uency and bad breeding. It is in the hope that
others too may glimpse my vision of a world regenerated that I submit
the following suggestions. They are based on the belief that we must
seek individual and racial health not by great political or social
reconstruction, but, turning to a recognition of our own inherent powers
and development, by the release of our inner energies. It is thus that
all of us can best aid in making of this world, instead of a vale of
tears, a garden.

Let us first of all consider merely from the viewpoint of business and
"efficiency" the biological or racial problems which confront us.
As Americans, we have of late made much of "efficiency" and business
organization. Yet would any corporation for one moment conduct its
affairs as we conduct the infinitely more important affairs of our
civilization? Would any modern stockbreeder permit the deterioration
of his livestock as we not only permit but positively encourage the
destruction and deterioration of the most precious, the most essential
elements in our world community--the mothers and children. With the
mothers and children thus cheapened, the next generation of men and
women is inevitably below par. The tendency of the human elements, under
present conditions, is constantly downward.

Turn to Robert M. Yerkes's "Psychological Examining in the United States
Army"(1) in which we are informed that the psychological examination
of the drafted men indicated that nearly half--47.3 per cent.--of the
population had the mentality of twelve-year-old children or less--in
other words that they are morons. Professor Conklin, in his recently
published volume "The Direction of Human Evolution"(2) is led, on the
findings of Mr. Yerkes's report, to assert: "Assuming that these
drafted men are a fair sample of the entire population of approximately
100,000,000, this means that 45,000,000 or nearly one-half the entire
population, will never develop mental capacity beyond the stage
represented by a normal twelve-year-old child, and that only 13,500,000
will ever show superior intelligence."

Making all due allowances for the errors and discrepancies of the
psychological examination, we are nevertheless face to face with a
serious and destructive practice. Our "overhead" expense in segregating
the delinquent, the defective and the dependent, in prisons, asylums and
permanent homes, our failure to segregate morons who are increasing
and multiplying--I have s