CUPID DETHRONED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 13

CUPID DETHRONED.

SCIENCE THE GOD OP 'WEDLOCK. . At tho annual mooting of tho American Breeders' Association 'a resolution was adopted. throwing Cupid: into tho background,in love and.marriage affairs. .■■ ,Tha committee reporting ,tho resolution is headed by David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford University, and is composed of college professors;. and scientists.' . - , Tbecommitteo report and the resolution rocommeml marriage along lines of scientific principles only, the'education of the public .first and then legislation. The • report .states that if a man or woman wishes to marry, they,should submit to a physical, mental, and moral examination, producing their family records as far back as the fourth: generation. "If these records are clean," says the "they' may marry; if. not, they' will mate- only under penalty, and tho preacher or judge who marries them will be punished. • Olio ultimate aim is to bring about, bettor mating, eo . that ; the best characteristics of the nation may become widely disseminated and its unfit

traits -weeded out : Thus we will eliminate hospitals, -insane asylums, and homes for the blind; eliminate poor farms and bread lines by breeding a pure race. Lot us take the 6teps that scientifLo duty dictate as, nedessary and. dry" up'the springs that feed the torrent of defective degenerates."

Tho committee suggests that 6ome wealthy man, instead of giving 10,000,000 dollars to hospitals and schools, could do tho world ana the human raoe more good by using the money to start : an educational campaign to bring about the conditions, sought. The .report states that educated men ,will pay fortunes for nnimfllfl necessary to breed high standards of cattle and horses, but permit their sons and daughters to marry the first person of the opposite sex they happen to meet. This lax method of mating, the committee, holds, irresponsible-for a large amount of the crime and; most of tho pauperism and suffering.