BIRTH CONTEST
MUSSOLINI'S PRIZE WON FOUR CHILDREN IN SIX YEARS Mussolini's efforts to raise Italy's declining birth rate have turned ont well for Giuseppe Pini, a bricklayer living in the city of Florence, who has won the prize of about £I,OOO for having had four children horn to himself and his wife between October :s, 1922, and the same date of 1928. The magic value of the first date consists in the fact that it was the day of the Fascist march on Rome, when Mussolini became Italy’s dictator. Ninety fathers contested a much smaller prize for having had children born on October 28, last year. Pints wife hn-s had a child almost every year sine® she married in 1918. It is characteristic of the attitude toward the weaker sex in Italy that neither official reports of the award nor the papers make any allusion to her. All the praise and, presumably, all the money is for the father.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 686, 11 June 1929, Page 2
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