MENTAL “JERKS.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 7 November 1925, Page 7

MENTAL “JERKS.”

REMARKABLE STATEMENT. NEW ZEALAND’S RACE OF SERFS. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, Nov. 3. Striking statements are ■ made by Constance Clyde m an article in the Empire Review. She suggests that the space-loving people of New Zealand are more naive and untrained than i>ri tons, that they would lose the love ot personal freedom and submit to reversion to feudal control and interference which would not be tolerated m England. where organisations would apply restraint. ...... - Miss Clyde mentions the activities or the overgrown public service, and in this connection cites a proposal to compel unmarried mothers to hand their offspring to State asylums. She suggests that New Zealand has not a native or alien race to do the servile work, and therefore unconsciously wishes to breed her own race ot writer alludes to the number of rational children kept as State slaves and a s mental defectives. She picks out the case of a girl, who allegedly bore a child and then was labelled mentally below par and sent to an institution. , . _ Miss Clyde al'eges that money due to this girl was never spent on her, and that the girl now works hard felling trees. ■■ ... The writer states that, there is further instance of the return to the old barbarism in the Educatation Department’s proposal that illegal children should become its property, liable to be handed over to either parent or to a State institution.