"An Expediency"

Concerning Mr. Lennane's quotations about the effect of birth control on health, she said it was accepted "in medical circles" that it was not. Anyway, she thought that lunacy would be better than a family of 13 children which would lead to more certain lunacy. As for the negative's statements on morals they were arguing from the point of view of Western philosy about Asiatic thought. Mr. Lennane might enthuse about Chinese grandfathers with happy grandchildren about their knees, but he must realise that "the case rested with youth, not with grandfathers." Why must we live in the past?" With no sound attitude to birth control the negative coupled no solution to Asia's problems. Finally, birth control was not the permanent essential solution-it was "an expediency" to deal with the present.

Miss Munro spoke very well for a new speaker.

Petite Pauline Hoskins, another new speaker, spoke as if speaking was very natural to her. She quoted a Latin-American proverb: "The table of the poor is meagre—but the bed of misery is fertile," to illustrate her thesis that hunger increased population, and so increased problems of population pressure on space. In this case Asia's.