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What has become strong silent Englishman who used to sit in a corner of his rail- way carriage and never relax a facial muscle all the way from Liverpool to London? The ques- tion is à pertinent one because
Hong Kong, Monday, February 15, 1937 the most terrifying adventure which awaits the traveller on Home leave is traditionally the massive and impenetrable silence of the gentleman in the corner,
Yet within the last few weeks At a symposium recently held under the auspices of New somebody has been writing to York's Department of Hospitals "The Times" to complain that to discuss genius and eugenics English railway passengers an- there was the expected castiga-noy each other because, Heaven help us, they talk too much! tion of the Nazis.
correspondent More important was the ap-"The Times” praisal of the gifted who come wants the railways to set aside compartments for "Non-Talk- of a tainted stock.
Since very few persons knowers," indicating them by labels who their great-grandparents on the windows just as smoking were, it is hard to construct compartments are indicated. genealogies that inevitably point. Britain's trains are cut up into to hereditary-taints of the type compartments holding about a that would justify sterilisation. dozen passengers each, and "The of Times" correspondent thinks the But from the histories geniuses compiled by Lange compartment system is too gre- Eichenbaum, the Neurological garious unless special provision Association's Committee on Euis made for non-gregarious pas- genical Sterilisation extracts for sengers.
We are inclined to view the comment in its report a few
in its whole controversy as an incredi aberrant celebrities who,
The description "non- opinion, were worth more to ble one. society than the cost of main- talkers" would seem to as be as tenance of all State institutions redundant on a compartment put together," and who "would full of Englishmen as on the
works
Madame have been lost if sterilisation wax laws had been enacted on a Tussaud's. compulsory basis
turies ago.
Anderson, weaver
few cen-
of fairy Dr. Goebbels On War
Dr. Cost declares there
tales, came of psychotic drunkards; Beethoven
was- a
war and the eco- "paranoid psychopathic person-will be no ality" given to drinking, Bluenomic situation in Germany, 28- cher, saviour of Wellington at cording to latest reports, seems Waterloo, sprang from a family to make for peace. To make this of manic-depressives and him-statement does not necessarily self died in a depression; the imply accusing Germany of ag- poets Goethe, Grillparzer, Hauff, gressive intentions. Germany Hoelderlin, von Kleist, Poe, Ver-herself proclaims that she wants laine, Strindberg were neurotics, the status quo in international psychopaths, schizophrenics or affairs changed into something Other “queer,” with suspicious ances-advantageous to her. tries; Schumann was not only powers wish to retain the present insane himself but had an insane status. Both cannot have their son; Mayer, enunciator of the way and rightly or wrongly, Bri- law of the conservation offtain fears that the issue may be energy, suffered from manic put to a test. But if certain depressive insanity and attempt supposedly authentic reports are ed suicide m an asylum, and the1to be trusted a review of Ger great Newton was a
from his fiftieth Chotict many's internal situation was
on submitted to Herr Hitler recent- to bizarre of speech, incoherent,ly and it was not encouraging convinced that he was the object strong action to bring about a of persecution.
change in the status quo. The family. istories of these Hitler's military advisers are celebrities are so obscu that said to have insisted that Ger- any sterilisation court would man policy at present must be think twice before would ac- such as to avoid risks of war cept them as genetic evidence, because Germany has not only In any event, the question of sufficient tramed reserves but ve is smalk social values is raised Would her economic society have gained more This may be but one more of the
circulat than from rejoicing in his la
many fables that quartets, the profoundest mas about Germany, as about oth cal compositions ever gi to countries
Lion humanity? Would it be unwise tas exchange the certainty
reditary
at there
Ubels seem to suggest remains com for the