[To the Editor of TILE Svser ma.] SIR,—The letter of
Senor Raman Muniz. Lavalle, in The Spectator of August 21st, makes a reference to the Spanish peasant continually struggling against abject poverty and begetting eight or ten children who exhaust their strength as slaves of some landowner. I therefore submit that it is precisely such .high fertility which is the fundamental cause of the troubles in Spain—as in Palestine, Japan, .Chinn and m many other countries ; and that it points to the main shore- coming of the various Churches and Governments: When the useful nutrition committee of the League of Nations discovers that the world's rate of food increase cannot be' gteatly accelerated, it may begin to consider the economic, political and eugenic advantages of a small family system in the poorest • classes.—I am, Sir, yours 'respectfully, _
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