MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 19 July 1920, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

I A campaign to prevent extension of the practice of selling babies has been inaugurated at Hilt Lake City by Judge Hugo Anderson, of the Juvenile Court. The practice, according to the ® judge, lias grown to alarming propor- : tions, and the plan he suggested would ['j make the transfer of a baby from its [ ! mother to another person a legal proI ’ cess. Deports to Judge Anderson from S juvenile court workers, it was said, iuS - dtented that such transfers were so 1 common ns to be termed “promiseu--1 ous” between the real mother and | - women who yearned for children, but 1 | desired to evade the discomforts of 1 " child birth. A .Hate organisation was I i being formed to secure legislation :§ i through arousing public sentiment • j a gains! the sale of babies, as if they ill * , ' . . . is ' “If a man has no education he is ;3 j always a good worker. The more ■j I education you give him the less work ij he wants to do.” said Mr C. J. Hawken :] at the llawera County Council ’s meet- ;] ing on Saturday, when an application j on behalf of the Workers ’ Educational " Association for financial assistance was ' under consideration. The chairman-, f “Really the man with education 5 should be able to do more than the man . 5 without it. because he has hts know- ; ledge to assist him.” Mr Hawken: j \ “Yes. but be loses his muscle. The J 2 more education the less muscle. In j s my experience of workers brains and j | muscle- don’t go together.” ’ j • * -s * : How much does the average man ? spend in satisfying his craving for j tobacco? In a judgment summons case 1 just heard i:i Master! on. it was com--3 plained by the plaintiffs that the de--2 fondant, a single man, that since the j judgment was obtained against him 5 he had gone on spending no less than 1 Bis per week in cigarettes. Ten shil--3 lings for cigarettes—only 23s for his ; board! The magistrate’s decision was l that the man must deny himself the 5 little, cigarette voluntarily till the , j debt was paid or lose his smoke com- | ? pulsorily —by going to gaol. .