1939-07-19 — Page 26

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 19, 1939.

Family Grants To Raise Birth Rate

FAMILY

B

Y allowances, supplementary to wages, 08 means of stemming the prospective decline in Britain's population were urged by Viscount Samuel in the House of Lords recently,

A standard wage should be paid both to men and women, with family allowances in respect to the respon- sibilities laid upon them, he said. The nation should be- come population-minded.

The whole matter, especially the question of family allow. ances, should be regarded as proper for investigation by a Royal Commission, because it was necessary at this stage to give guldance to the nation on a matter which deeply affected its future strength and welfare.

The truth was not that Britain' was j The remedies he suggested were overpopulated but that it population | further knowledge, to allay the fear was badly distributed. The decline about maternity, and family allow- by one-half, to was the forecast by soine, or anything approaching it. from a national standpoint would spell disaster.

Lord Snell said he did not view the prospect of a full in the total of the population as likely to be calamity. The real problem of population was qualitative rather thon quantitative.

"It is Darwinion rather than

ances.

Lord Stamp, in a maiden speech, kuggested n Royal Commission on the subject."

the principle of family allowances.

The Archbishop of York supported

Lord Templemore, replying for the Government, sald there was con- siderable fear in many quarters that family allowances might result in Bie lowering of the standard of Malthusian," he said, He reminded the House that the last war tool wages. He could hold out no hope about 1,000,000 potential fathers. of Royal Commission. War took the most vital of the popu-i lation.

SOCIAL BARRIERS

He suggested that one of the re medies would be the removal of barriers, such as they were, to mar- ringes and the production of children.

Took Drug As Experiment

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Lady of America, presenta Harmon Aviatrix trophy to Jacqueline Cochran, Bendix race · winner, adjudged First Lady of the Air, at luncheon of New York Advertising Club.

Architects' Art

In The Garden

MR. DAVID BOWES-LYON, brother of the Queen, who has himself made grass grow in a wilderness by the sweat of his brow, recently opened the first exhibition of the work of garden The preservation and protection of English landscape and garden are not enough, he asid; we must also build.

The greater distribution of wealth is giving rise to a new architecture-civic centres, flats, swimming pools, holiday camps

Reasonable men feared to have A CHEMIST'S assistant who children who might be bombed In was said to have acquired aarchitects.. their hones or killed in trenches

taste for morphia after taking elsewhere. Certain socítil barriers should also be removed.

it as an experiment was sen- tenced to 15 months' imprison- quality of the people born became àment at Chester Assizes recent matter of first-rate importance. ly on charges of procuring morphia, false pretences and forgery.

Lord Dawson of Penn muid the

"We must therefore, construct for fitness," he said. "This country has falled to reproduce Itself since 1925, and 100 women to-day produce only 76 future mothers, as against 150 in 1880. When a country gets ageing people there is not enough vigour and adventure. Alrendy there is more accommodation in schools than the children car lt. In 1951 there will be only 6,000,000 children under 16, as against 12,000,000 in 192).

"These figures are alarming and there is no getting away from then. There may be a change for the bel- ter, but the graphs do not point that

Way."

Contraction was increasing in all classes. It had grown into our social fabric because of the changes in our people.

MODERN MOTHER PRAISED

Counsel said that there were 803 eases to be taken into consideration. consisting of 301 charges of obtaining drugs, 301 cherpes of false pretences and the same number of forgery charges.

was

Eugene Anthony

Accused Harold (29), of Conway Street, Bir- kenhead, and according to the prose

Pensions For Air

Raid Victims

A SCHEME for paying

pensions in respect of civilians killed or disabled in air raids has been pre- pured by the Government. In the event of war, there will be a special department of the Minis- try of Pensions to handle such cases, In all, hé obtained 7,012 morphia | All claims will be dealt with im- tablets,

mediately evidence of death or injury is available.

cution his method was to forge National Health Insurance prescrip- Lion forms in the name of a doctor.

Chief Inspector Tunkard said Harold had previous convictions for oblaining drugs.

the way they trained their children. The chilet reason why they did not have more was anxiety-fear of un-

The women and mothers of to-day, | employment, the want of careers for as mothers, could never be beaten in the children.

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Medical boards will be appointed to assess the degree of disablement which elvilions may suffer in enemy

ulr ralds.

Rates at which pensions will be paid have been fixed as follows:

Man completely disabled, £2. per week.

This rate will be paid in enses where the wage-earner hins lost both legs or has received some equally serious injury making it impossible for him to follow any ordinary em- ployment.

and sports grounds, all of which call for co-operation between the architect and the gardener.

To this end the Institute of Land- scape Architects is for the first time working in close association with the Royal Institute of British Architects, Its scope includes designs for the smallest town guidens as well as for national planning.

LINKING UP PARKS

The designer of the exhibition, Christopher Tunnard, a distinguished young landscape architect, was not present, as he has just been offered the chair of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. But the re- sult of his work, carefully planned and clear layout of elvie and prelvate gardens in plans and photographs, was enjoyed by a big attendance.

Besides plans and photographs of gardens for town and country houses, the

exhibitio nincluded also a demon- stration of how gardens can link up with civic life.

There are plans of London with suggestions for linkup up existing parks to make continuous green belts; photographs of roads made beautiful by judicious tree planting; plans for making A.R.P. trenches in public PAYMENTS TO WIDOWS squares to things of benuty; and Wives and children. A completely plans and photograps of the garden, disabled man, in addition to his £2 in civte life,from colleries to garden per week, will receive 10s. for his illeg. -wife-78.-6d-for-his-first-child, and

6a, for each additional child.

If he has a wife and three children ho will get £3 109. Od.

If the medical board certificate shows that he is only 50 per cent. disabled, the pension will be on half this peple, and pro rata for other destrees of disablement.

28s, 5d. a week if they are over 40 and have children.

If they are under 40 and without children, they will be regarded as having better opportunities for cm- ployment or remuerloge, and pen- sions will be £1 a week. For their children they will receive 10s. for the Widows--Women whose husbands first, 7s. 6d. for the second, and Os. are killed by the enemy will receive for others.

Midget Yacht Sails

50,000 Miles In 5 Years

AS modestly as though returning from a brief run in the Channel, the yacht Drisc, only 32 feet long, sailed into Portsmouth Harbour recently on completing a five-year cruise of 50,000 miles.

Owned by Mr. A. G. H. Mac-t When Mr. Macpherson left the pherson, commodore of Ports-yacht to return to England by liner.

Leng Way joined by mouth Sailing Club, she left Mr.

two One went ashore at Portsmouth in September, 1984, journalists.

Mr. Macpherson's only com-Bermuda, and the other, Mr. J. V. panion was Mr. William Leng, Ramsden, voyaged on to Portsmouth, also a member of the club, who went as skipper.

Mr. Leng returned as owner, the yacht having been given to him at Durban when Mr. Macpherson, by doctor's orders, had to abandon his

life at sea. *.

Once during the cruise, Mr. Mac- pherson fell overboard, clung to the boom, and was rescued by Mr. Leng,

The eight-ton Driac proved herself a capable aca. boat, having been to the West Indies, Mexican Const, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Mediterranean, Red Sen and neross the Indian Ocean to Colombo, then down to Singapore and the East Indies..

She also to went North Australis, across the Indian Ocean to Madagas car, and then to Durban...

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