BIRTH RESTRICTION

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1931, Page 5

BIRTH RESTRICTION

EAST V. WEST.

(United Press Association.—By Electric

Telegraph.—Copyright.)

LONDON, ,September 28.

“Perhaps in two million years, human beings will be reproduced by multiple births,” so Professor Lance lot Hogben told the Scientific Congress during its discussion . son birth control. The women hearing twins and triplets then would snot waste any more , time in producing largefamilies than men now spend in playing golf.

Professor Crew said: “As -birth control could not be imposed on- our surging Oriental competitors, we might ultimately be pushed out of the imperial* territories; but among British people, there were types suitable for almost every environment. Migrants, lie said, after a physiology cal examination, could be advised to seek particular places, instead of go* ing to the land whose advertisements offered, the most rapid . financial gain.

“The man whose increased skill gained him higher wages would be prudent enough to limit his family,” said Professor Macßride, “but it would he delusive to try and teaoh the wage-earners prudence by „ overpaying them, “It is our duty,” he added, “to appraise the poorer citizens of methods of birth control that are available to educated people.” He added: “Painless sterilization is the only remedy for the man who continues to 1 produce children in utter in*; difference, relying on the dole for upkeep. If, w© are to maintain a vigor-, ous race, that is the end to which we must come. Otherwise the word “English” will cease to possess its former, significance.” • , ,' i -- ■ u

SCIENCE. OK, FICTION? FANCIFUL TALK OF THE FUTURE.

LONDON, September 27,

Yesterday’s Science Congress debates ranged from the origin of man to the problems with which he is faced, owing to have overcrowded certain areas of the habitable globe. .. This led several speakers of international repute to make significanet utterances regarding the vital importance of scientific birth control, not. only to secure eugenic stock, but to' curb the possibility of dangerous swarming Asiatics over other territories, though, confessedly, the hope of. applying such a remedy was remote. The speakers did not all agree with the facts and deductions therefrom. Nevertheless, notable contributions were made to contemporary scientific thought. Pessimism on the whole predominated l , Professor E. W. MaoBride declaring that the Day of Judgment was Within appreciative distance.