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SIR ESME HOWARD AND INJURED GIRL
AMERICAN VIEWS.
Washington, Jan. 11. The incident arising from the motor accident in which the British Amimassador's car knocked down a small girl is now considered as closed.
Reports from London that some time ago the car of Mr. Houghton, the American Ambassador to St. James, knocked down a boy, and that the Ambassador claimed diplomatic immunity, bring no com- ment from the State Department. If the incident is as reported it is regarded as a pivato matter, but the Ambassador's position would be upheld by the Department as be ing in accord with international law and the comity of nations. The Washington, Government has always held that an Ambassador, members of his family, his staff, and his servants whose names are registered at the State Department, are immune from arrest or any civil process.
When a member of the staff or a servant employed by a diplomat has violated police or other re gulations the maiter has been re- ported to the head of the Mission, who has been relied upon to take the proper disciplinary action. If the offence is severe or the person evidently culpable his dismissal from Washington is asked for This has been done more than
once.
A year or so ago the Secretary of a Foreign Legation was sent home because of a police charge that he was engaged in high-class bootlegging. The American wife of another Secretary killed a man while driving her car. The ac- efdent was probably unavoidable, but she was charged with having violated the traffic regulations, and the Secretary was recalled.
Car Halted.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1928.
"CURSE OF ONLY
CHILD.
WOMAN DOCTOR ON BIRTH CONTROL.
WRECKS MARRIAGE.
Why do certain familles of children quarrel violently over their games?
According to Dr. Alice Hutchison, of Great Ormond-strect Hospital and the Tavistock Clinic for Nurses, who addreased the conference of Visitors and School Health Nurses, this friction between brothers and sisters is the inevit- able result of a superficial discord between the parents.
"It is of the greatest importance," sho said, "that we should have superficial harmony between the father. Superficial mother and discard works havoc, and children who quarrel at their games are the Inevitable result."
Dr. Hutchison was speaking on the "Psychology of Parenthood." well during the period of infancy," "Most mothers fulfil their dutica she said, "but when the child be gina to nsert itself and to oppose its will to that of the mother thon difficulties begin. A sense of irri- tation and of impatience ariees in the mother, who fails to reallee that without this assertion of its will the child cannot develop. of a girl for marriage mainly con- "In many homes the preparation sists in clothes and a trousseau. In America, I understand, they have begun to prepare young men and women for marriage in classes, but I think that is a' most appalling reflection upon the parents of those
people. young
Fathers and mothers ought, from their own experience, to instruct these young people.
The Wrecker.
"As regards birth control I do Hay very clearly that birth control has wrecked numbers of marriages. I am not discussing the question for or against it, I am aware that young people marrying at 20 may not be able to go on having children until they are 40.
No fair person, attributes blame to Sir Esme Howard or his 14-
"Birth control wrecks marriages year-old son Henry for having because the maternal urge cannot knacked down a 12-year-old girl be quenched so easily. If you put as she was getting off a tram. On a difficulty in the way of that urge the contrary, the Ambassador is you will find women harbouring a warmly praised for his courtesy feeling of animoalty against their and consideration after the ac-husbands. The husband may cident,
argue that his wife agreed to have Henry Howard had stopped the no more children, but the fact re- car in accordance with the remains that she did not know her- gulations, which require a car to self how strong the urge was, halt when a tram discharges pas. sengers. Henryvas at the wheel, and sitting by his side was Hadley, the Embassy chauffeur, regarded 'as one of the most competent men in the city, and for many years in the Embassy service.
The trim started, and Hadley told Henry to go ahead. Henry had hardly got under way when the front door of the tram again open- ed, and a child jumped out, and crossed to the pavement running in front of the Ambassador's car, and being knocked down by the fender.
Father Satisfied. Hadley at once stopped the car, the Ambassador got out, saw the girl was not apparently injured seriously, but had merely received
"At the present time there is a real difficulty, because of the ex- ponse of bringing up children, and, therefore, the use of birth control is having a deleterious effect "upon women. It is producing that ter rible monstrosity-the only child. We may come to speak, not of. drink but of 'only-childism, as the greatest curse of this country."
The Man "Baby.".
Dr. Hutchison said they wanted to see children absolutely break the tle of dependence
upon their mothers.
"We see the young man who won't marry because he won't leave his mother. People say: How beautiful The truth is that he won't leave his mother because he is a baby and won't break the
a shock. He offered to take here. He can't do without her.
to hospital, but she asked to be We want fully grown men who taken to her mother. The Ambas- will leave home and take a wife, sador drove her home.
not as a second mother, but as a The following day Sir Esme Ho-mate.
ward called on Mr. Kellogg, ex- “What seems to outside people to plained the affair, and said that be excellent parenthood often means while he could not waive his di failure to the child. If you make plomatic immunity, which no Am-a child a baby you make him sel- bassador can do, and which cun fish, and a fully-grown man he will only be done by Iris Government, never be. he would pay the same ine that would be assessed against a private ing for parenthood than work in a person, and expressed his deep re-irst-class nursery school. In a first-class nursery school you learn gret at the acident.
"I can conceive of no better train-
The regulations prohibit any to be quiet, patient and to stand person under 16 years of age from aside, Too many parents don't driving a car. The Ambassador want to stand aside. The hardest said that he was unaware of the thing for parents is to sit alill regulation, and had he known of among their children. They are for ever jumping up to show the it of eburde Henry could not have
children how to do things. There taken the wheel.
is no need to do this. They want child to draw. to teach the Children will learn how to draw by themselves if they are left alone.
The Ambassador has offered to' send the girl to the Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, one of the most famous in the country, for
"There is far too much domina- surgical treatment If necessary, ortion in parenthood, too much inter- engage at his expense a Washing ference with the child's develop ton physician, and he and Lady Homent. This domination goes to ward and Henry have sent flowers and called every day to make in quiries,
The child's father, autisfied that she was merely bruised and not seriously injured, that the accident was unavoidable, and appreciative of the consideration shown by the Ambassador, has asked that nothing further should be done in the matter, and his wishes will be com- plied with.
such lengths in some families that the children are not allowed to con tradict their parenta, and they are not allowed opinions of their own. They are not even allowed to have a different religion from their parents." Children must, be re- leased to develop their own re- ligious beliefs and their own way SIR of worship"
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HARRY LAUDER'S tien is that he will have to pay when I first heard that I was to
that sum to the American authori-get hack something more sub "SNAG.”
stantial this time, and I started He travelled recently, from Lon to count my chickens. I have don to Glasgow, writes a repre- since found; however, that sentative of the Daily Express who should have waited until they journeyed with him, and he told were hatched, for my secretary him that when he first heard that has told me this morning that 7 Sir Harry Louder did not have he was to receive a re-fund of there has been a mistake some a happy New Year at the expense £180 he thought there must be a where, and that in all probability I shall have to send a cheque for of the American Government after "anag" in it somewhere. all. It was in fact, the other way to America for more than twenty
"I have been paying income tax £180 to America about.
years now," he said, "but so far. Bearing the address, "Noah's For the nineteenth time in suc. It had been understood that he the only thing I have got back Ark Alley," a letter has been cession there wore no cases for would receive $180 rebate from from them is the receipt for my received by the Clerkenwell Regin, trial at Thetford Quarter Sessions the United States Income tax money.
trar complaining of damage recently,
collectors, but the latest informa- "I was naturally a bit elated caused by the food.
Mr. J. Mallon, Warden of Toyn- bee Hall, dealt with the father's problema. He referred to the de- crease in the birth-rate, and cald Ex-Tsar Ferdinand of Bul-that by 1932 there would be a real garia is staying at Funchal shortage of young people for in- having left the Sierra Moreno,dustrial work. This was one of and motored in brilliant sunshine the problems which the industrial to Monto, two thousand feet above world would be obliged to face in sea level. After a visit to the the near future, tomb of "ex-King Charles of Aug- tria, he tobogganned to town on a sledge. He called Madeira - an cartily paradise, and insists on a call being made there on his way haine in February.
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