BABY SHOULD NOT CRY

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 245, 16 October 1935, Page 7

BABY SHOULD NOT CRY

Fallacy Exploded by English Authority. EXAMPLE SET IN MOSCOW. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, October 15. "It is wrong for mothers to think a baby should cry in order to learn how to breathe properly," declared Dr. Hughes, lecturer in acoustics, addressing members of the Institute of Electronics. He added that the belief that a baby who cries is necessarily in possession of lusty lungs is a complete fallacy. He described a visit paid by English doctors to a Moscow clinic where there were 1000 babies, not one of whom cried. He suspects that they were isolated and that their tendency to cry was thus corrected. "Babies," he added, "only cry by invitation or tuition." EMPIRE PARLIAMENT. FLYING WIPES OUT DISTANCE. (Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 15. "Why not an Empire Parliament sitting. in London when members can reach their constituencies in Australia by air in four days, New Zealand in five, Canada in one, India in two and Africa in three days?" asked Captain Norman MacMillan, president of tin National League of Airmen, in a speee! at a meeting of the Empire Society. GERMAN SUBMARINES. NEW FLEET FOR BALTIC. (Received 1 p.m.) BERLIN, October 15. The "Naval Gazette" reveals that 2 submarines of 250 tons each have been launched this year, being stationed in the Baltic.