10 MAY 1940, Page 17

THE COST OF MARRIAGE

Sta,—Mr. G. H. Gretton says that TM let population be checked by the misery of those who raise large families" is a Malthusian precept. He errs. The precept of Malthus and the Neo- Malthusians was that couples should not have more children than they can provide for—because, he and they contended, otherwise population would be checked by the poverty in most of the large