Religion: Baby Bonus

There is a popular tradition to the effect that the sons of clergymen usually turn out to be scamps. Yet a greater proportion of clergymen's sons are to be found in Who's Who in America than sons of any other professional or laboring class, skilled or unskilled.* Spurred by this fact, a unique form of philanthropy was suggested last week at a Manhattan luncheon of the American Eugenics Society by hearty, bearded President Dr. Clarence Gordon Campbell of the Eugenics Research Association. Briefly, what he proposed was that every clergyman be given...

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