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MAN AND HIS BRAIN: MURDER CASE IN
Sir Arthur Keith's Prophecy
A letter to "The Times" has re- vealed the results of an important piece of anatomical research.. Dr. HL. Gordon, visiting physician to the Mathari Mental Hospital
Nairobi, has measured the crantal capacity of a group of 3.444 unselected Kenya natives: Dr. F. W. Vint, pathologist to the Kenya
Government, has made post-mortem examinations of 100 native brains,
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man's civilisation. And what hap- pens? We have to try these things by the normal tests of life. Have the American negroes made
HONOLULU
Mrs. Massie To Divorce Husband.
Mrs Thalia Massic, victim of the
Washington, Jan. 5.
in Honolulu during
their career in that white civilisa- tion successfully? Do we find attack ense many of them prominent in Con-Party 192 which resulted in the murder of the attacked and inflam- gress, in science, in the arts?"
"No. But that may be due to ed the racial passion of the islands, announced today that she is going political reasons," I bald.
to divorce her husband, Lieutenant Thomas, Massie, U.S. Navy,"
The Case of Commerce.
"YOU. mean
she said...
"I am
She is leaving for Reno, Nevada, Measurements of the living have
racial prejudice? shown that the average size of well then take commerce. Racial divorce capital of America" to the Kenya native's brain is 10 or prejudice can be overcome there. severance of the marital bonds af morrow to establish residence for per cent. smaller than
If a man has anything to sell average European's: observations which is in demand, whatever, his the insistence of Lieutenant Masste. on the dead, have revealed a 15
race is he will be able to sell it. per cent. quantitive deficiency" in
personally reluctant to “But in America we do not find make such a step," Mrs. Massie the grey matter as compared with the cortex of a white man.
negroes prominent in commerce said. She declared that the Hono- Yesterday, writes a representa-any more than in the other de-lulu affair was not involved in the
of the white man's divorce proceedings. tive of "The Observer? I went to partments Downe (where Darwin spent the civilisation. best years of his life, and where the generosity of Mr. Buckston Browne has established a centre of scientific progress in a count rified corner of Kent) and discuss- ed with Sir Arthur Keith what the inner meaning of these dis- coveries may be.
But before we discussed What these researches meant Sir Arthur was at pains to stress how admir- able it was that they had taken place that doctors in the tropics should now be direct big themselves
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"Anthropometrical research?" "No, It is more than that.
the nature of man.
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Lieutenant Massie is now station- ed on the U. S.S: Oklahoma in San Pedro, California,
"The only results we can judge by speak clearly: I say not 'blów anatomy!' but leave anatomy out The Massie case created a world- of account for the moment be- wide sensation. The naval officer's cause it is no sure guide in this: wife was seized and ravished by the results of life itself show us Hamaiian one night Shortly that the negro brain (leaving out thereafter one of the men accused the few exceptional individuals of the crime was murdered and whom you'll always find a not charges of murder were placed adapted to our kind of civilisa-against Lieutenant Massie. Mrs. tion.
Granville Roland Fortescu. his Jones
"I think that is the real point mother-in-law and Seamen Dr Gordon was making. So many and Lord. They were convicted of people seem to imagine that the the crime but later Governor Law- African civilisation was less deverence Judd commuted their senten- loped than our civilisation. is. The ces.-United Prese truth is that it was a very elabor-
These
I wouldn't even say it might often ate one: I'm not even sure that De considered higher than ours, "As to the facts revealed: of Course it was known that the "The negroes, as your own ob- brains of many African races (theservation must have told you, are different from us. They keep Zulus are a notable exception) are smaller than ours. But Dr. Vint's those qualities of boyishness and results carry us further.
girlishness much longer. "The only comparable investiga- are qualities that make for hap-
they are no tion was one by Professor H. H. piness. But
use in Woollard an the brain of Austra-commerce. In our civilisation they lian aborigines. I am speaking may be even disadvantageous. from memory, but I cannot recall "If the position had been re- that this revealed
should anything" versed, I wonder if we equivalent to Dr. Vint's results. have made as good a job of adapt. The Australians are thought to be ing ourselves to the negro civilis
more primitive race, yet tlon as he has adapted himself to We have the stronger Woollard did not find the brains ours?
& far
he examined to be so markedly magle-that's the trouble! different from ours
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Policy of Reserves.
THE ONLY WAY
Golf is played between the
eara."-Walter Hagen. Your clubs may be made of wood
or steel,
You may have many or few Your balt may be socketted off the
heel
Or smitten hard and true;' Whether you're quite unknown to
fame
Or used to a gallery's cheers, You must remember that golf is a
game
That is "played between the
CATS!" Although your driving may be long,
Your seconds placed just 2, With an iron ymi may be sure and
strong
In all the winds that blow: And yet, though free from all dis- tress
Upon the green, one feare. Your golf will not be "class" unless It's "played between the ears!"
Intellectual Power,
"It seems to me that here we "Now these new results are be- have two different Kinds of civi- fore us what conclusions shall we isation-two directions in evolu- 18 the interesting tion-which don't mik: one des- draw? That
troys the other. What that seems question.
"There is a correlation between" to point to in present-day Africa the size of brain and intellectual is the policy of Reserves the na- [184 power; there is such a correlation, tive keeping his own life, and we
but it is so vague. Whenever I keeping ours."... disenss this question I always "Might evolution in some Tong the case of Anatole period bridge the gap?" I asked France. His brain (1,150 ec., I Sir Arthur, or, in other words, think) was, to put it cautiously, might one Krow in a thousand not more than 80 per cent, of the years or so a bigger brain by u5- usual size.
ing it?"
Sir Arthur thought not "Be- Judged by his brain he ought
Sir John Simon, at Stoke-on- to have been an idiot; and well, fore you were born, I remember Trent There are men
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I shall leave it to you to say whe. there used to be a school of the printing department at the ther Anatole France was that. I thought which held that woman's haven't been able to get hold of inferiority in size of brain ther Foreign Office to whom I would the report of the examination of brain is about 90 per cent. of his grey matter, but I believe it man's) indicated Intellectual in- was found to be highly developed feriority, and was due to man's stuff.
subjugation of her
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Notice has been given 48 and the critics say, if there is a najens
"In general, I think the general The Lord Mayor, at Cutlers' hears prior to vessel's arrival, but carried correlation how do you
account tendency of civilisation is towards dinner-Let us keep up the spirit on from port to port to the final port of
smaller brains. Our lives are para of Christmas Day in children's for that? call to which the option extends."
have blind "My own answer is that it is mitte. Not one-hair of 1 per cent. games. We shall No Claims will be admitted after the harder to found civilisation than of us have to tackle öriginal | man's buff, bunt the slipper, and to maintain it; that the founders thought. We get it all out of the Roger de Coverley at the Manafor Goode remaining undelivered after
House. wil be of man's civilisation probably books." Tuesday, 16th January,
had, in
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As he looked over the wooded Kentish landscape. It was with that ***I believe in the correlation, but disturbing prophety of long-range in practice you can't use it. We decline that Sir Arthur Keith do not judge a man by size of his closed a morning's talk on civillas brain, nor can we Judge tions and human Brains. To comply with the General Bonded him by examination results. Warchouse Regulations, consignees must We judge him by the way he or
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base
Bangkok, Jan. 11
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Mr. Runciman.--Neither a com- pany nor a country can get out of a dirty mess by defying natural laws.
Sir William Prescott, chairman of Metropolitan Water Board Notwithstanding apathy at elec
over London is amazing.
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Billings Denied Parole
DE VALERA WANTS REDUCTION
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright.)]-
Berlin, January 11.
A secret conclusive of the Man- na Fail Party gave rise to a fresh crop of rumours concerning the forthcoming dissolution of Par- Polsom, Calif., January 6.
liament. Although nothing de- Warren K... Billings, convicted finite has transpired regarding with Thomas Mooney for the Pre- the proceedings at the conclave paredness Day bombing massacre it is stated, from a reliable source. in San Francisco in 1918, was to that de Valers is anxious to re-
day dented parole by the California | duce the number of 'members of Ac- | State Board of Pardons and Parole. Parliament from 153 to 128.
Press cording to
d'e reports Valera's policy was sharply criti- cised by representatives from ag- ricultural districts owing to the unprecedented fall in prices of agricultural produce "resulting from British measures against Irish Imports. The report asserts that de Valera's attitude towards
The parole denial was a ter- rific blow to the radical as he had¦ believed for years he could get parole for the asking, only he had consistently refused to file a parole application on the grounds he felt it involved tacit admission of guilt, Billings, in seeking the parole, violated the wishes of Mooney.
who has insisted that parole would be tatamount to confession at guilt."
"I disagree with Tom," the pri soner said, and I don't care what be thiriks. He's always wanted to do as Tom' Mooney ordered. This time I'm acting for myself, stand- ing on my feet."
· During Mooney's constant efforts to win a pardon and during ali the internationál labour strife that has resulted from the case, Bil- lings has remained mostly in the role of "Forgotten Man" and his case was kept in the background,|| largely because he had been pre- -viously convicted of crimes
Billings' application for a parole also brought from him a new ver- slon of the 1916 dynamiting In which 10 persons were killed." He claimed Lou Smith, now dead, threw a bomb at a suitcase on the aide-walk. The plan. he said, was to blame Mooney for the bombing but to have the deadly missile fall harmlessly on the suitcase. Smith missed his object, and the fatal explosion occurred, according to Billings.
Billings, has the privilege of making another parole application next year,- United Press.
LANDSLIDE OF HUMAN
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Londonderry, January 10,
General O'Duffy's "Blue Shirts" likewise encountered considerable opposition.-Transocean Kuo Min.
DIVISION OF POWER
[Special to the "Hong Kong Dally. Press" (Copyright.)]
Vienna, January 11.
A new draft" constitution for Austria provides that all legislative powers hitherto vested in the Na- tional Council and First Cham- ber shall benceforth be divided between the State Council, Pro- vincial Council Chamber and the Chamber of Commerce. Member of the State Couricil will be up- the pointed by the President of Republic on the proposal of the Cabinet, while the Provincial Council will comprise or repre-
definite decision has yet been reached concerning the delinita- tion of the respective powers ΟΣ these Assemblies. Transocean Kuo Min
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TIFULESCU ACCEPTS. "POST"
Bucharest, Jan. 11. M.Titulescu's acceptance of the |post of Minister of Foreign Affairs In this Rumania Cabinet, which followed a long conference with His Majesty, King Carol, is con-" strued as meaning a clean sweep of the Palace Camarilla, who are alleged to be playing fast and loose with Rumanian politics.
The King's private secretary, M. Dumitescu, is being dismissed, also his father, who commanded the
| Gendarmes, and the Generat-in-
Charge of the Secret Service... A small landslide of human All three are credited with some #kulls which burst from their connection with th "Iron Guard? " coffins, and fragments of antique The King demurred, and for tombstones caused minor insome time it was thought possible juries to passers-by here as the that a dictatorship would ensue, well-known old cemetery adjoining | but both the great political parties, Long Tower Church suddenly be- Liberals and Peasants resolutely res Porter at Dalry to distat the anciens burial
gan to disintegrate. The centuries opposed this pie Dr.
It is also rumoured that M. men's Benevolent Institution din-ground suddenly collapsed at a Titulescu has demanded, the de ner-If you want staunch, kindly point thirty-five feet above the partuse of Madame Lupescu Her friends start by fighting them sidewalk, loosing a sudden, hail of whereabouts are at present un- because then you will begin to relics on startled pedestrians below. known, but it is belived that she understand,” them,"
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"So it is instructive to consi| NAVAL UNREST IN SIAMtions the growth of civic spirit all der that an important experiment has been made unintentionally, A whole population of West Coast negros (who are not greatly dif- Owing to some trouble in the terent from those of Kenya) was Siamese Navy, which does not en- transported to the United States, tirely favour the present, govern and has been planted for a long ment, the publication of military (2180) berlod in the y mildat of a white news has been forbidden-Reuter
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