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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1950.
I DON'T WANT MY SON
TO LEARN BOXING
I am a renegade. Up to a short while ago I honestly be- lieved that every boy should learn to box. Makes a man of him, you know!
Now I don't want my son ever to learn boxing. He might grow to like it. Let him become a man in other ways-break a few ribs like his father playing_Hugger, for in- stance. But boxing, no. I am afraid lext boxing makes a num skill of him.
Injures brain
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If a few professionals, knowing the risks but willing to take them in a bid for glittering prizes, want to box, lot them, but in my view boxing should be cut out of the curriculum at all educational es- tablishments.
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By Pat Reekie
Fontaine),
On March 10, 1949, Andre Lo Floch, 1 19-year-old French boxer, met the then British fea- ther-weight champion, Potor
bout.
In his article Doctor Steinhaus, dead by her boy friend Raymond Brander, in a London amateur goes on to describe how another Bouquet. (Del Chicago doctor, Ward C. Hal- French-Canadian boxer. stead, of the University of Chica- go, examined 147 cases of brain injury in which no trace of the injury was visible outside skull.
as the brain's frontal
In the third round the referee The defence at Bousquet's trial stopped the fight when, after re- W Insanity, Evidence war Colving a punch to the chin and the given that he complained of dou-Another to the side of the head, ble vision, sleeplessness, unstable Le Floch went down on one knee. walk, and depression,
not apparently badly hurt, but "Teluctant to continue."
Good Morning
Churchill — the "yolce breathes o'er Eden.
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that.
Once the hotel 'boys used to say "Dirty linen?". Now all they ask is "Washington?"
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Some people think this H-bomb business will end up in a lot of
hot air.
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Doctor Halstead proved that most of the bruising from a head The insanity plea falled. Bour- blow occurs in what are known quet was found guilty and han Immediately after the fight. Lej Myrtle is not so dumb as some abber, ged, but there can be no doubt Floch seemed perfectly all right, people try to make out, but when Along the smooth back and side that he was yet another victim but he collapsed after receiving she first saw a French poodle she walls of the skull little harm of punchdrunkenness,
his prize and died two days later did think the moths had been may be done, but up in front the
Inquest verdict: Accidental at it While sentence was passed on death, following a blow on the brain rests against a sharp, beny him he stood erect in the dock head. surface known as the sphenoidal holding tightly a photograph of ridge.
the girl he had murdered.
America, 100, has her gloomy
Injuries occur oven in sparring. Deans. A couple in the State It is this bony ridge which In the strictly legal sense het was a blow received in train | Department. enures the soverest injuries. The was not insane, but his self-con- ing that put. Gene Tunney-con- It is a waste of time educating brain, bounced forward by a trol, when faced with suspicions queror of Dempsey, out on his mind and then presenting blow, crashes into it, and the de- about his girl friend, had gone. feet for 24 hours, and which the educated part of it particular-ficate frontal lobe brain tissues
caused him, the world champion, to announce he would never fight again.
With badly injured brain man degenerates. At best he is capable of only a routine mo- chanical job, which requires no initiative, no special judgment, no making of quick decisions. At worst he is fit only for an asylum.
"There
A definite Ane lavender ammonia aroma and It's factory an experience in old delight to use these salts."
The old factory hands con
the "struggle against Colonial-ly-to injury in the boxing ring. are destroyed. The destruction. of brain tissues is permanent. They do not heal
No fighter escapes brain injury have it. As I have said, it to the frontal lobes in which that which dis- tinguishes man from animal is centred Damaged tesues here menn impairment of thinking power. Jack of Judgment, and emotional instability, lack of self- control.
Recent discoveries prove that boxing, even amateur and school- boy boxing, can cause, and docs, cause, appalling injury to the brain and in particular that part of the brain-the frontal lobes with which a person thinks and which distinguishes man from animal,
ism"--the struggle, in other words, to bring them under the Kremlin and Communism. Peking has already joined in the chorus, and includes India among the downtrodden peoples still striving for "na- tional independence." Men look in vain for a paradise on I was quite a young man, 19, my first case of this earth. They certainly when I met cannot find it in any Com-punch-drunkenness. I was sent to interview a famous ex-British munist State, nor would they champion, a man whom only a hope to find it in a Colony. Nevertheless, the change that has come over Colonial policy and administration is one of the most remarkable conse- quences of the last war. Pro- gress in Africa in particular has been in many respects astounding.
None escapes
On July 10, 1936; Hilda Meck, few years before I had herowor- a 10-year-old waitress, was shot shipped.
I came away from that inter- view feeling very sick. The "champ" was still a fine specimen of manhood physically, but he was mentally vacant. That is the best way to describe him. His eyes were staring.
He was unable to
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con-
entirely. Dr. Steinhaus claims that thinking power is not im- 80th birthday, and his gardener
Maybe the infury is so slight
his The squire had attained Save my Ind from that!
paired, or apparently so, but the was offering respectful Remember, even light blows risks are appalling. can cause brain injuries. School-
gratulations. "I never thought, boys have died
Bir" he declared, "that I should as a result of It is only when the boxer has live to be working for on boxing injuries. There is one been seriously injured that he octogeranium." authenticated case of how a pro-shows the obvious signs, but how perly supervised bout between many lads, I wonder, have had two six-year-olds resulted in one their mental development retard- lad being mentally maimed for ed by unknown and unsuspected life.
brain injuries?
Australia fears the
Japs
Japan's Population Counell is
"My little boy is very polite," sald Brown proudly. "Only the other night he pointed out an empty seat to an old lady and raced her for it."
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Myrtle's grandfather defines Communism as the opiate of the
asses,
Japan hopes, with United; the beautiful but cold and unset-
"You're terribly extravagant," answer the simplest questions Nations approval, to move fled Northernmost island of the well aware of the gaps, weck complained the husband.
Japanese homeland. without a long pause for thought five million migrants into
nesses and conflicts in this divid- anything should happen to me, while what he had been asked empty South Pacific lands dur-{
ed Western front opposing its you'd probably have to beg," They recognise that birth con~ sank in and he groped around to ing the first five years after trol is a strange, alien idea in The Council, doubtless, remem- "Look at all the experience I've plans for Japanese migration, "I'd get by," mapped his wife. formulate an answer.
Japan, and that any peace treaty is signed.
central bers also the solemn warning of had." government coult
caslly stillo Dr. Thompson, after MacArthur
I have met many punch-drunks since; even seen them amang ama-
teur Aghters. They are the wrecks of the ring. Some are blind-most wear glasses; some are incapable of forming any judgment or mak- ing any decision of their own.
How it happens
In addition, her leaders pro- pose boldly to use Japan's ever- soaring birth-rates an economic weapon on the world's markets.
These alms are thinly masked in the long-awaited report sub- mitted by the Japanese Popula- tion Council to the Prime Minis-j ter, Yoshida,
any
By RICHARD HUGHES
A mission of the United Na- tions Trusteeship Council has just paid a visit to that part of the Camerɑons under Bri- tish administration. Its re- port was issued a few days ago, and is described by papers in England as a fas- cinating document, and one of the highest testimonies ever produced to the excellence of the aims of the Colonial Ad-
Much work la the study of Following five months* deli- ministration. It was parti-
punch-drunkenness has been bération, the Council of hand- cularly gratifying in view of carried out in the past two years picked experts has at last pre- some, of the nonsense talked in America. In the United States sented a series of recommenda- by Iron Curtain representa Naval Hospital in Bethesda tions for absorbing Japan's burst-
66,- public Interest In its widespread tives on the Council. The series of laboratory tes's haveing population, which was
And, proved that, the brain being loose 000,000 in 1930-34, 72,000,000 at adoption.
Bnyway, they Mission consisted of delegates Inside the skull, a blow to any the end of the war and 80,000,000 don't want to check Japan's po- from Iraq, Belgium, Mexico, part of the head causes it to at the end of last year, and will pulation growth. and the United States. It de-bounce backwards and forwards be 105,000,000 in 20 years. scribes in an extremely vivid and bang against the bone con-
After perfunctorily endorsing manner how they travelled taining walls.
birth control, the Council sug- hundreds of miles through the This discovery is revealed, in a gests that other courses open to Cameroons and saw all kinds recent article in the American Japan. are:-
"Look" by Doctor of people. The mission was magazine
1. Recovery of Japan's inter- welcomed by large sections of Arthur H. Steinhaus, a Chicago national trade.
professor of physiology, who has the population, who presented spent 25 years in the
special it their petitions and study of the body-building and grievances, and who display-body destroying aspects of physi- cd complete freedom of cal exercise and sport. speech. The report emphasis ed that everywhere the mis- sion went, it found evidence of this. Whether in public meetings or in private inter- views, the people expressed themselves with the utmost freedom, many times in the presence of members of the
to
administration.
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had insisted that the Occupation A local schoolgirl Boys had no responsibility for urging tonsure is when a priest shaves birth control in Japan:
his head instead of cutting it off. "In my judgment, there is no, Follow says Myrtle really is a possibility of preventing
the smashing girl. After only one crowded peoples of the world date with her he was broke. from taking possession, sooner or later, of lands held out of use by colonial powers."
RED THREAT REAL, JESSUP SAYS
Madras, February
Dr. Phillp C. Jessup, United States ambassador-at-large, told That is the central point on Router today that he thought the which all Japanese parties from Communist threat to South East Prime Minister Yoshida's reac-Asia is very real. tionaries to Sanzo Nosaka's Com- munists, are in flem nationalistic This was because of the power- agreement,
ful Communist regime on the |Chinese border, he said. Members of the Japanese Po- pulation Council believe further, Dr. Jessup, who was returning 2. Promotion of secondary or that in any United Nations dis- to the United States after the UIS, urban industries...
cussion on migration they could-Fac East diplomate conference in count, not only on the help of Bangkok, said the conference was 3. Training of "Industrious and Asiatic nations like China, India 'more in the nature of exchang- peaceful_migrants.!!_
and. Indonesia, - but-also- on-tradi-. fog notes and no decision of any tionally friendly South Ameri-kind was taken." lighting, traffic control, fire! These bland recommendations can countries like Brazil and
undercover ra- Argentina, which have
The situation brigades, and, in fact the screen intensive
in Slam, he already whole range of major muni- search and organisation by the declared willingness to welcome stated, was very peaceful and
Population Council, astute en "industrious and peaceful
quiet. Dr. Jessup left 10, "Election addresses-ka cipal services in a present-couragement of ill-assorted allies anese migrants."
Jap- Colombo today for two-day talks through one ser, out through day urban community.
dora
with the Ceylonese leaders, after the other. It is cotton 'wool`
and patient preparation
Borneo, New Guinea
try products."
threat to
truly democratic and peaceful?"...: General MacArthur himself has; pointedly" by-passed the problem of restricting or absorbing Japan's
From Today
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Labour continues more and "spontaneous" International de- "Dutch New Guinea, populated which he was expected to arrive you want, & suppose 1" more closely to organise it-mand for "readjustment of world now by 200,000 natives, could in Delhi-Reuter
space and world population" anca support at least 20 million Japan- self in trade unions, which Japan has re-entered world af- cse," says a private appendix to have been able to secure im- fairs.
the Population Counell's report Freedom of speech, prized provements in the wages and most by those who have lost conditions of their members, specially marked down for migra-cessfully operated cotton and hemp The areas which Japan has "Japanese pioneers, who suc it, is only a means to an end, with corresponding benefit to tion are:
concessions on the North court of however. What is being done the_authority, responsibility,
Dutch, New Guinea, know that for the general welfare of and prestige of the unions
(begin- untapped natural resources could these peoples, many of whom themselves. Trade unionism ning with Dutch New Guinea), yield rich supplies of high-grade are among the most primitive in the colonies is still suffer Celeber, Halmahera and Coram. lumber, resin and processed fores on the earth? The pioneering]ing from growing pains. It! By a strange combination, of
Japan's irrepressible birth rate period in Africa came to an would be a bad day for the circumstances, the Japanese can
depend on varying degrees of consequently becomes at once a end with the first world war. Colonies and the working open or covert help for their challenge to Walle, Australian By then, tribal wars and the people in them if trade union- migration proposals from the fears of an Asiatic population like had gone and the rule of jism became deflected froma following curious allies. spill-over into the South and a law been established. The its main purpose to purely
Western high-wage- A strong so-called "migration tariffs against Japanese sweat- nucleus of social services-political channels, but on the bloc" among MacArthur's ad-rug trade competition. public health, education, and whole the growth is healthy visers, who believe that migra the rest had been provided. and the outlook not discourag Japan's greatest problem
tion is the simplest solution for ............."If we cannot sell our, (and Japanese goods, how, please, can. Birth rates went up and mor- ing. Cólonial Governments one of whom privately suggested we feed our many hungry hard- tality declined. Populations have set up their Labour De the target of five million migrants working people and keep them grew with astonishing partments," staffed by trained in five years); rapidity. Ports were bulli and officials, whose work covers The Roman Catholic Church, enlarged, and rallways ex- the whole field of labour wel- because of its implacable opposi- tended. Remote regions were fare and industrial relations.. tion to birth control, opened up by postal, tele- Primary education is being The Japanese Communist Par-population increase. graphic and telephone facili- extended on a big scale, and ty, which realises as clearly He has, indeed, addressed him- ties and by motor-roads. there is an intense demand for do the old-style Japanese
self with great vigour and success Between the two wars pro it. Illiteracy is still wide- Council that excess hungry po-Japanese death-rate and so spur- servatives on the Population to the task of cutting down the greas continued space. Scienti-spread and the task of meet-pulation can equip Japan with fic research, tropical medicine ing the demands for educa- ts sharpest and most persuasive in the bounding natural in- and hygiene, new and better tion is formidable, even in nationalistic weapon. Many methods of agriculture, elementary schooling, but it An Influential section of Bribeca made to end or amend the Nor has any Occupation attempt animal husbandry, affore is being tackled,
tish business leaders in the Far
Japanese, family, allowance sys- station and the like were de Paternalistic administration East (especially in Hong Kong), which ales a wage carner's
who wish to settle "approved" veloped. Next came maternal is now obsolete, and nation- Japanese in North Borneo la or-income to his fecundity, award and child, welfare clinics and alistic self-consciousness is der to make the colony self-him a pay increase with every in
crease in his family; and so pro- Inspection centres, probation growing apace. Most of the supporting in rice production, duces the curious anomaly of an service, control of juvenile Colonies are desperately poor, Leftist elements in Indonesia, unskilled worker with a large delinquency youth clubs, and political independence who, like, the Japaness Comfamily carning more than a skill hostels many things up and economic dependence, as munist Party, can foresto ideolod for semi-professional worker heard of a generation before. Sir John Shaw has pointed gical advantages in raising and with small family. Village councils were promot-out, cannot go hand in hand. white exclusion of coloured Inflaming the question" of "selilah
Under the pressure of United ed, and elected municipal It is only a hundred years or workers from undeveloped tro States religious criticism Mac- councils in the cities and so since slavery was abolish, picalźlanda." Am large towns, who raise sub-ed Thore is stili far to go, ANAATA stantial revenues by rates and | but the pace in the last two local taxation for water sup-| decados, has been: relatively
Japan's lendesi linore the fiés, concentrated to nation-wide" cam- plies, electricity, powerage, | swift, even in – "darkent, mat-there-1. luumediaks roques for palam for birth control-throughs transport, street cleaning and Africa
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crease.
My Arthur: also bubilcly disclaimed
the patient and skilful work of [his chiar population adviser, Dr. Thompson, world auilo=
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