WHITE AUSTRALIA POLO

Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1930, Page 9

WHITE AUSTRALIA POLO

CONTRAST WITH AMERICA

COUNTRY’S MENTAL HYGIENE

AVOIDING SUICIDE PROBLEM

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright Washington, May 7. Dr. Noble, the Australian delegate at the first meeting of the International Committee foi Mental Hygiene, made a plea for an international understanding of Australia’s aspirations -in its . White Australia policy. He said such an understanding was a most important factor in the country’s mental hygiene. He stated that, by means of racial .purity, Australia was seeking to avoid many problems of which the representatives of other nations spoke and which were on the increase owing to tho intermixture of

races. Dr. Emerson, New York, professor of public health, stated that by such a policy of strengthening the mental and physical purity of the race Australia might expect to avoid the suicide problem, which had been quadrupled in the United States in 70 years, and the divorce problem, which had been tripled in the United States in 50 years.