THE BIRTH-RATE.

Evening Star, Issue 12167, 11 April 1904, Page 4

THE BIRTH-RATE.

TO THE ED iron. Sir,—l think every woman in the community might well rejoice on reading the article on the ‘Declining Birth-rate ’ from jotj

Sydney correspondent in your issue of Tuesday last, as it deals with the question from a practical and common sense point of view. The writer considers that the present rate of increase is ample. .If, at the present rate, Australia is to be ’as densely peopled as China or Japan in 168 years, what state will this poor world be in in the next million of years—for we must look forward—unless it should chance that it turns upside down or inside out, as it has occasionally done before, when things came to a dimnx? I think the experience of a “Mother of Twelve” will appeal very potently to many and needs no comment. In the meantime it is our bounden duty to see to it that the best and the most is made of each and every child that is born, and that none are neglected or uneducated in all useful and practical ways. Let the training of our young people be of such an order that they may be self-reliant and capable ifl all the necessary arts of life. Then they will be able to find ample employment. We want no waifs, no packed cities, no slums.— l am, etc., A Woman. April 8.