18 JUNE 1942, Page 4

What to me is a new, and certainly a very

interesting, point o view on the question of family allowances has just been put befo me. I commit myself to no final judgement on it, but it obviously deserves consideration. What we are suffering from, it is submitt is not merely the childless but the one-child family ; parents s lavish care and money on their first-born that they feel they cam) afford a second-born. Therefore, so runs the argument, let the State give no allowance for the first child, which parents ought t be able to support without help, but 5s. for the second, perha 7s. 6d. for the third and possibly graduate the subsidy still further There seem to me to be attractive features about this.

Pa.tus.