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THE TAINT IN THE FAMILY

BRILLIANT CHILDREN OF A STRANGE UNION.

EUGENICS PROBLEM.

[ST HALLIDAY SUTHERLAND, M.D.]

DOCTOR - ASSISTS JUDGE.

REMARKABLE CASE AT

LIVERPOOL.

PHYSICIAN AIDS IN PASSING SENTENCE.

An extraordinary situation arose at Liverpool Assizes, when Mr. Justice Hawks asked a doctor to sisist him in sentencing a girl who had pleaded guilty to two cases of robbery with violence."

CONTEMPORARY.. PORTRAITS.

HOW A GERMAN SEES OUR GREAT MEN,

IR. CHURCHILL THE ENGLISH TYPE.

POWERS AND PILLARS. By Rudolf Kircher, ranatated from the German by Constance Vesey

(Collins, 251.).

· FIVE YEARS IN IRON,

HOSPITAL WHERE PEOPLE NEVER MOVE.

TUBERCULOSIS' CURE.

SYET con-

The cruellest torture. ceived by the Borgias has been adapted by medical science to save the lives of men and threatened by nature with a ter

women

FATHER'S HUNT FOR CHILDREN.

MISSING 19 MONTHS.

DISAPPEARANCE WITH THEIR

MOTHER.

SOUTREND,

Mr. Thomas Reever Nunns, of Hadleigh, Essex, has made almost a world-wide search for his two children and their mother who have been missing since October 27th, 1928.

The word eugenics has been much abused. In truth, eugenics is the science of producing healthy chil- dren, and is therefore of vital moment to any civilisation interest ed in self-preservation. It eugenics falls into disrepute the blame will be on those suganists who proclaim was stated that she had dressed seen through the eyes of a German were placed in an iron cage, strap" | England, on the Continent, or in

that negative eugenics are more im portant than positive eugenica.

She was Catherine Steen, 20, of Queen's buildings, Birkenhead. It herself in her brother's clothes, and had gone out after dark on separ ate occasions and waylaid and at tacked a woman, robbing her of a handbag. In one instance there was £ in the handbag, and in the other as. The gul destroyed both handbags in the kitchen fire.

By positive eugthics we seek to discover the most suitable moral and physical environment for the race. That covers a vast field in cluding antenatal care, infant Mr. Maxwell Fyfe, defending, welfare, education (religious and asked that the girl should be treat secularį, school medical mspection, ed as a mental deficient. The cir general hygiene and sanitation. cumstances, he said, were extra- The aim of negative eugenics is ordinary. She had been brought narrower-namely, to suppress the up as a female, but doctors who offspring of interior stocks by com- had examined her pow agreed thật pulsory segregation or by sterilisa-she was bisexual, but with male tion.

instincts

According to the Mental De- Sciency Act of 1913, mental defec tives are those who require care, aupervision and control for their Own protection and for the protes

tion of others."

"

In a previous article I used the older equivalent of moral defective -namely, moral imbecile. That description, as a generous critic over the signature Medicus pointed out, misled the public 1 agree. A moral imbecile or moral defective may, according to his or her, luck, reach Pentonville, or Park-lane.

The fact to be seized on is that if in the past moral defectives had been sterilised, as now they may be in some States, America would have lost one of her most brilliant

Mr. Nunns states that he pre- sumes his wife is dead and that the children are now in home in

Canada.

He has even taken the advice of fortune tellera.

A remarkable story lies behind the disappearance of Mrs. Nunné,

smart woman of about 35 years of age, and the two children, Mal- solm, now aged 3, and Phyllis, 6.

The Village Constable.

"An interesting book, Powers and rible, death.-'.

Five hun red' years ago no sen- Pillare by Rudolf Kircher, an adaptation of work which has tence was more dreaded than that been widely read in Germany, con.

and absolute im- iets of a number of brightly writ of enforced ten sketches of British celebrities as mobility. Men possessing a secrat journalist resident in London. His studies are not profound, but they ped down in such a way that no are intelligent and impartial, and movement of any kind was possible. In the modern treatment of ́sur- the prevailing tone is friendly.

Here is his estimate of Mr. gical tuberculosis this rigidity has proved of marvellous value. "Cares Baldwin:

It may well be asked how hear effected to-day by its means which would have been impossible rose to his present position. Was even a few years ago. it a triumph of common sense,

Wards Wilh Tares Walla, or a miracle, like that of St. Joani ... Filled with re- Deep in the heart of England is ligious fervour, he bears the a little hospital where men, women banner of England aloft, a St. and children lie utterly still, en-

On the day that Mr. Nunas ár- Joan alive to the prevailing ten-cased in a wonderful splint that dency of the Stock Exchange and only allows movement of the arms rived at his home in Poore-lane, conscious of what is practicable and, in some cases, the head as Hadleigh, to find it empty, the vil The mother of this curious pro- in England Ho is simple and well. They lie in wards which have duct of bumanity died a year ago, politically, as unsullied as St. only three walls, open to the springlage cocatable, James Arthur Viner, and since then Steen had consorted

sun and wind and the lawns of the was shio reported missing. with unfortunate companions. She

Year in, year Sir Austen Chamberlain is com out, they must lie and watch the

hospital garden.

Viner and Mrs. Nunns, it is End, in fact, admitted that she comtrasted with his redoubtable father sunlight and the changing aky-known, had been about together & He has no personal enemies.quite still themselves for a term of great deal while Mr. Nunns was at But neither will anyone over rave years, condemned by a terrible his business in the City. Viner about him. He will never inspire disease and a confinement as close knew France well and spoke French enthusiasm, but he will always be as a nut in a nutshell.

fluently, regarded as the cuence of good nature and courtesy. This quality alone will suffice to show how

mitted these offences to get money to play pitch and toes with her

friends. boy

He suggested that her physical condition reflected on her mentality. and therefore she should receive special consideration.:

Humans Prisons.

The Judge: You surely do not suggest she ought to be bound over! The public must be protect- ed. I have never had to deal with such a case as this.

scher, Medical Officer at

Walton Prison, said that a week's

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Joan.

little he resembles his father.

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Is Smartness Unlnglish ? The author's view of Mr. Winston Churchill interesting. He typi has real life in England. A good deal about him is sham, but it may so be said that nothing about him English in appearance and not at Is false." And he is

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This treatment is to cure tuber. · Soon afterwarde newI was re- culosis of the spine, once consider ceived from the British Vice-Con- ed hopeless, but nowadays curablesulate of Hyères, in the south of by the wonderful skill of surgeons France, that a man answering Viner's description, had been drown- and by years of rest.

ed there. The identity was con- firmed later, and Mr. Nunas, be- lieving that his family was strand- after a fortnight's unsuccessful ed, went to France, but returned

Terrible Wenkr

are terrible. Take, for instance, It is only the first few weeks that the case of one patient, an actress who had to leave the stage at a thoroughly moment when success was just ahead, and lie like a log for five

all ÄRA ILL One of Mr. Kircher's

theses is that smartness and the English character do not agree.

Lady Astor is praised for

The delightful unconventionality so often to be met rith in Anglo- Saxon women, In public life this woman who could afford to follow every freak of fashion disregards it altogether. The style she adopts is puritanical. So was her upbringing; so is her spirit, and so are her politica. The Dean of St. Paul's, are freshing oasis in the desert of Bri- e" scems to Mr. Kärcher to personify the British spirit and national feeling in their earliest and most characteristic forms: -

| families. On that all are agreed observations on the girl showed

A Great Mystery.

her to be well, ordered and a good And the cause of mental de workes, and he found no evidence fciency Here we are faced by a of defective intelligence. The most great mystery. Mental deficiency he could say was that she was dull. is inherited, but only a small pro He, had reported that she should the children of mentally deficient The Judge: Do you think ahe parents. The majority of mental would improve in "prison 1 Prisons defectives are the children of apare very humane for dealing with parently healthy parents. Que ex-persons whose circumstances are planation is that these parents, out peculiar.

Abern: Yes, I think she wardly normal, are nevertheless **impuro dominanta This means would steadily improve.. that

Then what length of time do you proportion of their germ one-half, in fact, are defecthink would be a good deterrenti not as one passing sentence, but The tragedy is that no apparentes medical man prescribing 1-Itish common sense, ly normal man or woman can tell would suggest a moderate degree whether he or she is an " impure of sentence. "' dominant" until they have brought into the world- mentally deficient child. If they have done so, should they have more children? The ob- vious Answer is No, and yet that which appears to be obvious is not always true.

Do you think six months in the second division, would give her "a fair chance i-I do.

The Judge then passed this sex- tence on the girl, telling her it was merciful, and adding: “You will be looked after by humans people, and I hope it will do you good."

TUNNEY'S NEW ROLE.

A SHAKESPEARE LECTURE.

The late Sir Frederick Mott proved that there was a tendency for the impure dominant elements in parents to concentrate in a few of their offspring and that their other children escape the tains. In face of the ill-instructed clamour for the sterilisation of mental defectives, I suggest that in logic, if anyone is to be sterilised, we should begin with the "impure dominants," namely, the parents of

NEW YORK. a single mentally deficient child. But that, I think, would be less weight champion, entered a new

Gene Tunney, the world's heavy popular, although equally unscien- field when he lectured on Shakes The following family history peate to undergraduates of Yale

University.

tífic.

illustrates the tendency of the "im- pure dominant elements in the parents to concentrate in a few children and to spare, the others. This family is known to me and to some of my colleagues, but no

YALE'S DELIGHT.

The student came to scoff but remained to praise."

The shy young man who had con- fessed that he would rather fight three contenders at the same time than lecture at Yale rose to speak

He holds views that are still held by the Englishman in his inmost heart. He is a remnant of a lost Paradise. The question is whether that Paradise can be

recovered.

The Empire Atmosphers. To the British educational system he pays a notable tribute. It has produced:...

search.

After news of the death of Viner,

years. She was young and pretty, the British Foreign Office, at Mt. with the exquisite figure of the Nunns's request, circulated a de- dancer, but she had to give up scription of Mrs. Nunns and her everything and endure a life for children in France, but although five years more secluded than that reward of £100 WAS attached of any nua, simply to be a face on nothing resulted. a pillow the rest of her encased in leather and iron, covered by bed- clothes.

She fretted at first to such an extent that she had to be undone several times by the doctors and allowed just one more movement of freedom before she resigned herself to the five years ahead. Then, like nearly all the others, life carried her through the long, lonely days until the time, not so far ahead now, when she will take up her career again.

-In Touch With Nature. The children's ward, which seems even more pitiful to the visitor, is in reality the most hopeful of all. Children settle down more quickly to the terrible life than older people.

The greatest solace for these prisoners lies in the fact that in their three-sided ward they can get into touch with nature, they will, A type, a superior mentality,as, no one can who can- wander a manner of thinking, a spirit, through woods and fields. They see an intangible "something" which the first signs of each season, they pervades the whole" atmosphere notice the lengthening and shorten- of the Empire... British ing of the shadows, the first sprout prestige is in the long run a ques-ings of spring and the first leaf tion of personality,"

to fall in the autumn.

BERLIN BY NIGHT.

SEARCHLIGHTS FOR THE BRANDENBURG GATE.

BERLIN.

How Posts Are Made... In the little space of grass be fore them summer rain and winter rain, snow, sunlight and starlight make poets of many who had little enough thought of such things when they could move.

Search In Canada. Mr. Nunna ́said :—:

Later in the year I heard that a woman answering my wife's description was in Canada, I wrote to the Commissioner of "Police for Alberta My wife had relatives there." Then the Chief Constable of Winnipeg made in- quiries, but these were in vain,

I can distraught I make an earnest appeal to anyone who knows of two children whoso.past. history is doubtful to communi- cate with me, preferably at Fair- oaks, Knoll-road, Sidcup, Kent.

GERARD LEE BEVAN.

MARRIED TO COMPANION OF HIS LONDON-PARIS FLIGHT.

PARIS, April 25th.

It is now learned that Gerard Lee Bevan, the City financiar, who re cently served a long term of im- -prisonment, was married in Paris- a fortnight ago. Bevan was TO- leased from prison in February after being sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, which was reduced by good conduct to five and a quar- Since regaining his ter years. freedom he has been observed once or twice on a Paris Tacecourse. His bride was ille, Marie Per taisot, who was mentioned when

in 1923. She is 43 years old.

When he absconded in 1929 Bevan flew. From London to Paris in com-" pany with file. Portaisot. Faked papers were procured for Bevan; who then disappeared, and all trace of him was lost till he was arrested four months later in Vienna "under" the name of Leźn Vernier.

(name will be given, and I have sup dressed in a brown sporte suit. to provincials collectively as "Ber-which may comfort them a little Mrs. Bevan divorced ber husband?

pressed any details which might lead to identification.

With clear enunciation and quiet dignity Dempsey's conqueror spoke so sincerely of his love for Shakes peare's plays that the students gave him a rousing acclamation at the

d of the lecture,

The family was formed by the marriage of a male deaf mute to the daughter of two first cousins It should be noted that a deaf mute is not of necessity na impare end dominant," because deaf-mutism may be acquired in infancy as the sequel of measles or of scarlet fever. Bat in the family I am citing, one or other of the parents as B

impure dominant." Possibly both, because they brought into the world one epileptic, ons imbecile, one child with a cleft palate, and then two normal boys.

Read Play Ten Times.

came to read the poet who now Tunney first explained bow he

and beautiful in life. A young meant to him all that was lovely comrade in the war had lent him A Winter's Tale," and the young boxer confessed that be read the play ten times before he had grasp The parents died. The three deed Shakespeare's menning. fective children died without issue. "But now," he said, “ I worship Of the two normal boys, one rose at his shrine."

to a high position in a British The champion-mused. I wonder colony, married, and had four if Shakespeare were alive to-day healthy children, whose history is would he be a boxing fan and would unknown to me. The other normal he have shouted, for me at Chicago boy became world famous, married, to stay down or get up in that and had Eve healthy children, seventh round! Shakespeare was a Of these all I shall write is that sport there was no question about the men won high distinctions in that.”

the Great War, that the girls married, and that all their children are healthy. If any man shall say that I am advocating the marriage of dent mutes to the daughters of first cousins-let-him be manthems. The moral obligation of society to care for the mentally deficient has long been recognised, and in olden times, when the Faith of England was the Faith of Europe, we had, the phrase "God's Fool." But now it is proposed to let these poor creatures loose in the midst of a world with which by reason of their infirmity they cannot com2. pete. And this sort of thing some persons call Progress-Evening Standard.

Bharkey's Prototype...

Tunney proceeded to analyse Troilus and Cressida, saying:

Achilles was the champion," and Trojan Hector offered to fight settle which army would be vie Anyone among the Greeks to

torions. But Achilles was in love Ulysses hit upon a good idea. or too proud to fight

He pretended to use Ajax to areuse. Achilles'aire.

Ajax was just a big ambitions fellow like Sharkey (loud laugh- ter) given to extended mouth. Finge. He didn't have "stuff,” and the Greek generals knew iti (Continued at foot of next columns

WASTING TIME

When their long term of nursing is over they go back again to life As the famous attractions known with an insight and eys for beauty in by night" have concentrated for the years they have lost. themselves more and more in the west-end, and as streets once the centre of night-life have taken on a dreary, sleepy aspect after dark, shopkeepers and others in the city and the streets around the Govern

tiful boulevard. Unter den Linden, ment offices, as well as in the beau

keep all windows lighted up to one have entered on an agreement to o'clock in the morning

WHEN TEACHERS 'SHOULD KEEP OUT OF THE WAY:

That young children should wante more time was a view expressed by Brandenburg Gate, Berlin's Are Mr. H. Deat, of Brighton and Hove de Triomphe, is to be fitted with Grammar School, in an address on two enormous searchlights, hotels" Active Class Work," at the final ure providing themselves with new session of the Conference on New | lampe, and act only the German Ideals in Education at Westminster

ministries, but the Soviet Embassy, College, Cambridge. will be illuminated with a bril. lianer hitherto undreamed of

This will make the heart of Berlin the most festively illuminat ed city in the world at an hour when other cities are shrouded in darkness, save for isolated places of amusement.

The adolescent will waste his own time," he said. “That is why you will hear so much about laziness in schools, He wild waste time, as a natural defence against any sort of boredom his teacher inflicts on him. That is why the so-called lazy boy at school becomes such a success afterwards.

"But children between sight and eleven have not reached the stage Ulysses arranged that the soldiers when they can waste their own "

ory what a good fellow he was. should siap Ajax cu this back and time." If the child lesins how to use a ruler, it is as much as he Achilles said to Ulysses, “They ought to learn, because all the time pass me like 2 beggar,” and he is learning other things which Ulysse unsered wilily, "They're are not being taught him. - Direct- Pinterested in fellows that are up ed instruction could be cut down

and doing. You can't expect a enormously. An apparent, waste of ""reception "any more. You're all time was one of the finest things

INSURE

YOUR

BAGGAGE

WITH

GILMAN'S

must get up and defend your gave far too much direction. They through. You're a has been. You children could have. Most teachers OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE

title"

tahould keep out of the way until The philosophy the champion an opportunity occurred for lead drew

from Shakespeare was;ing the children in their own way "Cash in while yon can

to the desired end-

POLICY.

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