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THE CHINA MAIL OCTOBER

THE WORLD GOES BY

ngedramatic Song of the Cert," perhaps.

ure that life

The one long wet su ck, and it produces (which sc

"Fall in Cost of Living," says a head in a Home_paper. One can only express the hope that it breaks its neck.c

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large family on the nail

look) is that he is

here at all

naturally

That Compositor Again

Reporters who have covered un- Promise it a short life and a natural animal there is. If he had dertakers in small cities are fami- sticky one, and it gives three sickly ever been natural he wouldn't be liar with the many trials, and tri- bulations of these gentry in their cheers and lays a packet of eggs.

Nature works automatically to When he first met Nature and she dealings with the press. But mis- the principle the More the Misex handed him the book of rules, he spelled names and typographical said, "These are made to be broken. able and the Higher the Fewer

Fascist nations will be less per- Who's boss here?" Very few women are as young as

If, therefore, we find that because they make out. Or as they make turbed than we. Their choice is

we are unnatural we cannot repro-

An undertaker in a small Ohio quickly made.

The Fascist philosophy, which duce ourselves, let us make repro- city carried a death notice in his holds that the part exists only for duction unnecessary by the simple pocket-book for years and display. the maintenance of the whole, cor- process of becoming imraortal.

The Higher The Fewer

Britain is faced with a problem. It has to choose better standards of living higher birthrate:

cannot have both.

responds exactly to those lowest forms of life whose sole function is difficult the perpetuation of the unpleasant. between

errors are sometimes the least of their troubles.

ed it to reporters as a horrible ex- ample of what the press could do to an undertaker.

The subject was a prominent - young man of many virtues which were duly recorded and the notice wound up with, the announcement that he is a fire old cheese of a nutty flavour*

And the concentration camp, How do you propose to do that, and

a with its efficient machinery for Mr. Ulysses? Apparently it making people as miserable as be: I'm not sure, but I feel the pro-

dammed, should prove an excellent cess has already begun.

But where shall we spend all our In an article on "The True Causes stimulus to fertility. of the Declining Birth Rate," in the But democratic England, with its time!-a "New English Weekly, Mr. George traditions of social amelioration, Well, there seems to be plenty of The makeup man had added a

line from a grocery ad. Byley Scott, FZS, has dropped be will regard this biological principle Space.

much as a head waiter would fore us the following brick:-

is

re-

That the huge increase in the gard an old sock in the soup. sterility of men and women Hitherto, Englishmen have re

the largely due to our artificial modes garded economic security and of living and increased pros birth-rate as mutually helpful Now perity.

that they have to choose between It is an acknowledged law of na- the two they feel as that mission- ture, he says, that the ill-fed wild ary felt who was asked whether he animal, which gets a living as best would rather be boiled or fried. it can, is more fertile than the well-

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fed and apparently healthy creature. It is not easy to reject the com- This is equally true, he adds. of forts of the artificial life. Save men and women.

when padding at Repulse Bay, few

You probably do not realise how of you respond readily to the call of artificial you are, nor how comfort the wild. able and prosperous. On a weekly

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wage of two insults and a piece of cheek, you doubtless regard yourself as living near the raw edge of na- ture if not actually sitting on it.

Yet to the eye of the biologist you are 90 per cent a work of art.

To him, the industrial areas are peopled with machine-made navvies; dusʊmen that are made, not born; bricklayers that are more ideal than real; blastfurnacemen that are but wild fancy's play, and glass-blowers as dreams walking.

Even more disturbing revelations

We read are to come.

further

that-

Feat effect.

has 2. deleterious

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Certain sterilising factors might go with few regrets. Cleanliness, Even as a child I for instance... used to think washing was a trifle overdone.

Bathing has never had a strong hold upon the mass of the people, the and the reputed tendency of

the working-class to put coals in bath can now be attributed to their sound domestic instincts. They wanted larger families:

in

But the desire to be warm winter, though conducive to childless marriages, is deeply-rooted. Few political parties would appeal to the electorate on a promise of draughty homes.

And I cannot see many young couples choosing a house because it has broken windows and a hole in the roof, in the hope that the re- sultant discomfort will bless their uzion

As for clothes, I confess it would

The civilised custom take more than the promise of a to of wearing trousers by day and large family to persuade me

abandon the use of bifurcated con- pyjamas by night unquestionably tinuations as the basis of my ap contributes towards the earlier ex-

parel Few of us look well in kilts, tinction of reproductive power and the nightshirt lacks esthetic The habit of regular hot baths

appeal contributes to the same end" The whole tragic situation may be summed up in the words:-

"It is difficult to realise that the very habits which make for cleanliness, improved personal ap- pearance and better health tribute to the extinction of the

race.

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In short, the alternatives : which Nature places before us are: To ac quiesce in our own extinction or, for the sake of keeping up our num- bers, to make our lives as uncom fortable as possible.

Nevertheless, we are Englishmen. Though we may be in the soup, let us remember that Britannia rules It will be agreed that the choice the wives, both cream and consom- before us is embarrassing. Yet me there is no escaping the biological facts

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Go to the ant; observe that silly slightly larger number of women, sap, the bee-From them you learn England answers No. that the first step towards the con- We now approach the decisive trol of the birth rate is to elimi battle in the conflict between Man nate all

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