. Certainly our 

 present picture of millions of unemployed would point to the belief that this 

 suggestion is a reasonable one. It would undoubtedly be found, if such a 

 research was possible, that a major portion of this vast army of unemployed 

 are social inadequates, and in many cases mental defectives, who might 

 have been spared the misery they are now facing if they had never been 

 born. It would certainly be understandable how many of them would 

 prefer not to have been born, if they could have known what was in store 

 for them on this earth where the struggle for existence and the urge toward 

 the survival of the fittest makes it necessary for all those who would survive 

 to possess a native endowment of at least average intelligence. 



Could there be any more fitting words, through which to visualize our goal 

 in race culture, than those of President Hoover, who stated when he wrote 

 "A Child's Bill of Rights:" "There should be no child in America that has 

 not the complete birthright of a sound mind in a sound body, and that has 

 not been born under proper conditions." 



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