When M. Peret's financial proposals were discussed in the French
Chamber the proposal to forbid the sale of babies' comforters was carried by a majority of 870 to 153. The law will not come into effect for three months, so as to give manufacturers time to adjust their works to some other form of output. Few more sensible pieces of legislation have been passed by any legislature. How pleased Sir Truby King, of New Zealand, must have been when he read the news. Sir Truby King has done as much to reduce the rate of infant mortality in the British Empire as anyone, and the baby's comforter has always been anathema to him. Commenting on the debate in the French Chamber several journalists declared that the deputies should have been devoting their time " to more - important matters at this critical moment in their country's history." Many persons must wonder what more useful work the elected representatives of a nation could perform than safeguarding the lives of the coming generation !
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