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Should We

Have

Children?

asks E. Arnot

Robertson

HERE are dozens of good reasons for and against having children. On the "for" side, among others, there is personal satisfaction-the per- petuation of what I secretly believe to be my in- valuable qualities, whatever you may think of them; and vice versa,

There is the instinctive urge, too, of course-in effect, I want to be a parent and never mind the consequences to you, my child.

And having a child is an effort to secure the only kind of immortality in which most people can really bellove with all their hearts.

On the other side, particularly at present, stand un- employment, i-health, over- population, and the Impossi- bility, for many people, of giving the child a fair chance In life. Moreover, such slight knowledge of the lows or heredity as we have to date does tend to spoil the proud parent's hope of duplicating his better nature.

It tells us that your child is anything but sure to take after delightful you and your equally enchanting mate. The odds are almost as great that it will re- semble your perfectly frightful- brother or your partner's prac- tically half-witted sister.

Or throw further back to your forbears, of whom.none of your generation knows anything.

But more serious than any of these reasons was that which caused the tragle death of a young woman, the mother of a two-year-old daughter, with another child on the way, who was found drowned recently.

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ER husband said of her at the inquest: "She did not dread having this other child, but she has been reading every day about war.

She did not like the idea of her baby coming into the world among all this."

We who are content to live in n world overshadowed by the horror of war or if not content, at least less resolute in our hatred of the supreme human stupidity — in- stinctively

look We

for other reasons to explain an act so in- tolerable to our own peace of mind.

age.

These children pro happy now. But will they have happy lives when they grow up?

We may say, wisely perhaps, that human reasons are always more complicated or more personal than this.

It may be true, but we are prob- ably saying It because we want to believe it, rather than because wo really do.

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ELF - PRESERVATION, race – preservation, the need of inding our- selves and our circumstances a little better than they are in fact -all our unconscious desires arc up in arms against the possible recognition that this woman was right,

Every bit of evidence In the case goes against our will-to-belleve in some different explanation. She was in good circumstances, young, married only three years age, and there was already one child in the family.

The case has been called trogle and strange. Tragic It certainly Is. But isn't the strange thing. really-lf for once we think with our brains and not with our Instincts-that so many of us can bear the idea?

That we continue to launch into the world. irresponsibly in the fullest sense of the word, a next generation who will bear

the

weight of our political indifference of our lack of social conscience at home and good will towards other men abroad-of the greed or pride of our statesmen, generally called "Patriotism "-of the in- evitable stupidity of a half edu- cated, under-nourished populace, looking for satisfaction to national honour, because the majority of individuals can and too little per- sonal satisfaction in a world of economic injustice?

To-day, fighting in Spain, fight- ing in China.

War

To-morrow, where may there not bo war, whether the people who wage it really want it or not?

Widespread international grows, not only more probable, year by year, but continually more ghastly, physically and montally, as the spiritual development of man falls so terribly to keep paco with the growth of his scientifc knowledge.

And this, apparently, is what one woman grasped with unbearable clarity.

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OST of us have famlifes. Very few of us do any thlag at ali- to try and make sure that the horror does not materialise again in their time. If we so much as go to a peace meeting, because a friend asks us to, we feel smugly that we have done more than our neighbours. (And the sad thing is that we havel) Isn't that much more re- markable than what this expec- lant mother as done?

Taken all round, the reasons for

GIVE

YOUTH A CHANCE

man

Employer-Weil, now, young man, have you had any experience of this type of work? -

You co 1 left Youth—No, sir. school only a few months ago.

Employer-I am sorry, but we em- ploy only those who have had pre- vious experience.

Youth-Can you tell me, sir, where I can get experience?

Employer-No, I can't. I suppose we are all too busy nowadays to bother about beginners, Good-day!

BY ONE OF THEM

This scene is enacted daily all over

The youth of to-day is better the country. Muny firms refuse to equipped-both physically and men- have anything whatsoever to do with tally-than any of its predecessors. beginners.

We often hear of the great advan- Some lads leave school a few years tages which are ours in education

and recreation. But are we not tak earlier and became apprenticed to a trede,,

their ing the fullest advantage of these? only to find that once

Have ever the Secondary schools had "time" is up they are Instantly dis- missed Countless numbers of our so many puplis on their rolls, and lo young men are thus being thrown not a general aptitude being shown ruthlessly on to the scrap-heap.

disclosed, although there would seem to be reason in the conten- Lion that the bombs were accidentally droppert in the International Settlement. Cer- tainly, those which caused such a heavy loss of life could not have been specifically aimed at the localities in which they fell. As to the status of the Inter- national Settlement, Chinese officials, whilst regretting the killing of so many civilians,

CICENE-A city ofllce. An employer it is territorially interviewing claim that

young part of China and that, as a

about eighteen or nineteen years of consequence, she has aerial rights over it. However that may be, there is no evidence to show that China actually desires the Settlement to be brought into the war zone; it is only by гелиор of Japan's use of the Settlement as a base for hostile action that she reserves the right to take such measures as may be necessary to put an end to this state of affairs. The fact is that the whole situation has been most unsatisfactory ever since, in 1932, the Japanese took after the first they say, is by no means rosy for

If youth had its say there would be Japanese began to use Hongkew incident near Pelping, nor for them. The teaching profession, for fewer wars and less "strained rela-

instance, is vastly

over-crowded, as a military base and have the policy they have since pur- Some of them enter for Civli Service world. There is one batile we do ilan" between the nations of the since looked upon it as their sued following the Hungjao in- examinations, but the competition in

want to fight. That is the battle these is well known. One under- own Concession. Had the other| cident. The only inference

graduate sald to me the other day:ainst slums and disence and pre- Powers then taken a stand, the which can be drawn is that they "There are far too many decrepit

There is nothing more becoming present happenings might nover

have seized upon these happen- business men and statesmen in the nothing more becoming to nge, than doctors, worn-out professors, tired than for youth to seek counsel; have occurred. It is now evi-ings for the express purpose of throes of senile dacay."

to be able to give it," wrote Robert dent that China la determined putting through their known

And I believe he is right. We have | Louis Stevenson. Modern youth does. to make a big effort to drive the plans for gaining 'control of but to look around us to realise the not scorn advice, for advice is neces Japaneso out of their privileged more of China's territory. The utterly hopeless position the world sary if we are to learn how to be use- finds herself in to-day. It seems ful citizens. A glorious heritage Is position; they take

are incapable the stand pity of it is that, thus far, na- that our leaders

of ours. It is our desire to be worthy that, whether they fall or suc- tions who are conscious of and it is therefore to those who are hope that we will be able to bring adapting themselves to new ideas, of it. Some of us even cherish the ceed, they are left with no op- China's rights have not been young, and whose minds are still about a renaissance-not only in tion in the matter. As the able to put a stop to Japan's fluid, that we must look for real Hterature and the arts, but in overy

leadership.

department of human activity. whole position

Give surveyed, i aggression.

We need new blood.

is

nm afraid

I

there appears no justification for the action which

tho

for the suner forms of curricula now! in

vacant operation? Is there It is indeed a gloomy picture.

sports fleld on o Saturday? Have Older people may consider this ou

find cycling and hiking ever before enjoy exaggeration They can easily out. Ask any young man who has ed such popularly. been applying for a situation to relate A Renaissance his experiences. Discover how many lads, on completion of their training.

have been retained.

At school we learn French and Ger- man. But we do not stop there. We

having children are moro selfish than those for not having them again, especially at present.

I know this is the contradiction of popular sentiment, and natur- ally, as it is only a question of "taken all round and there are plenty of exceptions.

Parents, once the children are. there, usually behave with amaz- ing unselfishness; but the reason why the children are there at all is, nine times out of ten, nothing more laudable than joie de vivre. That and mankind'a congenital in- difference towards the future, both their own and their children's,

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LIND faith has always been the mainstay of population, and really, considering what the future is likely to hold, perhaps it is just as well that most of us are so curt- ously short-sighted.

It is when we find someone who is not fundamentally indifferent to the future that we stand aghast at such frightening logle,

Where will it lead? To a pro- valence of the despairing, longer view? Or to an improvement in International conditions, among races shocked into sanity?

Only if such an improvement is made will many women return to. a more normal view, and have the children they would like to bring up in a better world.

Not everyone will agree

with the dark view of things taken in the article above. This poem sent in by a reader shows that

There's Hope For The World

What is torang with the world to-day? Nothing is wrong with the world, I sug We still have our Summer, our Winter,

and Spring,

The trees still grow, and the birds still

sing. The Sun, the Moon and the Stars attit

alitne,

We still have the cilffs, and the hilir

to climb.

The Rowers are pretty, and prim as of

pore,

The Seas still rave and the winds still

TOUT.

What is wrong with the world to-day? Nothing is wrong with the world, I say,

What is wrong with the world to-day? Everything is wrong with the world, F

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We're growing too elever, too big for

our shoes,

We're striving to gain what surciy

we'll lose.

People are starving, with jood in store.

on War.

Over Crowded Professions correspond with the young men and There's plenty of money, we spend it.

Dictators and Rulers fight for more-

women of France and Germany. Some of us spend holidays with them.

land, Many of my former classmates are And so we begin to appreciate their | now ni the University. The future, point of view.

us a chance.

Whilst the peoples they rule are out of

hand. Everything's wrong in the world, I say. What to wrong with the world 10-day?

Can we right that is wrong in the

world today?

To right what is wrong isn't easy, I say.

We must first learn to love, and then. -

to forgive,

To stop being greedy, to live, and lek

Nice,

We must find people work, and make

them content,

And share the food that from Heaven.

is sent.

Push, War to the background, bring-

forward Penon,

Crush deadly fear, and set hearts at This will take time; let's start right.

cost.

away,

And prove that we can put the world'

right, I sag.

C. II. PIPER.