FRIENDS OF THE STORK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 May 1939, Page 9

FRIENDS OF THE STORK

NEW FRENCH ORGANISATION. BONUS FOR BABIES. A new organisation, taking the appropriate name of "Friends of the Stork,’’ has been formed in France with the object of counteracting the effects of racial suicide and family limitation. Each unmarried member is expected to wed another member of the organisation and a matrimonial agencj' has been set up to facilitate these unions.' states a Paris correspondent. Where necessary the organisation will provide dowries for the brides, and a money bonus will be paid to couples at the birth of each child. The Government is urged to give preference in State employment tn members of the organisation with increased families. Double taxation is suggested for those couples who neglect their family duty to the ,State, while special concessions are demanded for the "Friends of the Stork."

There will be a National Stork Week each year, in the course of which thousands of sermons will be preached by prominent clerics. Politicians, winters, artists and scientists will be pressed into (‘service to explain the dangers of race suicide for France.

The organisation sets for itself for the outset the modest goal of 1000 more surviving babes a month, bu 1 claims that this figure will be passed when the French public conscience is really aroused. Il will finance a crusade to cut down infantile mortality to its lowest possible figures,,