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ANTHROPOLOGY
AND WAR.
SIR ARTHUR KEITH'S
NEW BOOK.
of
HONG KONG. DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1931.
FEER STARTS · A SONG MISSION.
MR. RATCLIFF ON 'A CHURCH TOUR,
"Ethons; or, The Probio
The spectacle of 100,000 people Race By Sin ALTER KEITH. singing war-time songs and hymn
THE CAT IS IN FASHION.
DECORATIVE GRACEFÚL,
AND A. SOOTHING
INFLUENCE
THE BLACKHEATH MURDER.
A WARNING THAT WAS. NOT HÉEDED.
F.R.S." (Kegan Paul. d.). si the football Cup Final at. Wemand graceful little animal quaintly going on the lenth was given at the i
Nothing that Sir Arthur Keithley Inst April has inspired Lord writes can be without interest; and Wakefield to organise a great na everybody who reads his
little tonal
campaign of education volume in the admirable "To-day among the Churches in community
xinging.
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· Evidence that Lonian Steele, tho 19-year old victim of the Black- On all sides there is evidence of heath murder, was warned against the return to favour of the strange called the domestic ent,
inquest. writes
Grent public interest was shown Michael Joseph, who has kept in the opening of the inquest at hundred-cats. (For in truth the Greenwich. A big crowd gathered, year more ent shows and ent clubs few were available for the public. ent is not domesticated) Every and there was de rush for sents, but are organised, and the growing Mr. Thomas P. Rateliff, who public interest in the eat is reflect
ed conducted the mighty choruses of the adventures, prowess stid-yes-- daily in newspaper reports of the foothill crowd has been commisdeeds of cats, both famous and missioned by Lord Wakefield to obscure. tour Great Britain for twelve months to teach the nation how out on his mission,
and Tomorrow Series" most feel that ho. Has een given mano food for thought, write Sir Sidney Low in the Sunday Times. Tu it the learned author makes another ex- cursion outside the range of hin No one without a Badge will begin studies. He confess that sing. Ha has already started adimitted to the Members' Enclosure. he is trespassing on politics.
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To cnt lovers this revival of in- rest in what Shakespeare (the true Englishman, na always) called rather disturbing. The tat, I sub- "the harmless, necessary cat," is
He has none of the qualities which
cally-minded persims, as thinks,sued airplass fights and motor-mit, is uct dratined for popularity.
Lord Wakefield, who has spon should recognise that
The unrest which now disturbis er speed attempts and is the own
ment,
"I was so inspired and impress
by those great, community ehoruses at Wembley," he said to a representative that I decided that Mr. Rateliff's method of em trolling the crowd and drawing them into miss singing could be applied to the Churches.
There is nothing of the team spirit about the eat. He doesn't play the game." Nor does he push an affectionate wet muzzle into your hand and silently tell you. what a fine fellow you are (even when you happen to be a thorough blackguard).)
-Not Useful
Saying that the case would have to be adjourned, the coroner. Dr. H. Knight, aided-
has been called in for the post- Sir Bernard Spilsbury, who'
mortem examination; requires "a longer period to make à further medical examination which may nasist in clucidating the cue of death.”
Employer'a Story.
In à voice which, faltered with emotion while she took the oath, Mias Sterle's chiplorer, Miss Jennis Mailda Clare Andrews, gavo evi- dence. She was dressed in moum- ing, relieved only by a white band around her hat. She had employed Miss Steele as a general help for just over two years, she said.
The Coroner: Was it usual for her to go for a walk after supper 1- Alway on Tuesdays and Thurs Злук.
Miss Androwa explained that | were the girl's half days and even- Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday
home, and afterwards to the pic- ings out. Last Wednesday she went Intures.
the world arises from qualities of Miss England I.1. the make the deg and the hoci so dear inherent in human raus. If the fastest motor lint, is into the Anglo-Saxon heart. world is to have peace, the pro-cing this novel educational inva blens engendered by diversity of race must first leg undrastood. If they are to be solved, statesmen and politicing mist approach chem from an anthropological de evolutionary point of view. Here is a promising Introduction; but the promise is not quite fal filled in this savill mark, mainly, I dare say, because of ita malingss Sir Arthur has so little space in which to deal with the vast issues he touches that his-treatment of then scena misty and superficial. This is expeeintly the case when ho
"Mr. Rateliff is, in effect, a mis discasses modern international
sionary of song. He will use his questions. Roer, he holds, is due magnetic personality to draw pew primarily to the operation of phy-ple out of themselves. His pre siological factors under to in-
work consists of visiting fluence of environment. The I- towns and cities everywhere, Ive Bookmakers, Tie The Men, ric suits are seen in such physicnturing on the method of conduct will not be permitted to operate characteristics as stature, skulling community singing, and de within the Precincts of the Hond measurement, hair texture, piginea-minstrating in a practical way KONG JOCKEY CLTB during the Ruce tution, and skin colouring. Thus both a secular meetings and at Mecting.
we get the massive. Blocks of church services exactly how it can humanity into which since Huxley's be done." time anthropologiste have divided
Lord Wakefield stated that the humanity, Nantuchroie, Metano success of the movement has been chroig, Mongolian Negruid. Paci fic, or roughly White, Black, Brownstant, and that thousands are
intermediate stops to hear his message,
gathering wherever Mr. Rateli and Yellow, with types. It is all one of Nature's " devices for evolving higher varieties by selection and competition, and marking them off from ou, quother
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C. B. BROWN,
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NOTICE.
The Tribal Instind.
Sir
For
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"I believe that by reviving the singing of the old-time hymns peo-to his humur patrons by fetching He will not make himself useful ple could be led to enjoy and take and carrying, or pulling loads or an interest. in religious services running races in order to krap the loa much greater extent than bookmaking industry going. they dis at present.
short, the cat is a thoroughly selfish, independent, Intelligent creature.
Nevertheless, the cat has charm. It would be unfair to say that the cat takes the benefits of human civiliantion and gives nothing: in retorn. He is decorative, graceful and, to many, a soothing influence. Some people who are not ailuro- phober affect, mistrust or dislike of the cat.
BOTIC
I have recived indreds of letters from individuals and socie they who write with enthusi sam after taking part is one of Mr.
tRateliff's demonstrations." he add- ed. There is no doubt that the country is going to see a wonder- fut revival of song."
On Thursday the girl did not know that she would be able to go out that evening as they were expecting n relative to supper..
So it would be unlikely that she made any plans Absolutely, yes,
The Girl's Errand, Mias Andrews told how her sister sent. Misa Steele to return a book to a friend a few doors away, and then on to a chemist's shop, if it was open. She could then go for a short walk, but it was more than
A whole generation of English babies grew up in fent of Napoleon because their sannics warned then in their erndles of the wicked bogy.likely she would come straight back. So, I think, with cais.
Compared With Dogs.
The nursery superstition that ents suffocate babies in their cots probably derives from the medieval ameiation of cats with witches and | sorcery. Unfortunately, accidents sometimes happen, and innocent miss, who merely wanted a warm bed, stirs up the nisient odium against his race.
The Coroner: She had your per mission for such a walk 1-Yes, but she had been warned against going on the heath or any side walks. She left abortly before 8 o'clock.
So far as she knew, added Mian
Andrews, the girl had no young men.
WHO WAS THE CRIMINAL?
Scotland Yard are considering drastic changes in their methods of Apart from the ailuroplioben, the investigating murder cases, saya s majority of people 'nte indifferent Home paper. The criticisms of the to enta, simply because they know "information department,?" have next to nothing about then. Be-ben fully substantiated, after the cause the cat and dog share a fire-closest inquiry, by Sir Trevor Big side and each has for, legs and a ham, the neting Commissioner, and tail they are jogvitably, but nother high officials. surdly, compared.
Misleading Reports,
The dog, in cheerful, companion
It is not going too far to say
In the prihistoric eras, Arthur suggests, three were not four or five or dozen races, but perhaps hundreds of it. every tribe was a potential aution; and every nation is a rats in the.
WOMEN LESS HONEST making so long as it retains its identity and self-consciousness. The
THAN MEN? psychological factor is mare. portant thin the physical. Senti AUTHORESS CRITIC. ment counts above looks. "Nature," Sir Arthur Keith's substitute for Adventures among the people of Deity, Ins planted the tribal in London's underworld and elsewhere stinct, disguised as patriotism, at have led Mrs. Cecil Chesterton doable, dirty (in the Enst he is an the very roots of our being. Ian-make some astonishing generalisa-unclean" animal) and noisy the that the murderer might be under perialien, militarism, nationalism, tions about women in her new book, cat is mooily, independent, scrupulock and key if only Scotlard Yard xenophobia, self-dot-nination, are "Women of the Underworld lonely cleat (with rare exceptions) had not allowed the public to be A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
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I have kept a hundred cats (being
is now convinced of the identity has beca noland LOST. If at the the peace new states were created,
of the man who killed Misa Steel. the and promptly indulged in all the
married, I need-hardly add not Month from the Expiration of
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Share excesses of extreme nationalism, to the Finlaid proscribed the Swedish
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Sir Arthur Keith finds here the source of future quarro's and wars. He does not era nay civious say of escape, undeso tEx Eugenista san contrive to breed out of humanity 1 such inconvenient characters so eurage, ambition, love of country, and turn us all into browsing, domesticated sheep. Thie seems an unlikely, ven if it werg a desirable consummation. Yet so long as mankind îà divided into a divor; sity of races there can be no real praec"; particularly every small nationality is a posible race and the probable source of an in- finity of trouble to the world"
moral
differ in its renations, never in its "The feminine temperament may essentials, and as six we are, I think, fundamentally less honest and more divious than men," she states on the first page.
"It is so often and so loudly said that the female has more sense than the inale, that some of Us are in danger of believing i We forget that we have always taken pride in riding roughshod over unle argument as to right wrong, if it stood in the way ci our will, even to the twisting of motives, not to mention mero words."
Otlier points made by Mrs. Ches. terton while describing various down and out or criminal wome the hag niet are:
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sufficient legal evidence to justify action. The one hope is that some member of the public" will come etrengthen the police case. forward with, evidence that will
contentedly on your knee; the next
One minute he will lie purring for no apparent reason, he will de Scotland Yard are anxious for sert you for a lem comfortable spot anyone who saw Miss Steel after 7.55 or an aimless perambulation. Conx. on Thursday to come forward. him as you will, all you get is an but so for their "Prese Burcan' indifferent glance and a careless has never issued a description of the with of a shamelessty graceful girl!
tail.
Cuesedness.
Mahy cat owners, who would hate to play bridge on An coply stomach) believe that a hungry ent makes a good mouer. The truth is that baly a well-fed cat will catch mice with enthusiasm. Hers we have one of the few points of difference between wild and tame cuts.
What Doen She Look Lika?. They have given a description of Vanity, sa we know it, is the In the presence of your friends the clothes she was wearing, bat mainspring of half the success that the cat is at his worst. Your they hava not said whether she was women achieve.
| blandishments are completely ignor- { tall or short, stout or slim, or duk "Feminine fastidiousness is noted. If by any chance one of your or fair. No one has been told what usualy outraged by the proulation guests happens to be a ent-hater, she looked like, although it is só of trifles, and does not formulate your cat will make straight for him important to trace her moyements. i definito ende na to the rights of and exhibit every sign of brazen other people to their small belong, affection. it just cussedness, I inge.
Wonder, No woman is really surprised inumourtronical sense of if another steal."
For three thousand years the eat Patriotism. Without War.
hay patronised human households, and to-day his existence is na do Theso despondent generalisations
tached and self-contained as it used sman to be based on an unduly couple drawn from two different to be in the jungle days. What an limited survey of politics and his nations, and a businray man who object lesson to civilised peoples! tory, Patriotisin, local or nation has interests in several countrics. The cat is uncorrupted and un- Puss is quite content to attach al, an Hourish without being Racial fealing is dying down, spoiled. He knows the secrets of himself to a human household where stimulated by hatred and armed can recall the time when no Britoa good health (watch a cat relax meals are readily obtainable; but conflict. The modern Scot is every conld approachy a member of any when he has no job on hand), is if humans want to turn his in whit so proud of his country as his coloured race without an inward model of hygiene, and keeps him stincts to bractical account, they ancestors who with Wallace bled, shrinking. It is not so now. Wo self fighting fit. He enjoys good should realise that the art of mous but he has ho desire to engage in adini China, Japanese, Indians, food, but is no glutton.
ing is now practised as a sort of physical annliat with the Southron, Egyptians to our boarda, and some Put a cat back in the woods and military manouvre, and does not even hate, laugh botimes to our beds; we are oven behe ear fend for himself. His primi- nay genially, condemn, that in ginning to believe that our Africative instincts are all there. The so- ferior creature, I know no coun. fellowsubjede may differ from us called cruelty of the cat in playing try in which patriotism runs within their skins more than their souls. with his prey is the only way he netradier and deeper current than Patriotism will Survivo; but it can can retain his hunting skill. Wild Sweden; and the Swedes live not find plenty of outlets which are ente despatch, and eat their phoy theories. But with the exception been at war for well over a gen-neither "brutal - nor destructive, without ceremony, but the house tury, and earnestly hope that they There is, to take only a single ex- hold cau must make the most of his niny never go to war with anybody harple, sport His Sir Arthur few opportunities and thus keep
gain Personally, I should say the Keith over watched an internation- himself in practice." same of the English.
fal footwall match or an English
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If the evolutionary process work-Test team playing the Australian?
The Art of Mousing. ed by iculation and segregation it | Han be surveyed the crowd at the Your true cat lover, views with Entry Forms may be obtained is obviinbly being arrested by Owl when Surrey is sighting out a dismay the growing, public interest modern methods of locomotion and championship game with an eleven in cate. Nine out of ten cat owners from the Local Secretary,
intercommunication. The peoples from the North It in clear that do not know how to treat their cata. mara mixing freymuting together, ane tritat hatract of rivalry and The cat survives only benign le je and intermerryang H you go out conzaunal-all-nsertion is not yet intelligent and fit Milk for in & London dinner party you will dead, nor is it likely to die while stance, is popularly supposed to be probably meet, at least ore married it can be given such harmless and a substitulé for fresh water. (Continued at foot of next column.)energetic expression,
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