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ton, a son
MARRIAGE.
MR. W. KEEGAN SERIOUSLY HURT.
TRAM CAR INVOLVED,
+
FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1926,
AIM OF EUGENICS.
RESTRICTING THE
"UNFIT.
MUKDEN TO WAIT AND SEE..
disregard of others, Marshal
GRACEFUL RETREAT SOUGHT FOR DR. YEN.
In a lecture on "Eugenics, Peking, May 20-According to a Love, and Marriage" read recent-high personage who has just re- Whilst riding a motor cyclely before the southplace Ethical turned to the capital from Mukden, yesterday at Happy Valley, Mr Society, Dr. Bernard Hollander tions, it is impossible for Marshal in view of his repeated declàra- W. Keegan, of the P.W.D., came" into collision with a tram car and said that the aim of eugenics was Chair Teo-lin to abandon his sustained considerable injuries to breed from good stock and to | former stand by supporting the which may involve the loss of his prevent the multiplication of the Regency-Cabinet of Dr. Yen, which right leg...
defective, diseased, and blological means supporting the Tsao Kun The scene of the accident
Constitution indirectly.. The (which occurred about noon) was unfit. Not that human beingsMukden party. will, however, re- near the Yung Wo Nursing Home could be mated as were animals, main reticent, and will not make where work is progressing in con- for animals were perfect at birth. any recommendation in regard to nection with the widening of the whereas human beings required the Cabinet problem, but if the canal which leaves little room be training till they gained independ. Chthil leaders continue to insist tween the side of the canal and ence, and were treanwhile sub-monopolieing political power in the tram-lines for vehicles travel-
ny. Chang will finally be forced to ling in the direction of the Dragon ject to all sorts of influences. Garage."
"Animals are bred for points." withdraw the Fengtien troops "to Mr. Keegan was riding an Dr. Hollander said, "but if we Lanchow and sever his connection.... AJ.S. solo machine at this point bred men the same, say, for in-with political affairs inside the when he met a moving tram 'car tellect, we should probably stunt on the part of Mukden is evidently Great Wall. This passive attitude which caught his off side handle
or the
moral responsible for the political, un- bar as he was turning to the left the physique
and "if we aimeasiness now prevailing. credible that the British Consul- to pass it. Mr. Keegan was nature,
It is understood that mediators General in Canton, Sir James thrown off violently striking the ed at general culture we should
tram car whilst it was still-moving probably end by uniformity of are again active in an effort to Jamieson, should have been one and sustaining severs injuries. a level mediocrity. Moreover, the reconcile the differences and bring of those Consuls from whom re- When first aid was forthcomi- most intellectual men and women about a compromise between the ports were received by the Minising at the Hands of Mr. B. A. are not the most fertile. An- two parties, by Anding a loophole -farm-yard through which Dr. Yen and the Hyder and Mr. A. A. Rumjann, of other reason why the St. John Ambulance Brigade, methods are not applicable to Chihli leaders may retreat grace- and Sergt. Roberts, of the Hong-human beings is that marriage is fully. kong Police, it was found that not a question of the head only, been suggested as the transitional Mr. Keegan had sustained two but also of the heart. Eugenics Party on whort the solution of the fractures of the leg, a spilt knee is, therefore, not intended to be present crisla may rest cap and other injuries. The am- a cold-blooded selection of pert deavours have been made to secure bulance from the Central Fire nets by some outside scientific the approval of these elders before Station conveyed the injured man authority; it is intended to foster concrete plans are announced. To remove she 'dissatisfaction of
are not to be the mere result of
on a wise and sane choice of a mate.
ter in Peking showing that "to all intents and purposes the boycott of British goods is at an end." We know Sir James Jamieson better
than that.
It is not sufficient by any means to express the opinion that
The elder statesmen have.
and en-
the Consular reports show the to the Government Civil Hospital. a growing conviction that childreMukden it is pointed out that there GEN. SUN'S PRONOUNCEMENT chance, but are to be dependent the part of Marshal Wu to mono-
MONROE DOCTRINE IN FIVE PROVINCES.
is not the slightest intention on
exaggeration of statements which have been made in certain quar-
polise political powers, as may be ters." Why not specify which
proved by the exclusion of all "It would be well if medical close adherents of the Chibli party, Consular reports and which are
certificates were required as to such as Kao En-hung, Chang Ying- the "certain quarters" that are General Sun Chuan-fang, milithe suitability of partners, to pre-hua, Sun Tan-lin. etc., from the merely left to the imagination? tart overlord of the five south-vent persons tainted with disease Cabinet, and by Dr. Yen's declara- The position In Hongkong during eastorn provinces of Kiangsu, from marrying Advice might tion of his willingness to retire in the past year ought to be known Klanga, Anhwel, Cheklang and also be given as to the psychologi- favour of a more acceptable can-
Fukien, is expected shortly to cal qualificatons of a prospective didate... to the British Minister in Peking, establish an independent prin-husband or wife, though in many and he ought to have made itcipality covering the rich terri- cases this would be disregarded, quite clear that so far as thistory under his control. He states for love is still the principal Colony is concerned his reference that he has introduced into this guide to marriage, and rightly so, ous, hard-working, and prudent ares of which Shanghai is the Those who advocate a higher and
people assume aver-growing | MCDOUGALL.-On May 19, 1926, to the "exaggeration of state-largest city. a Monroe doctrine more scientific conscience in mat-financial and other burdens which at Batu Gajah Hospital, to ments" cannot have the slightest aimed at opposition to any inter-ters of mating are by no means limit their powers to do justice to Mr. and Mrs. Dougald application. Unless there is more ference, and hints at extending plotting against love, but against their own children, while render McDougall, a son.
this doctrine over a larger area. the influences that do violence to ing it more possible for the indol SHACKLETON. On May 13, in his communication, to the Bri- Perhaps this is the first step love → arafast reckless and
1926, at Sourabaya, Java, to tish Foreign Office than what is towards fulfilment of an aspiration thoughtless matrimony, and that ent and improvided to live in based on fictitious value of wealth their kind without limit: and in- comparative ease and procreant Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Shackle-contained in the British wireless to rule the whole of China.
General Sun's recent scheme for and worldly position."
creased medical and hygienic message, will the Home Govern-
a Shanghai municipality to go.. EFFECTS OF PHILANTHROPY..
knowledge makes the defective ment, as well as the public at ordinate all outlying Chinese muni-
"So far as children are con- and diseased survive. To increase Home, not be led now to conclude cipal units was an example of the cerned, the object of eugenic the birth-rate among the better MARSHALL
ZANINO. On that all the representations that ambitious and shrewd nature of teaching is to prevent in them any stocks, the persons with a high May 14, 1926, at Sourabaya,
his plans. It is now believed that mental, moral, or physical obli-standard of comfort, the in- by the Rev. C Theodore have emanated from the Colony in these plans go even farther. and quity. Unfortunately it is the telligens and professional classes, Cribb, William Sime Mar- respect of the breaches of Treaties that he intends to fashion an in sound people that limit most the there should be a lightening of shall, of Dollar, Scotland, to arising out of the strike and the dependent domain out of territory number of their offspring, while the burdens of taxation; and to Truss Zanino, The Hague.
he now holds.
the defective and unfit exercise no reduce the number of babies barn boycott, are simply "scraps of
Strength for this view, and for forethought or restraint. The in the squalor of the slums, we paper"? Are they not liable to the possibility that General Sun's capitalist limits his family be- must teach the very poor to think conclude that the disclosures that plans allow for acquisition of even cause he does not want his pro- with deeper intentness about the have been made respecting the greater territory, was furnished perty divided up; the professional desirable restrictions of families.
by General Sun's statements quot-
man because for social reasons he and about the laws of health and ruinous effect of the boycott oned in the "China Times," a local wishes to give his children a first- happiness as related to the rear- the trade of this Colony are a Chinese newspaper, giving the con rate education, the poor clerk anding of children On a recent date when the mere pretence to gain sympathy text of an interview with General his like because he can hardly. In view of the fact that the
Sun by a Japanese reporter.
make the two ends meet, even surplus of women is very small atmospherics precluded the Bri- and a trade loan of three millions
Ching Needs Uniting.
without a family; and the skilled during their marriageable years, tish wireless news message being sterling? Are they not likely to "China needs uniting," he is worker because often his wife has if more men; were willing to received in Hongkong a curiosity construe the recent speeches at quoted as having stated. will to go out and earn wages in addi- marry, we must welcome the en reached Singapore from
this the General Chamber of Com- take the Monroe doctrine whichdition to his own. Thus at the terprising modern girl who no am now applying to the five south- present day, when life becomes longer keeps herself apart and source. Both Straits papers con- merce and even in the Legislative eastern provinces, and will next more complicated and difficult, secluded until the great serious sidered it worth imposing head Council as the outcome only of apply it to the whole of China. If when marriage is contracted later. adventure comes along. Half of there is a good government and when each child is a new the marriage tragedies of the past lines and placing at the head of a vivid imaginations?
Peking I will do my best to support source of expense and of addi-were due to women's lack of know- column. It is dated Rugby. May
We in Hongkong know full well, it, but if it is bad I shall refrain tional difficulties, the desire for ledge of men. Therefore, from a 26, and is given here in fult:
of course, that the British Minis- from interfering with it
children has greatly diminished. eugenic standpoint, the greater "Doles, the panel, and other freedom of modern girls is a de- terin Peking is speaking of the North alone. The context of the
forms
of philanthropy have sirable change in the relation be brought it about that the vigor.tween the sexes." wireless message makes that quite clear. But will it be made equally clear to those at Home and
Hongkong, Friday, June 4, 1926.
AN INDISCRETION?
Reports received from the Bri. tish Consule in China show that the boycott of British goods is to all intents and purposes at an end. At the time of the trans-
He added that he would not oppose the will of the people in any of his plans. "If I carry out my plans I shall not do anything against the mind of the people," he stated, "neither is there any reason to think that Chins would come to mission of these reports by the elsewhere, within the Empire? an end thereby." Referring to the British Minister at Peking, abnor-Judging from the prominence alliance between Wu and Chang, mal conditions only prevailed in given to the matter in the Sings-General Sun sald it was his hope certain southern parts owing to pore papers, there is a suspicion had to base their alliance on to see them co-operating, but they the Cantonese campaign against that even they were slightly mis-morality and wisdom. the Colony of Hongkong and at led into believing that the refer-
unavoidable restrictions imposed
To Save His Country.)
Angchunting on the Upper ence to the boycott "being to all China needs urgent reforms, he Yangtse. British trade and ship intents and purposes at an end ping therefore, apart from the included Cantor as well. If there Is reasonable ground for that by the state of civil war in North suspicion, then it will at once be China, are once more being car- ried on internally in normal seen how much more easily it ia for the public at Home to be led The British Minister at Peking astray.
conditions.
It is time that the Home public has expressed the opinion that the Consular reports show the were placed in possession of the exaggeration of statements which facts as regards Canton, and al- have been made in certain quar- though Sir James Jamieson should ters regarding the ruinous effect how be in London, the British of the boycott on British trade. Minister in Peking, In view of his Has the British Minister in despatch quoted above, ought to Peking been guilty of an indiscre
mail or cable a special report deal ing with the Canton boycott alone. tion in permitting the public st Home to believe, as well, they
That might go some way toward may, that Hongkong in particular counteracting the apparent indie
cretion of his original report has been guilty of gross axaggera- tion in respect of the ruinous that is, still provided that the Bri effect of the boycott on British
tish wireless message has omitted nothing vital: trade? He seems to go out of his way to minimise the position be- A Chi tween Canton and Hongkong, Conna which he is content to describe as Babnormal condit ons. It is ing
THE LAW OF THE
SKIRT.
poets aang the praises of the tem- an offender.
Gone is the time when our shorter than the law provides is Women inspectors pestuous petticoat. The place will walk the streets of Athens thereof knows it no more. With with roving eyes. At first the
went on, to say. If China remains anxious yet embarrassed eyes the scanty skirt will be warned, then standing still it will affect both waning fortunes of the skirt are the law is to put forth its red Ching and the foreign countries, watched. Dally it grows smaller right hand and the police give notice to all the other sex that If the militarists continue their by degrees, though not always fathers are responsible for their struggle for territory and per beautifully less. In the days of children and husbands for their petuate civil war, European In
uence will step in and the result, Good Queen Anne, Steele and wives. The application of this thinks General Sun, will be Boisho. Addison kept the town agog with always dubious principle to a vik development, and a Bolshevised rumours of cabals among the fair injustice to man. There rast matter of akirts is the crowning China would be a menace to the to make dresses lower and lower surely be some knowledge of world. Sun predicted that within yet. Burt to that modest age the human nature in the Greek police. ten years the yellow people will possibilities of the ascension of Some of them are probably hus be extinguished If China comas Lite skirt had not been revealed bands, some fathers. They must under the control of European it is doubtless the working of be aware that it is very rarely the the Monroe doctrine into the five law of compensation, which keeps cites to the ahortening of skirts. rations. That is why he introduced that mysterious force, Nature's father or the husband who in- provinces under his control the modern frock up to the neck. Not from parental or conjugal Much Importance is attached to Here in the West men have learnt line comes the cry "Excelsior!" this statement in Chinese circles to take with decent meekness What the need for such a penal where it is construed as a feeler what they are given (says a measure is in Greece, what to prepare the ground for what writer in a Hone daily paper) peculiar causes there may be General Sun eventually intends to But the Greek taste is offended, there making a longer skirt do The Chinese newspapers To the women of Hellas the law necessary to the welfare of the reported that his thes already has just said, “Thus far and no State, we are not informed. In seized the Salt Gabelle in the farther Exactly how far we the old days, there used to be a territory within his control in order find ourselves with infinite regret good deal of feeling about the to finance his new scherde.
unable to for one General Sun's hold on the five bells ris 1816 inches provinces la tone too secure. He and other of aldita 7% inc
below the nee, which, by all
"Anatomy, "cannot be mod
What is certai Spar
71 is reported to be somewhat per ed about Euklen, owing to in Kwangtung, while Anhw "Iven him a lot of
Times
the
clothes of the Spartan women (as compared with--the- lowing brobes of the secluded "Athens. But the pman, though not off
arity has
decided