SOCIAL ERRORS MUST BE EXPOSED 105 



shoe^ of one of the Italian shoe artists now- 

 located on Fifth Avenne, who transfers, 

 by his skill, a flat, wide, flabby foot of a 

 young inis& into an apparently shapely, 

 high-bred, high-arched aristocratic thing 

 of beauty. These slippers and shoes in 

 public Mary has to wear until Pa's mil- 

 lions so daze her suitors that they do not 

 see her feet. Is all this fair to Mary? Is 

 all this just to the unborn, to be allowed 

 to come into the world, unfit to take their 

 positions either in the working classes, to 

 which one parent was bred and born, or a 

 position in the social world, to which the 

 other parent was bred and born ? The pro- 

 duction of such offspring is certainly a dis- 

 grace to the state ; and do you not think it 

 would be better if they never were born? 



Should an observer go West today, he 

 will find a lively interest in eugenics. He 

 will be convinced that wisdom no longer 

 comes from Boston, where we used to get 

 the best and latest brand of knowledge, but 

 from such Western cities as Seattle, Los 

 Angeles, or Salt Lake City, which know 

 the difference between brains and boodle. 



