EUGENICAL NEWS. Published monthly by THE EUGENICS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, 41 North Queen St., Lancaster, Pa. and Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY. Subscription one dollar per year, postage fr e in the United States and island possessions; also in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Canal Zone. In all other countries add ten cents for postage. Entered as second-class matter May 10, 1916, at the Post Office at Lancaster, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. April 1922. ACCESSIONS TO ARCHIVES OF THE BIOGRAPHIES, 7. COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHIES, 4. GENEALOGIES, 4. TOWN HISTORY, 1. RECORD OF FAMILY TRAITS, 4. INDIVIDUAL ANALYSIS CARDS, 11. Adele McKinnie, '11, is Assistant Director of the Americanization Study of the Carnegie Corporation, 522 Fifth Avenue, New York. Ethel Thayer Sweetser, '13, is the mother of daughter, Elizabeth Thayer Sweetser, born August 19, 1921, at Brockton, Mass. Dr. George P. Frets, of the Asylum "Maasoord" at Portugaal, near Rotterdam, has been appointed a member of the Commission of heredity of "Het Nederlandische Volk." Helen T. Reeves, '10, is at present an investigator for the Department of Charities and Corrections of the State of Kentucky. Her address is Box 403, Frankfort, Kentucky. Dr. S. D. Porteus, who has been for three years Director of Psychological Research at The Training School at Vineland, N. J., has taken Miss Earle: Description, 136; charts, the chair of Psychology at the University of Hawaii. 31. Dr. Muncey: charts, 8. Description, 349; Dr. Harry W. Crane, '15, is now connected with the State Board of Char Whittier School: Description, 312; ities and Public Welfare of North charts, 9. NOTES AND NEWS. Isabelle Kendig Gill, '12, has a third son, Roger Lawrence Gill, born February 21, 1921. Anna Wendt Finlayson, '12, has a second son, Alan Neil Finlayson, born March 3, 1921. Dr. George Stevenson, of Ward's Island, has been appointed Psychiatrist at the Research Laboratory at Vineland. Rev. Mabel Irwin, '19, is a lecturer of eugenics and social hygiene for the Boards of Health and Education of New York City. Ruth Stocking Lynch, '12, is research assistant in the Department of Zoology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Carolina at Raleigh, to which he gives approximately two-thirds of his time in practical work with mental cases. The remaining one-third is devoted to the Department of Psychology of the State University at Chapel Hill. Dr. Crane's address is Box 632, Chapel Hill, N. C. CALIFORNIA BUREAU all entrants of institutions, with ex perimental supplementary tests at frequent intervals. 4. Social case work. Includes de 5. Maintaining, for special observation, a group of boys selected from the OF JUVENILE RESEARCH. The California Bureau of Juvenile Research is a department of Whittier State School, of which Mr. Fred. C. tailed case studies, following the EuNelles is superintendent. Recent leg-genics Record Office method, of as islation extends the functions of the many cases as possible. Bureau to other institutions, and permits affiliations with universities and other organizations. The functions of the Bureau are wide, but its essential purpose is "to carry on research into the causes and consequences of juvenile delinquency, mental deficiency, and related problems." To do this, authorization is given for the carrying on of any type of investigation that may be advantageous. The present staff consists of a director, two psychological examiners, a sociologist, four field-workers, a research clerk, and three stenographers. The work is carried on in the following institutions: Whittier State School, at Whittier; Preston School of Industry, at Ione; California School for Girls, at Ventura; Sonoma State Home, at Eldridge; and Pacific Colony, at Spadra. The main lines of activity of the Bureau are as follows: commitments to Whittier State School. Includes the operation of an experimental ungraded room. 6. Practice training courses. These are divided into two major courses of twelve weeks each, one for psychological work and one for social case work. Open to recommended university and college graduates. 7. Publications. The Bureau publishes the Journal of Delinquency, a bimonthly periodical "devoted to the scientific study of problems related to social conduct; " a series of bulletins ; and a monograph series. The Bureau owes much of its success to the coöperation of the Eugenics Record Office, whose methods have been followed and adapted to the needs of this laboratory. Two of our field-workers have been trained at Cold Spring Harbor. Copies of all social case histories are submitted to the Eugenics Record Office. J. HAROLD WILLIAMS, Director. 1. Original investigations, by staff members, of the related factors of delinquency and mental development. Studies already undertaken include intelligence, home conditions, conduct, after-success, excitability, will-temperament, delinquency and density of the population of the United States population. 2. Surveys schools. of institutions and Whittier State School, orphanages, Mental 3. Psychological testing. Applies to AGE DISTRIBUTION. According to the Census of 1920, the age distribution by per cent. of EUGENICS IN NEW ZEALAND. Miss L. Macgeorge, Hastings, New Zealand, Founder and Hon. Organizer of the Cause for Promoting Eugenics in New Zealand, states the following particular objects of the organization: was A great deal of work (other than research) done, which, because we, at that time, had not grasped the fundamentals of the science of eugenics, bore little fruit. Yet, in regard of such representation as we were able to make, practically 1. (a) To promote research work every scientist, medical man, educain Heredity and Eugenics. 5. To further eugenic teaching at home, in schools, and elsewhere. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND, BY L. MACGEORGE, FOUNDER AND HON. ORGANIZER. After many years spent (by the Founder) in work for the moral and other betterment of humanity and of youth specially up to 1908, and after much correspondence with the Hon. Sec. of the Eugenics Education Society, London, and after interviewing a very large number of leading citizens (Dunedin), and securing the coöperation of a chosen few, the N. 7. Branch of the London Society was formed, in Dunedin, in June, 1910. During the following year a small society was formed independently in Wellington. tionist, clergyman, legislator, civilian, interviewed in the towns in which the work of the organizer lay, expressed his sympathy, Also on every occasion on which measures of eugenic bearing were laid before the N. Z. Government, we found its ministers willing, and more than willing to respond to them. Abundant evidence of the country's “ripeness" for the promotion of eugenics; was afforded. In June, 1912, I commenced extension and organization of the movement throughout N. Z., taking, at the same time, every opportunity for visiting government and other institutions for defectives and delinquents, in order to become further acquainted with the condition of human affairs in its relation to eugenics. By the end of that year it had become fully evident to me that we could make no solid or systematic progress in that subject until we had a N. Z. laboratory for national eugenics-governmental and attached to university. The founding of that laboratory— together with preparation of “Eugenic Lectures for Youth "-has ever since been the one object of my endeavor; its chief handicap being, as always, the necessity for stealing from the forces needed for that endeavor the time for the collecting of the funds for maintaining the whole movement (a trained eugenist, willing to act as honorary finance agent, not having been found). 1913-1920 I was a period of severe nervous break down for the organizer, when no As to eugenic education of the amount of desire could equip her public-each editor of daily newspaper physically for the work, though sev- interviewed has expressed his readiéral efforts, less br more successful, ness to reserve a column for eugenic were made. All other eugenic activi- matter as supplied by the Society, ties in N. Z. ceased during that period. monthly, and probably weekly. To the extent that health would allow, much of 1921 has been spent in devising and organizing an entirely new movement-a single N. Z. "Society for promoting eugenics," engaging the services of (a) Our leading biologists, psychologists, ethnologists, doctors, breeders, judges, clergy, philanthropists, educationists, supervisors of defectives and of delinquents, legislators each of whom agrees (1) to study, each year, a given number of the publications of eugenics laboratories, (2) to specialize in some branch of eugenic research, (3) and (or) to collect or donate annually certain funds for the furtherance of the movement and for the founding of the laboratory; (b) engaging also, as a Board of Advisers, as many "specialists of other countries as are willing to guide and to aid us; (c) and also our "specialist" from abroad to act as (salaried) supervisor of the (prospectivė) laboratory this for a period of one year or more according to arrangement. In regard of eugenic education of youth, the importance of which, and the right ministration of which cannot be overestimated-the organizer has specialized in methods of presentation of eugenics during twelve years. She hopes, so soon as the laboratory is founded, to devote her time largely to this phase of the work. es The readiness with which practically every intelligent citizen, among those being interviewed daily, pouses the claims and objects of the Society, affords abundant evidence of the ripeness of the country for those objects. The prospects of the whole movement are most hopeful, though still somewhat handicapped by the tedious nature of the recovery of the organizer's health. Since the objects of the Society aim at not only the betterment of the race, but benefit to every citizen of the country, and since scientists and others are, entirely without reward, giving of their best to promote those objects, it well behooves every citizen to discharge to its utmost his share in making those objects financially possible. Address of Hon. Organizer Miss L. Macgeorge, Hastings, N. Z. Address of Hon. Treasurer E. H. Williams, Esq. (Messrs. Logan, Williams, White. Sols.), Box 4. Hastings. BLOND ESKIMOS. blond Stefansson's discovery of Eskimos is challenged by Diamond Jenness (in Amer. Anthropologist, July, 1921), who had lived among them for two years, as ethnologist of the Canadian Arctic Expedition. "Neither the color of the eyes, nor the color and shape of the hair, nor again the complexion of the Copper Eskimos, differentiated them in any way from the other branches of the race, or lends any support to the theory of... European admixture.” The cephalic index tends to show that the race is pure Eskimo. 56 WAR AND THE CIVILIAN BIRTH 66 DEATH RATES IN EUROPE. During the war there was a rapid decrease in births, which reached its climax in most cities in 1918. At the same time there was an increase in the number of deaths, even when the military deaths were excluded from the calculations. This increase of As a deaths over births resulted in a steady decrease in population during the war period in virtually every city for which statistics are available. rule, this decrease was more marked in large cities than in small, and greater in small cities than in the rural districts. In 1919 and 1920 there was a general rapid decrease in the death rate, and at the same time a remarkable increase in births. In the country districts and smaller cities the annual decrease of population gave place to a natural increase, which approached the normal as early as 1919; but in the large cities the decrease still persisted, according to the latest figures available, those from "It is to be expected that in 1921 the birth rate in Vienna, for the first time in seven years, will again show the so-called natural excess, just as occurred during 1920 in the smaller cities in the same territory. The increase of births is not limited to central Europe, but is seen in western Europe as well. Thus, France since the armistice has shown a most remarkable increase in births, so that for the first time in many years there has been an appreciable annual increase of from 4 to 8 per thousand inhabitants in the French population, compared with a prewar increase of less than one." A. C. Burnham, M.D., in Jour. of the Amer. Med. Assn., February 11, 1922, 66 new which the THE NEW INDIAN POLICY. The Fifty-second Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners dated September 1, 1921, states that it is supporting the so-called declaration of policy" Government began on April 17, 1917. The central idea of this pronouncement, which also was in the nature of a bureau order, was found in its first rule which directed that to all able-bodied, adult Indians of less than one-half Indian blood, there should be given, as far as might be under the law, full and complete control of their property. ... "The result of the new policy and its subsequent order was that since 1917 nearly 20,000 fee patents have been issued, and that same number of Indians, who had been Government wards, became full citizens of the United States and the unrestricted owners of their property." to The general policy of the nation appears to be to attempt to educate, the Indians to the point of competency so far as management of their property is concerned, then to allot their property, to grant citizenship, and individual throw the Indians 024 their own resources like all other citizens. After this is done and the alloted property finds its level, by being lost by the spendthrift individuals and secured by the thrifty ones, the Indians will have to shift for themselves according to their several individual hereditary endowments. HEREDITARY THYROID DISORDER A father at 40 years is very nervous, pulse 108, apparently suffering from thyroid disorder. Of his four sors three have marked myxedema (due to thyroid disorder). Vallery-Radot in citing this case of his concludes that heredity is one of the principal causes of thyroid affections. (Lancet, 1922, pp. 24-6.) |