TOPICS OF THE TIMES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4844, 12 May 1936, Page 4

TOPICS OF THE TIMES

Empire Migration. “When Empire emigration is resumed it will be in circumstances very different from those that existed before 1929. No one knows yet how far this will show itself in a diminished volume - of emigration, but some decisive changes which have come about in the interval are already perfectly clear. With the great dispersion of material comforts and pleasures there is a slackened incentive for people in this country to seek a new life overseas. On the other side of the Dominions there are more cautious estimates of capacity for absorbingpopulation. There is above all a determination in every responsible quarter not to embark again on such overambitious projects as those which too often in the last 15 years have taken toll of both public money and individual happiness. It is with this in mind that the Government have, made their first approach to a renewed emigration policy.” “The Times’(London). Butter and Discontent. “The question of fats is a very vital and important one in nutrition,” asserts Viscount Astor. “It is very important to have cheap fats available. There are different sorts of fats which are available. A sufficiency of fats contributes more than anything else to a sense of well-being and of mental stability, whereas a deficiency of fats promotes discontent and restlessness. Those are proved statements, and I wonder, when I compare the price of butter in England with the price of butter in France, where it is 60 per cent, higher, and the price of butter in Germany, where it is 100 per cent, higher, whether the price of butter in the different countries might be taken, among other things, as a fair index of the present political temperature. Let us do all we can not only to make milk cheap but also fat foods cheap. I am sure that if we can do that we shall get not only more nutrition but greater contentment.”