1938-01-10 — Page 3

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

ser-

Married couples who shrink from parenthood are leading Britain to racial suicide, said Father F. Woodlock, of Farm Street Church, London, when, continuing his course of mona on "Modern Morals and Christian Marriage" 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 sald, "where It is becoming very common for mar- rlage to exist for the purpose of pleasure, and the happiness of parenthood is no longer one of the primary desires in the married state. "Many women take it for granted that in becoming wives they are not 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 no children, and over 2,000,000 with only one child.

"In the decade in 1031 there were 2,500,000 fewer births than in the decade 1911, and we have been in- formed only this week that in the period from 1933 to 1945 there will; be ፡፡ 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 mother-

the hood. The child is

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 are known even apart Christian revelation.

THREAT TO CIVILISATION "The child is not

from

by-product..

still less an undesirable waste pro- duct, of the creative partnership of woman, which was instituted by the: Creator for the continued of man on earth."

existence

He believed that the modern. re- Jeelion of parenthood or its limitation! to the pac child Tamily was the 1

the survival of greatest threat to 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.

the

Institution of loans;

Abandoned To The Underwriters

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

on Haishoto Island, off the coast of Formosa.

7s.-A-DAY ARCHDUKE WON'T

GO TO SISTER'S

War Danger Will Come With Next Depression

"I do not believe that either Ger-| inany or Italy wants to risk really

declared Sirk big European war," Arthur Willert, formerly head of the news department and Press officer 1} the Foreign Office, addressing a

Conference Liberal week-end

Brighton recently.

at

Sir Arthur added: Fear is one of the things that has caused this dou-! 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 danger will come in

MR. EDEN'S "BLACK-EYE"

WEDDING

Cinema Banned, His Larder: Two Eggs

Shot Herself

de

· Mexico City. Because her husband refused to allow her to attend a cinema, Senera Margarita Jacome Jimenez, aged twenty-two, of Jalapa (capital of Vera Cruz State), hot herself through the Iventt

She had been married for ten months.

"Life Of Christ" In New Book

New York.

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 me to-day?' sometimes they say 'No'; sometimes they

hand." just push a parcel of food into my

day!

to

my

the

grent The archduke, who is suing his, vineyard In Italy, jewels of

for Austria,

"Yet she refuses to grant me more an adequate ving mother, the Archduches Blanche of value. allowance, spoke to me in the sling than a niggardly seven shillings a room of his Vienna flat.

"IRON WILL”

"Would you like kitchen?" he asked.

The archduke strode across gilt-and-red-furnished sitting-room pulled away a dressing-gown

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

On the windowsill was a bottle of milk and a bag of salt,

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

For America everyone considers to be Inevitable, unless we can get away from econu-

Mr. Derek Hall Caine, grandson of mic nationalism, takes place. Then will be the moment when Herr Hitler, the late Sir Hall Caine, carefully Signor Mussolint has tobied in the and perhaps others, may get out their guarding a heavily padlocked iron Chumber of Deputies a bill which ploughshares and try to beat them chest, in which was the manuscript embodies recent decrees calculated into swords. But that should not be of Sir Hall Caine's "The Life, of to encourage a higher birth-rate. for three, four, or five years. We Christ." boarded the liner Queen The bill is the outcome of a re- have that long in which to try to put Mary at Southampton, recently for solution passed by the Fascist Grand things right."

Sir Hall Caine spent 30 years over Soon the Archduke's sister, Counell fast March. It provides for

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 evidence that Italian foreign polley price has been paid for the publish- Marquis Taliani, Italian Minister at to-day was largely actuated by mising rights by Messrs. Doubleday The Hague. Archduke Leopold will large families; and

trust 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 three

When I knacked at the door of his Parents with five or more children

shouted: voice Mr. Derek Hall Caine said: "The fat recently will pay lower school fees, lower in-over italy is that Mr. Eden was given hundred thousand dollars.

by Signor Mussolin! the biggest black come-tax, lower house tax or none at eye that any Foreign Minister of book will be published in the spring, "Just a minute," Then a man with all, according to the number of off-reat Britain has ever been given and is expected to arouse tremendous a small, dark moustache and nearly spring. Large-family bonuses form-when Mussolini took Addis Ababa; Interest. erly limited to working-class familles that Mr. Eden {s a very vengeful will be extended to State employees type; and that the real reason we Unmarried civil servants will re- are rearming is to give him his op- ceive lower salaries than married portunity of giving Mussolini ones; childless couples

less money hinck eyes instead of one as soon as than those with five or more children, we are strong enough to do so.

A Fascist Union of Large Families)

"Grotesque as it may seem, that has been set up with a maximum

of British foreign policy is be- view State subsidy at £9,000,000 a year.

their Ing pumped into Italians by

informed 10 CHILDREN WIPE OFF LOAN propagandists, and I am

that it is believed by Signor Mus

Marriage loans will be made to solint and his advisers." couples under 20, providing their

Joint incomes do not exceed £120 a

THE REAL THREAT

two

"It is the story of Christ rather as a mon than as the Deity. It may be criticised, condemned, or praised, but whatever else it does, it will cause

controversy.

MODERN VIEW OF CHRIST'S LIFE

#1

bald head, his body wrapped in a bath towel, peered round, the door. It was the Archduke.

'MOTHER'S £200,000

and which

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

Bourbon will. blue, pln-striped suit, white, shift. red slippers, he ushered me into his isliting-room.

The Bourbons have always be lieved that they have only to do this" his full -he drew himself up to He told me: "I am not bringing height and sung out his right arm this case because I cannot earn my is an imperious gesture and alt

the world will obey them. own living.

TOLD TO LEAVE

"After the wor I worked for four years as a motor salesman. Then I let three years as a movie peddier, cinema riding a motor-cycle from to cinema delivering the nims.

"But I cannot do those things now A youth was shot by a dog while, a Hapsburg Why, next to the here. Romanoffs we were the wealthiest motoring in the country near

family

In Europe.

DOG SHOOTS HUNTER IN CAR

Capetown.

"My grandfather's attitude, and he was a deeply religious man, was that, sooner or later, the world was bound

"I have done that since the war, to come face to face with religion, and he has accordingly presented the uut times are changed. Monarchy la

"It is to exnet Just this obedience year. The loans vary from £10 to Declaring that economie national-life of Christ from the modern view-more to the fore, and 1, a Hapsburg,

have to maintain some position again. that my mother treats me in this £30. Reimbursement shouki nomin-

"My mother has still between

way. I have now had fourteen days' nlly begin 12 months after the wed-ism, and not the struggle between point.

"My grandfather took 30 years to 200,000 and Fascism and Communism, was the"

£250,000. All my notice to clear out of this fat. ting day and be paid off in 10 PST real threat to the peace of Europe, write it. He studied the subject father's wealth was left to her. cent, inainiments, but this is reduced Sir Arthur said: "The French are deeply, and spent two or three months "She has huge estates in Austria, u it 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 bul-requisite material. For each child born subsequently ness of the hooted men only interests "It is six years since my grand- the reduction becomes inrger. After the average Frenchman in so far s the birth of the second child 20 per he may suspect the Germans are be- father died, but it avas impossible to cent. of the loan la cancelled.

hind it. I am perfectly certain that arrange for publication euriler, owing 11 10 children are born within as what the average Frenchman to-day to the tremendous task of fitting the

story together. Parts of it were The dog, scrambling about the car. is wiped out

years as the marriage the loan is wondering is what evidence the

"Now I must go out. I am invited merely in the form of notes. Sections stepped on the trigger of a loaded Government have got to that effect."' In competitive examinations for Referring to "all that Hes behind had to be rewritten and so minute was

The archduke put on his coat and the stone walked with me down five or vice promotion the fathers of the project for an Anglo-American the writing of my grandfather that his and cocked saloon rific, which went to dinner with my lawyer"

stairs that lend into the corner of his or more children will be pre-trade trenly," Sir Arthur said, "Ger- secretary has been working upon the and wounded ons of the party. ferred to those with two or none.

meny might feel she would like to manuscript for four years, and has

mother's courtyard. When we had Private employers are called on to come into this arrangement, and it for the most part had to use a magal-into one volume."

The Iron chest after it had been gone a few steps he said: "Oh, ex- entourne early marriages and large that happens we would be able to ving glass. It has been a prodigious

taken aboard, was handed to the cuse me," and hurried back. A Haps familles by paying higher salaries to make our torms to Germany. De-job, married employees, and preferring the inecracy may be going to get its final "The work has been considerably purser, who placed it in the liner's burg had gone back to turn out the une small electtle light on the stairs. married ones to the single,

stance in these treaties,""

curtailed with a view to getting it strongroom.

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