DECLINING BIRTHRATE

Grey River Argus, 14 December 1928, Page 5

DECLINING BIRTHRATE

“SO-CALLED UPPER CLASSES” DENOUNCED BY MUSSOLINI. (United Service.) (Australian aix. .Z. Cable Asha.) (Received December 13 at 11.25 p.m.) LONDON, December 12. Mussolini subscribed £llO to a fund which a newspaper is raising for the purpose of helping needy parents of many children. He said the .gift must be considered as a moral acknowledgment of the newspaper’s initiative, -in honouring parents with many children, and holding them up as an example to other persons purposely sterile, nearly all of whom belonged to the so-called upper classes, which were richer, but morally cowardly. Without prolific working men’s families, a grave decline in the birth rate was threatening the nation, and would reach an extreme phase. This must be repeated and shouted aloud, even if it were t-lie bitter truth. There were many things dangerous on the face of the’earth, from tigers to malarial mosquitoes, but one danger surpasses all, namely, stupid optuni m,” lie said, -iimw-i —