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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936.
SCIENTISTS SEEK SECRET OF HEREDITY
TALENTS HANDED
DOWN FROM FATHER TO SON
The "Odd Toes" And "Odd Eyes" Families
A CATALOGUE of the different types of the human race, show- ing how individuals inherit various physical and mental traits, is being prepared from an immense collection of facts at the Bureau of Human Heredity in London.
Here, for example, are some of the things that are being, in- vestigated:
Whether cleverness is inherited;
How interest in music and the arts runs in fumilles;
· Physical and mental characteristics that are handed down from father to доп.
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Many curiosities have already come to light. Among them are the following:
THE KING
TO UNVEIL
WAR SHRINE IN
FRANCE
Paris, June 15. THE King of England and
the President of the French Republic, M. Albert Lebrun, will stand side by side on French soil on July 26 in front of Canada's great memorial to her war dead at Vimy Ridge.
News of the announcement
by Mr. Mackenzie King, the Daminion Premier, in the Ottawa Parliament that King Edward kos accepted the Canadian Government's in- vitation to unveil the memorial has created great interest everywhere.
Generations of 6-toed people,
as in the family of the Sultan Pontianak (Blenco)--who also have six fingers on each hand.
Families who have always
· had odd-colour eyes-one dif- fering from the other in colour.
A Scottish family the mem-
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The Luid Mayor of London, Sir Percy Vincent, cutting for thre cheers for the King after the Traclamation had MACKINTOSH'S LTD.
era of which for 200 years have 66 had only two fingers and two tues to each limb.
Lord Horder and Lord Dawson of Penn arg among those who are giving support to the burenu, which is governed by is council of representatives of scientific, medi- cal, and educational prefetiva.
WORLD-WIDE SEARCH
Scientifle
centres throughout the Basisting the world are
wark, the results of which will be valunble for hospitals scientific starch
workers in every country.
tates, of King's College, London
The chairman is Professor Ruggles', whose secretary, Mrs. C. B. Hodson, is herself a lecturer son biology and social problerts.
"Our main purpose is to elnify hereditary traits in then and women- more particularly the normal ones," sho zaid.
hren rend of the Royal Exchange by Nörrog King of Arme, Major A. HI. S. Howard,
"STERILISE UNFIT"
"I HAVE
NEVER
BEEN IN
LOVE"
ARNOLD BENNETT
HAVE never been in love
wish to God I had, when I
struggling with m scene," wrote Arnold Bennett to
friend in 1895.
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ONLY WAY
ΤΟ Α
SOUND RACE
Dr. Barnes
GROWING MENACE OF MENTAL DISEASE
love VOLUN
This month his MSS., the most ex-
VOLUNTARY sterilisation of the unfit was advocat-
ed by the Bishop of Birming- ham (Dr. Barnes), when he the Temple
"Forts te being callerted about family histories, pedigrees, bodily diseases, and anything that can be of assistance in our study. "When the work is completed--we tensive collection of literary anu expect in two or three years time-scripts to come into the market sinee the results will be available for free status Browning salz 23 Fears preached in
arto, were sold at Sotheby's.
Church, London, recently. novelist's handwriting, comprising 18 "We are more humane than novels, 35 plays, hundreds of short our ancestors of even a century stortes and articles, und a great mass ;)
piquant correspondence.
jago," he said, "and in
"We are already answering in quiries, and of course we welcome facts about any interesting case of human heredity.
It will be the first visit Misuse. Majesty has paid to any oversens country since he ascended the throne, and elaborats arrange- ments are being made to receive him.
Special committees are being, formed to welcoine the 5.000 or 6,000 visitors from Canuda who will attend the ceremony, and will constitute
of the greatest pilgrimages of modern time. They will be enabled to our many parts of France, especially the Loire region which has many ties with
Canada.
one
The memorial which has taken ten years to build, is dedicated to
The Galton Laboratory, al London University, under the direction of Professor R. A. Fisher, is assistbut
Ия,
CLEVER
FAMILIES
"Modern preventive medicine, per- haps more than any other section of science, needs the type of information
are to classify"
and are represented on the council, to "Educationists, too, are interested study the questions of the training of the individual in relation to hereditary endowment and the alescent of talent through families."
There are 13,000 pages of the
OVER 3,000,000 WORDS At a rough calculation, they amonat to about 3,600,000 words!
"Go on, great man!" II. G. Wells wrote to him, in a letter included in the sale) when he first read The Old Wives Tale."
Wells was one of his friendliest but frankest erities. "Anna of the Five Towns" he wrote: "Your style is not, of course, my style, and there's not
three
consecutive sentences I should
"Imperial Palace"-411,300 words. those Canadians
"Research has shown that a great mass of material on this subject in its various aspects exista. It
ever before been collates and made available for the furtherance
who fell in the War and who have no known grave: Their names-nearly 12,000 of them-social work." are engraved around the base.
The monument is the work of Mr. Walter Allward, the Canadian sculp ter. Its two main pylons stand 138/1. high on a base 237ft. long.
It weighs some 30,000 tons and containg 20 figures, each: 125t, high and each weighing 30 tun,
At the base asland two groups, ong showing the breaking of the sword and the other the sympathy of Canadians for the helpless. Above are tho
GAS, POISON, JUMP OVER CLIFF
Newcastle on Tyne, June 1.
mouths of guns, covered with olive and CARRIED into the Moot Hall
laurels. On the base wolf itself is a
Police Court here today on symbolic figure of Canada brooding in stretcher, a young man friced over the graves of her dead. Behind the two pylons represent the French girl of 17, with whom, it was said, he had tried to commit suicide by
and Canadian farevs,
The French Governucht has pre, sented to Canada the 240 acres of ground on which the memorial stunda. At night it will be floodlit.
KASSEL
MAX WAS WANTED FOR MURDER
Paris, June 3.
CHARLES
MAITRE JEAN
LEGRAND, the famous French lawyer who is defending alias Charles Roger Vernon Lacroix, charged in Paris with the murder in January last of Max-Kassel told to-day of the latest developments in the case,
The body of Max Kassel was found at the rondside near St. Albans on January 24, where it was alleged to have been taken by ear after Kassel had been shot In house in Little Newport-street, Maitre Legrand stated; "Since my visit to London shortly after the discovery of the crime, I have received much evi. dence about the character of Max Kassel which will help me in my case.
Soho.:
.
"I intend to prove that he was killed in self defence. What I have. just discovered 'shows that Kassel was a man of even worse 'character than I at Brat thought. The reason, in fact, that he left
·Canada between 1930 and 1932. Was that he was wanted for !murder."
Coal gas:
Taking polsen; and Jumping over a cli
The man was Maurice Lambert, aged 20, of Valley-view,
Jesmond, and he was still suffering from in-. jurios received in the cliff Ball. He
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(quence mental defects have a better chance of survival, Mental deficiency is increasing and it is a grave mennce to national well- being.
"We ought to check it in every pos sible way and, in particular, I suggest to you by voluntary sterilisation."
Merital defeel and a whole series of
diseases and malformations were in-
herited.
let aiand if I had the rewriting of it."
"The longest Bennett MS. Is that"of}
"People carrying them ought to be KEPT CONRAD AWAKE
sterilised lest they transmit them to which kept Conrad
de- their descendants," the bishop Then there la "Riceyman Steps,"
wake
clared. 44037 o'clock in the morning,
After referring to Darwin's theory, "after the Dr. Barnes said that if mon shortent
sicepless
night of my descended from an ape the existence experience.
in him of lust, cruelly and dishonesty was no matter for surprise.
Many of Arnold Bennett's own letters are included in the sale. They describe his early struggles and pro- Eress towards success.
"I want to be successful and mix with the fellows whose names
of shine in the foreheads
the magazines," he wrote in 1894, when he was twenty-six. "Dia gusting, lan't it? I think so some- times."
SICK OF EDITING"
was
THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH What remained surprising was that, God had created a being who could appreciate und manifest spiritual quilities.
Man's desire for truth was dominant In the scientifle progress which was the glory of our cra.
In spite of the fact that the bad deeds of bad Governments were sull of times blessed by mad ecclesiasties, there was in humanity a never-falling well of goodness,
In 1898 b was "sick of editing and being bound to go to a blasted office every day," so he tried his hand t a sensational seriah," because he "didn't see why he shouldn't write us years." goal exciting fiction as anyone else.” "Yet life is devilish odd thing," he Six more years and he was "duing Fays, "If I am any happier than nothing but fiction now, making 220 af when I used to eyele down to Furn- week mininom, and with books ham or Wotley after a week of rotten. planned to keep him busy for two nous In Fleet-street, 1 do not know it."
was sent to prison for three months. DAY BY DAY, NEWS IN BRIEF
tered a convent.
THE
OPINIONS-THE HPIRIT-THE!
The girl, Mary Grace, employed, al Gosforth, was put on probation for
The forthcoming wedding is two years on condition that she en- CONVERSATKIN--TIDE MANNERS OF THE Hounced of Mr. Porfirio Punciano Vila, PARENT, INFLUENCE THE CHILD-Per. | musician, of Race Court Apartments, Happy Valley, and Miss Dina Amella dos Remedios, residing at 69 Sing Wo Road.
This was the remarkable account. Creil. by Mary: of the drama given to the magistrate
"We went into the nursery of my employer's house, put cushions on the floor, turned on the gas fee, and stayed there for some hours, but the gas did not seem to have any effect
"In the early hours of the morning we went downstairs and found a bottle of polson which we tasted. I denak It, but it only gave me a pain.
CRY OF "MARY" hall Dene (the statement went on), They then decided to go to Crag- and throw themselven over the clit They drove there in the girl's em
player's cor
and:
"After saying: 'It takes guts to do this,' Maurice went over.....
"I heard him aliouung Mary and when I looked over the cli I saw him struggling in the water. Afterwards I saw him struggling up the cliff-side.
"We were unable to restart the cur, and were walking along the Jesmond Road when we met a policeman who took Maurice to hospital.
Lambert agreed with the statement, but anid that he fell over the clin nceldentally.
Fung Ngai-yam, a printer, was nd- mitted to the Government Civil lg-. pital yesterday, suffering from3in-; Juries to his right hand which was crushed under the rollers of a print ing machine at 12 Praya, Kennedy
Town
Luk Wah, driver of public car No. 178, was summoned before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy this morning, for having solicited for at 10s in Quez's Hot Central, at 1.20 a.m. on June and for having do
A caution was administered to J. H. failed to stop when called upon to Gibbons driver of private car No. so by a police officer. Mr F. L 4003, when he admitted a summons Zimmern appeared for defendant, and of falling to produce his driving pleaded not guilty to both charges, licence when called upon to do so by The case was formally remanded for,
police officer near Cox's Path about one wook, 9.30 p.m. on May 20, before Mr. Mac- fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. Acting Sub-Inspector A. It. Brittain prosecuted.
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on
year-old clerk and interpreter in the Hearing of the case in which a 40- Sanitary Department, Wong On, of No. 73 Temple Street, second floor, A sequel to a highway robbery, at is charged with receiving,
while a the Enatern Hospital Road on June public servant, a bribe of $6 on May 21 was the appearance before Mr. W. from Yip Shu, with a view to Schofield, at the Central Magistracy influencing his conduct as a pubile this morning, ef. Taut Chu, 20. un- servant, was fixed for 2.30 pm employed, of Singapore, charged with Thursday, July 2, when defendant ap having robbed a Japanese woman, Alpeared before Mr. Macfadyen nt the Ichi Kawa, of a leather purse; con- Kowloon Magistracy this morning. taining $8 and a gold hair ornament Detective Sub-Inspector R. Cunning aft with Jada, and using per-ham was for the prosecution, and sonal violence to complainant De-defendant is reprosented by Mr. Hin- tective-Inspector A. E. Carey applied shing Lo, instructed by Mr. J.-M., for a formal remand, till Monday, Hall Ball in the sum of $350 was June 20, which was granted.
allowed.
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