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ARE WE BREEDING THE WRONG SORT OF CHILDREN?

A report on the relation be. tween INTELLIGENCE AND FERTILITY, produced by Bir Cyril Burt at the request of the Royal Commission on Popula tion, reached the conclusion that poorer children have intelligence nearly two years below that of children from better social clas.. aet.

Dr Inge here comments on Sir Cyril Burt's findings.

ITAL statistics have long been a favourite hobby of mine, and the ignorance of the public drives me wild,

How often do we hear laments about the declining birth rate; Home even think that, our popu- lation is declining. Men who ought to know botter have pro dicted that we are on the road to extinction. The Report of the Royal Commission, a de- plorable document in my opinion, speaks of the threat of "a gradual fading away of the Bri- tish people."

What are the fucts?

AN IMPORTANT ARTICLE

by

Dr W. R. INGE, D.D.

United Kingdom Australle France Holland Denmark

Sweden Switzerland U.S.A.

1930 1943 15.6 16.9

17.5 20.7 14.0 10.0 20.5 23.0 10.1 21.4 14.0 19.3 15.2 19.2 17.0 22.0.

This is entirely contrary to what happened in the first World War. I am quite unable to ac- count for it.

The danger is much Increased now that the government subaldiso the ablest son of the working man, en- abling them to rise into the sierite upper middle class. Dr Schiller noted this long ago. We are skim- ning off the creain in each gestera- Ben and throwing it away, 4

Recent events have turned a dan- ger into a catastrophe. The profes- slonal class, who, it seems, have the beat brains in a population, have been massacred in Russia, slarved in Germany and France, and here are taxed, bullied and regimented tin their lives are hardly worth living.

They are the most unorganised and helpless section of the community, too proud and patriotic to strike, wondering sadly whether they are only to be shorn or skinned alive.

"Inferior elements'

THERE is a mass of evidence in

highly educated women, It appears, support of Sir Cyril's conclusion; are even more barren, as a class, than the nien.

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have left no children at all.

As an

tion, we simply cannot afford

If we are to remain a gront na-allan expert has said, "We must not suppose that the psycho-physl- counter-selection favouring the in- cal elite corresponds with the econo-

mic clite.'

Tennyson speaks of "the tenth transmilter of a foolish face."

Sir Cyril Burt has investi- gated the question whother there is an innate superiority of intelligence in the children of the professional class as com- pared with those of the working

steadily for many years, both though the cluas difference is ready excessive birth-rate"

The birth-rate has been rising man. He decides that there is,

between the best and the worst much less than the difference

specimens in any class.

ferior elements in aur population.

Personally, I think that the fle- veridge Act, the object of which was to stimulate artificially the al-

law ever placed on the Statute Book. slums, was the

of the

most

Marrying earlier?

here and in almost every other country, (I have no recent figures for Germany). What is more astonishing is that this process has not been arrested by the war, though millions of young men have been separated the professional class is relative Darwins, who can chow distinction tion and increased regularly with

from their wives.

The following birth-rate figures have been drawn up by Mr E. F. Schumacher, an Oxford atatistician:

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Danger grows

the

ly sterile-nol keeping up its num- bers-we must expect, and author thinks we already find a gra- dual deterioration in the mental capacity of our people. The dif- ference in the generation will be slight, but it is cumulative.

mischievous MY other point is one which Sir!

Cyril ought to have mentioned There are, however, two conaldera- but ins not. tions on the other side. Ability is

There are signs of a reversal of often transmitted for one generation, the process. At the Population Con- much less often in two or three.

ference in 1927 Dr Edin, of Sweden, proved that at Stockholm the fertility. There are a few families like the was "lowest with the least educa- for four or five generations; and increased education." appear more than twice in our roll names like Pollock and Coleridge of eminent men and women; but some of the greatest men have left sons who were mediocre or worse, and a larger number of the great

FORGET FREUD woo sleep with

with gadgets

and

LEEP is wooed in 600 ways shows a girl curled up in bed, is a form of self-pampering in an in- at the world's only Sleep her knees almost touching her dividual who believes she's unfairly Shop, New York.

On sale are scores of inven- tions to aid sleep.

One is designed to settle your fear of falling asleep while smoking in bed and setting the place afire.

chin.

treated and exploited by others." Sleep Shop version: "Actually the Freudian interpretation. ac- herself against the shock of the clang- sleeper. 18 unconsciously bracing cording to the poster, is: "Frus- ing alarm clock." They advise the trated curl into this pre-natal gentle, musical alarm. position indicates desire to INCIDENTAL bedroom equipment in crawl into a shell away from the

the Sleep Shop includes: baffling world.”

Records on which hypnotist Ralph Stater talks hypnotically. If you don't asleep after listening to two-

It's a combined ash-tray and hookan-style cigarette-holder. The ash-tray firmly grasps the holder containing the cigarette. for warmth, indicating she needs made of phosphorescent paper, which, Luminescent stara, comets, planeta, From the holder leads a flexible one of their special blankets on gunned on the wall, will glow in the tube several feet long ending in display. an attractive mouthpiece.

THE Sleep Shop challenges sided record (asuming you think circulation causes the condition, back.

this, says that obviously poor to be hypnotised) you get your money and the girl is simply striving

This enables the resting on smoker to pull at long range. If up. he or she falls asleep, the mouth- piece and tube may fall, but the] cigarette remains on the tray to smoulder to extinction with- out danger.

NEWEST and most complicated

dark. Recommended for children's murmeric.--

Another poster showed a girl lying

her back with her knees hunched of stuffy sir, quietly atomines and dia An electrical device which gets rid Freudian interpretation: "This pels fragrance throughout the roum.

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

gadget is an automatic book-IT has been said that the mis- page turner for the reader in adventures of C. Suet. Esq., bed. A metal frame holds the in the land of bureaucracy over book. Thin metal clips are at-step the bounds of legitimate tached to each page.

exaggeration. I am prepared to debate the point.

These dips are attached to a nylon thread wound on an elec trically driven revolving drum which turns the pages when you press a switch which fits coaily under the chin.

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When the render wants page turned he just nods and the drum revolves sufficiently to cause the thread to turn a page. | Cost, $19.

Before me lies the complaint of

comment on it.

It is suficient to

copy out their stuff to prove the ab- possibly, waste of time to parody Aurdity of their minds, and it is, their style or satirise their methods. A fat lot I care

now.

an-

VERY story is new to thousands a man who wrote to the Stationery of people. A man came into a Office for information

about the bar with a live lobster in his coat furnishing and bedding trades. received leaflets about coal mines. home for dinner?" asked the bar- He pocket. "Why don't you take him Next day he received "a quarterly report on milk tests, though he has swered the customer.

man. "He's had his dinner," never kept a cow in his life."

"I'm taking him to the mvies now." I have also a leaflet (No. 1843, (If this story is an old one to you, Statutory Rules and Orders. Sup- write to Mrs E. S. Voppleton, 03(b), plies and Services (Transitional Balaclava-crescent, King's Thursday, Powers) Food (Sugar)). It is too enclosing your identity card and a long to print, and ends with a 12- postat order for eighteen and five- line sentence which makes Suet's

pence. She tolll send you an alterna- beetroot schedules and foghorn-con- tive story.) It is a shop full of sleep, but tainers seem the mcrest ommon the challenging posters round sense. the walls keep the visitor awake Marginal note with surprise.

radio talk about the Zco ended HESTERTON once said "Other with these wordai. "They will bring One. poster asks: What do people make the jokes: I see the number of the Zoo's exhibits up your sleeping positions mean 7"'" them." The most striking fact about to pre-war stencher; strength." and is sub-titled: "Freud vererats is that they talk and write the pursued by an Australian gast. Exil the new privileged class of búreau- Enter a Nicaraguan badger hotly sus the Sleep Shop." Picture nonsense.

Other poople need only a Mongolian skunk,

NANCY He's Everywhere

WHAT A HORRIBLE LOOKING MAN W

6.30 p.m.

I HOPE I DON'T DREAM ABOUT THAT JAWFUL MAN

Oh, I say, look here!, IT is reported to me that a recent

HELP!

In 1932 te sald: "Couples having crowns had a birthrate 50 per cent an income of at least 10,000 Swedish above the rate for couples with an Income of lys than 4,000 crowns.

Dr Burgdorfer found that in large German towns families with above -50,000 marks Income had on an average 50 per cunt more children than those with less than 1,500. This was in 1830.

This looks us If the differentiation In favour of the slum-dwellers and feeble-minded may be only tem- porary. I have noticed that girls In my own walk of life seem to marry earlier, and all hope to have children.

The old fashioned, houvy father who used to say: "Can you give she is accustomed?" is extinct. my daughter the comforts to which Dur young people do not care about

money.

Rupert and Ninky-66 '

When the Toy Scout has soared into the clouds with the letter for Santa Claus, Rupert runs to Mr. Badger's cottage and, for the second time, makes Bill a present of the cloth donkey. Then he again pours out the story of his wonderful adventure and smiles at the excite- ment of the little badger as the donkey obeys his order to rump. "I can hardly believe it," aics Bitt "To think that I've got a tow with scal magic in . It's the most topping present I've ever had!

THE END

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, Another New Advenkary Tomorrow.

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According To Culbertson

(Copyright 1947, by Ely Calberona)

Successful play in to-day's deal depended on precise card-placing from the opponents' bidding.

South, dealer.

Both sides vulnerable.

WEST

NORTH

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BAST

• Q 10 8 7 4E" GAK S

♦ Q 10 6 8

A Q 10 TO

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SOUTH

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The bidding:

Pari Trad Jaz

North F I heart EX a diamonds X sonder fra VN ។ ៤.

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West led his fourth-highest spade; East took the king and played the spade ape. Declarer ruffed, carbod the diamond ace, then cuffed a low diamond with' the club deuce. The trump ace was then laid down, after- which South ruffed dummy's last spade to return to his own hand.

Obviously, it was vital to run the diamond sult without loss, and equally obviously, South could not alford to depend on a 3-3 break of the suit. Hence he led another low diamond and, to guard against an over-ruft on East's part, ruffed in dummy with the club queen. East discarded heart.

The play had reached the point where nothing more was needed ex- cept to draw the two outstanding trumps without losing a trick in that sult Declarer could of course have led to the trump king in hope of a 2-2 break, but he took time out to think things over.

East had shown only tero diamonds, and after due reflection, declarer was satisfied that he had started with only three

spades. With four spades to the aco-king and the are of hearts (with which he was marked for his double of five clubs) he almost surely would have ralaed West's spade bid. East could not have held alx hearts, because that would place West with singleton, which he would

have Ied.

Thus, East was marked with three clubs. Declarer Anessed for the jack, and was homo.

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