LOST MAN-POWER.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 February 1918, Page 6

LOST MAN-POWER.

HO WNATIONAL DEPLETION MAY BE MADE GOOD. Sir A. Conan Doyle at Birmingham offered a solution of the problem bow to make good the losses in population due to the war. (' “If the 150,000 separated’ couples had the right to remarry, in'vthirty years the extra increase of population would give us enough children to cover the whole loss of the present war,” he said. He added that if the bishops and theologians had their *wtty they would do more harm to the population of Great Britain than the Germans had done in the war.

Sir Arthur( who is president of the Divorce Law Reform Union, moved a resolution (which Lord Burnham seconded) calling for immediate tions to convert separations of three years and upwards into divorces, and give freedom to the million permanently separated persons in the country.

Mr. Birrell wrote to the meeting; “It is now clear that many important and official members of the Church ofEngland are organising an opposition in Parliament, but, subject to one qualification, nt is hard to-see that at this time of day they can considerately do so. The Church of England is not now entitled to treat the whole’ nation as if it were an appanage, as she was able to do for so long in the case of the two ancient universities. -o\v out of her grasp.” A