BIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16705, 10 April 1922, Page 5

BIRTH CONTROL ADVOCATED.

EMIGRATION CRITICISED. By Telegraph—Press Association —CnpyrifrliAustralian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April 9. Mr Harold Cox. in an article in the ; Sunday Times," asserts that inter- j Imperial emigration cannot solve over- j population in England, where the popu- • lation is increasing hv a thousand ' daily. He contends that birth control j is the only solution. Unfortunately i the State, by a lavish system of doles, j is encouraging the least desirable clas- ! ses to multiply indefinitely. The article j points out the dominion demand is for agricultural workers, these being ; the verv people England is least willing j to part with. He savs also that Aus- | tralia and Canada, while increasing the i local output of the manufactured goods j is buying more largely from the United | States instead of restricting purchases | to Great Britain. ‘These considerations are put forward,’ continues Mr C ox, “ not with j scheme of emigration hut in the hope | of destroying the illusion that there is ; much to be expected from anv scheme ! of State aided migration uo'w loudly j advocated. The colonies haw grown j into great states and are strong enough j to he self-dependent. They have no ! right to beg us to tax ourselves in o»d- ’ or to supply them with our best people, i The doles to emigrants which Lieute-nant-Colonel L. S. Amerv advocates will not ©ffoetivelv diminish the doles to unemployed, which Lieutenant-! olonel Amerv rightly denounces. They . only add burdens to the British taxpayer.” Mr Harold Cox. ALA.. lias been ©di- j tor of the “ Edinbburgh Review ” since 1912. He has lectured on political : economy for Cambridge University Ex- ! tension'Society in York and Hull.' He was secretary of the Cobden Club from j 1899 to 1904. He represented Pres- j ton, as a Liberal, in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1909. He lias subjects.