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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 19, 1939.
Family Grants To Raise Birth Rate
FAMILY allowances, supplementary to wages, as n
means of stemming the prospective decline in Britain's population were urged by Viscount Samuel in the House of Lords recently.
A standard wage should be paid both to men and women, with family allowances in respect to the respon- sibilities laid upon them, he said. The nation should be- come population-minded
The whole matter, especially the question of family allow- anees, should be regarded as proper for Investigation by a Royal Commission, because it was necessary at this stage to give guidance to the nation on u matter which deeply affected its future strength and welfare.
The truth was not that Britain was overpopulated but that its population was badly distributed The decline by one-half, as was the forecast by some, or anything approaching it, from a notional standpoint would spell disaster.
The remedies he suggested were further knowledge, to allay the fear about maternity, and family allow- ances,
Lord Stamp. in a malden aprech, Euggested a Royal Commission un the subject,
The Archbishop of York supported the principle of family allowances.
con-
Lord Snell xuld he did not view the prospect of a fall in the total of the population as likely to be a calamity.
of The real problem
Lord Templemore, replying for the population was qualitative rather Government, suid there was than quantitative,
siderable fear in many quarters that family allowances might result in Darwinlan "It i
rather than
the lowering of the standard of Malthusian," he said. He reminded
wages. He could hold out no hope Inut war took the House that the about 1,000,000 potential fathers, Royal Commission. War took the most vital of the popu- lation.
SOCIAL BARRIERS
He suggested that one of the re- medles would be the removal of barriers, such as they were, to mur- ringes and the production of children.
Took Drug As Experiment
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their homes or killed elsewhere. Certain social should also be removed.
Reasonable men feared to have A CHEMIST'S assistant who children who might be bombed in was said to have acquired a Laste for morphia after taking it as an experiment was sen- tenced to 15 months' imprison- Lord Dawson of Penn said the ment at Chester Assizes recent quality of the people born became a
ly on charges of procuring matter of Orst-rate Importance.
morphia, false pretences and forgery.
Counsel said that there were 903 eases to be taken into consideration.
"We must therefore, construel for fitness," he anid. "This country has failed to reproduce itself since 1925, and 100 women to-day produce only 70 future mothers, is against 150 Inconalsúng of 301 charges of obtaining 1800. When a country gets ageing drugs, 301 charges of false pretences people there is not enough vigour and the same number of forgery and adventure. Alrendy there is charges. more accommodation in scitools than the children can . In 1951 there will be only 6,000,000 children under 15, as against 12,000,000 in 1921.
"These figures are alarming and there is no getting away from them, There may be a change for the bel- ter, but the graphs do not point that way."
Accused wag Eugene Anthony Harold (29), or Conway Street. Bir- kenhead, and according to the prose- cution his method was to forge National Health Insurance prescrip- on forms in the name of a doctor. In all, he obtained 7,912 morphin tablets.
said Tankaid Harold had previous convictions for
btaining drugs.
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Architects Art In The Garden
DAVID BOWES-LYON, brother of the Queen, who has himself made grass grow in a wilderness by the sweat of his brow, recently opened the first exhibition of the work of garden architects.
The preservation and protection of English landscape and garden are not enough, he said; we must also build.
The greater distribution of wealth is giving rise to a new architecture-civic centres, flats, swimming pools, holiday camps
Pensions For Air
Raid Victims
A SCHEME for paying
pensions in respect of civilians killed or disabled in air raids has been pre- pared by the Government. In the event of war, there will be
and sports grounds, all of which call for co-operation between the architect and the gardener.
To this end the Institute of Land- scupe Architects is for the first time working in close association with the Royal Institute of British Architects. Its scope includes designs for the smallest town gardens as well as for national planning.
LINKING UP PARKS
The designer of the exhibition, Christopher Tunnard, a distinguished a special department of the Minis-young landscape architect, was not try of Pensions to handle such cases. present, as he has just been offered All claims will be dealt with im- the chuir of Landscape Architecture mediately evidence of death or injury at Harvard University. But the re- stall of his work, a carefully pinnned is available,
and clear layout of civic and preivats gardens in plans and photographs. was enjoyed by a big attendance.
Medical boards will be appointed to assess the degree of disablement which civilians may suffer in enemy air ralds.
Raten at which pensions will be paid have been fixed as follows:
Man completely disabled, £2 per week.
This rate will be paid in cases where the wage-earner has lost both
Besides plans and photographs of gardens for town and country houses, the exhibitio nincluded also a demon- stration of how gardens cun link up with civic life.
There are plans of London with suggestions for linkup up existing legs has received some equally parks to make continuous green belta; serious injury making it impossible photographs of roads made beautiful for him to follow any ordinary em- by judicious tree planting; plans for ployment.
making AR.P. trenches in public things of beauty; and squares Loto PAYMENTS TO WIDOWS Wives and children.-A completely plans and photograps of the garden disabled man, in addition to his £ in civic life from colleries to garden per week, will receive 10s. for his cities wife, 7s. Gd. for his first child, and 0s. for each additional child.
20s. 6d, a week if they are over 40 and have children.
If he has a wife and three children
If they are under 40 and without he will get £3 109. Gd.
regarded a If the medical board certificate children, they will be shows that he is only 50 per cent. having better opportunities for em- disabled, the pension will be on half ployment or remarriage, and pen- this scale, and pro rate for other slons will be £1 a week. For their children they will receive 10s. fur the degrees of disablement,
Widows-Women whose husbands Arst, 7. fd, for the second, and is. are killed by the enemy will receive for others.
Midget Yacht Sails 50,000 Miles In 5 Years
AS modestly as though returning from a brief run in the Channel, the yacht Driac, only 32 feet long, sailed into Portsmouth Harbour recently on completing a five-year cruise of 50,000 miles.
When Mr. Macpherson left the Owned by Mr. A. G. H. Mac- pherson, commodore of Ports- yacht to return to England by liner, Leog was joined by two mouth Sailing Club, she left Mr. Portsmouth in September, 1934. Journalists. One
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Mr. Macpherson's only com- Bermuda, and the other, Mr. J. V. panion was Mr. William Leng, Ramsden, voyaged on to Portsmouth. also a member of the club, who went as skipper,
Mr. Leng returned as owner, the ** | yacht having been given to him ot) Durban when Mr. Macpherson, by doctor's orders, had to abandon hin lio at sea.
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