During the last session of the Diet a sterilization bill was presented by a member of the House of Representatives, not by the government, the official recalled. It was not passed because members of the Diet believed that further scientific investigation should be done and the public prepared for the legislation by an educational campaign.
When the organization of the research council of the Welfare Ministry jp completed it will comprise 30 Scholars, doctors, newspapermen, welfare workers, and government official:
It is not a scientific body but a committee which is concerned mainly with the efficacy of the proposed measures when applied to social conditions in Japan, the Welfare Ministry official pointed out.
New problems likely to be raised by eugenic regulation of marriage and the union of sterilized persons will be considered by the committee.—Domei The Soloist It was manifest, right from the start, that this young lady has a reasoned understanding of the basic principles of the art of playing the piano. Precision, applied both to detail' matter and general outline; a delightful independence of the left hand, which has a well-controlled thematic life of its own when necessary; deft pedalling; tonal uprightness: these are most noteworthy in Miss Pezzini's playing. The whole is presented with a simplicity and confidence which is most pleasing. Linked with the Handel concerto, Miss Pezzini played three miniatures by Pick-Mangiagalli, accompanied by a stringed orchestra. These graceful pieces made agreeable hearing, and fortified one's views previously gained of this player.
The programme also contained an overture of Mozart and Beethoven's Eighth Symphony. There cannot be many instances throughout the range of musical literature where two symphonies receive consecutive opus numbers. The adjacency and relative stature of Beethoven's Seventh an: Eighth symphonies begs the celestial analogy of a musical binary system, with the recessive Eighth as the fainter companion, Indeed. Beethoven himself is said to have called this work the "kleine Sinfonie in F' to distinguish it from the Grossi Sinfonie in A' (the Seventh), comiposed in the same year. There is no denying the fact that the Eighth symphony takes its place among the mine as a middle-weight work insofar as the first three of its movements are concerned which are not up to the quality of the spirited finale. Somehow, through a part of the symphony, the Municipal Orchestra did not seem happy from a rhythm mical standpoint and surely the tonal weight of fifteen first and second violins should have taken a greater Charge of things.
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