ONLY CHILD DANGER.
"MAY WRECK CIVILISATION," (From a Special Correspondent.) (By Air M£il.) LONDON, January 19. Dr. H. Crichton-Miller, the psycholo- ■ gist, speaking at the conference of the association of Public Schoolmasters at ' Harrow, said that one of the things that •' would ultimately wreck our civilisation ' would be when we had a House of Com- ! mons, a Cabinet, and editors of news- [ papers who were all only sons or only daughters. 1 "People will wake up and realise," he ' said, "that the problem of the small family is not only a problem of econo- | mics. What matter*? is what the only ', child is going to be when he reaches . the age of potential importance to the community." , Other comments by Dr. Critchon- t Miller were: "I think we are apt to j attribute a good deal more things to the war than is probably justifiable. Our children are beginning to demand gratification without effort. To-day, if a boy wants to make an assignation with a friend 100 yds away, his first r idea is not to walk but to ring him ' up. The original idea of the telephone, to save time, is entirely eclipsed by the c idea that it is there to save effort." v s
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 11
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