[left side] The New Family, Feeding the New Family, Bread for the New Family, and Eugenics and Racial Integrity in relation to the New Family. Apply to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, Room 708, State Office Building, Richmond, Va. We call upon educators, clergymen, physicians and others to request this booklet in numbers for distribution to the higher type of young people. [signed] State Registrar of Vital Statistics. [4] [right side] Shall America Head for Race Suicide or for Race Improvement?* By W.A. Plecker, M. D. No fact is more clearly revealed by a study of history than that the welfare and progress of a country is dependent upon the quality of its leaders. America from its early days to the present, in peace and in war, has been fortunate in having leaders eminently qualified for every emergency. This has not been accidental, but has been the outcome of laws of eugenics and heredity working through regular channels. The first settlers to land upon our shores were from nations which had proved their fitness to be considered the best. These settlers themselves were not random selections, but most of them were men and women of the highest type of courage, faith and fitness. Many came that they might enjoy religious and political freedom, while others came because of the unparalleled opportunity offered in this great and rich country to acquire land and to attain prosperity. Some came as servants, while some undesirables were palmed off on the colonies. For nearly three centuries the steady flow of white immigration was from these desirable stocks of kindred people, and consisted chiefly of individuals fitted to meet and endure the hardships which awaited them. These stocks were homogenous and readily joined in the task of building up a great country. They increased rapidly in numbers in the days when a large family was an asset, every child adding power, wealth, and influence. The great mistake of introducing negroes, and the danger of their presence in the intimate relations with the whites, had not yet been realized except by such farseeing statesmen as Jefferson, Madison, and later by Lincoln. [flush left score] *Read by invitation before the Southside Medical Society at Petersburg, Va., September 8, 1925. [5] [end]