Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1915 — SHOULD COPY NATURE’S WAY [ARTICLE]

SHOULD COPY NATURE’S WAY

Human Planners of Reform Would Do Well to Make Note of Her Methods. The divergence between man’s ways and nature’s ways becomes empha sized as we reflect on the mass of reforms and isms which are eagerly urged for the education *and the moral and physical welfare of our youth, remarks the Brooklyn Eagle. One group wants trade training, one group “sex hygiene" taught in the schools, and another wants nonsectarian religious training there. Still another tells us that marriage is becoming more and ‘more difficult, while vice and diseases which spring from it are increasing at a rate which threatens race extinction, hr perhaps the decay of the now dominant races and replacing them by stock nearer to the soil and less easily molded by our present social ideals. ’ ' . The discouraging thing about all this is that very few'Of these enthusiasts realize that they all have hold of corners of the same problem, and there is no sign of co-operation, coordination or coherence-among them. That is the reverse of nature’s way. She is synthetic, while the most that altruistic human planners seem able to do fa to separate processes which nature has grouped, analyze them and, when any growth proves sickly or too -lush; to treat its particular symptoms without tracing the root of the disease.