SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT

Western Star, 8 November 1935, Page 4

SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT

Do the fittest survive? was the question posed bv Commissioner Lamb, the immigration expert of the Salvation Army, in an address to members of the British Association. He said he felt, coni polled to answer the question with a negative. War, unemployment, slum populations of low physique, growing slaughter o n the roads, and the alarming increase. | n the dependent part of the population, even apart from the unemployed. we-e the factors destroying the nos. ihdil ies of finess. Scientists mu t help the rarv to survive by making it fitter, bv eliminating idleness and povety. by securing a proper distributor! of th- British race over the whole cl' tip., British Empire, and by helping D o stat'-mmen and economists to stop tc. anomaly of dost roving food and pav igg premiums to producers not to pro-dm-e. while millions ~F human beings "o nt unsniii'b'el Whi]t.. flio-o evils coit"''wd. did Dm men of science really blink fist on b d.-omo tin. people ol fire Batish l'.mpiiwere to-day possessed ot the- e nun;’.! nml spiritual qualitim; that would ensure their survival aus a race?

,\ v.riier slates that he could never sleep at night il he did not hold an adequate life policy. So he rests assmed An Ameri-m millionaire says f 1 .at. he made his money out of lead. Most people wlio try that get found out. ‘The African lion fears m, nnb„-| In the j'.mgD,’ says :t big...-.,,,,, ],o„t ( .r. Except, perhaps, the African lioness. Tim...,, .vhn sav that women of to-dav are not D'-f they were f bitty year's ago. probable mean that they are about ten years older. An advorl Lenient in ertml hv the As. i.oeiated Banks fieri ;res that they liibri. '■i'" t ••'■■■ h- on am! <lr. not govern i d 'l' l -" lew’ 1" • iV. doubt as lo w <•„_ tljir they aii.' .ivinc u, the djukura oil.