THE DECLINING BIRTH RATE

Evening Star, Issue 22574, 16 February 1937, Page 7

THE DECLINING BIRTH RATE

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Mr Kite seems to think I advocate large families, What X do advocate is a larger wage for the worker, or, in other words, a just share of the wealth produced. Oiir who'le national problem seems to hinge on the right of the big man to exploit the small man, and it is a strange contradiction of principles for a workers’ Government to allow a continuation of wholesale exploitation by those already drunk with riches. It is these gestures of friendly sanction by Labour towards the sworn enemy of the worker that are responsible for the growth of the Christian Communist movement, which aims at the application of Christian' principles to every phase of life, the total abolition of poverty, not by a process of charity, but by a just distribution of the wealth produced. As for the professed anxiety of politicians regarding the birth rate, it appeal’s to be a mere farce unless steps are taken to transfer some of the profits of the employer to the employee. When prices and wages both rise, the wage earner gets less with more money, and so is a loser. Mr Kite asks would I subsidise unfit parents. 1 reply that only those who are sound mentally, whysically, and morally should be parents, otherwise a crime is committed against future generations. The quality children desired by Mr Kite will appear when poverty is abolished and Christ’s Kingdom of brotherhood set up. In the meantime we live under a haphazard system, and the echo is heard and seen in a hundred and one institutions, which should never exist. If the top of the precipice was fenced, the unpleasant task of picking up human wrecks would cease.—l am, etc., G. A. Herring. February 16.