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Show organized if children were proportionately propor-tionately distributed among the families. This would give many children a much better chance in life, regardless of what idealists profess to believe about the possibilities pos-sibilities of human beings. While it would be foolish to set a limit to the potential development develop-ment of any child, regardless of inheritance in-heritance or environment, it is just as silly to disregard the cold facts that social studies have produced about the handicaps that afflict many children in homes that are economically underprivileged. BIRTH DECLINE AFFECTS SCHOOLS Due to the low birth rate between be-tween 1930 and 1938, the nation's school enrollment is expected to show a decline this season of more than 150,000 pupils. The decline will be experienced in the lower classes because high schools and colleges have not yet felt the effect of the curtailment of births. We have not always believed that an excessive birth rate is an asset of any society. We do believe that it would be better for all families fam-ilies to consist of an average number num-ber of children rather than for the nation to have a high birth rate among certain classes of the population pop-ulation and a low birth rate among others. Experience has shown that the low birth rate is common to those who would be expected to provide for their children in the best manner. man-ner. As the scale of income declines de-clines among families the birth rate goes up, with the result that families already hard-pressed to care for children acquire additional children, and families well able to care for children tend to small size. Society would be much better |
