New Britain herald., 1928-07-02
BY MILTON BRONNER
 


 NEA Service Writer London. July 2.-Resolved that women are not human beings. The affirmative will be taken by pr. Adolf Heilborn of Germany. author of ''Weib und Mann" or Husband ond Wife," which is the present best seller of the continent.
 Dr. Heilborn probably will be helped on the affirmative side by any number of disgruntled males. The negative will be ably handled by every one of these strange be- ings who the eminent anthropologist and ethnologist. Dr. Heilborn. insists are only semi-human beings. a sort of missing link twiXt man and the ape. The salons of Europe have heard this debate heatedly raging ever since the little green book came forth, and since the book is now in America. it may be well for this "semi-sex" to begin marshaling their ammunition right now.
 The book has made a stir be- cause pr. Heilborn is a scientist rather than an author of sensational best sellers He is 56 and has been an authority on anthropology for years. His Evolution of Mankind" written with the late Hermann Klaatsch has been called the best thing in that field since Darwin. And it is this eminent scientist who has taken his pen in hand to declare that at best woman is but very inferior man. and that at her average she is just "a freak" part way between the human and animal.
 First of all. he discains that his classification of woman is at all original with him. He offers the reminder that way back in early Greece. Hippocrates and Aristotle said the same thing.
 Cites Anatomist
 He says that as late as 1884 the famous German anatomist, Paul Albrecht, stood before an anthropo- logical meeting in Breslau and pre- sented any number of scientific | 4oS'S SCEhiiS io pioNt tHc lIidl1S more animal characteristics of wom- an than the human, considered from the anatomical aspect.
 He cites, too. Max Funke. au- thor of Are Women Human Be- ings." who says that woman's s small brain box indicates that she is not really human but is merely a missing link between man and the manlike apes; that. in short, she is a semi-human.
 Dr. Heilborn does not stop with mere anatomical study of woman. He has concentrated on the psy- chic and emotional differences, his judy. he offers these con- clusions:
 Anatomically, woman is smaller boned and generally smaller and softer -muscled. he says Her teeth have a tendency to slant outwards. This is typical of the lower races still existent. of the primitive Neaderthal man, and of the manlike apes.
 Her cranum is smaller, and this means smaller brain. Moreover, her brain is not as fine ly modeled as in man.
 And the eminent doctor recalls the fact that those people who rank lowest in the scale of man kind are the races with smallest craniums and brains
 Blood is Different
 The blood of a woman is so in- ferior to that of man that it makes a constitutional defect, he con- tinues. Woman's blood has more plasma or blood fluid, he points out. but IS much poorer in red corpuscles than mans Conse- quently. neither her brain. muscles nor other organisms can be as highly developed as mans. and he doubts that she lever can reach the cultuRl heights which man has reached"
 Man relies upon intellect and woman relies on instinct just AS animals do. the affirmative side of the debate continues. This makes woman less independent than man. but-he admits-may give her more serenity.
 Woman's organs of sight, hearing and smell. says Dr. Heilborn are in- forior to mans. But he does con- descend to admit that her senses ot taste and touch are superior. l But don't chortIe ladies He says that this very superiority shows a lower order of evolution than mans as nothing else could do. Animal. always have better senses of taste and touch than human beings.
 A study of men and womer students in the universities con. clusively proves that the males ar. always intellectually superior. ht