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Railroad seats styled to fit your anatomy will be the product of investigations to be conducted starting March 22 by the Boston and Maine Railroad under the Direction of Dr. Ernest A. Hooton, head of the department of Anthropology. An adjustable chair designed for measuring purposes will be set up in the concourse of North Station and 3,000 passengers, equally divided as to sex, will be given a four minute test to determine the height, length and breadth of the seat, and its distance from the floor which is most desired by the traveler. The long and short...
Blood pressures soared in the offices of the Woman's Home Companion last week as "Morons Into What?", the latest proposal by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, went on the Companion presses. In his article Professor Hooton advocates regulation of the American breeding stock and sterilization of all men and women unfit to produce good citizens...
Professor Hooton, author of "Men, Apes, and Morons" and "Why Men Be have Like Apes and Vice Versa," proposes that the government create a Department of Population, to contain bureaus of Adult Rehabilitation, Marriage and Genetics, Growth and Nutrition, and Education and Vocational Guidance...
Professor Hooton argues that "our supreme social need is the scientific improvement of marriage and reproduction." Claiming that the solution is "medical and genetic supervision of marriages bound to produce inferior offspring, subsidization of parents proved capable of breeding superior offspring, and sterilization of the insane, feeble-minded, and habitually anti-social," he says that "the only large group that is at all qualified to undertake this gigantic task is the medical profession...
Last year the noted anthropologist was attacked, following publication of a similar article, by a member of the Massachusetts legislature, who claimed that the ideas embodied in the suggestion were "fascistic." Professor Hooton ends his latest article with an answer to such a claim, stating that "opposition to better breeding comes from those who are determined to retain power over the masses...