BIRTH RATE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1940, Page 4

BIRTH RATE

LOWEST IN THE WORLD.

(Per Press Association—Copyright).

TIMARU, , July 11

“It will be useless to win cue war for freedom and all the decencies of life if we do not produce tne men and women to build up and carry on the Empire work. Umess we maintain tno proper mrm-rate oo replace tne loss of our virile manhood who will have died to preserve everything that is light, then even after winning the war we will fail and wni go clown m Ueleat,’’ said Mr W. J:i. Hail at the anna'l meeting of the Timaru oranch of the Iff unit tt (society- to-day.” “The nation that fills ' the cradles will control and rule the world, for there is no wealth but life. The Trench had no use for cladles. Consider those

sad words oi Marshal Retain to the French people after their country was overrun, and, left 'a smoking ruin, ‘Trance had too few children, two Tew arms.’ The spirit of pleasure over the spirit of sacrifice. The people demanded more thaii they gave.. They wanted to spare themseli es tile effort. Let us take a warning from the tragic example the French gave us, with its resulting dire defeat. This clever people, who were e\er in the vanguard of progress and freedom, now, because of neglect of the natural laws, have gone down in dishonour to live in servitude to their enemies. Le us take their lesson to heart before it is too Hate. Our birthrate is tire lowest in the world, and it is only the (very low deathrate that- has saved hs so-far. This low death-rate is due to the splendid work of Sir Trilby 1 King and 'the Society he founded” vw-