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BRITAIN IS LOSING

ITS BRAINS

• Scientists report that the nation's level of intelligence is declining. "Bright" children are getting fewer- and girls are out-smarting the boys. by

CHARLES

WINTOUR

of

all) and to have fewer children

(if any) than those who not chosen.

are

OLDEST LAW CODE IN THE WORLD

BY JACK SAUL

BAGHDAD, Iraq-An un- of the University of Pennsylvania

baked, slightly damaged, in Philadelphia." lato third millennium tablet, Tentative examination shown tho new code to deal with such matters found. just outside modern na family laws, theft and hous0- Baghdad, makes new history in brending, the hiring fingul

adoption bringing up)

The

property

purchased. Tell Hormal stands about

archaeology.

Its inscribed contents, in the of a child, selling wine, selling a words of Professor Albrecht man's house, and non-delivery of Goetze, of Yale University,

650 have revented "the oldest rode yards from Tell Mohammad, another of laws ever discovered." archaeological mound adjoining tho tablet was recovered northeast corner of the Iraqi army encampment of Mansker al-Rashid, during excavations at Tell

where Felix Jones in the course of Harmal by Sayid Mohammed a brief sounding in 1850 discovered Ali Mustafa, of the Iraqi an Inscription of Hammurabi. Government Directorate Gon- FORTRESS UNCOVERED eral of Antiquities.

Harmal was excavated for the The site is six miles east of Arst time in 1045, revealing tho the capital, in fertile country remains of a fortised enclosure in between the Tigris and the the form of an irregular aquare, Dinlah rivers. It has been iden- thick, and a single gateway flanked with buttressed walls about 10 feet tified as a fortified administra- by enormous towers,

a

tive centre of an agricultural Also found at the alte were ono district of ancient Babylonia.

Iargo temple, smaller double- shrine temple several minor shrines, and a large administrativo, build- ing.

was

DATE-LINK FOUND Only a preliminary analysis of the find has been made so he remainder of the space

taken up by minor structure most- far. Composed in the Akkadian is in the form of officen and language, the text is written archives. Iraqi excavators collected fairly skilfully in old Baby more than 1,300 tablets from the lonian script, the Department place, all unbaked often in such a

to fragile state as

necessitato report says.

treatment before their removal was One date-link, contained in possible. an inscription, gives the period The two tablets containing tho thon should throw additional light as "the year when Dadusha newly discovered code of laws will on this subject, but large surveys seized Qabara."

be presented to the world as soon Sayid Taha full examination is completed.→ must be carried out in succeeding generations

of the Iraqi United Press. to establish the facts Baqir, curator conclusively.

Museum, estimates that to be In the light of these investiga- some 40 years, earlier than tho| tlona, many aspects of our society Code of Hammurabi, who ruled may have to undergo searching Babylonin 2067-2025 B.C. scrutiny. Is universal-franchise en- dangered? Is the floating vote be- unbounded when a duplicate tablet coming the moron vole? Should

U was discovered at the site. there

literacy, or simple intel- Professor recently was appointed be ligence tests, to exclude nearby the American Schools of Orten- morons from casting a vote on tal Research as annual professor to policies which they cannot possibly

the American School of Archaeo- understand?

logy, Baghdad.

Professor Goetze's enthusiasm was

The

But the most fascinating problem of all is raised by the fact that in

TEXT ALMOST COMPLETE Dome post-war torty girls” nze now "The text of the new find," Pro- N fifty years' time, if present 11 or 12 to enter on a longer war no sex-bias existed.

beating Boys, although before the fessor Goetze said; "is almost com

plete, and will greatly facilitate de- trends continue, there will and more difficult course

"Has the war affected girls and cipherment.- The beginning... be roughly double the num- education are likely, on the boys differently?" aska Professor clearly shows that we deal with the ber of feeble-minded children average, to marry later (if at Thomson. "Or are we faced with law of the kingdom of Eshnurina

either and about half the number of

the even more terrible prospect of as promulgated by

King declining male, but increasing Bilalama or his son. pupils of scholarship ability in

female. intelligence?"

"That makes it the oldest code of Britain, compared with the pre-

laws ever discovered, older by about sent day. The level of Britain's

two generations even than that of national intelligence is falling tem of the country acts as a steve

discovered recently in the museum Lipit-Ishtar of Isin, which

Was steadily, if slightly. (The to sift out the more intelligent ar 11 figures indicate a drop of about destroy their posterity. It is a selec- a third of a year's mental de- tion which ensures that their like

the intelligent people and the rest fertility between

are by no means entirely due

"In short, the educational sys-

velopment per generation). The Differences in

shall not endure."

number of mental defectives is rising,

These arresting conclusions may be drawn from the latest scientific researches by British authorities on paychology and education.

The facts are even more hor. rifying when it is realised that there are today roughly 3.000,- 000 adults and young people in Britain who can scarcely read or write:

Classifications

educational and roda distinctions.

The 'Class' Factor

to

It is certainly true that children of the well-to-do NTOW up in healthier surroundings and receive better instruction than the poor.

• Burt's Intelligence and Fertility (Eugenics Society, 28.). Intelligence (Eugentes Society. 28.).

Thomson's The Trend of National

The new

are

IRE'S politics, rather than

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JAMES 'DILLON (Independent),

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for his tough

her politicians, have for 25 Minister for Agriculture, thundered, SEAN COLLINS, nephew of General years held the spotlight. Now in his first speech: "I want to pro- Michael Collins, because he'll get the order of things has been a policy which will result in there anyway.

sending ment to England now," John reversed. Look at the Cabinet. Dillon, his father, was the last leader kind of charm and robust sense of

The crowd fall Yet Burt has found that among It consists of 13 members three of the Irish Party at Westminster. humour. the working classes "it is still the Senior Counsel, three trade union tribute fewest to the next genera- two business-men-ond ane farmer. In all probability the Shamrock cause "You allow most intelligent farallies who con-oficials, two generals, two doctors,

FIVE WIDOWS

Bureaucrata infuriate him. He called Tipperary electors idiots be- tion."

They owe their allegiance to six will cease to grow on Irish soil sitting on swivel chairs in centrally elvil servants different groups.

when a spinster is elected to Dall heated offices in Dublin to tell you Eireannt

how to farm the best land ira At present there are five women Ireland." wear black. deputies, all widows. They all Anthony Eden of the House Is tall, athletic BRENDAN CORISI}, Best known is MRS. REDMOND, casily picked out because of his

Gael, trained racehorses on

people have exceptionally handsome looks and the famous impeccable clothes. Curragh turf for years.

Aged 20, he holds two Parliamen- One would never guess from her tary Secretaryships-Defence and

Although social class may be Im- portant in dormining the number

BESO

Fine

Prime

A FULL CAST Approximately nine percent of children in a family, this factor MR. JOHN COSTELLO belongs of the population (say 4,500,000 if the gap between the middle class In Irish politics.

is likely to diminish in importance to Fine Gael-extreme Right wing It was the only people) are classified as sub- and working class standard of life party which went to the electors normally dull; another two per- is narrowed.

| in favour of Commonwealth cent (over 1,000,000) are

ciation. 011 Indeed, the latest investigations the borderline of mental

de- Into

He refers to himself general Intellectual ficiency; and nearly four per- show that home environment Minister, not Taoiseach, the name cent (2,000,000) are

Innato mentally counts far less than

heritable factors. "With Intelligence deficient. They are feeble.

as measured by Intelligence tests, minded or imbeciles or idiots not in the sense used in alanging matches but in the strict die tionary sense.

to

it is

have

ability

and

whose

embodied in the Consilution for the handsome, chic appearance that her Local Government.

real forte is the pig industry! head of the Government. prefers to use the letters K. C. AL 32, Beaumont - eduented

NO. I SECRET MAN rather than the Irish form S. C., DR. NOEL BROWNE, caretaker of

the nation's health, is the youngest tory to An Toolscach, 28-year-old As Parlamentary Private Secre-

after his name.

61

the

oldesi,

Ho

ways one expert, "the contribution of heredity is about four times as potent as that of environment."

For 10 years Mr de Valera, with Minister. So while on improvement in the

an overall majority, ran a one-man

He has plans for a nation-wide LIAM COSGRAVE, Fine Gael, la show. Now the curtain rises on a anti-TB drive; says luxury hotels, Eire's No. 1 secret holder. educational facilities available 10 full cast. Britain's foremost experts on the poorest section of the popula-

set up by the previous Government after bachel ublin's most sought- the subject of national intelli- tion may check the decline in na- Both front and back Benchers to attract foreign tourists, will be

make an

The contributions of .THOMAS are striving to

impres- gence are two sexagenarians: tional intelligence

taken over if necessary, by no means enough. Something must be falls they certainly want to have GENERAL

sion, because if the Coalition Quietly spoken. Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt.

courteous BURKE, Independent, are few, but pro done to encourage the more intel-

MULCAHY is the what they lack in number they fessor of psychology at London ligent people

make up in orignality. enhanced their individual reputa smallest, and at University, and Professor God- families, and to encourage family being defeated at the polls.

larger

tions and not run the danger of Cabinet Minister. He is Minister

for Education. frey Thomson, of Edinburgh limitation among the dullest. University. Burt and Thomson But far more must be discovered

He has battled for years for the removal of education from tho agree that, in general, intelli- about the reasons why intelligent

us start with PATRICK

sphere of party politics. This gent people are likely to have Deople have small familles and why McGILLIGAN (Fino Gael), Before opportunity is not ilkely to slip.

even children in large families are duller his colleagues had fewer children than the average, than average before any

found effective their feet hd had cut taxation by and the less intelligent more action can be taken.

three millions. children.

He gives the Impression of being very much in his element, holding the nation's purse strings. the most devastating wit is

in

Young. Parents

Let

BIGGEST BRAIN

A good Irish speaker, he says, "Irish has become a mere exami- nation subject, the roud to a job ... compulsion must be abandoned, enthusiasm kindled anew."

GENERAL SEAN MacEOIN, Fine

Only bonesetter in the Dall, ho wrote in his election address:-

... You saw that in 1044 X had a tough time to get

Суед the fifth sent, though I had given the use of their limbs to people of every class in County Claro without fee or reward, and I never asked what them belonged.

when they can do their daily work, surely should expect a simple stroke of a pencil that is the only com- pensation I ask or get."

party any of

Another great character nmong See him on any Dublin street and the Independents is ALFTE BYRNE.

According to one investiga- tion made in London "the It has, for instance, even been His average number of children in suggested that later children in a

in the House. Time will likely Gael is massive, with allver white families containing at least one large family may be less intelligent prove him the biggest brain in the hair. backward child is 4.6:

than their brothers and sisters born | Government.

Legends about his bravery in the when the mother and father word Only bachelor of the 13 is burly "Trouble" abound. familles containing at least one younger. But work in this field in JOSEPH BLOWICK, Minister for

Court-martialled and condemned scholarship child it is 8.2.”*

largely guesswork

Lands and Forestry, and leader of to death in 1921, he is now Minis- you And he shakes hands with. Thomson, discussing the same

Indeed, for more, study is ur-the Farmers Parly squad more ter for Justice. gently needed into the whole prob- I noted for its brawn than its brains. General Collins refused to problem from another angle, fem of intelligence and fertility. He looks amiable as he heaves his ahead with negotiations

I Sean pass by. has said: "Children, chosen at The Royal Commission on Popula- 22 stone on the front bench. MacEoin was not released.

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