NATIONAL EFFICIENCY

Evening Star, Issue 19549, 6 May 1927, Page 2

NATIONAL EFFICIENCY

BIRTH CONTROL FAVORED RESOLUTION BY WOMEN’S FEDERATION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 4. Over 1,100 delegates to the Women’s National Liberal Federation, by nn overwhelming majority, passed a resolution in favor of scientific birth control, as providing a means of increasing the efficiency of the nation. Lady Ackland. said there were people who were shocked that mothers should he able to choose how many people they should bring into the world, but they could leave that idea to the_ generation which regarded the population as cannon fodder. Miss Emma Samuel aroused loud laughter by declaring that she was thirty years of age, and that men and women of her age felt that people were living too long, and, as they could not be put to death, they should be prevented from being born, otherwise they would all starve in the streets. The conference decided that birth control information should he made available at centres controlled hy the Ministry of Health. A motion favoring allowances for children was defeated.

Lady Bonham-Carter pointed out that the dole would enable the profligate to multiply at the expense of the thrifty.