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WHAT SOME WOMEN THINK. OF A EUGENIC LAW That women as well as men should be examined if a eugenic law is passed was the concensus of opin ion at the meeting of the Eugenics Educational society at. the City club last night Beyond the one point upon which all agreed, each of the eugenists had a separate idea of the system. Among the views expressed were: Dr. Anna Blount I am for a strict marriage law, providing for examin ations of bride and groom fifteen days before the wedding, the exam ining physician to get $10 for his work. Dr. Mary Neff It isn't so much a law that is needed as education of the masses. The boys of the colleges are the ones that are diseased. Fewer men of thirty-five and over are dis eased than college boys. We want to begin to save the boy for whom the tentacles are out as well as for the girl. Miss Jane Addams said: "To be fair, the eugenics law must be made to include women as well as men. Besides, one mustn't think that all disease is from, wrongdoing. Consti tutional weakness would disqualify for marriage, according to my idea of the engenics question." o o DEPUTIES HELD IN NEW JERSEY STRIKE KILLINGS Roosevelt, N. J., Jan. 23. 28 deputy sheriffs who figured in the fertilizer strike riot in which two strikers were killed last Tuesday are in the county jail at New Brunswick today, charged with murder in the first degree. Armed guards still patrol the com pany's plant today. Officials of the company have refused admittance even to federal agents, it is charged by Patrick F, Gill and Daniel T. O'Reagan, special investigators ap pointed by the Federal Industrial Re lations Committee. Engineers, oilers and firemen em ployed at the Leibig, Armour and 1 Williams and CJark plants quit work today. They told officials that some time during the night letters threat- i ening them with death if they con tinued at work were left at their homes. In some instances, they said, the writer of the letters threatened to dynamite their homes. W' New York, Jan. 23. Chairman Walsh of the Federal Industrial rela- -tions committee refused today to . comment on the reported defiance by guards at the Leibig plant, of Roose velt, N. J., of his investigators, Gill and O'Regan. He said Gill would make formal report of his work, and ' possibly of this particular incident on Tuesday. HOYNE'S TAX ACTIVITIES NET COIN FOR COOK COUNTY. The success of Hoyne's tax fight has been proved in dollars arid cents. The earnest manner in which his of fice has gone after the dodgers brought results without litigation. He has issued a statement giving the following, figures: "Our collections on the 1913 delin quent personal property taxes amount to $108,000, and we have been collecting for less ,than a month," said Henry A. Berger, as sistant state's attorney. "The year's collections will total more than $1,000,000. "The records show that in no past year did the old county attorneys ever collect more than $60,000. The amounts of their collections ranged from $40,000 to $60,000. "The $108,000 brought into the treasury thus far came without filing W$ a single Buit. The people are willing enough to pay when they realize the county is in earnest in its threats to force payments as provided by the revenue laws." o o Washington. Sec'y of Navy Dan iels ordered cruiser Des Moines and gunboat Nashville to proceed to Hai tian waters. Rapid progress of rev olution -in Haiti. - - "ty- CKak