Hooton Supports Birth Control as Peace Insurance

A new wrinkle in peace proposals hit the headlines, got bandied around by an amused California press, and had a quick demise last week, when Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, put forward scientific birth control as a sure cure for war.

Speaking before a Stanford University audience, Hooton laid out a triple-headed campaign for raising the quality of society and securing the peace. Universal birth control "to prevent the incompetent from reproducing their kind," the weeding of social misfits from the educational system, and concerted efforts to raise the "low I.Q." of governments were proposed by Hooton.

Democracy's "supporting in idleness" of inefficient, poverty-stricken individuals who should never have been born is an additional threat to the crumbling world, according to Hooton.

He proposed that the few low quality infants which slip through the birth blockade be forced, at least, to work.