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Hitler's Adroit Stroke.

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

ORGANIST ABROAD

Dr. Sydney Nicholson, for 10 years organist of Westminster Abbey, has salled for Australia to lecture on church music in connec- tion with the Melbourne Centenary celebrations.

STUDYING PRIMITIVE

RACES

NEW INSIGHT AN AID

ADMINISTRATORS

To

GREAT BRITAIN'S INTEREST

(By Lord Lugard.)

Exactly a hundred years ago his father, Sir Charles Nicholson, was the first member of the Australian Anthropological and Ethnological pect of the subject. in its relation An International Congress of japology for dwelling on this aş- Legislative Council. Later he be Sciences, the first of its kind, was to Africa.... came Speaker of the Council and Chancellor of Sydney University at University College, London.

open recently by the Duke of York The dissertations and discus- Sir Charles died in 1903, aged 95.

aiona on the social psychology and Hla elder zon,

Over 800 delegates from all-parts the mental aptitudes of African the present bar- onet, is the ecclesiastical architect. over which the Earl of Onslow pre- the possibility of their incorpora- of the world aro attend the Congress, peoples; on customs and beliefs and Another son, Mr. Archibald Nichol-sided, British chairmen and secretion in the Christian system; the son, is an artist in stained glass.

In fact, the three brothers its eight sections.

taries superintended the meetings of reactions of lower cultures when confronted with civilised. stan- Nicholson could almost run a cathe dral on their own.

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In the article which follows the darda; language as the expression importance of the now outlook of of racial character; witchcraft and Janthropology in the administration the best way to deal with it; and ‘OLD, UNHAPPY, FAR-OFF THINGS by Lord Lugard, whose great work the religious aspects of African On July 91, 1834, by a decision of the British Empire is stressed land-tenure-all these are subjects of Parliament passed in the pre- as an administrator, both in East on which much new light has been vlous year, every known slave infand in West Africa, created a new thrown by recent research, and on British territory was set free.

[approach to the problem of native which the technique of functional

TH

London.

ance.

This year, on July 31, negroes rices. Lord Lugard was a vice- anthropology should be of asalet- were invited to a midnight service president of the Congress. in St. Botolph's Church, Bishops- gate, to commemorate their eman-! cipation. Negro spirituals were THE inauguration of the widely at- sung during the service.

tended Anthropological and Eth- Earlier in the month, on July 17,nological Congress in London is a a Parliamentary luncheon was or notable testimony to the growth of ganised by the committee of thej a desire for more intimate know- Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Pro-ledge of the peoples who inhabit tection Society,

[the world outside that group which

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Tribal Education British policy, for instance, in regard to elementary rural edu cation, aims at adapting the African to his environment while raising his standard of life and and intelligence. instead of sub- jecting him to a class-room cur- riculum which will unfit him for the life he has to lead, and leave

The Speaker of the House of We call the "Comity of Nations" Commons presided. The chief It is a characteristic of the post-him out of harmony with the to Austrian tranquillity, since its guests wero Sir Bolton Eyres-war period-contrasting with many conditions of village life, only purpose is to serve as a base Monsell, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, less pleasing tendencies which But in order to achieve this ob.. for those who carry fire, sword and, last but not least, Sir John has found expression in the Man-ject we must known something not and bombs across the frontier.

Simon. Spurred by the efforts of dates system and a long service of only of his mental aptitudes but of Lady Simon, he was mainly respon-Conventions dealing with Native the nature and the methods of the Morning Headache

sible for last year's agreement be- Labour and similar subjects. tribal education which succeeded tween nearly 50 nations to work This desire is no doubt dus in in fashioning the youth of both Medicine as publicly discussed together for the suppresion of part to the recognition of the fact sexes to take their place with suc- by the British Medical Associa-slavery in all its forms.

that the coloured races form an cess in the communal system-a 90- tion this year evokes no repellent

overwhelming majority of the hu-jcial system by no means without It is clear now that the Aus-thoughts. The doctors have

Your Daily Smile!

man race and with the spread of merit in the conditions of the past trian Government have been able been concerned with the effects

education are becoming more art and one in which pauperism, pro- reassert their authority of climate upon health, the ad-

culate. In part it rises from the fessional prostitution, and other Wage slave: One who works eight without assistance from with bathing, the proper use of apa The boss who stays on the job tilitarian Instincts which led to the known.

vantages or the reverse of sun-hours a day. Independent capitalist: steady advance of those humant-blots on our civilisation were up- out. They have been greatly treatment, and whether we sleep 1 a.m. helped by the stern military ac-too little or too much. Every tion taken by Italy and by the man can follow their discussions "Women don't go in for exploring," says an explorer who han never Watch- outspoken moral support of with a personal interest, and led ane look through 78' articles in a every Government which heart-ot least so when they debate handbag looking for text cente

jabout the

to

causes of headache,

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abolition of the slave trade just a century ago.

Britain's Interest

a

"Anthropology" and "Ethnology"

Again, how can we deal with erime and award punishment which will appeal to the black man's sense of justice and he has a strong sense of justice- unless we can appreciate some- thing of his standard of values and diagnose the motives which prompt his actions?

We may take it as a recognition of the special interest which Great ly detests the recent foul crime which are numerous enough and City Man Knows

Britain has shown in this wider and its perpetrators. Happily, sufficiently obscure to provoke Ie: "You see, we've gone into truck

field of human sympathy that Lon there was a general readiness to differences of opinion even farming."

don was chosen as the meeting Visitor: "You can't fool me, you place for this first Congress. accept the British view that no-among physicians, thing in the way of a diplomatic common an ill as a headache may

How difficult of diagnosis so don't raise trucks, they come from

"The real reason of an African factory."

-in their derivative sense the superstition is often beyond our demarche directed to Berlin would be' is shown by the serious sug Preparedness

study of man and of races cover comprehension......I was most be called for in the absence of gestion that those who suffer

Mother: "I hope you didn't take a wide field, and the allied studies completely baffled in witchcraft any proof of direct official com-should be examined by a team a second helping of cake at the grow in popularity. This, Con cases by reasons most sincerely plicity. The wisdom of this de-in a different branch of medi- of four. doctors, each an expert

held." gress, to quote its programme, is party, son." cision was confirmed by the steps cine. Dr. Arthur Griffith, who pieces the first time."

Son: "No, Mother, I took two designed "to include all those de Thus wrote a Cambridge don of which Herr Hitler hastened to was responsible for the discus-

partments of research which can high repute, who found himself ad- take to disavow all connection sion found the exciting cause of

tribute to the scientific study of

ministering justice to an African with the Nazi putsch. He dis- many morning headaches in Facts You Did Not Know peoples, and modes of life."

man, in their application to races The European lawyer, and. Indeed, tribe in the anomalies of the war. missed Herr Habicht, the official nothing more serious or repre- liaison officer between the Ger-hensible than eye-strain in reed through railway train service has of which one will discuss anatomy land, will unconsciously misrepre work la divided into eight sections, the native barrister trained in Eng man and

Austrian Nazis being the previous evening. This been established between Peiping and and physical anthropology; cancelled in advance the broad-kind of delayed headache, it

sent the native claim or defence by Shanghai, using a train ferry at Nag- casts of Herr Frauenfeld, which would appear. may have many

king.

other, paychology; a third, popula- using the terminology of English could hardly have failed to con: origins.

tion problems. Among the sub-law, bod One doctor experien- Driven by a motor, an Ice cream free-jects of other sections are religions, tain provocative passages, and ced it after driving a motor-car zer has been invented that does its and, language and writing.

(Continuad on. Page 11) he sent Herr von Papen on a with which he was not familiar. work ahut in an electric refrigerator. special mission as German Minis. In the light of investigation on

** Past Or Future?

FLOOD MENACE IN CHIHLI PASSES.

The extreme adroitness of this

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ter to Vienna, charged with the such authority the morning vehicles are operating in Great Brit

More than 600, oil engine, motor Of recent years it has come about duty of bringing back Germany's headache becomes something to lain, chiefly bases and heavy commer-that anthropologists have pursued "relations with the German-which, a man may confess almost all trucks. Austrian State into normal and as a testimonial to his studious-

two distinct, though closely allied; Rivers Now Subsided friendly channela."

objectives. The older school is For trimming limbs from tres a more concerned with research into The waters in the varioue rivers chain saw has been invented that is operated by a man standing on the the past the origin and nature of within Chihli territory, which rose ground palling ropes,

traditions, habits and customs of considerably have now subaided." primitive races which the march of According to reports received by civilisation is rapidly rendering ob- the Chihli: Commissioner of Com solete or obsolescent. Patruction from heads of the differ The younger school leans rather ents river bureaus, no danger of towards sociology than archaeology overflow is foreseen.

last move compels admiration. GAOL AND BIRCH FOR

BAG SNATCHER.

Woman Victim In

Kowloon Tong.'

AMERICAN SAILORS DEPORTED,

Deserters From Golden Mountain.

Its aim is to study primitive man

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At a single stroke Herr Hitler ridded himself of Herr von Papen's inconvenient presence in his Cabinet and sent to Viennal the man most likely to be accept- able to the Austrian Govern ment because his views were least like his own. The Chan- For snatching a handbag from cellor was at no paina to hide Mrs Anna Shan, of No. 11 Cum- the dismissal which lurked beberland Road, Li Kam, a 19-year- hind the appointment. Herr von old unemployed, was sentenced to Papen was "relieved of his four months hard labour and Harry Streck and Louls Paul logy," for Its alm is to study primi- function in the Cabinet and of twelve strokes of the birch by Warner, two deserters' from the tive castoms and primitive law his office as Commissar for the Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at the crew of the ss. Golden Mountain, from the standpoint of the social, Barr, while in further proof of Kowloon Magistracy this morning, who were found guilty by Mr. E. W. religious, or economie needs which the Chancellor's "most unbound- Mrs. Shan sisted that she was Hamilton at the Central Magistracy they were created to meet, and the ed confidence," he was informed walking in Kowloon Tong when last week with entering the Colony purpose they ware intended to that he will be "directly under the defendant came up behind her without a valid passport, and who serve.

his ordere." Evidently Herr von and knocked her bag out of her have since been "under police cus- Finally, it seeks to ascertain how Papen was assumed to have for hand, picked it up, and ran away tody, pending the arrival of the s.s. these customs and laws have been gotten that he was under pre- with ft. Can President Taff were made by Mr. affected by the impact of civilisa ventive arrest as recently as Mr. da Silva, who was passing Hamilton this morning.

tion, and to gauge, as far as may June 80.

nearby," gave chase and caught | ⠀⠀ Sergeant Mottram said that ar-be, the best means of adopting There is, of course, no hint as the defendant in the compound of rangements had already been made them to the future. Both schools to the means Herr Hitler is pre- St. Teresa's Church. The bag for the accused to be deported to have a command field of research; pared to take in order to restore contained $11.20, but nothing was the United States by the s.8. Presi- each has an attraction specially its the "normal and friendly rela-missing when it was recovered.dent Taft, which will leave the own. The difference in one of re- tions" to which he alludes, One Wellington Street

Colony to-morrow, at midnight, lative values. N

As chairman of the interna- sentenced to six months hard la- tional Institute of Afričan Langua-

yen gens and Cultures,

tad Ethe-second method in esame

Ogical research

make to

of the most convincing steps he Pleading guilty to the charge of could take would be to "clean up" snatching a handbag

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