POPULATION PROBLEMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 299, 17 December 1937, Page 6

POPULATION PROBLEMS.

LET US PAY OUR MOTHERS.

(To the Editor.)

The well written and most instnictfre article, under the above caption, by "CJA," is worthy of far more than a passing thought by readers of this week's "Week-end Pictorial" of the "Star." I agree with "C.J.A." that the question is more of a national one than individual, and that while we continue to live under a system of social hypocrisy the birth .rate will further decline and nations will conItinue social murder. It is the immutable natural law of cause and effect. I think definitely that women are more to blame than the men of this country for the alarming fall in the population figures. Considering that the women are more than half of the population and if [organised would have had strong representation in Parliament, there seems to be some reason, in my thought, for saying that the women are more to blame than the men for present social conditions. While practical politics aTe debarred from the constitution of the women's organisations they cannot get anywhere, however sincere the members are to get things done. Practical politics, not party politics, is the only sound basis of social construction, and the sooner the women realise that motherhood and child welfare are bound up and are an integral part of the economic and financial system of this country so much the better, as the terrible social injustices of to-day will disappear, one hopes, for all time. (5. F. HOLIBAR.