PROFESSORS URGE BIRTH CONTROL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 September 1931, Page 3

PROFESSORS URGE BIRTH CONTROL

(P'oss Assn.

TEACHING PRUDENCE RESTRICTION OF FAMILIES WHICH MAY BE THROWN ON THE DOLE Rec. Sept. 28. 5.5 p.m.

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LONDON, Sunday. Perhaps in two million years, human beings will be reproduced by multiple births, Professor Lancelot Hogben told the Science Congress during a discussion on birth control. Women bearing twins and triplets then would not waste more time producing larges families than men now playing golf. Professor Crew said that as birth control could not be imposed on our surging Oriental competitors, we might ultimately be pushed out of Imperial territories, but among British people there were types suitab.le for almost every environment. Migrants, after physiological examination, could be advised to seelc particular plaees instead of going to the lands where advertisements offered the most rapid financial gain. Duty to Poorer Citizens Man, whose increased skill gained him higher wages would be prudent enough to limit his family, said Professor MacBride, but it was delusive to try and teach wage-earners prudence by oversaying them. It was our duty, he added, to apprise the poorer citizens of the methods of I birth control available to educated j people. Painless sterilisation was the only I remedy for the man who continued ; to produce children in utter indifference, relying on the dole for their I uplceep. If we were to maintain ! a vigorous race, that was the end to j which we must come, the Professor I said, otherwise the word English | would cease to possess its former ' significance.