ENDOWMENT OF CHILDREN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18465, 28 January 1922, Page 10

ENDOWMENT OF CHILDREN

question of taxing employers. PALL MALL GAZETTES CBTITCISM. Frees Aesoaiafien—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 26. In reviewing Mr A, B. Piddington’s pamphlet, "The Next Step," the Pall Mall Gazette, ip criticising the proposal to endow children by taxing employers, says: “ One wonders how much farther Australian agitators will go. ‘ Employers ’ seems to bo a convertible term for ‘ foster fathers and mothers.’ la Mr Piddington aspiring to ‘the mantle of Lycurgus? He may find hia Spartans, but what of his helots?” —A. and NX. Cable. [Mr A. B. Piddington, K.CX, has been Chief Oommdseioner of the Interstate Commission. Commonwealth of Australia, since 1913. He was member for Tam worth in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1895, and ho took an active part in the federal cantrovondee in 1897 ana 1898 He has held many public positions, including that of a Justice of the High Court, and haa contributed volnrmnously to literature on political and social questions. Lycurgus is reputed to be the founder of the Spartan Constitution. The bolote were the slaves of the Spartans.]