It is at least desirable to press the point that no state lives to itself and no one dies to itself.

Disease knows no boundary lines of political government and the death-toll of mothers and babies does not halt at geographical limitations.

We are all one country insofar as bad social conditions are concerned.

We are all helped when any smallest country town most remote from the centres of population is raised in its social standards and conditions.

Hence, perhaps, we may not fear national aid to each locality in need or feel concerned as to what agency accomplishes a required social advance.
Ellen Key declared that every mother should be maintained by the state during the first year of every child's life and that afterward each child should have one-half its support from the state and one-half from the father.