PITILESS CONDITIONS OF MODERN LIFE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20671, 9 March 1937, Page 7

PITILESS CONDITIONS OF MODERN LIFE

BISHOP BARNES’S CHALLENGE HATRED OF WASTE OF WAR GERMAN CAMPAIGN FOR MORE BABIES United Press Association—By KI ant-io Telegraph—Copyright LONDON. March 7. In an outspoken sermon, the Bishop of Birmingham (Rt. Rev. E. W. Barnes), who preached to the University of Oxford to-day, said prudent parents will not and should not bring children into the world if they will be ill-fed and ill-housed. The strength of the Pacifist Movement showed how thoughtful people hated the waste of war, and refused to bear children w’ho might be engulfed in pitiless war. It was natural enough that education, also, had made men and women acutely sensitive to the harsh conditions in industry. Modern England had no tyrant like the industrial magnate, whose work-people enjoyed no security of tenure, and often worked for mere sustenance, while he made his fortune. There was no doubt that war and industrial tyranny were antiChristian forces, making for small families. He could not think it right to keep alive individuals whom doctors knew to be doomed from birth to a sub-human existence. MORE BABIES WANTED NAZI CAMPAIGN ORGANISED United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph —Coovrteht LONDON, March 7. The “Daily Herald” asserts that the German leaders are unceasingly campaigning for more babies for future cannon fodder, and are systematically educating the nation to accept the idea of “extra wives.” High officials are continually hinting at the necessity of a new attitude towards unmarried mothers. These include Dr. Ley, who demanded that the old-fashioned prejudice against illegitimate children should be abandoned, and that unmarried mothers must be granted respect and protection similar to married mothers, which the latest Nazi law translates into effect by decreeing imprisonment for men responsible for illegitimate children, who refuse aid to expectant mothers, both materially and mentally enabling them to feel socially equal with wives. The journal "Race,” openly advocates acceptance of the idea that all unmarried women have the right to have children, adding that many healthy women can never hope to have husbands, owing to insufficient men.