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Home replying to a depu
Unmarried Parents Bill
B on January 26th, referred to the technical difficulties involved In regard to legitimation, and said that even in the Government Bill of last Session ex- purts had now discovered certain flaws, and the provisions relating to #necession would bave to be recontrdered...n
Mr. James
M.P., introduced the deputation, the speakers of which were Mrs. H. AL Faber, Mr. F. W. Sherwood (in place of Lord Muir Mackenzie, who was anavoidably prevented at the laat moment from being p present), Dr. Eric Pritchard, Mis K. Hart (Church Army) Mr. Jennie Maker,
The deputation"
and Mr. Sidney Ned before the Home CMDING Odence as to the present
position in this country of unmarried mothers and illegitimate children,
and contended that the unfair Pdren's
of the financial burtien" of "the Support
placed on the mothers was an in- portant factor in the heavy death rate and damage rate among illegitimate children. This tended to a further moral lapse on part of the mothers. The Home Secro-
the
tary was urged to int
rred to introduce &
uce a Bill making
Parents
it possible for samarried
ats by their subsequent marriage to relieve the innocent child from the stigma of illegitimacy, as in also every
other civilized was include proposed that the Bill vision for an increase in the “maximum amount payable under an affiliation order,
of ten shillings
indent sum
in view of the
A
being
present cost
of
Automatic
tuaintaining child. appointment of collecting officers in Courts where there had not been appointed under the Affiliation Orders Act of 1914 was an- uther point pressed by the deputation.
The Home Secretary said he thought that the deputation had put before him very strong case, and he expressed Bathy with the objectauld realize the sym. they had in view. said, Those present, he difficulty the Government had in finding time for the many measures pressed upon
it
he
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arid he outlu in consequence give no promise or this point. He did not hold out any hope that the Government would introduce a Bill this Session, but said that this would not prevent the introduction of a private member's Bill as usual if success ful in the ballot. In such circumstances the Government might see its way to give facilities for the paleage of such a measure.
It might be pleasant, if it were only Mar. 7th at: 11.93-Frémhin has decredsed He recognized the importance of collecting possible to sustain and parsus to its considerably over the lower Yangtze Villey officers being appointed, and promised to get information as to the Courts at which consequences the illusion, prompted by and moderately at Weihaiwoi It has de- there were such officers and the type of the sight of the numerous diaries for the creased slightly from Formosa to Kwangtong. officer employed for the purpose.
year 1923 now on sale; that we are a it is nearly stationary over Indo-China, and agreed with the principle of increasing the nation of diarists, every man a Samuel has increased slightly over the Philppines, maximum
amount payable under an affilia: Pepys, every woman & Fanny Burney. and considerably over Japan. tion ontler, but considered this should nat. Unfortunately, however, it is not pos
The antingelone is central over the Sea of be unduly raised.
sible, for the plain reason that out of Japan Mr. Wignall thanked the Home Secretary the thousands of diaries on the market of Bwatow and has moderatol over the Chias The monsoon is interrupted to the north for the Find and courteous way in which the great majority will be filled, if they Bo
hari
received the deputation and for his are filled at all, with presnicentrica attitude towards a question relating to matter-of-fact business, while which all
present realized whs surrounded by only a small number are destined to be difficulties
The deputation, which had been armaged come the repositories of personal con by the National Council for the Unmarried fidences. If we do not move among the Mother and Her Child, in conjunction with great, if we have no opportunities of the Labour Party, the Standing Joint Com, trending behind the scenes, if we meet mittee of Industrial Women's Organizations only ordinary people, is a diary worth the
Army, and the National keeping? Probably every one has at one, Hongkong to Gap Rock Salvation Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship, was time, or another, mostly in extreme youth, begün the compilation of one, Fathol
Women's League, the Central, and has given it up after a few weeke Formoss Channel Council for Infant and Child Welfare, the It is by no means as easy to keep a Church Army Dr. Barnardo's Homes, the diary as it may seem for we have not Tewisli Association for the Protection of Girls to proceed far before it becomes clear and
Women
the National Adult School that we must docide exactly what sort Union; the National Catholic Board of Adult Rescue, the National Council for Combating of things we propose to 'set down-
simple way out of the difficulty is to let the National Frangelica our diary be that of our ruling passion- Free Church tion of Girls and Ragged School
A
'Venereal Dciety motoring from place to place, gólf, or
"the
West
Jewish Women, the Education Furd, the Won
the Union of anything else that we do pretty con
Service, the Y.W.C.A, the Mortantly during the year. Such diary, it
is true, will not commit us to much, and though it will show consistency and me Welfare Committee, the National Society for thod two worthy qualities and as it the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the will be almost wholly objective, no National Matter Council for the Study of Problems at detect false taste, bad sentiment, of Day Nurseries, the Man- stranger, he comes across it, will, bo Helating to the Illegitimate Child and its Parents, and the Birmingham Rescue Society for Friendless Catholic Children:
A cable, a few days ago reported that Bill on this subject had passed its second rearling-ED.]
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ving, when the time comes, from the Higher open-air Température on 6th fire. And so with a great many other west open-air Temperature on 7th diaries, which chronicle, perhaps with les consistency, more than one kind of small beer. Are they then worth the Ahoy in Mr. Jones's class was once trouble of keeping at all! Indeed, may asked to explain Goldsmith's lines,"Remote not the best diaries be those which are from all he ran his godly rct," and wrote.nover kept1. Suppose our life becomes "He ran a chaped like greyhounds in the has the courage to note its earliest symp
for a while a real romance; which of us I see you slips" was explained as a metaphor from toma in a diary 1 Having missed the cricket: "The sentinel stars set their watch first stages, bar we the heart to begin, in the sky was tid to mean "Sentries as it were, in the middle? Or, having putting their watcher right by the stars."
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The best, said Mr. Jones, came from a boy lived through a period of extraordinary who was asked to explain brake" in the disturbance, with intrigue all round us, quotation from Young Lochinvar" He plotting and counterplotting, may we thur. stayed not for brake,,;
and he stayed not for not wish, after the denouement, that we few months, if "a brake is a public had kept a diary For
we had only known it as soon as it de boy in the class put up his hand yeloped, we were living in a scene as and said: He stayed not for motor-car thrilling as any novelist's; but the succes either, sir and went on to quote, "He žive staged cannot now be recaptured, swam the Eak River where ford there was the essential dates have been forgotten and the whole story, well worth handing down to our grandchildren, is irrecover HOSHIGAURA--Finest Seaside Summer: Holiday Resort in North China Tive mile
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