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Hongkong Telegraph. independener of a different kind
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1936.
It
no
seems to be
breeding
to breed
these
days
an
them replying: "But we want just ne more." "Nonsense," says the inspector. "You can't little
Javo Richard."
I calculate that the humble Ark- wright family would now retire for their family under the Ministry of Health rules a nine-room house with each room floor seventy square feet, Imponsible for Mother Arkwright under these rules to give birth to a genius.
As for Caruso, the singer: the mind boggles at the size of man- sion that his mother would have had to order unless she had got the older boys off her hands fast. For he was the eighteenth child of twenty-one.
,lays down penalties if a family No doubt all such legislation has exceed a Whitehall formuln of so 'n splendid purpose and is inspired many children to the number of by the highest motives of abating rooms of so many square feet the alum. My only point is that
the authorities to-day never en cach.
".
In tens of thousands of three visage the needs of a large family room houses here again the State by building a large, house, while limits the family to three, and one they lay down housing rules which of them has to sleep in the in time will prevent the creation kitchen unless a bountiful Provi. of a large family. dence should also become con-
DO WE GAIN OR greatly reduced since the clutch rock-eyed societies of geneti
siderate to parents and arrange lose by abolishing the long string cannot be used as a brake to hold cians.
government have decided to pay that their three children shall all of children which 80 many relief to out-of-work be of the same sex and shall never worthy parents have regarded the car on the upgrade.
Soon it will reach the Statute- labourer in respect of more grow older than the age of ten.
In that case they could sleep in with pride as their whole life's book. Already the law seems than three children. to regard three children as the Of course, the Government do one room and the mother at night work?
Certainly much virtuc and not say so in se nuuy words, might bend over her mischievous
in the tender variety will go out of our lives, IN THEIR NEW Un- Governments don't do such things, clutch as she does
POURI, anying: "Oh, both local and national, if there employment Insurance Bill for What they say is that they will Scottish
are fewer and finally no children fourteen shillings to the bairnies, cuddle doen." agricultural workers Britain's pay
If there are two girls and a boy, born of parents who have passed labourer, seven shillings to his
into wife and three shillings to each then the boy gets the kitchen and from the tumultuous years
the girls the bedroom. Or the calm maturity; who have grown chiki.
boy gets the bedroom and the girls wise and confident in the nurture Then further down the Bill you learn young to be at home in the of their offspring until they intro- see that they will pay a maximum kitchen.
duce Shally, shall We say, the of only thirty shillings to any one And if the parents who know of eighth child into a household of A sinister threat China's family. If you work out that little a better arrangement try to sleep children who will soon kick some
sum you will see that three chil-
one of the children in the same sense into him.
from that of Japanese armies was relief.
themselves in a huge and roomy monstrating that the eighth child (Quite right, too, anys Acacia, court of law with risk of being is the best of the family, in brain revealed during the recent meet-
avenue; disgraceful thal a ings of the League of Nations should have more than three chil- and paying a £ fine,
man ejected from their hereditament and in physique.
It derives, I believe, from King Advisory Committee on the Traffe dren. If he cannot support them. None but a lawyer could raise a David, and the theory was butt- noise made by ETHIOPIA'S FATE in Opium. This is the astounding Such breeding is just and breed- large family to-day in humble cir- tressed by the
ing.).
cumstances, and who ever heard another eighth child, Napoleon A ninu should of such a lawyer?
Bomparte (whom our country- After a
perusal of the state-amount of dangerous drugs, chiefly. All bunk, say 1.
from Japan, which was imported have as many children as he likes,
men, bowever, in his life regarded RECENTLY THE ments of British and French into the country last year, In regard Resides, if any man in the world
as a pestilence), foreign policy, with particular to heroin alone it is stated that could found a large family with the House of Commons were debat-
THERE IS AN OLD reference to the failure of the from 25 to 50 times the quantity perfect assurance that he would ing a Bill to reduce the number League to curb Italian aggres-needed to meet the entire legitimate beer be out of work it should of cotton spindles in Lancashire, Scottish saying that the seventh be the agricultural labourer in requirements of the world were Britain, which imports £60. They were pruning the over-rich child of a seventh child has the Ision, it is difficult to resist the imported. Of on drug it is stated 000,000 of the foot that he could growth which sprang from the second sight. An old Scots- brain of Richard Arkwright. woman who told me this said it conclusion that Ethiopia is to be that the imports were sufficient to largely grow,
For many generations his in- was true of two people she Whilst Mr. give between two and four thou-!
LORD MARLEY IN vention of the spinning frame knew. definitely sacrificed.
I don't know if there are necial Baldwin declares that Britain sand million doxes. In other words the House of Lords took up the scattered prosperity through Lan-
and founded British characteristics for ninth. tenth. it was suelent to create drug case of the labourer with a cashire
supremacy. Richard was the thir- eleventh children and so forth. I has no intention of condoning addicts of a very considerable pro- family as big as six. Italy's action, and M. Delbos purtion of Chinn's leerning millicas. He is a Sorialist whom hin col- teenth child of parents in humble did know an extremely hate ok
circumstances,
clergyman who read a small Bible When they had reached the without glasses at the age of asserts that French policy is to This may well prove a very serious leagues in the past have suspected
Chinese independence, of being a Communist. So he did round dozen you may imagine the eighty and was the eighteentis in threat to
not go as far As the discourage aggression, the stark
for it cannot but be a danger to a fussolini, who wants unlimited local sanitary inspector calling his family. Is the eighteenth fact remains that Italy is in country that the morale of a families, but he went twice as far and saying: " Your family is always vigorous? It is certain
of its in-as the Government actuaries." virtual possession of Ethiopia, considerable section
Where these actuaries appar and seemingly nothing is to be habitants should be undermined by Ltd.done about it.
Įdrug addiction. There is something ently regard it as a crime to have All that emerges sinister in the thought that Japan more than three children, Lord
Marley regards it as a crime to. from the British and French may be deliberating taking advan-have more than six. But I suspect statements is that there is to be age of this situation as being he is merely working to the rule an effort to reform the League, likely to further her own political of thumb plan of the Socialist alns for the control of China, Party often noticed by Ministers. in the hope that it may become Whether this is so or not it is a which is simply this: When the
Government offers any kind jeffective in future cases, and that fact that most of the drugs comerellef, double it.
dren, is the limit in respoet of room as themselves they will find There is quite a literature de-
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Fasciat
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too big for this house." Imagine that intellectual power and real
of.
France is, devising a plan which from Japan and the League's Com- Anyhow, the honest labourer will, it is thought preserve themittee recently declared that it was and his sonsie wife are to get "again struck by the inadequacy no credit from Whitehall for s peace of Europe. The import-of the sentences passed by Japan-quiverful of children-event- ance, and the necessity, of work-ese courts on convicted Japanese though children be like arrows in
the hands of a giant. ing out a formula which will traffickers".
THERE WAS ALSO It may be that one of the most prevent another world war can-
effective menus at the present last year the interesting question not be over-stated, but what
of the Overcrowding Act. This moment by which the League can guarantee, is there that small na-defend China's independence qui tions, such as Ethiopin, will not integrity, as provided for in the in future fall n Victim to ambiti-Nine Power Treaty is by helping China to fight this canker in her Ous military Powers?
body politie. Of equal importance Attlee rightly says there will be is the constructive work which is no security for any League State being done by various technical if Italy, is permitted to triumph organisations of the League to this time, whilst Sir Archibald assist in the national reconstruc- Sinclair pointedly asserts that the attitude taken
up by the
Italo-Ethiopian trouble. In this |British Government puts a pre-connection, the fact that Britain
mium on successful aggression is engaged in exchanges of viewi and makes the world safe for with France is of interest, but it Dictators. Mr. Baldwin admits is difficult to realise why greater that the League has failed in the pressure, with a view to united action, could not have been appli- Italo-Ethiopian dispute-just ased before the Italian invaders it failed to stop Japanese aggres-triumphed. Mr. Baldwin's state- sion in the Far East. Yet he ment that nothing but milltary! persists that British policy must actian can now make any differ- be based on the League. It is ence in the status of Italy and true that he foresees the poss!- Ethiopia; coupled with the obvi bility of a policy of isolation by ous fact that no such action is Britain, in the event of the intended, leaves a definite im- League definitely coming to an pression that Italy is to be per- end, but it is difficult for the mitted to enjoy her conquest average man to perceive the without obstruction of any kind. utility of attempting to keep the Admittedly, she may not find the League alive in face of the ad-victory all she hopes, for the big mitted disinclination of import- problem of colonisation still re- ant members to operate the mains ahead, 'but there will bel which it few champions, of the rights of
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Here are some famous men who came from large families...
Charles Wesley Schubert
Sir Walter Scott Geinsborough Mozart
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eighteenth child
thirteenth
in th ninth seventh and here are some famous inrge families of the present day,
genius have frequently heen found right down at the bottom of a large family of nonentities.
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It is true that many first-born have been distinguished. There is a theory-that-the-first- born of able and intel- ligent parents will most readily reproduce their ne qualities, but that the first-born of humble parents will himself be humble, although in the process of raising Д dozen they may produce one who will soar aloft.
children Eldest commonly thought to be highly emotional and not over-clever. If that is ro, heaven help us twenty years hence when we are dominated by hordes of only children. But there is no exact selence in these matters.
sous daughters
J. A. Luana
(Australian Premier) S George Lansbury Duchess of Buccleuch Stanley Baldwin
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By George Clark
"I'd forget about it. I don't think more than, half, the people noticed how you shouted and threw glasses."
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Every rule can be instantly, con tradicted out of one's own EX- perience. What? No genius among men who never knew brother or sister? What about Julius Caesar, Leonardo da Vinci, Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald? -
IN ORDINARY families the birth of a second child knocks the first off his pedestal, and that early fall does him good. Also he ceases to be "baby," and probably [becomes a plain, sensible person, Junsung and unsinging: No. 7 or No. 8 in a large family.remaine "baby" into adolescence, and bitterly he resents theso. memories and eagerly he applies his energies to grow above his elders.
This at least is certain on this subject: that no school, üniversity, club or noelety will over roplaco in an only child the family fireside ns a sprouting-ground of young emo- ilona.
And, greatly daring, I would say this is cortala: you hover met the middle-aged mother of one child who did not wish she had half a dozen.
William Barkley