A MOTHER'S PLEA.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1922, Page 13

A MOTHER'S PLEA.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—There is a great deal of talk about reducing wages. If this happens we will not have enough to live on. It is just an existence now, and the wives and mothers know that. It is bad enough for .single men and girls, but married people with three and four or more children find it anything but a pleasure to live and rear a family now. The cry of the Government is "Save the babies'' for we need population, but it is unfair to ask people to work and slave to rear children for the country "'hen it means starvation and poverty for them all. The best thing we can do is to refrain from having children now if they insist on lowering; wages. Let the women go on strike and have no more children until they have the assurance that they can get enough to rear them in a proper manner, to make them the upright t-taunch men and women needed in the future, having a due reverence for their <;od, their mothers, and their home and country. We do not ask for a fast, fashionable life; all we mothers want is enough to live respectably, it is hard enough to live a true home life in these days of living in rooms, where several families "live together and children see and hear more fhan is good for them. Indeed, it seems to mc that the condition of the work- ' mg class at present is the wrong environment to brin X children into, and '. while we do not ask the country to do more just, now towards betterment, we at least expect to be left alone and not ' asked to do impossibilities with a ' smaller wage. —T am, etc., 1 NOT FLASH. '