Show Large Families With many American homes wonder wonder- wonderIng wonder wonder-I wondering I Ing Ins what this coming winter will wUl bring I to us In the tho way of ot prices In food tood rents renta and clothing costs a sociologist asks us to bear in mind the diminishing young and nd that if 1 America desires to continue as a first rate power she must forget torget j I the tho Ideal two child family and raise i ia IQ ia a Q brood of ot four tour It seems that as our I a population grows gron less lesa and our force torce I weaker tho only solution of regaining the I position of ot one of the boss nations is isby Isby isby by increasing tho birth rate Many of our readers will wUl voice an objection to to I tho the sociologists opinion There are many many I largo large families around here and they are arean areAn arean an asset to our community Not so easy for parents to hold them together I not so 80 easy cosy to make the great number of ot sacrifices 9 necessary to raise this family but up they spring to become becom a credit to their training and their par par- Those who have reared one or two children had their own worries but not GO so many of or them as the ones facing tho four-child four household Perhaps this scares cares our modern young married ml couples for seldom do they marry and anticipate a family of ot four children It seems seem gen gen- generally generally generally that the fewer the better This may not come from purely selfish elfish rea rea- reasons reasons sons IOns but due to an economical situa tion They tell teU us that through wars epidemics expansion and unfitness the problem of at our diminishing young oung is 1 a iv areal areal real problem |