Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 305, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1924 — Page 8

Offspring Os Elderly Couples Show Supremacy (UNITED FRErtN SERVICE) Chicago/ Dec. 24. —If one doesn't want to run chances of being a moron one should arrange to bo born to an elderly couple. And if you do arrange to be the offspring of persons well along in life, your chances for greatness are excellent. This Is the j conclusion of Casper L. Redfield, i Chicago scientist, today who announc- : ed an educational campaign to have | state legislature enact laws prohibit-1 ing marriages under the age of 21. j In a statement to the United Press, ' Redfield said he had been making j his investigations for almost 50 |

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years and hopes that every state legislative body will enact laws against wedlock for minors. "Last year there were 3,000 marriages of couples under 15 years of | age," Redfield said. “From this class ■ come the principal part of our crim-' inals, paupers and prostitutes. In 12 states it is legal for 12 year old girls and 14 year old boys to marry. "Chicago’s crime wave would not have reached its present peak, if marriage laws had been passed in I Illinois 20 years ago." To prove his theory that many of i the most distinctive men of history ' were born of parents well along in j years. Redfield names Sir Francis I Bacon, Charles Darwin, James Watt,

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John Wesley. Benjamin Franklin. George Washington. Abraham Lin'coin, Robert E. Lee. and Henry Ward Beecher. ] "The investigation has brought out ] another geneologioal phenomenon." he declared. ‘The great aggressive leaders have been the sons of young , fathers, whose fathers before them i were older men. Alexander the great. Napoleon Bonaparte and Ulyssus S. Grant an* among these. In his research, Redfield has found that the eldJit child lighter in weight, dies at un earlier age and is mere apt ' to become a criminal than any other child in a family.” I

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WARMEST WISHES Christmastime, with its hallowed memories and golden hours of other years is here again. May it be for you and those dear to you a day of joy and sweet association. And may each day of the New Year greet vou with increasing hap-pmei-s P. J. Hyland North Second Street

SGO.OOO Christmas Bonus For Steel Co. Employes tUNITED PRESS SERVICE) Washington, Dec. 23-The senate hundred employes of the Commonwealth Steel company w|ll share in a $(>0,000 Christmas bonus to be apportioned among employes who have been with the company more than six months. The company operates on the Golden Rule plan whereby employers share in the profits. Thb Ralston Purina Company also 'has announced its employers will reIceive service awards.

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