RACE BETTERMENT.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1954, 10 January 1914, Page 5

RACE BETTERMENT.

; SOME IDEAS FROM AMERICA:. By Tclenraph-Pross Afisociatisn-Capyrieht (Ree. January 10,- 1.20 a.m.) New York, January d. Dr. Richard Smith, in addressing the National Conforoneo at Battle Creek. Michigan, on race betterment, said the imperfect type of woman was fully represented by tho slight, thinchested, nervous women at present so favoured b.v fashion, H.'e thought that there had been no real dcgeneracy in women, as tho same physical defects were present among women in all ages, and modern methods of living had not proved more disastrous to women than to men.

Dr. Laugblin urged sterilization in order to prevent the propagation of bad types. Society bv tlio salo of tobacco and liquors liiul encouraged tb« mental defection which resulted in crhna. ■

Dr. Stcphon Smith, president of th<v conference, who {is aged ninety-two, urged that a man's normal life" limit should be a hundred years.

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