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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1938.

"It Is

An Age Where

Marriage Has Come to Exist for Pleasure"

MILLION CHILDLESS COUPLES IN U.K.

Greater Menace Than War

PRIEST'S CRITICISM

Married couples who shrink from parenthood are lending Britain to racial suicide, said Father F. Woodlock, of Farm Street Church, London, when, continuing his course of ser- mons on "Modern · Morals and Christian Marringe" at Oxford) recently, he delivered an out- spoken criticism of brides who marry thinking more of their own pleasures than of parent- hood. It was a greater menace than war.

"It is an age," he said, "where it is becoming very common for mare ringe to exist for the purpose of pleasure, And the happiness of parenthood is no longer ones of the primary desires in the married state.

"Many women take it for granted | that in becoming wives they are notj necessarily undertaking to become mothers in due course, and a family. in the old sense of the word, is to-day abnormal,

CHILDLESS MILLION

"In England to-day there are over: 1,000,000 married couples with 110 children, and over 2,500,000 with only one child,

"In the decade in 1931 there were 2,500,000 fewer births than in the decade 1911, and we have been jez- formed only this week that in the period from 1933 to 1945 there will ben decrease of 800,000 in the num- ber of children attending elementary! schools. The same sad tale comes from the statistics of our Dominions.

"Yet marriage exists for noiber- hood. The child is the biological! explanation of the whole complex natural phenomenon of love between the sexes.

"It is from the nature and needs of! childhood that all the fundamental laws governing the marriage relation- ship tre known even apart from Christing revelation.

THREAT TO CIVILISATION "The child is not a by-product, still less an undesirable waste pro- duct, of the creative partnership of woman, which was instituted by the Creator for the continued existence of man on earth."

He believed that the mulern re- jection of parenthood or its limitation to the one child family was the greatest threat to the survival of Christian-civilisation which it had hitherto encountered, not excepting even the destructive horror of war.

Il Duce Subsidises Big Families

MARRIAGE LOANS

TAX REMISSIONS

Rome. Dec. 15.

Abandoned To The

The Underwriters

BRITISH AND AMERICAN UNDERWRITERS will bear the loss of the HK$25,000,000 Dollar linor President Hoover, which This fine aerial photograph shows heavy seas breaking over the Hoover, wracked has been abandoned as a constructive loss.

on Loishoto Island, off the coast of Formosa.

7s.-A-DAY ARCHDUKE

GO TO SISTER'S

War Danger Will Come With Next

Depression

"I do not believe that either_Ger-}| many or Italy wants to risk a really big European. war," declared Sir Arthur Willert, forinerly head of the news department and Press officer t the Foreigh Offee, addressing

Conference at week-end Liberal Brighton recently.

Sir Arthur added: Fear is one of the things that has caused this dam-! gerous line-up in Europe, like that! of 1914.

"But fear is also a powerful de- terrent from war. To my idea the

a few years i danger will come in

WON'T WEDDING

Cinema Banned, His Larder: Two Eggs

Shot Herself

Mexico City. Because her husband refused to allow her to attend a cinema, Senora Margarita Jacome de ot Jimenez, aged twenty-two, Jalapa copital of Vera Cruz State); shot herself through the heart

She had been married for ten months.

"Life Of Christ" In New Book

time, when rearmament is over, and Sir Hall Caine's MSS. Leaves & when the economic depression which

For America everyone considers to be inevitable.

Signor Mussolini has tabled in the Chamber of Deputies a bill which embodies recent decrees calculated to encourage a higher birth-rate.

The bill is the outcome of a re- solution passed by the Fascist Grand Council jast March. It provides for

the

Institution of loans:

mic nationalism, takes place.

And A Tin Of Peaches

From GEOFFREY COX

Vienna.

His Imperial Highness Archduke Leopold Salvator of Hapsburg Toscana, cousin of Otto, claimant to the Aus- trian throne, and a relative by marriage of King Carol of Rumania, thumped his fist on a gilt table this evening and said to me:~~

"Yes. It is true. Imagine it! I, a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece of the Holy Roman Empire, Archduke of Hapsburg, have to knock at the door each day and ask my mother's porter or the cook for my seven shillings allowance. When I ask 'Have you anything for he to-day?" sometimes they say 'No'; sometimes they

unless we can get away from econo- Mr..Derek Hall Calne, grandson of

Then will be the moment when Herr Hitler, the late Sir Hali Cuine, carefully and perhaps others, may get out their guarding a heavily padlocked iron just push a parcel of food into my hand." ploughshares and try to beat them chest. In which was the manuscript Into swords, But that should not be of Sir Hall Caine's "The Life of mother, the Archduches Blanche of value. for three, four or five years. We Christ," boarded the liner Queen Austria. for have that long in which to try to put Mary at Southampton, recently for allowance, spoke to me in the sitting-than a niggardly seven shillings things right,"

MR. EDEN'S "BLACK-EYE"

New York.

three

The archduke, who is suing his vineyard in Italy, jewels of great

0121 adequate lving "Yet she refuses to grant me more

room of his Vienna flat,

When 1 knocked at the door of his

recently

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shouted: "Just a minute." Then a man with small, dark moustache and nearly bald head, his body`wrapped in bath towel, peered round the door. It was the Archduke.

Sir Hull Caine spent 30 years over Soon the Archduke's sister, this work, which runs to three million | Archduchess Marguerite, is to marry Sir Arthur said that there was words, and it is stated that a record at Castle Sonneberg. Austria, the Quicker promotion for fathers of evidener that Italian foreign poster price has been paid for the publish- Marquis Taliani, Italian Minister at to-day was largely actuated by mis-ing rights by Mesars, Doubleday The Hague. Archduke Leopold will large families; and

Arust of Mr. Eden.

Doran in America, where the manus not be present. Maternity bonuses.

The argument which you get all cript has been insured for Parents with five or more children will pay lower school fees, lower in-vertly is that Mr. Eden was given hundred thousand dollars.

by Signor Mussolint the biggest black Mr. Derek Hall Caine said: "Theat come-tax, lower house tax or none eye that any Foreign Minister of book will be published in the spring. ali, according to the number of off Great Britain has ever been given and is expected to arouse tremendous spring. Large-family bonures torm-when Mussolini took Addis Ababaj interest. erly limited to working-class families that Mr. Eden is a

very vengeful will be extended to State employees. type: and that the real reason we

Unmarried civil servants will re- are renrming is to give him his op ceive lower salaries than married portunity of giving Mussolini two ones; childless couples less money black eyes instead of one as soon as than those with five or more children. we are strong enough to do so.

A Fascist Unlan of Large Familles has been set up with a maximum view of British foreign policy is be- State subsidy of £8,000,000 a year.

ing pumped Into Italians by their

"Grotesque as it may seen, that

THE REAL THREAT

"It is the story of Christ reiher as A man than as the Deity. It may criticised, condeinnext, or praised,

but whatever else it does, it will cause controversy.

MODERN VIEW OF CHRIST'S LIFE

informed "My grandfather's attitude, and he 10 CHILDREN WIPE OFF LOAN propagandists, and 1 am

that it is believed by Signor Mus-was a deeply religious man, was that, Marringe loans will be made to solini and his advisers."

sooner or later, the world was bound couples under 20, providing their

to come face to face with religion, Joint Incomes do not exceed £120 n

and he has accordingly presented the year. The loans vary from £10 to Declaring that economic national-ilfe of Christ from the modern view £30. Reimbursement should nomia- ally begin 12 months after the wed-sm, and not the struggle between point,

"My grandfather took 30 years to Foscian and Communist, was the ding day and be paid off in 10 perreal threat to the peace of Europe, write it. He studied the subject cent. instalments, but that is reduced Sir Arthur sald-The French are deeply, and spent two or three months If the couple have a child within that not worrying about the Croix de Feu in Palestine each year securing the time.

or anything of that sort. This busi-requisite material.

For each child born subsequently ness of the hooded men only Interests It is six years since my grand- the reduction becomes Inrger. After the average Freneliman in so for us the birth of the second child 20 per he may suspect the Germans are be- father died, but it ovas impossible to cent, of the loan is cancelled,

hind it. I am perfectly certain that arrange for publication earller, owing

MOTHER'S $200,000

11

day!

!!

"IRON WILL" "Would you like to sco my kitchen?" he asked.

The archduke strode across the gilt-and-red-furnished silling-room und pulled away dressing-gown which covered a shelf.

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On the shelf an oil-stove, two eggs, the corner of a loaf, a slice of cake, two plates, a cup and saucer, and an unopened tla of peaches.

On the windowsill was

of milk and a bag of salt.

bottle

There, you see what my mother brings me to. And the reason? She A few minutes later, wearing as a Bourbon, and has all the iron

Bourbon will. blue, pin-striped suit, white shirt. "The red slippers, he ushered me into his lieved that they have only to do this" Bourbons have always be-

sitting-room,

'TOLD TO LEAVE

ie drew himself up to blo full He told me: "I am not bringing height and flung out his right aren all this case because I cannot earn my in an imperious gesture "and

the world will obey then. own living.

"I have done that since the war, but times are changed. Monarchy I more to the fore, and I, a Hupsburg, have to maintain some position again. "My mother hins still between £200,000 and £230,000. Ail my father's wealth was left to her.

"She has huge estates in Austrin,

DOG SHOOTS HUNTER IN CAR

+

Capetown.

"It is to exact just this obedience that my mother treats me in this way." I have now had fourteen days' notice to clear out of this fat.

"After the war I worked for four yours is a motor salesman. Then I did three years as a movie peddler, riting a motor-cycle from cinema

to cinema delivering the Alma.

"But I cannot do those things now

A youth was shot by a dog while, a Hapsburg Why, next to the

A loaded

If 10 children are born within as what the average Frenchman to-day to the tremendous task of attlag theotoring in the country near here.

story together. Paris of it were many years as the marriage the loan in wondering is what evidence ther In wiped out.

Government have got to that effect." merely in the form of notes. Sections The dog, scrumbling about the car, In competitive examinations for Referring to "all that lies behind had to be rewritten and so minute wastepped on the trigger of civil service promotion the fathers of the project for an Anglo-American the writing at my grandfather that his and cocked saloon rifle, which went five or more children will be pre- trade treaty." Sir Arthur said, "der secretary has been working upon the and wounded one of the party, ferred to those with two or none. many might feel she would like to manuscript for four years, and has

Private employers nro called on to come into this arrangement, and it for the most part had to use a magul- into one volume."

The iron chest after it had been encourage early marriages and large that happens we would be able to ving glass. It has been a prodigious

Job.

taken aboard, was handed to the families by paying higher anlaries to make our terms to Germany, De- married employees, and preferring the mocracy may be going to get its final "The work has been considerably putser, who placed it in the liner's married ones to the singlo.

chance in these treaties."

curtalled with a view to getling-it ) strongroom.

Romanoffs we were the wealthiest "Now I must go out, I am invited family in Europe.

The areliduke put on his coat and walked with me down the stone stairs that lead into the corner of his mother's courtyard. When we hind gone a few steps he said: "Oh, ex- cuse me," and hurried back. A Haps- burg had gone back to turn out the Lone small electric light on the stairs.

to dinner with my lawyer."

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