The New Race

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 5, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 43.

In a recent newspaper, Ella Wheeler Wilcox sings that "out of the wreck and chaos of the order that used to be, a strong new race shall take its place;" but the same journal tells us that under modern conditions, out of which Mrs. Wilcox's new race shall spring, only 27 per cent of college girls marry; only 61 per cent of high school girls; 85 per cent of the grammar school graduates; while "the paupers, the feeble-minded, and the immoral women bear by far the largest number of children in the United States, almost 95 per cent of these being mothers." The most enlightened mothers bear small families and of lowest vitality. Surely Mrs. Wilcox dreams.