At the other end of life, grants for children to stimulate the birth-rate were warmly pressed at a conference on national nutrition held by the British Medical Association this week.
Mr. Lawrence Cadbury, of the great chocolate firm, described how Cad-bury's had introduced grants for children among their workpeople a long time ago in anticipation of State grants that must surely come. "Pri-vote firms frequently give a lead to the Government" he said. In most families he found on inquiry that the extra money was epent on hotier food.
Germany and Italy of course are well-known to have given grants in various forms to large families for several years past—which makes their demand for colonies on the ground that their people are cramped for living space rather illogical. We are bound to do the like sooner or later. The real problem is with the working class. The motor car, cinema and cocktail parties are the great enemies of large families.
An amusing speech at the B.M.A. conference was made by Professor tham on the rooted objection of e British public to eat new foods. It took the potato 200 years to get itself adopted, the banana 30,. the grapefruit 20. Excuse for the public may be found in the fact that our dieticians vary so wildly from year to year on what we ought to eat. Just now everyone is crazy about milk Before long we shall be warned that milk unless taken moderately tends to spots, constipation, halitosis and "B.O." One generation's meat is the next generation's poison. group of sycophants like Count Ciano, who foster his vanity and carefully shut him off from public opinion.
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