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SKULL HILL.

[BY MARJORIE BARRISON.]

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28th, 1928.

SHOULD SHE MARRY HIM?

STARTLING VIEWS ON LOVE AND EUGENICS.

TALENTED CHILDREN OF TAINTED PARENTS.

[BY HALLIDAY SUTHERLAND, M.D.]

The birth-rate of England and, birth to a healthy child. In Paris Wales is how the lowest in Europe, these children are removed at birth, The Church of the Holy Sepulchre but nevertheless there are optimists and are reared by a healthy fosters who maintain that" three healthy mother. Thus the children escape in Jerusalem, which has been ac children in a family are better than tuberculosis more than children not septed for sixteen centuries as the six unhealthy children. That as protected. That is true Eugenics. traditional site of the Resurrection,surance is a typical example of how will be regarded more critically implication. Obviously it is better A true statement may carry a false this Eastertide by visitors to the for the nation that children Holy Land for new and sensational should be healthy. The false im- scoveries made in Jerusalem have plication is that children in a lata

family are likely to be less healthy strengthened the belief already held 1 than children of a small family by many archeologists that the In point of fact, all the evidence Skull Bill on the Jericho road, ↑ prints to the contrary. near the Damascus Gate, is the true Golgotha, and that the tomb in the garden adjoining, known as the Unrden Tomb, is the real scene of the Resurrection.

The Now Finda,

The standard of health amongst the children, of 300 very poor par ents in Hull was Juvedligated by Dr. Helen Gamgee. The fouilles were selected at random, and were then divided into two groups ao cording to the number of children Two of the discoveries which may One group contained small fami- revolutioniso theories that have lien of fewer than five children; the been held for centuries are the re: other group consisted of large ceat location of the Third Wall of faràilies, where there were five Herod Agrippa and the chance find-or more children. It was then ing of a small carved stone.

discovered that the health of mothers and children was better

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: Diseases Not Inherited. G The late Professor Karl. Pearson proved that cancer is not inherited. One great disease is inherited insanity would do the race more insanity, but the prevention of

harm than good A provocative statement, but none the less true.

At the Middleart Asylum, Den- mark, Dr. Lange investigated the history of 41 families, who in the purse of a few generations had produced, 123 cases of insanity ar of nervous disease. This research occupied ten years. He was about to publish a book showing the saving to the State if the grand parents of these 44 families had never married. On the eve of pub- lication he remembered what he had forgotten the healthy collaterals, the brothers, sisters, cousins, un« cles and aunts of his patients. More years were devoted to search- ing their histones, and then Dr. Lange published resulta.

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The Third Wall was built by Herod Agrippa about ten years after the death of Christ to amongst the large families. The Good Mother. close the straggling that city. When British engineers were making the new road, leading from the Damascus Gate, they discovered traces of this wall, and now the Palestine Exploration Society has uncovered it further, and has de faitely located its position for a considerable distance.

This fires the Second Wall, out- side of which Christ suffered, as being identical with the present "north_wall. "If this is so, the ground covered by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre must always have been within the city.

cause the large family has long been recognised as the best school for the development of character in parents and in children.

In these 99 families he found-z nd-2 Moreover, it is certain that the Cabinet Ministers, I Ambassador, children of a good mother will al-bishops, 3 judges of the Supreme ways be better cared for than the Court, hend masters, 8 consulting children of a careless mother, irre physicians, 9 university profesork, spective of wages and housing con- ditions, or even if the careless mother has fewer children than the good mother,j

This fascinating question was also investigated by the late Dr. John Brownice, Director of Statistics to The second important discovery the Medical Research Council He

the figures of 1871 be was the finding of a small carved went back stone by Miss Hussey, who is in cause-If present-day statistics charge of the Garden Tomb. This, were chosen, as there must be more cn being cleaned and examined, restriction of births amongst the bet- proved to be a small shrine atone ter classes, where the infantile mor- of a Temple of Venus. It was untality is low, a correlation between earthed some thirty feet from the high fertility and high infantile mortality would at once be ob- tasued.

entrance to the tomb.

This discovery is of immense value when it is remembered that Hadrian after his conquest of the Holy City in A.D. 135 degïded te desecrate once and for all the places most sacred both to Jew and Chris. tian. To this end he built a temple to Jupiter on the site of Solomon's Temple and a temple to Venus at the scene of the Resurrection..

Almost two hundred years later Constantine, the first Christian em peror, destroyed this heathen tem- ple, and built a magnificent basil ica in honour of the Resurrection and to make amends for Hadrian's sacrilege. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher stands to-day on the spot where Constantine built bis cathe-- dral almost in the centre of the present city.

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It seems not improbable that Constantine deliberately chose to build-not on the actual spot, but within the walls and under the protection of their fortifications.

doctors of science or of arts, to gether with many members of Par- liament, town councillors, teachers, busoners men, and "Government officials.

Insanity And Ganins.

He also discovered two individuals

holding positions so prominent in the State that he cannot indicate the nature of their calling lest their identity be revealed.

In addition to these there were 72 people who by intellectual ability. had won distinction in other walke of life--poets, painters, sculptors, architects, musicians, composers, actors, actress, inventore, and

If the grandparents of his in- sane patients had 'never married it is beyond human power to estimate the consequent foes to the world a world in which good more than balances evil

"To use such figurer is to work with loaded dice. The italics are mine,authors. Alter exhaustive, mathematical in- vestigation Dr. Brownles concluded † that "there, is no evidence to 'show that large families are more un healthy than small ones, and the statement that it is better to have three healthy children than six un- healthy ones has no apparent foun- dation," CRA

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Insanity has existed in the world for thousands of years. It was known to the most ancient writers, and yet the earth is not yet peoplod by fanaties. The taint of insanity, mitted from generation to genera degeneracy, or of vice is not trans- tien. The modern law of degenera- tion is that a taint may be mani- fest through four generations, and

Marriages Of The Unit. reader may make for himself. The There is a third test which any "Dictionary of National Biography contains the names of the fittest men and women of their time, and most of them were the younger chil-will then die out drea of large families the fifth, sixth or seventh child.

And should the unfit be allowed

Descendants Of An Imbecis. There is a family in the United to marry? That is another ques States which American cugenists tion on which there is much loose have held up as an example to the thinking. A few rare and obscure world. Within the last generations diseases are inherited and in-this family has produced more Seldom Heard Of

heritable For example, there is Senators, members of Congress, and Whether or not the Skull Hill hemophilia, whose "victims are professors than any other in the and the tomb 110ar by are known as "bleeders." That disease Union. It was left to Dr., "F. C. the actual scenes of the stupend- | is inherited, but is rare.

Shrubsall, of London, to explore. Qu9 happenings of the first The great, diseases are not" in this family history a little further Good Friday and Easter Day will heited. There is no inheritance in back, and thus be discovered that probably never be known for a certuberculosis. I once examined over these worthy people were all tainty. They are, however, of im- 700 children of consumptives. Of descended from a moral imbecile. mense interest, yet they are seldom | the children of infectious consump. The taint had died out. heard of by the comtices visitors | tives 60 per cent, were infected, but. That is the modern law, but it is to the Holy Land. Not more than among "the children of aon-in-as old as the Book of Exodus one out of a hundred is shown that fectious consumptive parents- the the Lord thy God am a jealous God, strange hill, where by some freak number infected with tuberculosis visiting the miquity of the fathers of nature the rocky side beari | was no greaten than in the case of upon the children unter the third the amazing resemblance to a gría, children whose parents are bealthy and fourth generation of them that ning skull

No child is born tuberculous. All hate Me; and showing mercy unto cases are infected after birth. A thousands of them that love Me, mother, dying of tubercle, may give and keep My commandments,”

The gospel story tells how Christ, bearing His cross, went forth into the place of a skull which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha."

Is the Skull Hill the true. Golgotha ?

Did the remarkable skill-like formation of the rock, and the fact that it was also the plaes of ston- ing, give rise to this sinister náme↑ Persons condemned to death by stoning were thrown from this cliff, and their broken bodies battered by stones hurled from above by their necuseră, p

"A New Bepulchre.” Assuming that the Skull Hill is the place where the Crucifixion was hold, then it is obvious that the Lomb of Christ must also be near, Et. John says: “ In the place where He was crucified there was a gar- den, and in the garden a new sepulchre

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Two Cotton Eight children were knocked overthrown as the result of fight description, has been found in & down and killed while playing in ing. This theory is supported by Onautals Cottons.. garden on the slopes of the Skull | the roadway,

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