Life — February 26, 1914 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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Are We Lost? EFORE sitting down and arguing things out with a eugenist these days, you should ask, Do you marry from strength or weakness? In other words, the cugenists have fallen out, and when eugenists fall out, will the human race re- ceive its due? The whole trouble turns on whether we (meaning any of us who happen to be in author- ity) should allow the weak to marry the strong or whether only the strong should marry the strong, consigning the weak (about ninety-nine and forty-four one-hundredths per cent. of the whole) to eternal single bless- edness, This is not the place to exposit the point exhaustively. We have space only for the briefest, but none the less sincere, regret that this schism should arise, entailing, no doubt, incalculable additional convolutions to biological evolution. It is a pity. We have seemed to notice of late a bright look of hope whenever the word eugenics was mentioned in the presence of rep- resentative humans. Whether these same typical anthropological specimens will now decide their hope to be for- lorn and plunge headlong into despair at its deepest point remains to be seen. Nor do we know what to suggest, but surely the race cannot avoid taking the matter under advisement; and it might be the part of wisdom to do nothing whatever—to mark time, if this is pos- sible in a biological sense—until these internal scientific dissensions are TO QUESTION ON PRECEDING PAGE (F THE AGENT WHO SOLD YOU THAT MINING STOCK TOLD THE TRUTH patched up. Little is to be lost usually by preserving the status quo. But even if it should prove that the human race is absolutely lost as a re- sult of this unfortunate development. we can be consoled by the thought that it isn’t the first time. If we could survive the Garden of Eden fiasco, the Deluge, Sodom and Gomorrah and the Fall of Rome, it is not impossible for us to hang on now until the tide turns. E.0.J. Hon. A. Belmont in Boston YY should our fellow-citizen, the Hon. Alva Belmont, care to vote? Has she not already arrived in pub- lic life? She has! Read these lines from the news column of a Springfield paper: Mrs. Belmont is to preside over the big public precting to be held under ti ausploes of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association in Tre- mont Temple Saturday night. It will be the first public appearance of the mother of the Duchess of Marl- borough in Boston. Mrs. Belmont's great work for the suffrage cause has, bowever, endeared her to Massa- chusetts suflragists and they plan to make her visit one long to be re- membered. Delegations of women from all over the state and from the various walks of will be pre- sented to Mrs, Belmont soon after her arrival at the Copley-Plaza Saturday afternoon. They will escort her to Tremont Temple, where she will speak in the evening. “First public appearance of the mother of the Duchess of Marlborough in Boston.” We demur to that. In politics every tub should stand on its own bottom, and not borrow height from a firkin. But let it go! The antis ought to pay the Hon. Alva’s @xpentes, Ste works for them. comicbooks.com