FAMILIES NEEDED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1931, Page 6

FAMILIES NEEDED

NOVEL FRENCH COLONY

Grants made to the directors of a sweet factory at Strasbourg aa compensation for war damage have boon used to finance & highly-interesting experiment iv eugenics. A report on tho experiment claims that it has proved very, successful, states j the Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." / The directors, realising that France needed more citizens and that her citizens needed more houses, have founded a colony for young married people who are anxious to have children. Situated in an ancient grove of trees not far from Strasbourg, this settlement is named after the factory,'the "Jardins TJngemach." , ,■. ■ It consists of a number of cottages in the style of rustic Alsatian houses of the early nineteenth century, equips ped with every modern convenience. ; The tenants are selected with great care. They must be in perfect'physical condition, and havo an income of at least £120 a year, so that they can pay an annual rent of £20 without difficulty. . ' ■ They'must also,agree to have children at what cugenists consider satisfactory intervals. So far only ' seven couples have been ejected from the colony for failing to comply with this rule. At present there are 131 families in these model cottages, and twenty babies have. been born .in t.he 1.-.st twelve months. Tho report points out that, generally',-speaking/; tho occupants -of the colony -belong to a class—that of clerks, manor employees, and petty ofd-; cials—in'which the birth-rate, is abnormally low in France. Incidentally, the colony has become a place of pilgrimage for Americans visiting the Eastern Department.