Beaver County News | 1919-05-14 | Page 2 | Plan to Endow Motherhood

PLAN TO ENDOW MOTHERHOOD British Family Endowment Committee Seeks to Increase Marriage and Birth Rate. ' London. The family endowment committee would endow motherhood. The proposal, as laid before the na tional birth-rate commission, is thai the state provide a regular weekly income in-come for families with children uitdel 15 years of age. Emile Burns, representative of the family endowment committee, contends con-tends that the effect of the endowment would be to induce earlier marriages and tend to remove the economic restriction re-striction of the birth rate. The cost to the government would be about $1,200,000,000 a year.