1939-03-31 — Page 6

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the Cradle Rules the World

But what if the Cradle is Empty?

Britain's cradles have been getting more and more empty for the past 60 years. And no one is able to give a satis- factory explanation for this fact or devise a practical solution.

ZOUNG_.men. and...women, of course,....

still look yearningly into each other's eyes, hold hands, fall in love, get married-but the cradle industry continues to sink deeper and deeper into its slump.

`Families of one or two children are the aver- nge, and the normal seven or eight of Victorian days is looked upon as unusual,

Yet all the time the business of being a mother is being made both safer and easier for women, and a thousand times less painful than a century ago, when the patriotic mammas of Britain were automatically replacing the popula- tion every year.

When I think of the beautiful and childless young wife who told me the other day that "Hav- ing a baby is such a bore!" I am apt to blame her attitude.

But the real blame belongs to a mysterious biological phenomenon which has swept across Europe (carefully avoiding Russin) like a Pied Piper with all the storks behind him-a pheno- menon only partially connected with what is euphemistically called Birth Control, but is more accurately prevention.

WHITTINGTON SCRIVEN. On December 7, 1938, at Caxton Hall, London. Charles Contes Whittington of Nigeria, British West Africa, to Jessie Francis Now Britain is going to add this problem to Scriven, (nce Stokes), of Hong all the other problems which it still has left Kong and London.

to solve.

The

THEY

HEY are faced with the fact that by 1976 the population of Great Britain

Hongkong Telegraph.will if the birth-rate stops falling and remains

Wyndham St., Hongkong. 'Phone 26615 March 31, 1939

Spain's Last Phase THE LAST mighty net of the

Spanish drama is over.

The curtain falls on Republican Spain. Almost without the fir- ing of a shot Madrid, Valencia and other great eities have been occupied.

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at its present level-have sunk from 45 millions to 33 millions,

"A very good thing too," said a man looking over my shoulder as I wrote the above paragraph. "We're over-populated, and that's why we've got so many unemployed."

Unfortunately it doesn't work out that way at all. I can give you a lot of figures to prove this somewhat obvious fact, but they are rather boring, and what I renily want to write about is the way the Govern ment intend to fill the cradles of the nation.

They have precedents to work on.

is

About the only con- The last three months of war soling feature of the have not disgraced the Re-birth-rate problem publicans. But it has convinced that France, Germany, United them that their cause, however Italy, and the bravely upheld, had no chance States are all in the

same boat with us. against overwhelming material odds.

Italy and Germany- being what they are To-day, General Francois have attempted several Spain's master. He alone can ingenious ways of dictat- spare Spain further agony-thefing to nature. agony of reprisals.

It is General Franco, too, who can lay to rest the uneasiness anilišily and freedom from back that is still felt in Europe ground noise. Everything

his regarding

country, He scould possibly contribute to your

presteradio enjoyment has found knows that one of the essential preliminaries to confidence is to send his foreign supporters out of the country.

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Hitler

MUS

TUSSOLINI,

WANTED:

A Hundred

Thousand Mothers

"And now the Government are going to add this prob- lem to all the other problems which they still have left to solve."

Tpapers

HE German news- were first flooded with articles, enticing young women to get married and do their duty,

"The German woman must not only be healthy and strong," ran one article, "but must be willing to give her life for the Fatherland on the bed of child- birth just as our soldiers do on the battlefield."

There were more attractive propositions, too; you could read about "Why Geniuses Always Spring From Large Families," and articles on "Why The Happiest Mothers Are Those with BIG Families."

Every time a baby was born in Berlin the bell in the Doen-.

Germany started her "More, In 1876 (which is a key date hoff Square was rung and lucky, himself Babies-By Order" campaign' in this birth-rate business, for mothers could have medals pin- the father of five with all the benefit of Italy's it marks the start of European ned to their breasts, testifying children, preached the beauties experiences.

decline) there had been 89 chil- to their loyalty to the Fuehrer He "intimated to the British of birth control as a young man. She wanted more children for dren born for every 1,000 of the and the Reich. Tax reductions,

But he chucked that doctrine one of the same reasons that population.

lower railway fores, bureaucra- Government that he will request i

Italy (and Britain, too) wanted When Hitler came into power tic appointments for virile the withdrawal of all foreign away with his Communism.

them; to have them ready when there were only 15 babies per fathers were also featured in volunteers....immediately after In 1927 he told Italy that its and if colonisation begins; and thousand in a year which is this scheme to enrich the nation the war has passed its decisive cradles would have to be filled (unlike Britain) for use in the half a baby more than the pre- with hundreds of thousands of

and filled, a good deal more phase."

He cannot but adjudge that to come a really great Power.

quickly if Italy was going to be- next war to end wars.

have arrived now, or to be at

Upon which, bachelors were hand.

immediately penalised in blunt There is no reason for doubt-fashion; their income tax was ing that Italy, General Franco's doabled and the money thus chief bneker, will be unwilling jobtulnéd was distributed to do- for her legionaries, to return serving mothers,

home.

A sort of Santa Claus at- When Mr. Chamberlain was [mosphere pervaded the whole in Rome, Signor Mussolini re-marriage association, from the newed his assurances that Italy honeymoon and holiday trips to had "no territorial or political Rome all the way down to pats on the heads for little children aims," and desired "no pri- at the hands of, Fascist digni- vileged economic position" in taries-and even the Duce him- Spain.

self.

The Italian auxiliaries can no longer be maintained in war-jorn Spain on the plea that France is helping the Republicans.

And what happened?

During the first six months of 1935 there were actually 9,000 | [Lewer babies born than" during

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relief at the proclamation ending. Puzzle it out for yourself, for the war that has lasted almost you are as likely to be as right, Ja-thousand days.

as the leading economists and But it will feel far greater biological experts. relief when it knows that Italy's | But I confess to thinking that troops have returned to their whimsical about all the unborn there is something rather own country, and Spain ia again little toddlers cocking a moot at her own master.

Mussolini's imperativo demands.

So long as the Italians now

remain thore will be danger to

TJELL, the birthrate

Win Italy continues to

the pence of western Europe.. fall; lot's cross the Alps and see Neither Britain mor France what Adolph Hitler's baby ex- can allow them to remain. porta have accomplished.

sunt rufe in Britain.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

TODAY HORKER JRIPE

CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST

Children Bøhm

By Lichty mutual affection to

WAre you a parent, too, or just an authority?"

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new-born yells.

Lovers were encouraged by (600 mark. Ioans to put their practical purpose, more than 150 million marks being set aside each year for this worthy purpose.

The whole business seemed }as fool-proof as the Hindenburg ¡Line.

And what happened?

Marriages (the Germans be- ing an obedient race) leaped up 200,000 in two years; births in- creased by 180,000 in the same. period. But the balance is not adjusted, and if the rate, does not continuo to increase Ger...”. many's 66,000,000' will have sunk to well below: 50,000,000 by 1970,

France has for so long be moaned its falling birth-rate that it has become. Europoʻs horrid example.

The French do not take kind- ly to belabouring propaganda, but they might be encouraged. to know that their rate is not falling off half as rapidly as our · own in this country, where wa have dropped from 22 babies per 1,000 of population to 14 since the war.

But now It's going to be, our turn to regiment the nursary,

From the Italian and Gorman experiments thoro emerges for

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