BRITAIN’S SURPLUS PEOPLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 21 September 1923, Page 7

BRITAIN’S SURPLUS PEOPLE.

Problem of Over-Poputation

EMINENT AUTHORITY’S VIEWS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT

LONDON, September 19

At the British Association meeting, Sir W. 11. Beveridge, Director of the London School of Economics, declared that Britain was not over-populated. Unemployment and over-population were two distinct problems. Ho said Germany, with its limits compressed, shipping lost, and other disabilities arising out of the war, did not suffer from unemployment, yet Britain, with expanded territories, and the world open to her, had unprecedented unemployment. The remedy for Britain was to recreate the world as a vast cooperative commonwealth of trade. Strongly advocating free trade, Sir W. W. Beveridge said he found no basis for the belief that Britain could be self-supporting or that the Empire was willing to become self-sufficient. Dealing with the question of birth control, he said the present question was whether it would result in a stationary white population long before the white man’s world was full. He also had to ask how the varying incidence of restriction among different classes wtrald affect the stock, anu how far its unequal adoption among different faces would leave one at the mercy of another. Dr. Marie • Stopes said Sir W. W. Beveridge had ignored the existence of the unemployable and unfit. It was quality not quantity which counted as increase. In Britain - birth control was necessary, if the quality of the race was to be maintained, even at the present level times.

HOSTS OF IDLE PEOPLE

OVER MILLION UNEMPLOYED

By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, September 19.

One million two hundred and twenty two thousand are registered as unemployed in Britain, which is 12,000 below the previous week, compared with the maximum of 2,045,000 in June, 1921.