CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 200, 23 August 1940, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

"KEEP THE CRADLES FULL." (To the Editor.) Harry Oate*' letter gave me. for on* the heartiest laugh of the year. "Let that be a lesson to "Father of Kiatf* and "Grandaddy to Forty ,, not to iortt their paternal idea* on others. Peonfe with large families always eeem to fe the ones to hold themselves the proper authorities to pass ecathing jodgmeat on the "wicked selfkhese" of tJR younger generation. lam one of Ujoqsande of young mothers who hare stood condemned in the cold glare of money, grabbing landladies' eyes for darby to have one child and capping the crine off by wanting a miserable room to lfo in with the offensive infant. My mon never knew a happy free moment until his sixth birthday, when, thank* to the humane heart and efforts of Joseph Savage, for the first thne in kk life he was in hie own- home. "Bare children—it's ydur duty." Is H? I'd stand up to any doctor, professor, dictator or king and fling this question at their heads. What for? To educate, train, lore and send off as target* for machine-gun bullete or epend yean ©f agony waiting? Let the men. of tat world who condemn birth control fad the solution to war and want. YOUNGER GENERATHW. "Mary Oates" critcieee my «aaaid enunciation of this problem. "Impriari*," I would ask this lady from what mmvt she derived her statistical Azures Oat 09 per cent of British women practice birth control. In the street when I resided in London my neighbor 22) had 14 children. No. 23 (my hoac) a meagre 11, No. 24 had 16 childica! Here we get an aggregation of 41 ehfldren, all alive and kicking, in thm> families. I welcome heartily the "little darlings'* that arrive each year. "Par example," a member of my posterity fed a son in January, another in December, the came year, now both big hefty smb. These two are the elder brothers to-day of a family of 12. Another of eV family, so desirous of keeping tfe cradle full, has actually, not to eay brazenly, produced twins three tin ii five year*. The writer* late wife wfcea advising her numeroas danjAu-m, mH to this effect, "By all means rear a fkaflv, a* it is the only hope for ileum jj. happiness." I advice all young matron to carry on the good work and keep the cradlee full. AUDI ALTER AM PARISH.