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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, ́ ́ JUNE 26,

1936.

OF HEREDITY

SCIENTISTS SEEK SECRET

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 beinir in- vestigated:

Whether cleverness is inherited;

How luterest in music and the orts runs la families;

Physical and mental charneterisfles that are handed down from father to so.

Many curiosities have already come to light. Among them are the following:

THE KING

TO UNVEIL

WAR SHRINE IN FRANCE

Paris, June 15.

PHE King of England and

THE

Generations of fi-toed people.

as in the familly of the Sultan Pontianak (Brneo)-who also have six fingers on each hand.

Families who have always The Lord Mayor of Londas, Sir Percy-linsent, ruiting for thyer cheers for the King after the Proclamation, Þod

in red at the Royt, Exchange by Naring King of Arms, Major A. II. S. Howard.

had add-colour eyes-one dif-

fering from the other in colour.

A Scottish family, the mem- ers of which for 200 years havej 661 had only two fingers and twat toes to enchi Hmb,

Lord Horder and Lord Dawagn af Penn are among those who are riving support to the bureau. which is governed by a council of representatives of scientific, medi- leaf, and educational scietlea,

WORLD-WIDE SEARCH

Scientific the President of the French Republic, M. Albert world are

centres throughout the navisting the work, she result of which will be valuable for

Lebrun, will stand side by hospital tel scientifle research side on French soil on July

workers in every country,

The chairman is Professor Ruggles

26 in front of Canada's greatatea, of King's College, London, memorial to her war dead at Vimy Ridge.

whode Recretary, Mrs. C, B. Hudson, i

is herself

a lecturer on hiology and nein! problems.

Chur main purpose is to classify

"STERILISE UNFIT"

“I HAVE NEVER BEEN IN

LOVE"

ARNOLD BENNETT

hereditary traits in men and women "I HAVE never been in love-

more particularly the normal ones,"

News of the aunuungement by Mr. Mackenzie King, the Dominion Premier, in the Ottawa Parliament that King (she said.

the Edward his accepted. Canadian Government's in- citation to unveil the memorial has created great interest everywhere:

It will be the first visit is Majesty has paid to any overseas country since he ascended the throne, and elaborate arrange- ments are being made to receive him.

Special committees are being

love

wish to God 1 had, when I! "Parts are being collected abouant struggling with Tally histories, pedigrees, bodily scene," wrote Arnold Bennett to disense, and anything that can be a friend in 1895. of assistance in our study.

This his MSS., most ex- "When the work is completed-wetele collection of literary, and expert in two or three years time seripts to come into the market since the results will be available for free the famous Browning sale, 23 years use.

ago, were sold at Sotheby's.

"We are already answering in- quiries, and of course we welcome fsets about any interesting case of human heredity,

The Galton Laboratory, at London University, under the direction of Professor R. A. Fisher, is assistir

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formed to welcome the 5,000 or

CLEVER FAMILIES 6,000 visitors from Canada who

"Modern preventive medicine, per- will attend the ceremony, and will

of the greatest haps more than any other section of constitute one pilgrimages of modern Umes. Theyrence, nodds the type of information

we are to classify. will be enabled to tour many parts "Educationists, too, ure interested of France, especially the Loire and are represented on the council, to region which has many ties with study the questions of the training of the individual in relation to hereditary endowment and the descent of talent through families.

-Canadu.

The memorial, which has inken ten years to build, is dedicated to those Canadians who fell in the War and who have no known grave. Their

"Research has shown that a great mass of material on this subject, in its various spreti exista. never before been collated and made available for the furtherance of

names-nearly 12,000 of them-sacint work." are engraved around the base.

The monument is the work of Mr. Walter Allward, the Canadian sculp

Its two main pylons stand 138İL. high on a base 37 long.

tor.

It weighs some '30,000 tons and contains 20 figures, each 12ft. high

and each weighing 30 tons,

At the base stand two groups, one showing the breaking of the sword and

the other the sympathy, of Canadians

for the helpless. Above are

It has

GAS, POISON, JUMP OVER CLIFF

Newcastle on Tyne, June 1.

mouths of guns, covered with silve and CARRIED into the Moot Had!

laurels. On the base wall itself is a

Police Court here to-day on symbolic deure of Canada brooding a stretcher, a young man faced over the graves of her dead, Behind, a girl of 17, with whom, it was the two pylons represent the French said, he had tried to commit and Canadian forces.

The French Government has pre- sented to Canads the 240 neres of grount on which the memorial stands. At night it will be floodlit.

AMAX

KASSEL WANTED FOR MURDER

WAS

Paris, June 3.

CHARLES

MAITRE JEAN

famous

LEGRAND, the French lawyer who is defending Roger Vernon alins Charles Lacroix, charged in Paris with the murder in January Inst of Max Kassel told to-day of the latest developments in the ease.

The body of Max Kassel was St. Tount at the' roadside near Alban on January 24, where it -wan aleged to have been taken by car after Kassel had been shot in

Soho.

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suicide by

Coal gas;

Taking polson; and

Jumping over a elit.

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OVER 3,000,000 WORDS

At a rough calculation they amount to about 3,300,000 words!

ONLY WAY TO A SOUND RACE

-Dr. Barnes

GROWING MENACE OF MENTAL DISEASE

VOLUNTARY sterilisation of the unfit was advocat- ed by the Bishop of Birming- ham (Dr. Barnes), when he preached in the Temple Church, London, recently.

"We are more humane than

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Daventry News Bulletin

There are 13,000 pages of the novelist's handwriting, comprising 18 novels, 15 plays, hundreds of short stories and articles, and a great mass our ancestors of even a century of piquent correspondence,

jago," he said, "and in

quence mental defects have aand Arnouncements. better chance of survival. Mental 9.20 The London Palladium

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un, great man!" . 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

"We ought to check it in every pose frankest erities. "Anna of the Five Towns' he wrote: Your style is not,sible way mid, in particular, I suggest of course, my style, and there's not to you by voluntary sterilisation." three consecutive sentences I should let stand if I had the rewriting-of-it

The longest Bennett MS, is that of "Imperial Palace"-241,300 words,

Mental defect and a whole series of diseases and malformations were in- herited.

Maid

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"People carrying them ought to be sterilised lest they transmit them to their descendants, the bishop 7clared.

KEPT CONRAD AWAKE Then there is "Riccyman Steps,"

awake l which kept Conrad o'clock in the morning, "after the shortest

sleepless night of experience."

After referring to Darwin's theory, myDr. Barnes said that if man was descended from an ape the existence in him of lust, cruelty und dishonestý was no matter for surprise.

Many of Arnold Bennett's own letters are included in the sale. They describe his early struggles and pro- gress towards success.

"I want to be successful and' mix with the fellows whose names shine in the foreheads of the magazines," He wrote in 1894. when he was twenty-six. "Dis- gusting, isn't it? I think so hume- times,

SICK OF EDITING" In 1808 he was "sick of editing and being bound to go to a blasted office every day" so he tried his hand at a "sensational serial," because he

Kood

didn't see why he shouldn't write as exciting action as anyone else." Six more years and he was "doing nothing but fletion now, nuking £20 a books week minimum, and with

The man was Maurice Lambert, planned to keep him busy for two? aged 20, of Valley-view, Jesmond, | veers."

and he was still suffering from in- "Yet Bfe is devilish odd thing," he juries, received in the clir fall He says. "If I am any happier than was sent to prison for three months, when I used to cycle down to Furn-.

The girl, Mary Grace, employed at ham or Wotley after a week of rotten. Gosforth, was put on probation for ness in Fleet-Street, I do not know it," two years on condition that she en- tered a convent.

This was the remarkable account of the drama given to the magistráte by Mary:

"We went into the nursery of my employer's house. put cushions on the floor, turned on, the gas are, and stayed there fe 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 poison which we tasted. I drank it, but it only gave me a pain.

CRY OF "MARY" shake in Little Newport-street,ball Dene (the statement went on), They then decided to go to Crag

Maite Legrand statei:

and throw themselves over the cliff, "Sine my visit to London They drove there in the girl's em-

player's car, and: shortly after the discovery of the crime, have received much ovi- donce abut the character of Max Kassel Vich will help me in my

"After saying: It takes guts to do this, Maurice went over...

"I heard him shouting "Mary and when I looked over the elif saw him struggling in the water *Afterward, I saw bim struggling up the cliff-side..

"We were unable to restart the eur, and were walking along the Jesmond Road when we met a policeman who took Maurice, to hospital.

"Intens to prove that he was killed in 'elf defence. What I have just covered shows that Kassel was a man of even worse character tha. I at first thought. The reason, a fact, that he left Cancún bobwon 1930 and 1932 Lambert agreed with the statement, wae that he was wanted for but said that he fell over the cliff murde

accidentally...

Professor A. M. Low

Divorced

THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH What remained surprising Was that God had created a being who could

and manifest spiritual, appreciate qualities,

Man's desire for truth was dominant in the scientifle progress which was the glory of our era.

In spite of the fact that the bad deeds of bad Governments were still it times blessed by mad ecclesiastes, there was in humanity a never-tatting well of goodness,

PEACE BALLOT COSTS

LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION TO CUT EXPENSES

THE League of Nations Union's A decree nisi, with costs, was peace ballot last year has granted in the Divorce Court caused the union to make drastic this month to Mrs. Amy Low, af cuts in its expenses this year: Vernon, Mansions, W., on the An official has revealed that in. ground of the adultery of her 1936 expenditure exceeded revenus first time by about husband, Professor Archibald for the Montgomery Low, with Lady £10,000. Cynthia Lettice Margaret. Tot To meet this," be added, "twelve out of the 105 employees in London hill, and a woman cited as are being dismissed. They are all Clarice Rose-Williams, The full-time workers, and most of them were taken on in connection with the suit was not defonded.

peace ballot,

CARRYING ON

Mrs. Law's case was that she and her husband were happy for "One of our houses in Grosvenor- the first four years of their crescent, S.W., which was taken by us also in connection with the ballot, married life, but she afterwards will be vacated by us as soon as we had cause to complain about hla can find another tenant. The up- friendship with various women.

keep of this house has cost about

In 1917 she went to live at Windsor £1,000 a year..

All the principal officials of the and her husband at Chiswick. They had not Kyed together since, though unionthe secretary, Dr. Maxwell Professor Low had often called on her Garnett, and the four distant and seen the boys,

secretaries-are unaffected by the Both women cited were alleged to economies. bavo visited Professor Low at hin "All the departments will carry on few officials house in Woodstockroad, Chiswick, work just the same Miss Williams in 1930 and 1981, and and employees who are due to retire

shortly will not be replaced." Lady Cynthia Tothill in July 1936.

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