The eugenics crusade of Charles Fremont Dight.

"JUST AS A STREAM wfll be impure that takes its origins from a cesspool, so vx'ill the children be defective or diseased who spring from parents, both of whom have the same inheritable defects, or who, if not themselves defective, carry in their blood — the germ plasm — the determiners of inheritable disease or a morbid mentality; and this takes place no matter how much the parents may have been improved by education and environment. Some politicians look only to the next election; the statesman looks to the next generation. "' The author of these words was Charles Fremont Dight, a Minneapolis physician who introduced the eugenics movement to Minnesota. An eccentric in his day, Dight lived for a time in a "tree house," outside of which hung a sign that read, "Truth shall triumph. Justice shall