The Marriage of Town and Country
It would be strange if many of the improvisations to which we have resorted under stress of war did not teach us much that could be of value in peace-time. Mr. Malcolm MacDonald suggests that the evacuation of children from town to country should be the basis for a scheme after the war for taking children periodically into the open air of the countryside. In the same way he suggests that just as now 3,000 expectant mothers are taken every month °tit of London to fully equipped maternity homes in the reception areas, so also after the war mothers should be taken away to peace and quiet before child-birth: He spoke of the community dining rooms which in some districts—alas, by no means in all—are bringing strangers from bombed towns into friendly relations with the local residentr. Such institu hon.% should not disappear when the war ir ovei
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