THE DEGENERATES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 30, 4 January 1927, Page 7

THE DEGENERATES

NECESSITY FOR CHECKING. VIEWS OF A PROFESSOR. SIMPLE LIFE ADVOCATED, (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received January 4, 9.5 a.in. LONDON, Jan. 3. “Britain will shortly be forced to face a compulsorily checking of degenerates,” said Professor Macßride at the Educational Conference. “If we continue encouraging the growth of the thriftless and penalising the enterprising,” he proceeded, “our civilisation is certain to succumb. Lt is now known that mental deficiency and other disabilities are due to a germ weakening. The hopeful feature is that, if the germ weakens and people get healthier surroundings, the weakeness apparently passes off; for example, prize boars with shortened snouts, half toothless and feeble legged, are admirable for bacon, but are really horrifying. “As dropsical crippled pigs will regain long snouts and teeth if they run wild, that encourages the belief that, if number of British city populations were transported to the wilder parts of Australia and left to their own resources, they would, in two or three generations, re-develop into quite respectable people.—”A.' and N.Z. cqble.