Show STATE PAYS BABY BONUS TO NATIVES IME VESt i Birth Control Advocates Have Shock Coming In InI I South Pacific LONDON May By 19 19 By The Tho As- As Associated As Associated Pre Press s Theros Thero's Theres There's a healthy shock waiting birth control advocates advocates cates In far tar away Papua In the Pacific ocean north of ot Australia The natives of ot this thriving Ing com com- community com com- community community appear never to have been bothered about birth control for tor forthe forthe I Ithe the most popular gO government reg- reg reg regulation down there at present Is a ai I baby bonus tor for native nathe women Col J II P Murray lieuten ant governor of ot Papua recently In London explained in an Interview Intel the methods which have been adopted by the Papuan Patman authorities to make malte it the best regulated and most Industrious of ot the South Sea protectorates SUCCESSFUL PLAN PLAX He says that under a of baby bonus It if a native e woman has haa tour four our children living hung her ber husbands husband's tax Is remitted The mother re- re receives re receives a bonus ot of five fite shillings with an extra all allowance 0 ance for one cac additional child The Int Intention of ot the baby bonus Is not however to show contempt for tor the birth control advocates but Is Intended to hold up the mother of ot a large family as a per per- person person per person son of ot distinction in the tho lIIa tillage e The old nath native e idea was to despise the mother of ot many children lIdren Thc Tho officials set a about bout to change the tho ailing thought and the recent census report would toni ten I to show that they ha have hate e I started In the right OLD IDE mr mrS IDES S S WRONG Colonel Murrays Murray's report on the Industry and thrift of ot the tho natives explodes another theory of the life ot of the South Seas as being one long rest beneath palm trees with dark skin skinned nod maidens ho In InI inthe inI I the background I This impression e evidently Is quite Incorrect and e even eten en the ten ten- tendency ten tendency dency of ot the native nathe toward to a lit lit- little littie lit little tle tie cannibalism and head hunting has gh given gien en way ay under tinder the tho influence Influence ence of o the British officials to more peaceful pursuits of ot farming and road rOld making I A native natie of ot Pa Papua ua must not only keep his village clean repair and rebuild his house housa front from Um to time as directed by the go got gOern em- em emment em ern eminent ment and make and repair roods roads but hol ho must also gather gother cocoanuts or rice mice and pay a tax In addition he has to fish and andI I hunt and cultivate his own garden gardenIn In order to plo for the ants of himself and his family Under I these regulations the tribe tribes ot of the district have been changed change 1 from idle idie and warlike nath natives es Into hon hen honest hon est est |