GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10530, 18 December 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

From Australian Papers. A BREED OF FOOLS. London, December 6. Sir James Barr, president of the British Medical Association, deiiveied an address before the Eugenics Education Society yesterday. .-i He said that practical eugenics were a matter of urgent and primary Importance, but the country was at uxeseut governed by mawkish sentimentality and gross ignorance, and t!ae subject had never been held in hich opinion by many legislators. That breed seemed to be degenerated into a lot of garrulous fools who wore dear at any price, let alone £-100 a year. He looked upon such fools as mere earn i Hirers of the ground and (tfwtdclos in the path of progress, (bvst clos which should be removed il Great Britain wanted to maintain her position among the nations. Great Britain would have to raise - a healthy, intelligent, and selfreliant race. Nowadays the submerged tenth was adding to the population a race of cowardly hooligans. The unfit were the best cared tor, and there was no encouragement for the healthy man to have a large family. . COMPULSORY I L'rd Roberts has issued a book, which ’9 being sold for 6d, reiterating his advocacy of compulsory military |service. The Times, in a leader, says;— We all know now, whatever some u us may say, that voluntary enlistment for the army has broken down. We know that the regular ,u-my is not large enough and that Tie Territorial force is a sham. We ;<uow, in fact, that compulsory corvice for a serious period must be fuceu without delay. The people .must lit) told how much is going to i.. asked of them, for what purpose, :mi! at what cost. •The call will be the harder to make Mie louger it is delayed. It in nearly a century since the people •vero laced with a national danger ;u any serious form. Ts* nomocracy capable of preserving its great heritage from dissipaiju - We most 'firmly believe that rb-itish democracy is.” WOMEN AND TROUSERS. u American suffragette named <;sMTie Catt, has struck a new idea Ttt v,; i« g the cause more before the rniu S of the people. surging women to.abandon •h-.b millinery, their corsets, and 'lk (. . irts, and asks,them to wear dt against the fashion <;rc- i ;, ” she says. “Kick your::rLr iee from the swaddling of ti ..; ; s, and give the money that h' .rm: -re you have expended on n» i ;;. ■. :v to the cause of women’s AF-'WU.ER JOHNSON OUTRAGE. astounding revelations have in;..: i , made :of the circumstances ?V. . ■ li Jack Johnson was reui. - * i m Chicago the other day. H - already known that the marriage with Lucille Om: -Vi m. : the girl whom he was . .. itli having abducted, took ■. ’ is own house, but it has -lid , b : . leaked out that the cere- , performed in the very =:■ ' ’ ■ nich jiis last wife cornua . ‘ ;•••• vide. audalous business bas Mho-yf---.- pretty well all America, me- ; ill not be surprising if ■ feeling against Johnson ,;n:m •■ , - itelf in a very different i(j- . i what it did on the last in which his conduct was G; : .: -- reprobated by the general I ]*/ «;[»•••.