Manifesto

[Jan Klimkowski]

Magda - great find.

The start of the article, which I quote below, is great.

Pioneer Fund Tried to Spread `Natural Endowments' of Top Air Force Fliers

'Sound and Desirable Stock'

By DOUGLAS A. BLACKMON
Staff Reporter, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WARE, Mass. – Tomorrow, Ward and Darby Warburton, twin brothers born on Aug. 18, 1940, will celebrate their 59th birthdays with cake and a crowd of grandchildren gathered at the home of their 86-year-old mother near this picturesque New England mill town. The brothers' shared birthday marks something more than another milestone in the lives of two World War II-era babies. It also marks the start of their involvement in an odd experiment six decades ago of which the Warburton family was a mostly unwitting subject.
Long before cloned sheep, egg donors and sperm banks, a group of wealthy Northeastern conservatives embarked on an experiment with the help of the U.S. Army Air Corps to find a way to improve the human race. The group, formed in 1937, called itself the Pioneer Fund. As is spelled out in hundreds of pages of documents and letters by its founders and their associates, the Pioneer Fund, alarmed by the declining U.S. birth rate and rising immigration, was at the forefront of the eugenics movement. Like many other prominent leaders of the time, the fund's directors were particularly concerned that "superior" Americans were not reproducing enough to pass on their "natural endowments."
So they set out to spur procreation among a group they regarded as superior indeed -- military pilots and their crews. With the support of Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of war, Harry H. Woodring, the group offered $4,000, about $46,000 in today's dollars, for the education of additional children born during the year 1940 to any officer who already had at least three offspring.
The Air Corps – precursor to the U.S. Air Force – promoted the program and provided the fund's psychologists extensive records on its officers, including training, parentage, race and religion, according to various memos and letters written among Pioneer Fund leaders and records of the experiment. By the end of 1940, a dozen qualifying infants – seven boys and five girls, including two sets of twins – had been born. The Pioneer Fund had expected bigger numbers. Looming war clouds seemed to have trumped the fund's financial incentives. The Pioneer Fund quietly made arrangements for the children to receive their scholarships, and never contacted the families again.
The Pioneer Fund, which today remains a controversial funder of research into the roots of intelligence, says the 1940 effort was a legitimate experiment to gauge attitudes toward family size, and nothing more. The Air Force declines to comment.

The essential question is then asked.

But how did the kids turn out?

And not answered.

Because we are in Wall Street Journal land.

The heart of the beast.

And the limited hangout.

Relax. Everything is fine. Let me sing you a lullaby.

[singing] Somewhere, over the rainbow, bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow,
Why then— oh, why can't I?

This Pioneer Fund programme is a part of the deep black, suppressed, context for many testimonies that I have heard, sometimes personally, over the years.

But, shurely, this kind of eugenic experiment, run by Harry Harlow and Ewen Cameron types, on human infants, isn't possible in a democracy....

Sleep tight, little one....