Education and Agriculture 



These home-making centres should be deve- 

 loped throughout the country with as little 

 loss of time as possible. The ideal is certainly 

 to have the home-making centre in a separate 

 building, but much of the practical work done 

 there could be carried out in an ordinary class- 

 room. 



Extreme Socialists maintain that in the present 

 development of civilization the family system 

 has failed, that, as a whole, parents are not 

 capable of looking after their children properly, 

 and that therefore the State must step in and 

 more and more assume the role of " over parent." 

 They advance as evidence of their contention 

 the statement that 14 out of every 50 babies 

 are stillborn, and that only about 13 of the 50 

 are brought up in ways in the least fitting for 

 the future citizens of the country. 



A disastrous wave of socialism is bound to 

 come, unless it can be shown that it is possible 

 to reform the evils that have crept into the 

 "family system" with the development of the 

 present civilization. And there is only one 

 way of reforming the " family system " — by 

 teaching the girls the duties and responsi- 

 bilities of motherhood and training them to be 

 efficient housewives. 



A large class of children is now brought 

 up in a greater or lesser degree by the State. 

 I refer to destitute children — some 235,000 in 



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