[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—In case you have'
not yet seen the pamphlet entitled An Outline of Practical Eugenic Policy, just issued by the Council of the Eugenics Education Society, I should like to draw your attention to the paragraph headed " Family Allowances," which runs, " In order to promote the fertility Of superior types the principle should be affirmed whenever schemes are proposed, either national or sectional in scope, that the benefit recovered per child should be directly propor- tional to the scale of earnings of the parents." This does not seem to be in accordance with Mr. Julian liuxley's recent assurance that " not even the most out-and-Out Eugenist
imagines the correlation of social and economic status with eugenic value to be more than small."—I am, Sir, Whitley, Coventry.
HAROLD W. H. HELBY.
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