184 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



with simply a handful of thinking people 

 and, today, we number tens of thousands, 

 and the good work is spreading. 



The other matter, which to me is impera- 

 tive, is a "Bureau of Records and Infor- 

 mation," a place that can give the specific 

 ancestral information needed by young 

 men and young women to enable them to 

 properly marry. After a campaign of edu- 

 cation has taught them to see the need of 

 selection, it is necessary that there be an 

 Institute of Eecords to give specific in- 

 formation as to the pedigreer of every 

 family and its past history, as to the 

 cause of death and disease in each family, 

 and some trusty expert scientist to exam- 

 ine the pedigrees and to tell them how to 

 ehminate this and that defect or to 

 strengthen this or that good tendency by 

 proper selection. I am glad that such an 

 institution has been founded. Some ten 

 years ago I looked in on its beginning, and 

 found the records collected stood in a three 

 by four foot safe. The safe immediately 

 gave way to a concrete fireproof vault. So 

 rapidly has the material grown that a. 



