RACE PROBLEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 230, 29 September 1931, Page 7

RACE PROBLEMS.

Scientists on Birth Control

And Sterilisation.

INTERESTING THEORIES.

LONDON, September 28,

Professor Lancelot Hogbeu* speaking at a meeting of the British,-Association, said that perhaps in 2,000,000 years human beings would be. reproduced by multiple . births. Women . would bear .twins-and triplets, would, not •waste -more .time,.-;.in producing large families than men now spend, in. playing g01f.:.-;- V - , r," .

Dr. F. A. E. Crew, professor of genetics, Edinburgh University, said that'as birth control could not be imposed on their surging Oriental competitors, they might ultimately be' pushed out of Britain's Imperial territories. But among the British people there were types suitable for almost every environment.

Migrants after a physiological examination could be advised, to seek particular' places, instead of going to a land the advertisements of which offered the most rapid financial gain.

The man whose increased skill gained him higher wages would be prudent enough to limit his family, said Dr. E. W. Macßride, Professor of Zoology, but it was delusive to try to teach wageearners prudence by overpaying them. It was their, duty,, he acMed, to apprise poorer citizens of the methods of birth control available to educated people.

Painless sterilisation was the only remedy for the man who continued to produce children, in. utter . indifference, relying oil'the dole-for his upkeep. If they were to maintain. a vigorous race, that is the end to which they must come, otherwise the word English would cease to possess its former significance.