NORTHERN LIGHT
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EDITORIAL
In the near future men and wo
men and boys and girls will be com
pelled to fight a terrific f ght against
some habit bequethed to them by
their pare:its.
Others upon beds of suffering will
toss and languish and gasp for life’s
breath because of the debauchery
of the parents before them. And we I
are the parents, docs it not behoove
us to live clean square lives?
The following from the Ladie s
Home journal is well worth rep. i..t
ing:— “Some day we are going to
wake up in this country and decicde
that it is worth while to be well-born:
that to live a decent life ourselves
and give a decent he itage to our
children is far mo: e important than
we dream of. Some of us already are
having the fact borne upon us,and we
arc beginning to hear more and mo e
about a science called “eugenics “
What is eugenics? some ask. It is
perhaps best told in the story of one
man:He was born in England in
Queen Elizabeth’s time. He was a
clergyman and he lived an upright
life. So did his wife.
His son came to the United States:
to Hartford, Connecticut, and be
came an honorable merchant.
His son, in turn, also became a
merchant,upright and honored
nis son, again, became a minister
and so honored was he that Harvard
University conferred two degrees on
him on the same day: one in the
morning, one in the afternoon.This
learned nir.11 again had a son,and he
became a minister. Jonathan Edwards
was his name. Now let us see, in 1900,
what o e family,started by a man in
England who lived an upright life and
gave a heritage to his children, pro
duced: 139 j. des cndants of this man
have been traced and ic’c .tified;
295 were college graduates; 13 were
college presidents; 65 were profess
ors; 60 were physicians; 108 we e
clergymen; 101 were lawyers; 30
we e judges; 1 was Vi c-President of
the Unilet States; 75 were Army and
Navy officers; 60 were prominent
authors; 16 were railroad and steam
ship presidents.
And in the entire record not one
has ever been convicted of a crime.
It seems to pay: this living along up
right lines and handing a clean life
down to one's children, doesn’t it ?
And that is why we should more and
more take a keener interest in eugen
i'S.”
A HEARTLESS MONSTER
A corporation repersenting brains
and cash is necessary. But if vt id of
the principal of the Golden Rule it In
comes a heartless monster. Its aim
then being to corral dollars regardless
of the ruin wrought. Hungry child
ren, pinched faced mothers, mill
ground fathers may appeal. There is
no response.The trifle of conscience in
the hearts of the members of such a
combine is salved over with the world
ly lho ight, “This is business. This is
competition. This is the way of the
world.
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