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The
Thongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MAY 30, 1938
JAPAN WANTS FRIENDSHIP WITH CHINA
by
20
If the events at Canton di Saturday and Sunday are Indication of the trend of Japan- ese policy under the reorganised Cabinet, it is a sorry day for the
non-combatant. Chinese
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though there were military objectives and the Bocca Tigris forts within reach, the Japanese air raiders preferred to launch their bombs upon a city which, while not wholly defenceless, is nevertheless so vulnerable to air attack as to make such excur
mur- sions nothing short of derous. The only construction that can be put upon such ruth- lessness is that Japan, finding the Chinese people still with spirit enough to resist the will of the invader, intends to crush the morale of the masses by a system of butchery. In address- ing the militarist it is of very little use to argue upon moral grounds. He sees a city as a military objective because it is a source of supply for enemy armies and because out of its homes may come recruits for the divisions which have to be met in the field. To point out, there-
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HAT marriages would be State con- trolled within 25 years is the startling prophecy just made by Sir Farquhar Buzzard.
Why? In what way? To what extent? Questions came tumbling from people's lips when he made this bold pronouncement in a lecture recently. In this interview. Sir Farquhar Buzzard elaborates his views and answers many of the questions that have been raised:---
The State should be given legal authority to refuse to license marriages, said
Sir Farquhar. Licences should not be given without inquiry into the personal and family history of the parties.
As things are going now wo are encouraging the unfit to breed and discouraging the At from breeding.
That is the effect of present economic conditions.
There is therefore a strong case for subsläising the breed- ing of the ft.
But the State ought not to do that without knowledge of the antecedents of both parties to a marriage.
Immense sums of money are spent in improving the breed- Ing of animals. But, practically speaking, no money and thought is devoted to applying eugenic principles to the im- provement of the human race.
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F you consult your dic- And tionary you wil that "Eugenics" is the selence concerned with Improving the inborn qualities of a race or breed.
The natural law of the "Survi- val of the Fittest" is no longer true.
In times of peace, civilisation more and more promotes the sur- vival of the unft.
And in the event of war, modern armuments would inevitably de- stroy the best breeding stock.
It does not sound very reason- A national fitness campaign able running side by side with rearma- ment can hardly fall to suggest the preparation of turkeys for Christ-
13--without the customary pre- caution of preserving the best birds for breeding purposes,
The first stop to be taken by any- one who wishes to be it is to choose his parents carefully.
Unfortunately we are too late to exercise that choice for our own benent. But we can at least try to secure for the next generation such parents as they might choose f They could.
CAMPAIGN for physical itness is all very well. But is there any reason man's to bullave that it can alter inherent weaknesses or prevent his transmiting those weaknesses to his offspring?
Nothing but selective breeding will create an Al race,
I have been glud to notice for some time that the more intelli- of the younger gent members Reneration are attaching more im- portance the hereditary factor when facing the problems of mar- riage and parenthood,
INTERFERE
In Marriage
Sir Farquhar Buzzard (here photographed taking his daughter Isobel to church on her wedding day in 1933)
is a
former President of the B.MA., Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, and an authority on mental discoses. Says that "nerves" are responsible for 10,000,000 working weeks being lost to industry every year. Ontspoken alogs, is an opponent of "doctors in burry"; believing that doctors should be regarded us
friendly policemen in the struggle for existence.
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Advice
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is these
matters sought with far more frequency to- day than 40 years ago.
bg But no great progress can
leadership without
and made action on the part of our rulera.
Look at the position to-day.
You can divide the population roughly into three categories. Per- haps 50 per cent. are individuals who may be regarded as of normal Atness. Twenty per cent. may be supernormal. Thirty per cent. are subnormal.
Under present economic condi ttons the subnormal have every encouragement to produce large These families are in families.
their turn subnormal.
The normal and supernormal are charged with the burden of sup-
They are porting the subnormal. tempted, if not forced, to Umit the number of their children.
It does not require great brains to enlquinte the effect of such a system of breeding.
We are confronted with the pro- spect of a population in which the unfit will out-number the nt.
What measures are there that could brighten this gloomy out- look?
I have four measures In mind. They will inevitably be criticised-- largely because they appear to offend against certain traditions and beliefs which have long been upheld.
First, there must be more know- Particularly, ledge of the facts, there must be research in some
fore, that the bombing of the was a time when the Japanese GRIN AND BEAR IT city of Canton is wrong because Government hoped, or claimed to it means the useless sacrifice of hope, that it could convince the so many innocents, women and Chinese people that friendship children, will not alter the mill-between them and their neigh- tarist's conviction in the justice bours was the aim of the of his course. He may be sorry invasion. It was always a false- for the suffering he causes; but sounding argument in the de- his defence is that that misery fence of war. Now, more than was not deliberatedly inflicted, ever; Japan's actions contradict hut was accidental, an un-her patriotic moralists. Human intentional complement to experience has not yet produced the whole of the necessity. an example of a friend made But the machine-gunning of a through torture; or an enemy civilian area, a deliberate attack convinced of his error by the upon Red Cross workers who are slaughter of his women and doing no more than attempting children. Bombings of civilian to rescue wounded and extricate centres may have the effect of the dead, is a thing that cannot dampening the Chinese ardour be explained or excused. It was for resistance; but they are just anticipated that the reorganisa-as apt to cause a totally opposite tion of the Japanese Cabinet reaction and stiffen the de- would mean the intensification termination of the fighting men of the campaign in China. If to take a terrible vengeance this is the form the intensifica-upon the invaders. tion is to take it will do Japan that Japan's superiority in aerial incalculable harm, not only equipment has been largely damaging the reputation of the responsible for her striking military successes; her. misuse country in the eyes of an already of this weapon can be blamed for revolted world, but fanning the any future excesses on the part lenping flame of hatred which of the people she is so terribly has sprung up in China. There Jabusing.
It is true
By Lichty
special area. There must be facili- ties for the intimate studies of families in the area over a long period of time. People engaged in this research, if they are to be successful, would require both legal authority and a more or less permanent endowment.
Becondly, children need a more general education in the science of life with special reference to heredity.
The third measure I suggest- the proposal for statutory control of marriages--is certain to meet with a how of opposition.
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ET I venture prophesy it will be
adopted within 25 years.
It sounds revolutionary. But in view of the gravity of the problems which face us, it is clear that a marriage may affect the State as much as it does the individuals concerned.
It means more interference with the liberty of the subject no doubt. But the State interferes with tho liberty of criminal because he is harmful to the community. There can be no doubt that ill-advised marriages are equally damaging and much farther reaching.
The fourth and final measure is economic.
Can the State dubsidise selective human breeding as it subsidises the selective, breeding of lower anknals?
Can it encourage by financint help the raising of fit families and discourage the raising of unft families?
These are questions I cannot pre- tend to answer. But they are very important, and very pertinent to the future.
The proposals I make must in- evitably be unpopular because of But their personal implications. they are justified because people are increasingly saying:
"We are fed up with being ill and patched up or cured. Tell us how we can be fit and remain flt, how we can preserve our health and · avold illness."
T
HE medical profession welcomes this because prevention is not only better but often more possible than cure.
But this changed attitude to- wards fitness must carry with it a sincere desiro not only to know the truth but also to face the facts ex- posed by truth.
And that means that we must not be blind to the amount of All- bealth due to hereditary causez
Sydney.
When Should Policemen Marry?
THE
THE rule deburring polleemen from marrying until they have served three years was criticised in the re- Dort by the Police Association pre- sented to the annual conference here.
"The
nvernge young policeman makes a desirable husband and there is every reason why he should be not dis- to encouraged couraged," said the president (De- tective Sergeant Watkins).
ren.
"Australia's greatest asset is child- Withholding from young mem- bers of the fores the right to murry seems to be contrary to the best in- terests of the nation."
The department's reply to the an socialian's protest, Mr. Watkins re- ported, was that the rule facilitated police administration by making a for emer- number of men mobile Kency.
"My executive, however, consider
the that
repl. motive economy," he said.
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