Proceedings of the first National Conference on Race Betterm
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Proceedings of the first National Conference on Race Betterment
Battle Creek, Michigan
January 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1914
published by the Race Betterment Foundation
edited by the secretary [Miss Emily F. Robbins]
Battle Creek, Mich., Gage Printing Company, ltd., 1914
NOTICE: THIS WORK MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT
Table of Contents: [PDF HERE]
Purpose of the Conference
Officers
Central Committee
A Partial List of Organizations Represented
Local Cooperating- Organizations
Addresses of Welcome—
Dr. J. H. Kellogg
Hon. John W. Bailey
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS The Basic Principles of Race Betterment
President Stephen Smith, M.D.
STATISTICAL STUDIES
The Significance of a Declining Death Rate
Frederick L. Hoffman
The Causes of the Declining Birth Rate
Prof. J. McKeen Cattell
The Need of Thorough Birth Registration for Race Betterment
Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur
Differential Fecundity
Prof. Walter F. Willcox
GENERAL INDIVIDUAL HYGIENE
The Importance of Frequent and Thorough Medical Examinations of the Well
Dr. Victor C. Vaughan
Euthenics and Its Founder
Mrs. Melvil Dewey
The Relation of Physical Education to Race Betterment (Abstract of address)
Dr. D. A. Sargent
Apparent Increase m Degenerative Diseases
Elmer E. Rittenhouse
Discussion
Prof. Maynard M. Metcalf (Race Degeneration)
Some Suggestions for a More Rational Solution of the Tuberculosis Problem in the United States
Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf
Discussion
Prof. Robert James Sprague (Women's Work in the Open Air)
The Prevention of Arteriosclerosis
Dr. Louis Faugeres Bishop
Hookworm Disease
Dr. Lillian South
Disease and Its Prevention
Dr. Guilford H. Sumner
Function of the Dentist in Race Betterment
C. N. Johnson, D.D.S
Unbiological Habits
Dean William W. Hastings
The Increase of Insanity
Dr. James T. Searcy
Discussion
Prof. Walter P. Willcox
Deterioration of The Civilized Woman
Dr. Richard Root Smith
Old Age
President Smith
Service
Acting Chairman Rev. Charles C. Creegan
ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO
The Effect of Alcohol on Longevity
Arthur Hunter
Alcohol— What Shall We Do About It?
Dr. Henry Smith Williams
Discussion
Dr. Amanda D. Holcomb (The Sacrifice of Boys and Girls)
Daniel A. Poling (The Worst Dry Town vs. The Best Wet Town)
Pres. E. G. Lancaster (Proportionate State Consumption of Alcohol)
Edward Bunnell Phelps (Caution in Use of Statistics)
Dr. Charles G. Pease (Expedients in Violation of Principle)
Dr. Henry Smith Williams (The Rising Tide of Alcohol Consumption)
Prof. Robert James Sprague (Licensing Light Drinks)
Mrs. J. L. Higgins (The "Booze Special")
George B. Peak (The Saloon and the Tax-Payer)
Mrs. Maud Glassner (A "High Class" Saloon)
Melvil Dewey (A League of Publishers)
Dr. Edith B. Lowry (Soothing Syrups and Alcohol Craving)
Dr. James T. Searcy (Prohibition and Drug Consumption )
Frederick L. Hoffman (International Committee on Liquor)
Mrs. Charles Kimball and Elizabeth Hewes Tilton (Alcohol Posters)
Tobacco A Race Poison
Dr. Daniel Lichty
Discussion
Miss Lucy Page Gaston (The Cigarette)
Dr. Amanda D. Holcomb (The Cigarette-Smoking Hero of Fiction)
S. S. McClure (Magazine Advertising of Tobacco)
Melvil Dewey (A League of Employers)
Dr. Charles G. Pease (The Non-Smokers' Protective League of America)
CHILD LIFE
The Bad Boy
Hon. Jacob A. Riis
The. Delinquent Child
Judge Ben B. Lindsey
The Dependent Child
Dr. Gertrude E. Hall
Education for Parenthood
Dr. Lydia A . DeVilbiss
Better Babies
Robbins Gilman
Discussion
Edward Bminell Phelps (Baby Saving)
Dr. E. G. Lancaster (Adolescence)
Dr. Miller (The American Institute of Child Life)
SEX QUESTIONS
Public Repression of the Social Evil
Graham Taylor
Discussion
Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf (Scattering Prostitution)
Graham Taylor (Vice and Mental Defect)
Dr. James T. Searcy (Race Degenerates)
Dr. S, Adolphus Knopf ("Waverly House")
Dr. Charles G. Pease (The Florence Crittenton Mission)
Miss Lucy Page Gaston (Prostitution and the Cigarette)
Dr. Luther H. Gulick (The Girl Who Goes Right)
Prof. Samuel Dickie (The Single Standard)
Dr. Amanda D. Holcomb (The Boy's Temptations)
Dr. Luther H. Gulick (Real Meaning of the Double Standard)
Mrs. D. W. Haydock (Educating the Child)
Mrs. F. F. Lawrence (The American Mother)
Prof. Robert James Sprague (Vocational Education)
H. A. Burgess (Use of Newspapers)
The Social Evil (A special address to women)
Dr. J. H. Kellogg
Venereal Disease (A special address to men)
F. O. Clements
A Man's Problem (A special address to women)
Dr. J. N. Hurty
A Woman's Problem (A special address to women)
Dr. Carolyn Geisel
The Relation of Education in Sex to Race Betterment
Dr. Winfield Scott Hall
SCHOOL AND INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
Some Changing Conceptions of School Hygiene
Dr. Ernest Bryant Hoag
The Race Betterment Movement in Women's Colleges
Dr. Carolyn Geisel
Discussion
Mrs. Melvil Dewey (College Courses in Euthenics)
Factory Degeneration
Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis
Industrial Welfare
F. O. Clements
CITY, STATE AND NATIONAL HYGIENE
Function of Individual, City, State and Nation in Race Betterment
Sir Horace Plunkett
Miss M. E. Bingeman
Community Hygiene, with Special Reference to Meat Inspection
Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane
The National Department of Health
President Stephen Smith (Introductory Remarks)
Dr. Henry Baird Favill
What the United States Public Health Service is Doing for Race Betterment
Dr. H. W. Austin
The Cost of High Living as a Factor in Race Degeneracy and Limitation of Families
Dr. J. N. Hurty
Government
S. S. McClure
Discussion
Prof. Richard T. Ely (The Government of a German City)
Byron W. Holt (High Cost of Living)
Segregation
Hastings H. Hart
The Negro Race
Booker T. Washington
Discussion
Hastings H. Hart (Sanitary Kitchens)
The Social Program
Dr. Luther H. Gulick
Mrs. Luther H. Gulick
Dr. Luther H. Gulick
EUGENICS AND IMMIGRATION
Needed— A New Human Race
Dr. J. H. Kellogg
The Importance to the State of Eugenic Investigation
Dr. C. B. Davenport
Relation of Eugenics and Euthenics to Race Betterment
Prof. Maynard M. Metcalf
The Psychological Limit of Eugenics
Prof. Herbert Adolphus Miller
Discussion
Dr. G. B. Davenport (Relative Effects of Heredity and Environment)
The Importance of Hygiene for Eugenics
Prof. Irving Fisher
The Methods of Race Regeneration
Dr. C. W. Saleeby
Calculations on the Working Out of a Proposed Program of Sterilization
H. H. Laughlin
The Relation of Philanthropy and Medicine to Race Betterment
Prof. Leon J. Cole
The Health Certificate— A Safeguard Against Vicious Selection in Marriage
The Very Reverend Walter Taylor Sumner
Discussion
Mrs. Maud Glassner (Health Certificates in Michigan )
Marriage Selection
Prof. Roswell II. Johnson
Some Efficient Causes of Crime
Prof. R. B. von KleinSmid
Race Betterment and Our Immigration Laws
Prof. Robert DeC. Ward
Race Betterment and America's Oriental Problem
Prof. Sidney L. Gulick
Discussion
Prof. Herbert Adulphus Miller (Immigrant Classification by Mother-Tongue)
Prof. Maynard M. Metcalf (Immigration)
Dr. Luther H. Gulick (The Socially Assimilated )
Constructive Suggestions for Race Betterment— Summarized
Resolutions
Report of the Secretary
Exhibits and Moving Pictures
Through a Child's Eyes
Dr. Anna Louise Strong
Physical and Mental Perfection Contests
I. School Children
Report of Contest
Dean Wm. W. Hastings
Award of Prizes
Mayor Bailey
II. Babies
Report of Contest
Dr. Walter F. Martin
Award of Prizes
Mayor Bailey
THE PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE
To assemble evidence as to the extent to which degenerative tendencies are actively at work in America, and to promote agencies for Race Betterment.
OFFICERS
President
Stephen Smith, A. M., LL.D., M.D., Vice-President State Board of Charities, New York, N. Y.
Honorary Presidents
Judge Ben B. Lindsey, LL.D., Juvenile Court, Denver, Colorado.
Hon. Woodbridge N. Ferris. LL.D., Governor of Michigan, Lansing, Mich.
Right Hon. Sir Horace Plunkett, K.C.V.O., F.R.S., Ex-Minister of Agriculture for Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Vice-Presidents
Irving Fisher, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy, Yale University, New Haven. Conn.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, A.M.. D.D., L.H.D., Pastor Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
J. N. Hurty, M.D., Commissioner of Health, State of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Hon. Robert L. Owen, A.M., LL.D., U. S. Senator from Oklahoma, Washington, D. C.
Executive Committee
Irving Fisher, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, A.M., D.D., L.H.D., Pastor Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
J. H. Kellogg, LL.D., M.D., Supt. Battle Creek Sanitarium, Member Michigan State Board of Health, Battle Creek, Mich.
Right Hon. Sir Horace Plunkett, K.C.V.O., F.R.S., Ex-Minister of Agriculture for Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Jacob A. Riis, Henry Street Settlement, New York
Acting Chairman
Reverend Charles C. Creegan, D.D., President Fargo College, Fargo, N. D.
Secretary
Miss Emily F. Robbins, New York, N. Y.
Central Committee
C. B. DAVENPORT. A.M., PH.D., Director of the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.
VICTOR C. VAUGHAN. LL.D,. M.D., Pres. Elect American Medical Association, President Michigan State Board of Health, Ann Arbor, Mich.
J. N. McCORMACK, LL.D., M.D., Secretary State Board of Health, Bowling Green, Ky.
CHARLES W. ELIOT, A.M., LL.D.. Ph.D., President Emeritus. Harvrd University. Cambridge, Mass.
GIFFORD PINCHOT, A.M., LL.D., Conservationist, Washington, D. C.
HARVEY W. WILEY LL.D., M.D., Director Bureau of Foods, Sanitation and Health, ''Good Housekeeping" Magazine," Washington, D. C.
HON. JACOB A. RIIS, Henry Street Settlement, New York, N. Y.
S. ADOLPHUS KNOPF, M.D. Professor Phthisio-Therapy, Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, New York, N. Y.
W. A. EVANS, M.S., LL.D., M.D., D.P.H., Medical Editor Chicago "Tribune," Professor of Hygiene, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
D. A. SARGENT, A.M., M.D., S..D, Director of Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
VERY REVERENT WALTER TAYLOR SUMNER D.D., Dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Chicago, Illinois.
HON. CHARLES E. TOWNSEND, United States Senator from Michigan, Washington, D. C.
HON. MORRIS SHEPPARD, LL.B., LL.M.. United States Senator from Texas, Washington, D. C.
OSCAR H. ROGERS, M.D.. Medical Director New York Life Insurance Company. New York, N. Y.
WINFIELD S. HALL, M.S., A.M., Ph.D.. M.D., Professor of Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.
R. L. DIXON, M.D., Secretary Michigan State Board of Health, Lansing, Mich.
MRS. MELVIL DEWEY, Honorary Chairman, Institution Economics, American Home Economics Association, Lake Placid, N. Y.
MRS. ELLA FLAGG YOUNG, LL.D.. Ph.D., Superintendent of Schools, Chicago. Illinois.
REV. CAROLINE BARTLETT CRANE, A.M., Kalamazoo, Mich.
R. TAIT McKENZIE, A.M., M.D., Professor Physical Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
JOHN M. COULTER, A.M., Ph.D.. Professor Botany, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
S. S. McCLURE, A.M., L.H.D.. President. The McClure Company, New York.
ERNEST B. HOAG, A.M., M.D., Leland Stanford University, California.
FRANK E. BRUNER, Ph.D., M.D., Board of Education, Chicago, Ill.
HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, LL.D.. M.D., Writer, New York, N. Y.
GRAHAM TAYLOR, President Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, Chicago, Ill.
HON JOHN W. BAILEY, LL.B.. Mayor, Battle Creek, Mich.
J. H. KELLOGG, LL.D., M.D., Supt. Battle Creek Sanitarium. Member Michigan State Board of Health, Battle Creek, Mich.
REVEREND CHARLES C. CREEGAN, D.D.. President Fargo College, Fargo, N.D.
A PARTIAL LIST OF REPRESENTATIVES OF INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING IN THE CONFERENCE
Physicians
Austin, Dr. H. W., Representative U. S. Health Service, Detroit, Mich.
Bishop, Dr. Louis F., Fordham University.
Bernstein, Dr. Charles, Custodial Asylum, Rome, N. Y.
Carbaugh, Dr. Harriett M., Health Officer Orange Township, Portland, Mich.
Carstens, Dr. J. H., Chief Gynecologists, Harper Hospital, Detroit, Mich.
Davenport, Dr. C. B., Director Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y.
DeVilbiss, Dr. Lydia Allen, Woman's Home Companion, New York, N. Y.
Dewey, Melvil, President Lake Placid Club, Lake Placid, N. Y.
Emerick, Dr. E. J.. Supt. Institution for Feeble-Minded, Columbus, Ohio.
Favill, Dr. Henry B.. Prof. Clinical Medicine, Rusch Medical Collegec Chicago, Illinois.
Green, Dr. Frederick R., Secretary American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Geisel, Dr. Carolyn, Shorter College, Rome, Ga.
Gulick, Dr. Luther H., Pres. Camp Fire Girls, New York, N. Y.
Gulick, Dr. Sidney L., Author, Missionary, Kyoto, Japan.
Hall, Dr. Gertrude E., State Board of Charities, Albany, N. Y.
Hall, Dr. Winfield S., Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.
Hurty, Dr. J. N., Commissioner of Health, Indianapolis, Ind.
Knopf, Dr. S. Adolphus, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, New York, N. Y.
Kennedy, Dr. J. B., Detroit, Mich.
Lichty, Dr. Daniel, City Hospital, Rockford, Ill.
Northrup, Dr. Wm., Anti-Tuberculosis Society, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Paulson, Dr. and Mrs. David, Hinsdale Sanitarium, Hinsdale, Ill.
Robinson, Dr. Wm. J., Chief Visiting Surgeon, Bronx Hospital, New York, N. Y.
Sargent, Dr. D. A., Director, Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Searcy, Dr. J. T., Superintendent, Alabama Insane Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Sherman, Dr. G. H., Mich. St. and Wayne Co. Medical Societies, Detroit, Michigan.
Smith, Dr. Stephen, Vice-President State Board of Charities, New York, N. Y.
Smith, Dr. Richard Root, Surgeon, Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Strong, Dr. Anna Louise, National Child Welfare Exhibition Com., New York, N. Y.
Sumner, Dr. Guilford H., State Board of Health, Des Moines, Ia.
South, Dr. Lillian B., State Bacteriologist of Kentucky, Bowling Green, Ky.
Vaughan, Dr. Victor C, President American Medical Association and of State Board of Health, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Warthin, Dr. Alfred Scott, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Weeks, Dr. David Fairchild, Skillman, N. J
College Representatives
Cole. Prof. Leon J., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Coulter, Prof. John M., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Creegan, Rev. C. C, President, Fargo University, Fargo, N. D.
Dickie. Sam'l, LL.D., President, Albion College, Albion, Mich.
Ely, Prof. Richard T., University of Wisconsin. Madison, Wis.
Gilbert, Prof. Arthwell W., Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Grover, Prof. Frederick O., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Johnson, Prof. Roswell Hill. University of Pittsburgh. Pa.
Johnson, Alexander. Director, Training School, Vineland, N. J.
Lancaster, E. G., President Olivet College, Olivet, Mich.
Keeler. Prof. Fred L.. Superintendent, Dept. of Public Instruction, Lansing, Michigan.
MacDonald, Miss Gertrude L., Supt. Maine Industrial School for Girls, Hollowell, Maine.
Metcalf, Prof. Maynard M., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Miller, Prof. Herbert A., Olivet College, Olivet. Mich.
Reighard, Prof. Jacob, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Ritchie. Prof. John W.. College of William and Mary, Williamsburgh, Va.
Stagg, Prof. A.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Washington, Prof. Booker T., Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama.
Willcox, Prof. Walter F., Cornell University. Ithaca, N. Y.
Social Workers
Bussell, Beulah, Anti-Tuberculosis Society. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Bussell, Nellie Eileen, Sec. Anti-Tuberculosis Society, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dilley, Cora B., Chicago Boys Club Farm, Paw Paw. Mich.
Gaston, Lucy Page, Anti-Cigarette League. Chicago, Ill.
Gilman, Robbins, Head Worker, University Settlement Society. New York City.
Hart, Hastings H., LL.D., Russell Sage Foundation, New York City.
Holt, Byron W., Committee of 100 on National Health, New York City.
Kimball, Mrs., Alcohol Poster Committee, Boston, Mass.
Laughlin, H. H., Superintendent Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.
Lindsey, Judge Ben B., Juvenile Court, Denver, Colo.
McDowell, Miss, University Settlement, Chicago, Ill.
McCullock, Gen. J. E., Southern Sociological Congress, Nashville, Tenn.
Riis. Jacob. Henry Street Settlement, New York City.
Taylor. Graham. President Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, Chicago.
Van Hartzveldt, Miss, Anti-Tuberculosis Society, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Von KleinSmid, Prof. R. B., Indiana Reformatory, Jeffersonville. Ind.
Walton, Miss Carol F., Secretary Michigan State Association, Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Witter, John H., Supt. Boys Club, Chicago
Women's Clubs
Glassner. Mrs. Maud, State Federation Women's Clubs. Nashville, Mich.
Haydock, Miss. D. W., Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs. St. Louis, Mo.
Roenigh, Marion Chase, Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs, Greenville, Mich.
Y.M.C.A.
Rowe, C. L., Traveling Secretary Y. M. C. A., Jackson, Michigan.
Publicists
Cattell, Prof. J. McK.. Editor Popular Science Monthly, Garrison. N. Y.
Dingley, Edward M.. Editor Progressive Herald, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Evans, Dr. W. A., Health Editor Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill.
Johnson, Dr. C. M., Editor Dental Review, Chicago, Ill.
McClure. S. S., McClure's Magazine, New York City.
Popenoe, Paul B., Editor. Journal of Heredity, Washington, D. C.
Spencer, George B., The Outlook, New York.
Henry Smith Williams, Author, New York City.
Phelps, Edward Bunnell, Editor, American Underwriter, New York City.
Payne, Kenneth W., Newspaper Enterprise Association, Chicago, Ill.
Ministers
Beardslee, Rev. John W., Holland, Mich.
Bishop, Rev. Edwin W., Pastor Park Church, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Crane, Rev. Carolyn Bartlett, Crane Building, Kalamazoo. Mich.
Glass. Rev. D. H., Owosso, Mich.
Hillis, Rev. Newell Dwight, Pastor Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sumner, The Very Reverend Walter Taylor, Dean, Episcopal Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Chicago, Ill.
Hinzman, Rev. W. T., Tipton, Mich.
Siebert, Rev. John A., Adrian, Mich.
Insurance
Hunter, Arthur W., New York Life Insurance Co., New York City.
Hoffman, Frederick L., Statistician Prudential Life Ins. Co., Newark, N. Y.
W.C.T.U.
Leiter, Frances Waite, National W. C. T. U., Health Dept., Mansfield, O.
Miscellaneous
Bigelow, M. Edna, Representative American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill.
Bingemann, Miss M. E., Board of Education, Rochester, N. Y.
Pathe Freres Representative, Wm. J. Helm, Jr., 1 Congress St., Jersey City, New Jersey.
Ritchie, John W., Williamsburg, Va.
Sprague, Prof. Robert J.. Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass.
Thorne, Hazel, Eugenics Field Worker, Lapeer, Mich.
Wilbur, Dr. Cressy L., Chief Statistician, Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Washington, D. C.
Ryan, Desalee, School Supervisor, Battle Creek, Mich.
Coburn, W. G., Principal Battle Creek Schools, Battle Creek, Mich.
Clements, F. O., Representative National Cash Register Co., Dayton, Ohio.
Gillette, C. P., Director State Agricultural College, Ft. Collins, Colo.
Reid, Dr. Chas. E., Surgeon, Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind.
Local Co-operating Organizations
Battle Creek Ministers' Association.
Calhoun County Medical Society.
Battle Creek Dental Society.
Battle Creek Chamber of Commerce.
Battle Creek Board of Education.
Normal School of Physical Education
Battle Creek Sanitarium and Hospital Training School.
Nurses' Alumni Association of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and Hospital Training School.
Battle Creek Sanitarium School of Home Economics.
Young Men's Christian Association.
Young Women's Christian Association.
Charitable Union.
Woman's Club.
Woman's League
The Ladies' Aid Societies of Nine Churches of Battle Creek.
Woman's Society of the Congregational Church.
Dorcas Society.
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Sanitarium Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Banquet in honor of Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, president American Medical Association, during Conference on Race Betterment
Battle Creek, Michigan
January 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1914
published by the Race Betterment Foundation
edited by the secretary [Miss Emily F. Robbins]
Battle Creek, Mich., Gage Printing Company, ltd., 1914
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Table of Contents: [PDF HERE]
Purpose of the Conference
Officers
Central Committee
A Partial List of Organizations Represented
Local Cooperating- Organizations
Addresses of Welcome—
Dr. J. H. Kellogg
Hon. John W. Bailey
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS The Basic Principles of Race Betterment
President Stephen Smith, M.D.
STATISTICAL STUDIES
The Significance of a Declining Death Rate
Frederick L. Hoffman
The Causes of the Declining Birth Rate
Prof. J. McKeen Cattell
The Need of Thorough Birth Registration for Race Betterment
Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur
Differential Fecundity
Prof. Walter F. Willcox
GENERAL INDIVIDUAL HYGIENE
The Importance of Frequent and Thorough Medical Examinations of the Well
Dr. Victor C. Vaughan
Euthenics and Its Founder
Mrs. Melvil Dewey
The Relation of Physical Education to Race Betterment (Abstract of address)
Dr. D. A. Sargent
Apparent Increase m Degenerative Diseases
Elmer E. Rittenhouse
Discussion
Prof. Maynard M. Metcalf (Race Degeneration)
Some Suggestions for a More Rational Solution of the Tuberculosis Problem in the United States
Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf
Discussion
Prof. Robert James Sprague (Women's Work in the Open Air)
The Prevention of Arteriosclerosis
Dr. Louis Faugeres Bishop
Hookworm Disease
Dr. Lillian South
Disease and Its Prevention
Dr. Guilford H. Sumner
Function of the Dentist in Race Betterment
C. N. Johnson, D.D.S
Unbiological Habits
Dean William W. Hastings
The Increase of Insanity
Dr. James T. Searcy
Discussion
Prof. Walter P. Willcox
Deterioration of The Civilized Woman
Dr. Richard Root Smith
Old Age
President Smith
Service
Acting Chairman Rev. Charles C. Creegan
ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO
The Effect of Alcohol on Longevity
Arthur Hunter
Alcohol— What Shall We Do About It?
Dr. Henry Smith Williams
Discussion
Dr. Amanda D. Holcomb (The Sacrifice of Boys and Girls)
Daniel A. Poling (The Worst Dry Town vs. The Best Wet Town)
Pres. E. G. Lancaster (Proportionate State Consumption of Alcohol)
Edward Bunnell Phelps (Caution in Use of Statistics)
Dr. Charles G. Pease (Expedients in Violation of Principle)
Dr. Henry Smith Williams (The Rising Tide of Alcohol Consumption)
Prof. Robert James Sprague (Licensing Light Drinks)
Mrs. J. L. Higgins (The "Booze Special")
George B. Peak (The Saloon and the Tax-Payer)
Mrs. Maud Glassner (A "High Class" Saloon)
Melvil Dewey (A League of Publishers)
Dr. Edith B. Lowry (Soothing Syrups and Alcohol Craving)
Dr. James T. Searcy (Prohibition and Drug Consumption )
Frederick L. Hoffman (International Committee on Liquor)
Mrs. Charles Kimball and Elizabeth Hewes Tilton (Alcohol Posters)
Tobacco A Race Poison
Dr. Daniel Lichty
Discussion
Miss Lucy Page Gaston (The Cigarette)
Dr. Amanda D. Holcomb (The Cigarette-Smoking Hero of Fiction)
S. S. McClure (Magazine Advertising of Tobacco)
Melvil Dewey (A League of Employers)
Dr. Charles G. Pease (The Non-Smokers' Protective League of America)
CHILD LIFE
The Bad Boy
Hon. Jacob A. Riis
The. Delinquent Child
Judge Ben B. Lindsey
The Dependent Child
Dr. Gertrude E. Hall
Education for Parenthood
Dr. Lydia A . DeVilbiss
Better Babies
Robbins Gilman
Discussion
Edward Bminell Phelps (Baby Saving)
Dr. E. G. Lancaster (Adolescence)
Dr. Miller (The American Institute of Child Life)
SEX QUESTIONS
Public Repression of the Social Evil
Graham Taylor
Discussion
Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf (Scattering Prostitution)
Graham Taylor (Vice and Mental Defect)
Dr. James T. Searcy (Race Degenerates)
Dr. S, Adolphus Knopf ("Waverly House")
Dr. Charles G. Pease (The Florence Crittenton Mission)
Miss Lucy Page Gaston (Prostitution and the Cigarette)
Dr. Luther H. Gulick (The Girl Who Goes Right)
Prof. Samuel Dickie (The Single Standard)
Dr. Amanda D. Holcomb (The Boy's Temptations)
Dr. Luther H. Gulick (Real Meaning of the Double Standard)
Mrs. D. W. Haydock (Educating the Child)
Mrs. F. F. Lawrence (The American Mother)
Prof. Robert James Sprague (Vocational Education)
H. A. Burgess (Use of Newspapers)
The Social Evil (A special address to women)
Dr. J. H. Kellogg
Venereal Disease (A special address to men)
F. O. Clements
A Man's Problem (A special address to women)
Dr. J. N. Hurty
A Woman's Problem (A special address to women)
Dr. Carolyn Geisel
The Relation of Education in Sex to Race Betterment
Dr. Winfield Scott Hall
SCHOOL AND INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE
Some Changing Conceptions of School Hygiene
Dr. Ernest Bryant Hoag
The Race Betterment Movement in Women's Colleges
Dr. Carolyn Geisel
Discussion
Mrs. Melvil Dewey (College Courses in Euthenics)
Factory Degeneration
Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis
Industrial Welfare
F. O. Clements
CITY, STATE AND NATIONAL HYGIENE
Function of Individual, City, State and Nation in Race Betterment
Sir Horace Plunkett
Miss M. E. Bingeman
Community Hygiene, with Special Reference to Meat Inspection
Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane
The National Department of Health
President Stephen Smith (Introductory Remarks)
Dr. Henry Baird Favill
What the United States Public Health Service is Doing for Race Betterment
Dr. H. W. Austin
The Cost of High Living as a Factor in Race Degeneracy and Limitation of Families
Dr. J. N. Hurty
Government
S. S. McClure
Discussion
Prof. Richard T. Ely (The Government of a German City)
Byron W. Holt (High Cost of Living)
Segregation
Hastings H. Hart
The Negro Race
Booker T. Washington
Discussion
Hastings H. Hart (Sanitary Kitchens)
The Social Program
Dr. Luther H. Gulick
Mrs. Luther H. Gulick
Dr. Luther H. Gulick
EUGENICS AND IMMIGRATION
Needed— A New Human Race
Dr. J. H. Kellogg
The Importance to the State of Eugenic Investigation
Dr. C. B. Davenport
Relation of Eugenics and Euthenics to Race Betterment
Prof. Maynard M. Metcalf
The Psychological Limit of Eugenics
Prof. Herbert Adolphus Miller
Discussion
Dr. G. B. Davenport (Relative Effects of Heredity and Environment)
The Importance of Hygiene for Eugenics
Prof. Irving Fisher
The Methods of Race Regeneration
Dr. C. W. Saleeby
Calculations on the Working Out of a Proposed Program of Sterilization
H. H. Laughlin
The Relation of Philanthropy and Medicine to Race Betterment
Prof. Leon J. Cole
The Health Certificate— A Safeguard Against Vicious Selection in Marriage
The Very Reverend Walter Taylor Sumner
Discussion
Mrs. Maud Glassner (Health Certificates in Michigan )
Marriage Selection
Prof. Roswell II. Johnson
Some Efficient Causes of Crime
Prof. R. B. von KleinSmid
Race Betterment and Our Immigration Laws
Prof. Robert DeC. Ward
Race Betterment and America's Oriental Problem
Prof. Sidney L. Gulick
Discussion
Prof. Herbert Adulphus Miller (Immigrant Classification by Mother-Tongue)
Prof. Maynard M. Metcalf (Immigration)
Dr. Luther H. Gulick (The Socially Assimilated )
Constructive Suggestions for Race Betterment— Summarized
Resolutions
Report of the Secretary
Exhibits and Moving Pictures
Through a Child's Eyes
Dr. Anna Louise Strong
Physical and Mental Perfection Contests
I. School Children
Report of Contest
Dean Wm. W. Hastings
Award of Prizes
Mayor Bailey
II. Babies
Report of Contest
Dr. Walter F. Martin
Award of Prizes
Mayor Bailey
THE PURPOSE OF THE CONFERENCE
To assemble evidence as to the extent to which degenerative tendencies are actively at work in America, and to promote agencies for Race Betterment.
OFFICERS
President
Stephen Smith, A. M., LL.D., M.D., Vice-President State Board of Charities, New York, N. Y.
Honorary Presidents
Judge Ben B. Lindsey, LL.D., Juvenile Court, Denver, Colorado.
Hon. Woodbridge N. Ferris. LL.D., Governor of Michigan, Lansing, Mich.
Right Hon. Sir Horace Plunkett, K.C.V.O., F.R.S., Ex-Minister of Agriculture for Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Vice-Presidents
Irving Fisher, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy, Yale University, New Haven. Conn.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, A.M.. D.D., L.H.D., Pastor Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
J. N. Hurty, M.D., Commissioner of Health, State of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Hon. Robert L. Owen, A.M., LL.D., U. S. Senator from Oklahoma, Washington, D. C.
Executive Committee
Irving Fisher, Ph.D., Professor of Political Economy, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, A.M., D.D., L.H.D., Pastor Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
J. H. Kellogg, LL.D., M.D., Supt. Battle Creek Sanitarium, Member Michigan State Board of Health, Battle Creek, Mich.
Right Hon. Sir Horace Plunkett, K.C.V.O., F.R.S., Ex-Minister of Agriculture for Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.
Jacob A. Riis, Henry Street Settlement, New York
Acting Chairman
Reverend Charles C. Creegan, D.D., President Fargo College, Fargo, N. D.
Secretary
Miss Emily F. Robbins, New York, N. Y.
Central Committee
C. B. DAVENPORT. A.M., PH.D., Director of the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.
VICTOR C. VAUGHAN. LL.D,. M.D., Pres. Elect American Medical Association, President Michigan State Board of Health, Ann Arbor, Mich.
J. N. McCORMACK, LL.D., M.D., Secretary State Board of Health, Bowling Green, Ky.
CHARLES W. ELIOT, A.M., LL.D.. Ph.D., President Emeritus. Harvrd University. Cambridge, Mass.
GIFFORD PINCHOT, A.M., LL.D., Conservationist, Washington, D. C.
HARVEY W. WILEY LL.D., M.D., Director Bureau of Foods, Sanitation and Health, ''Good Housekeeping" Magazine," Washington, D. C.
HON. JACOB A. RIIS, Henry Street Settlement, New York, N. Y.
S. ADOLPHUS KNOPF, M.D. Professor Phthisio-Therapy, Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, New York, N. Y.
W. A. EVANS, M.S., LL.D., M.D., D.P.H., Medical Editor Chicago "Tribune," Professor of Hygiene, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois.
D. A. SARGENT, A.M., M.D., S..D, Director of Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
VERY REVERENT WALTER TAYLOR SUMNER D.D., Dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Chicago, Illinois.
HON. CHARLES E. TOWNSEND, United States Senator from Michigan, Washington, D. C.
HON. MORRIS SHEPPARD, LL.B., LL.M.. United States Senator from Texas, Washington, D. C.
OSCAR H. ROGERS, M.D.. Medical Director New York Life Insurance Company. New York, N. Y.
WINFIELD S. HALL, M.S., A.M., Ph.D.. M.D., Professor of Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.
R. L. DIXON, M.D., Secretary Michigan State Board of Health, Lansing, Mich.
MRS. MELVIL DEWEY, Honorary Chairman, Institution Economics, American Home Economics Association, Lake Placid, N. Y.
MRS. ELLA FLAGG YOUNG, LL.D.. Ph.D., Superintendent of Schools, Chicago. Illinois.
REV. CAROLINE BARTLETT CRANE, A.M., Kalamazoo, Mich.
R. TAIT McKENZIE, A.M., M.D., Professor Physical Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
JOHN M. COULTER, A.M., Ph.D.. Professor Botany, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
S. S. McCLURE, A.M., L.H.D.. President. The McClure Company, New York.
ERNEST B. HOAG, A.M., M.D., Leland Stanford University, California.
FRANK E. BRUNER, Ph.D., M.D., Board of Education, Chicago, Ill.
HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, LL.D.. M.D., Writer, New York, N. Y.
GRAHAM TAYLOR, President Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, Chicago, Ill.
HON JOHN W. BAILEY, LL.B.. Mayor, Battle Creek, Mich.
J. H. KELLOGG, LL.D., M.D., Supt. Battle Creek Sanitarium. Member Michigan State Board of Health, Battle Creek, Mich.
REVEREND CHARLES C. CREEGAN, D.D.. President Fargo College, Fargo, N.D.
A PARTIAL LIST OF REPRESENTATIVES OF INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING IN THE CONFERENCE
Physicians
Austin, Dr. H. W., Representative U. S. Health Service, Detroit, Mich.
Bishop, Dr. Louis F., Fordham University.
Bernstein, Dr. Charles, Custodial Asylum, Rome, N. Y.
Carbaugh, Dr. Harriett M., Health Officer Orange Township, Portland, Mich.
Carstens, Dr. J. H., Chief Gynecologists, Harper Hospital, Detroit, Mich.
Davenport, Dr. C. B., Director Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y.
DeVilbiss, Dr. Lydia Allen, Woman's Home Companion, New York, N. Y.
Dewey, Melvil, President Lake Placid Club, Lake Placid, N. Y.
Emerick, Dr. E. J.. Supt. Institution for Feeble-Minded, Columbus, Ohio.
Favill, Dr. Henry B.. Prof. Clinical Medicine, Rusch Medical Collegec Chicago, Illinois.
Green, Dr. Frederick R., Secretary American Medical Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Geisel, Dr. Carolyn, Shorter College, Rome, Ga.
Gulick, Dr. Luther H., Pres. Camp Fire Girls, New York, N. Y.
Gulick, Dr. Sidney L., Author, Missionary, Kyoto, Japan.
Hall, Dr. Gertrude E., State Board of Charities, Albany, N. Y.
Hall, Dr. Winfield S., Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.
Hurty, Dr. J. N., Commissioner of Health, Indianapolis, Ind.
Knopf, Dr. S. Adolphus, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, New York, N. Y.
Kennedy, Dr. J. B., Detroit, Mich.
Lichty, Dr. Daniel, City Hospital, Rockford, Ill.
Northrup, Dr. Wm., Anti-Tuberculosis Society, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Paulson, Dr. and Mrs. David, Hinsdale Sanitarium, Hinsdale, Ill.
Robinson, Dr. Wm. J., Chief Visiting Surgeon, Bronx Hospital, New York, N. Y.
Sargent, Dr. D. A., Director, Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Searcy, Dr. J. T., Superintendent, Alabama Insane Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Sherman, Dr. G. H., Mich. St. and Wayne Co. Medical Societies, Detroit, Michigan.
Smith, Dr. Stephen, Vice-President State Board of Charities, New York, N. Y.
Smith, Dr. Richard Root, Surgeon, Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Strong, Dr. Anna Louise, National Child Welfare Exhibition Com., New York, N. Y.
Sumner, Dr. Guilford H., State Board of Health, Des Moines, Ia.
South, Dr. Lillian B., State Bacteriologist of Kentucky, Bowling Green, Ky.
Vaughan, Dr. Victor C, President American Medical Association and of State Board of Health, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Warthin, Dr. Alfred Scott, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Weeks, Dr. David Fairchild, Skillman, N. J
College Representatives
Cole. Prof. Leon J., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Coulter, Prof. John M., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Creegan, Rev. C. C, President, Fargo University, Fargo, N. D.
Dickie. Sam'l, LL.D., President, Albion College, Albion, Mich.
Ely, Prof. Richard T., University of Wisconsin. Madison, Wis.
Gilbert, Prof. Arthwell W., Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Grover, Prof. Frederick O., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Johnson, Prof. Roswell Hill. University of Pittsburgh. Pa.
Johnson, Alexander. Director, Training School, Vineland, N. J.
Lancaster, E. G., President Olivet College, Olivet, Mich.
Keeler. Prof. Fred L.. Superintendent, Dept. of Public Instruction, Lansing, Michigan.
MacDonald, Miss Gertrude L., Supt. Maine Industrial School for Girls, Hollowell, Maine.
Metcalf, Prof. Maynard M., Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Miller, Prof. Herbert A., Olivet College, Olivet. Mich.
Reighard, Prof. Jacob, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Ritchie. Prof. John W.. College of William and Mary, Williamsburgh, Va.
Stagg, Prof. A.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Washington, Prof. Booker T., Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama.
Willcox, Prof. Walter F., Cornell University. Ithaca, N. Y.
Social Workers
Bussell, Beulah, Anti-Tuberculosis Society. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Bussell, Nellie Eileen, Sec. Anti-Tuberculosis Society, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Dilley, Cora B., Chicago Boys Club Farm, Paw Paw. Mich.
Gaston, Lucy Page, Anti-Cigarette League. Chicago, Ill.
Gilman, Robbins, Head Worker, University Settlement Society. New York City.
Hart, Hastings H., LL.D., Russell Sage Foundation, New York City.
Holt, Byron W., Committee of 100 on National Health, New York City.
Kimball, Mrs., Alcohol Poster Committee, Boston, Mass.
Laughlin, H. H., Superintendent Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.
Lindsey, Judge Ben B., Juvenile Court, Denver, Colo.
McDowell, Miss, University Settlement, Chicago, Ill.
McCullock, Gen. J. E., Southern Sociological Congress, Nashville, Tenn.
Riis. Jacob. Henry Street Settlement, New York City.
Taylor. Graham. President Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, Chicago.
Van Hartzveldt, Miss, Anti-Tuberculosis Society, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Von KleinSmid, Prof. R. B., Indiana Reformatory, Jeffersonville. Ind.
Walton, Miss Carol F., Secretary Michigan State Association, Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Witter, John H., Supt. Boys Club, Chicago
Women's Clubs
Glassner. Mrs. Maud, State Federation Women's Clubs. Nashville, Mich.
Haydock, Miss. D. W., Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs. St. Louis, Mo.
Roenigh, Marion Chase, Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs, Greenville, Mich.
Y.M.C.A.
Rowe, C. L., Traveling Secretary Y. M. C. A., Jackson, Michigan.
Publicists
Cattell, Prof. J. McK.. Editor Popular Science Monthly, Garrison. N. Y.
Dingley, Edward M.. Editor Progressive Herald, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Evans, Dr. W. A., Health Editor Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill.
Johnson, Dr. C. M., Editor Dental Review, Chicago, Ill.
McClure. S. S., McClure's Magazine, New York City.
Popenoe, Paul B., Editor. Journal of Heredity, Washington, D. C.
Spencer, George B., The Outlook, New York.
Henry Smith Williams, Author, New York City.
Phelps, Edward Bunnell, Editor, American Underwriter, New York City.
Payne, Kenneth W., Newspaper Enterprise Association, Chicago, Ill.
Ministers
Beardslee, Rev. John W., Holland, Mich.
Bishop, Rev. Edwin W., Pastor Park Church, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Crane, Rev. Carolyn Bartlett, Crane Building, Kalamazoo. Mich.
Glass. Rev. D. H., Owosso, Mich.
Hillis, Rev. Newell Dwight, Pastor Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sumner, The Very Reverend Walter Taylor, Dean, Episcopal Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Chicago, Ill.
Hinzman, Rev. W. T., Tipton, Mich.
Siebert, Rev. John A., Adrian, Mich.
Insurance
Hunter, Arthur W., New York Life Insurance Co., New York City.
Hoffman, Frederick L., Statistician Prudential Life Ins. Co., Newark, N. Y.
W.C.T.U.
Leiter, Frances Waite, National W. C. T. U., Health Dept., Mansfield, O.
Miscellaneous
Bigelow, M. Edna, Representative American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill.
Bingemann, Miss M. E., Board of Education, Rochester, N. Y.
Pathe Freres Representative, Wm. J. Helm, Jr., 1 Congress St., Jersey City, New Jersey.
Ritchie, John W., Williamsburg, Va.
Sprague, Prof. Robert J.. Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass.
Thorne, Hazel, Eugenics Field Worker, Lapeer, Mich.
Wilbur, Dr. Cressy L., Chief Statistician, Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Washington, D. C.
Ryan, Desalee, School Supervisor, Battle Creek, Mich.
Coburn, W. G., Principal Battle Creek Schools, Battle Creek, Mich.
Clements, F. O., Representative National Cash Register Co., Dayton, Ohio.
Gillette, C. P., Director State Agricultural College, Ft. Collins, Colo.
Reid, Dr. Chas. E., Surgeon, Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind.
Local Co-operating Organizations
Battle Creek Ministers' Association.
Calhoun County Medical Society.
Battle Creek Dental Society.
Battle Creek Chamber of Commerce.
Battle Creek Board of Education.
Normal School of Physical Education
Battle Creek Sanitarium and Hospital Training School.
Nurses' Alumni Association of the Battle Creek Sanitarium and Hospital Training School.
Battle Creek Sanitarium School of Home Economics.
Young Men's Christian Association.
Young Women's Christian Association.
Charitable Union.
Woman's Club.
Woman's League
The Ladies' Aid Societies of Nine Churches of Battle Creek.
Woman's Society of the Congregational Church.
Dorcas Society.
Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Sanitarium Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Banquet in honor of Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, president American Medical Association, during Conference on Race Betterment