THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1907.
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SHi STIRS
Bernard Shaw Is Not Sure the
Kulin System of Mother
hood Is Wrong.
SETS BRITISH THINKING
Sees Advantage. In. So. Arranging
Events as to Secure Well
ISrcd Children.
LONDON, Oct. 2G. The columns
of the Times this week havo been the
medium of hot correspondence on
the subject of Kulln polygamy In In
dia. Brahman practicers of this so
cial theory believe the woman should
not be deprived of the duty and pri
vilege of motherhood for mere lack
of a husband. Sir George Blrdwood,
a noted authority on Indian affairs,
had' the tlmcrity to write the Times,
pointing out that results of the prac
tice arc children of fine physique and
an Improvement In the race, the se
lection of fathers being on the prin
ciple of best breeding. There fol
lowed p storm of protest against U1I3
"revolting and abhorrent" idea.
T'leso crielclsms stirred up Ber
nard Shaw to Indignation and in a
column letter today lie denounces
the objectors as narrow, provincial
Englishmen. Ills presentation of the
sublect is so interesting and charac
teristic it is worth wide reading.
Ho says:
"If the-empire Is to be hold to
gether hv anything better than an
armed forcf we shall have to mnkc
up our minds to bring institution
and T'lnl experiments of fallow
s"li",tr! to a much higher test thru
tiiMr- "oi'firmity to the customs if
Clfi"V.vn. It Is true that more toler
nM "i f".- 't-, own pVp " out of n"f"'
t'on. wo are not going to tolerate
the fiitte or human sacrifice on any
term" from anybody. We are far
too tolerant as It is, if not of other
people's abominations and supersti
tions at all events of our own, which
are numerous and detestable enough,
in all conscience, but before we begin
to hurl such epithets as 'revolting
and abhorrent' at any customs of our
Indian fellow subjects we'd better
consider carefully why wo are shock
ed bv them. -
"Pew are trained to distin
guish between the shock of unfami
Uarity and the genuine ethical shock.
Kulln polygamy is unfamiliar, there
fore it shocks us and causes gentle
men of ordinary good breeding to
nso abusive, Intemperate language.
Lnder the circumstances I, having
ascertained that my opinion Is rep
resentative enough to be of some im
portance, am emboldened to say that
the institution of Kulin polygamy
does not seem to me, on the faco of
it, an unreasonable one. Bongaleso
hold that it Is part of the general
purpose of things that women should
bear children, and that childlessness
13 a misfortune and even a disgrace.
It will not be disputed that this is
ap much occidental as oriental view.
"Again, the Bengalese attach
great importance to their children
boing well bred. So do we.' How,
then, do the parents of the English
family of claqs corresponding to the
Indian Brahman class secure well
bred grandchildren for themselves
and also for their nation? They used
their social opportunities to put their
daughters promiscuously in the way
of young men of their own caste In
the hope that marriage will result.
The daughter becomes an old maid,
one of the wasted mothers of the na
tion, which is perishing fortho want
of children. Even when the chance
Is favorable and the daughter finds
a husband she often refuses to be
come n mother, because her religious
and social training has taught her
to regard motherhood as in the de
partment of original sin, and to
glory not in the possession of child
ren but of a husband, so that the
childless woman with the husband
despises the mother who has no hus
band. Pays 700 Fop Well Bred Child.
What does the Bengalese father
d6 under the same circumstances?
Ho selects a picked man, a Braham
representing the highest degree of
culture and character In his class
end he pays him 700 ($3,fi00), to
enable his daughter to become the
mother of a well bred child. Now this
may strike the parochial Englishman
ar unusual, or, as he would put It,
revolting and abhorrent, but It Is cer
tainly not unreasonable and not In
human. Far from being obviously
calculated to degrade the race, It is
on the face of it aimed at Improving
it.
Blrdwood has just told us that Ku
lln happens for the most part to be
of fine physique. The products of
cur system happen for the most part
not to bo of fine physique. It Is quite
clear that this is a mere happening?
Is it not rather what one would v
pect under the circumstances, and is
the practice pf taking deliberate
steps to produce and reproduce men
of fine physique really revolting and
abhorrent to our British conscience,
us distinguished from our British
piejudice?
"Let us, however, do justice to our '&
nystem, indefensible ns it is in many
respects. It secures what most men
want that Is, sharing out of women
among men so that every Jack shall
have his Jill, and able men and at
tractive women shall not accumulate
partners and Icavo mediocrity unpro
vided for.
To Breed the Superhuman.
"If this were the end of public
policy in the matter and if the race
j.jlght safely take Its chance of de
generacy provided monogamy, oven
on the hardest conditions, were main
tained, there would be nothing more
to bo si-Id, but as a whole the im
perial problem before us is funda
mentally nothing else than to pro
duce more capable political units
than our present system breeds;
in short, to breed the superman.
"This is not the time to rail at
i.xperiments mado by people who i
not under the harrow of our pre
judices by question begging names
such as 'purity,' 'propriety,' and so
forth, and to speak of the Brahman
who is the father of 100 children aa
'. libertine v.,t:i 100 wives.
"Any man of 30 may have 100
children without having a wife at
all, and still be positively uscetic
'n his temperament compared with
the average respectable, faithful
British husband of the same age,
and if the 100 children 'happen to
be of fine physique' the nation will
bo more powerful" and prosperous In
the next generation than If these 100
children were replaced by 100 child
ren of indifllerent physique, each
1-nving a different father, promis
cuously picked up in the Clapham
drawing room system, which limits
the fertility of its men of flue phy
sique to the child bearing capacity
of one woman and wastes the Hve3
oi thousands of iirst rate maiden
in barrenness because they like to
twn thair own houses and manage
their own affairs without being sad
dled with a second rate or tenth
late man.
Must Not Take Merits for Granted.
"The nation must not take its own
merits for granted. It may be the
right system; it may be bound up
with all that Is best in our national
life, and, fortunate In our national
history, it may bo all that our stu
pidest people unanimously claim for
it, but then, again, it may not.
"The evidence on the other side is
weighty and the population question
h pressing hard upon us. The case
must be argued, not assumed, and the
Rnal verdict will be that of lIstory
and not of our modern suburban
villas, with no nurseries."
It remains for one man tc say the
final word on this burning subject.
Disputants on both sides are waiting
impatiently to learn Roosevelt's opin
ion of this as a solution of the race
suicide problem. . '
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On Wednesday Evening;, November 279
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Will Give Their Annual Dance in I. O. O. F. Hall. Music will
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Refreshments will be Served in the Hall
and a Good Time is Promised
TICKETS $1.00
Ladies Free
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putting in a commercial department. Fresh llnlibut Today.
This is far away from the idea of Hardshell clams, crabs and oys-
qollego entrance. It will serve three ters, at the Empire Fish Market, on
Best plumbing done at Mllnor's.
A. II. Eddy for plan r.D uni
fications of your now hom.
rurposc of High Schools.
Supt. Greenwood, of Kansas City,
is wise in his views regarding the
misuse of high schools, says the
Wichita Beacon. He has taken a
fine position against the use of the
high school as a college preparatory
institution, insisting that colleges
should have their owri training
schools and leave the high schools to
the masses who never expect a B. A.
Statistics show that nlnety-flvo per
cent of high school graduates leave
school for good and that only the re
maining Ave per cent go in for pen
nant, fraternities, caps and gowns of
Phi Beta Kappa, according to
whether their tastes be decorative,
social, archaic or philosophical.
It is the ninety-five per cent for
which the high, school course should
be planned, says the Beacon further.
As now arranged, history, both
mediaeval and modern, is an elective
study, ancient history alone being a
required one. This should bo
changed and no pupil should leave
high school without a general sur
vey of the entire period of history.
Too much of the time given to the
study of literature has to bo devoted
Into getting more or less vague his
torical backgrounds, which could bo
easily supplied by a thorough course
In general history.
The college entrance requirements
in English aro followed in most high
schools and each year theso grow
more philosophical nnd difficult in
contents. The Carlyle essay on
Burns deals in generalities which fall
like wster from a duck's back from
the mind of the average high school
frequenter, ho may be able to appre
ciate Carlyle at twenty-three hardly
before.
The DeCoverly papers are Inter
esting like Hudlbras from historical
standpoint, but you will And few
honest readers who love them for
themselves alone. American litera
ture should receive more attention
for many of tho nlnety-flvo per cent
will spend their lives in America.
Tho Wichita high school is wise in
purposes, it will keep in scuooi onu
or two years longer students who
would leave the el&uth grade to at
tend some business college and lose
the advantage of Uie broader sub
jects taught in high school curri
culum; it will meet the need of tho
boy who wants to get Into practical
business by giving him, a taste of it;
and it will serve the purpose in
teaching business methods.
Students are overworked trying to
get over tho college entrance re
quirements in language. Slower
work and more time would better
lit the needs and mental power of
many of the ninety-five per cent.
The high schools Etiould take the
stand heralded by the abolition of
fraternities, and bo our most demo
cratic institution.
The above is fro:n the Emporia
Gazette, published almost under tho
dome of the state normal, and wo
are glad that Will White has tho
,ood sense to publish such an arti
cle. The writer had over twenty
years experience in the public schools
of this county and state. As princi
pal of schools in this city and as
superintendent of schools in this
county, we advocted It then and we
repeat it now, that our public
schools (high and graded) should
be conducted so as to give the pupils
who attend them aa practical an edu
cation as possible, regardless of, the
course of study in our higher institu
tions of learning. A class of 44 en
tered the primary department in this
city two weeks ago last Monday
morning. The school has a twelve
years' course of study which, when
completed, entitles the pupil to a
diploma, and also entranco into a
certain class In the state normal or
state university. If six out'of the 44
in the primary department in tho
city schools here, graduate in twelve
years from now, by completing the
course, it will be above the average,
and if one out of the six goes to a
higher institution of learning, that
will be the average. Now, should,
our schools be graded up and run in
tho Interest of one in 44 or should
they be graded up and taught with
a view of giving to the pupils the
best possible practical education?
We are most heartily In favor of
higher institutions of learning, but
we are opposed to having our public
schools graded in such a manner
that tho two per cent who may enter,
these institutions can enter certain
classes, regardless of the result on
tho other 98 per cent.
Pupils are today studying French
and German and Latin and Geometry
in some of our high schoolB, who do
not understand the principles of In
terest and who wouldn't know a com
plex from a compound fraction If
they should meet them In tho road.
Some pupils are studying languag
es before they even understand the
first principles of the English lan
guage, and before they know any
thing about our literature. Our pub
lic school system was organized for
the purpose of giving the boys and
girls of each generation, a common
conse practical education and not one
year this and one or two years of
something else. Exchange.
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Mr. C. Beary has finally got his
gun repair shop rearranged to suit.
From his experience In general re
pair work there is not much doubt
but that be will fllUa badly neglect
do business.
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Always aiming to lead in the
matter of new ideas, wo can show
you the greatest stock of up-to-date
suits, cravenettes and overcoats for
men and young men ever brought to
this city. You will And hero tho
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