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In keeping with tin 1 observance of
National Social Hygiene Day in At
lanta, Wednesday, February 2, Spelman
College welcomed to her campus Dr.
Maurice A. Bigelow, chairman of the
executive committee of the American
Social Hygiene Association. Dr. Bige
low’s Wednesday morning address was
given in Howe Hall and the subject
was The Study of Human Heredity and:
Eugenics. Slides were shown in connec
tion with his references to heredity which
showed the sincere work of the scientists
such as W. E. Castle, Bernstein, Mohr,
and Phillips. Pictures of lower animals
were first presented and then those of
human beings showing similarities in
inheritance. Suggestions were given
along with the slides which proved to
be advice for the improvement of off
spring in the future by regarding cer
tain tendencies of heredity.
On the following morning, Dr. Bige
low spoke in Sisters Chapel on the
subject of Education for Marriage and
Family Life. In this address, he cited
the routine in the life of married couples,
named the tendencies of normal human
beings toward comradeship and mating,
and stressed the need for education of
human beings to make them fit for
family life. Some terms that all took
note of as he used them were “affection
or love,” “instinct,” “adjustment, and
sex” and they noted the fine slants of
significance he gave to each in human
relations and in cultivating normal,
happy people.
Mr. Harrison Brown, a British journ
alist and traveler, was presented in an
all University Assembly in Howe Me
morial Hall, February 3. He used as his
subject Successes and Failures of the
Fascist Bloc. In this address, Mr. Brown
told of the effect of the fascists, how
and why fascism has come into existence,
and grown, and gave a prediction for
the future of fascism. During the dis
cussion, the main duty of the League
of Nations and the outcome of the
League’s functioning was stated. Brief
discussion was given to Germany and
Hitler, Japan, Italy, and Spain. Mr.
Brown stated that the democratic coun
tries had a chance to make these fascist
countries cooperative but failed to ac
cept the chance. They, at the same time,
made the countries “sick” and the illness
developed into fascism. He compared
the fate of each nation who had been
raped by an aggressing nation as a
neighbor whose house is burning and
added that these things are happening
—“houses are burning”—and the nations
are crying that if we do nothing about
(he plights of these the same fate will
be ours, in other democratic nations.
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<iliina-Japanese Debale
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international relations; both ably upheld
the policies of their respective nations.
Dr. Minakuchi, the first speaker for
the evening, stated that he was conscious
of the fact that he represented the un
popular side of the question and that
the unpopularity of his country had
been intensified by the Panay incident
of recent date, an incident which he
deeply regretted. He continued by re
futing the belief that Japan is the sole
offender in the Sino-Japanese conflict
and he pleaded with the audience not
to be too hasty in jumping to conclu
sions concerning this conflict, but in
stead to use discretion in selecting its
data. Dr. Minakuchi most vehemently
denied the oft stated fact that Japan
was in China for territorial gains.
For the purpose of elucidating the
real facts behind the far Eastern con
flict, Dr. Minakuchi gave a brief his
torical background of the relations be
tween China and Japan and followed
with some of the immediate causes of
the present conflict. China, he declared,
is the creator of the enmity between the
two nations, because she (China) re
fused to admit that her sovereign rights
could be upheld only by national
strength and that real national strength
lay in the path of reform. It is the
belief of the Japanese defender, Dr.
Minakuchi, that the enmity between
Japan and China will eventually dis
appear, when China consents to enter
into the path of reform which Japan
has been pursuing for the past seventy-
five years.
The Chinese speaker, Dr. Park, whose
wit and humor have won for him the
name of the “Oriental Mark Twain,’
declared at the commencement of his
argument that the Japanese were famous
for their ability to manufacture excuses
and as an example he cited the Panay
incident in which Japan contended that
the Panay was mistaken for a Chinese
ship. He stated further that the billions
of dollars spent by Japan for battle
ships could be disposed of in a much
more useful way and that if Japan were
wise she would remain at home and
spend her energies and monies for the
purpose of civilizing her own people.
Dr. Park, with characteristic witticism
commented, if the Chinese war lords are
a menace to China then Japanese war
lords are a menace to the whole world.
Refuting a statement by Dr. Minakuchi,
Dr. Park affirmed emphatically the be
lief that it is the intention of Japan to
divide China, because Japan knows she
would not have a chance against a united
China. According to the speaker, peace
will never exist in the Far East until
the Japanese people overthrow the mili
tarists who are the enemies of mankind
and who are the real cause of the trouble.
In answer to a statement made by his
opponent that it is the purpose of the
Japanese to save the Chinese from the
communists, Dr. Park declared that the
Japanese are driving China into an
alliance with Russia.
America could help to win the war
and to lead these nations of China and
Japan from the horrors of war into the
assurance of peace, if she would use
more of her own cotton, for as long as
the Americans continue to buy silks
from Japan, just so long will the war
last in the Far East, declared Dr. Park.
During the question-period, which
lasted nearly an hour after the 1 argu
ments were concluded, one member of
the audience made the inquiry whether
or not China and Japan could ever
come to some agreement. Dr. Minakuchi
answered that Japan and China might
eventually get together on an economic
and cultural basis, but that it was essen
tial that a way be found not bv force,
but by peaceful methods. In answer to
the same question, Dr. Park’s conten
tion was that as soon as the Japanese
militarists cease to slaughter the Chinese,
there might be peace and cooperation
between the two nations. Each speaker
placed the blame on his opponent as
being the aggressor in the present con
flict.
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