Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-03-04 | Page 8 | What About Losers in Toronto's Ten Year 'Stork Derby'

S V. 5 What About Losers in T Toronto's tos to's s Ten Teny Year ear Stork Derby 1 Big Big Family Iy May Result ResultS In Hardship S IS Because Betty fletty Blair is ill Hearts Heart Haven will not appear InThe in inS inThe S The Telegram today day Tile The popular Jar lar feature will be resumed as asS S oon as l Miss ss Blair recovers S By HELEN S When the late Into Charles Vance v T Turner left a 8 prize in 1926 S q be presented to the Toronto S mother giving birth to the greatest number of children in the 10 years after fter his death he proved that he WM was a little ahead of his time Since then Herr Hitler and Signor Signer Mussolini have come along with Jd Id ideas u ai to make their tribes Increase However as yet they have offered no big cash prizes Some day perhaps per per- haps there may be a reward of so many dollars a n head but that is only a conjecture now The dictators dictators dictators dic dic- dic- dic make an app appeal al to citizen citizen- ship Charles Vance Miller being S a wiser man put his lila marathon on 5 5 a cash basis Money 1 Greater 5 Money sad to admit holds greater allure than patriotism Mrs Matthew Kenny is giving birth S to the most children in the time limit She has had 12 to date according to her family Bible If IC the vital statistics bureau re records confirm her figures it will take something a little less than quintuplets for either of Mrs Kenny's ri rivals rivals xi- xi vals vais to match her record The two ne nearest rest rivals have only given birth to nine children apiece in ni nine e years True the last heir of the Kenny line didn't live But he was born bornand bornand and breathed which makes it appear appear appear ap ap- ap- ap pear that he may win half haIl a million million mil mU- lion dollars dollari for his 11 brothers and sisters luters One wonders lat ironic sense of humor induced the instigation of propagation to offer s such ch a cash h bounty to the women of his native land After all birth is an old feat Reproduction on a large scale has n nothing thing but sheer physical stamina to plead its it case More Mo e and more civilized people are realizing that the number of their children should be determined determined deter deter- mined by the amount of money which they can afford to invest in care and education A child who is given proper equipment for living living liv liv- ing will wUl be a benefit to society S just as a child who is handicapped may prove a burden The winner of ot the marathon certainly will be beable beable beable able to take care of her family The unless they arc wealthy people wh which ch isn't likely Inmost in inmost inmost most cases are apt to have more children on their hands than they had bargained for when they took their vows families Big are arc fun Any man or woman reared in a houseful of rollicking rollicking rollicking rol rol- rol- rol licking brothers and sisters takes pleasure in rec recounting the adventures adventures adventures tures which he and his brothers and S sisters had in living It is too bad that every family doesn't have amS am- am S pie money to make a home a merry S place of ot youth and laughter Income Needed However to try to rear eight or orten orten orten ten children on an income which is adequate for only one or two is an entirely different matter When a fathers father's salary cant can't buy enough bread it cant can't do much about supplyIng supplying supplying sup sup- plying ice cream or taffy from the country fair and pink ice cream for tor birthdays It is ia too bad that so much of hap- hap happiness pines iness depends on financial freedom free free- dom om Say what we please about happiness not being a commodity that lat we can buy it lasts much longer long- long er r and looks much nicer when it is financially protected Mr r. r Miller is to be congratulated and nd thanked for leaving his money to o better the tho education and training o of f small boys and girls Still SUll better he tc might have made some fairly nice gifts to the living without insisting in- in slating th that t the tribe increase