M.P. ON EUGENICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 41, 11 October 1912, Page 5

M.P. ON EUGENICS.

“IF A POLICEMAN MARRIED 'A SUFFRAGETTE.” Speaking at an agricultural show at Newby, near Scarborough, recently. Mr Gervase Beckett, M.P. for the Whitby division of Yorkshire, referred to the new science of eugenics, which has for its object the improvement of the human race. . It would be interesting, he said, to try the experiment of mating a good ol'd Tory with a modern Radical (Laughter). Suppose, for instance, that the son of Mr Winston Churchill should marry the daughter of Mr F. E. Smith, he wondered what the result would be. He would very much like to know what would be the politics of a son bom to them. (Laughter.) Again, they might try what would happen if a policeman were to marry a suffragette. Ho wondered whether the offspring would show itself more handy with. a. truncheon than with v a hammer. (Laughter).