DEGENERACY MUST BE CHECKED SOON.
PROFESSOR SEES BLACK FUTURE, UNLESS ACTION IS TAKEN SHORTLY. By Telegraph.—-Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 4. 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, January 2. “Britain will shortly be forced to face the compulsory checking of degenerates," said Professor Macbride at the Educational Conference. “If we continue encouraging the growth of the thriftless and penalising the enterprising our civilisation is certain to succumb. “It is now known that mental deficiency and other disabilities are due to germ weakening. A hopeful feature is that if the germ weakens and people get. healthier surroundings the weakness apparently passes off. For example, prize boars with shortened snouts, half toothless and feeble-legged, arc admirable for bacon, but are really horrifying as dropsical cripples. They will regain their long snout and teeth if they run wild. That encourages the belief that if numbers 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, redevelop into quite respectable people."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18045, 4 January 1927, Page 1
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