BRITISH RACE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22210, 10 September 1935, Page 9

BRITISH RACE

A GLOOMY REVIEW SALVATION ARMY OFFICER " FITTEST NOT SURVIVING" By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Sept. 8 Commissioner David C. Lamb, of the Salvation Army, addressed the British Association to-day. During his speech he said: "Our race is doomed; Calvin and Darwin destroyed us. " Subtle reasonings, predestination and natural selection have so seized thinkers and the mass of the people that they acquiesce in an economic system which has thrown 25 per cent of the workers on the scrapheap. " They tolornte housing conditions and overcrowding which have been responsible for dangerous sex stimulation, and that has resulted in breeding at the wrong end. " The fittest are not surviving. War destroys the best, and unemployment lowers physical, spiritual and moral standards. We have the right to expect that scientists, especially engineers and eugenists, will find a way of escape. "We cannot hold an Empire in which the population is so badly distributed to face pressure from Italy, Germany, China and Japan. Nations which deliberately destroy food and pay a premium to producers not to produce while millions of people are underfed and poorly clad cannot survive. " Scientists must reconcile individualism, formerly our glory, with collectivism, which now is a political necessity."