The trade unions have not been wholly pleased with this discrimination in favor of fathers and mothers.

They work for the strict equalization of wages.

The national need for more children of strength and health, however, and the effect of low wages upon mothers and upon infant life have led to this social measure.
Surely, this is a way not wholly unreasonable by which a society can help pay for the children it demands.
=The Endowment of Mothers.=--In England, a different plan has been developed, although not yet applied.

_A Proposal for the National Endowment of Motherhood_, advocated by K.D.Courtney, H.N.

Brailsford, Eleanor F.Rathbone, A.Maude Royden, Mary Stocks, Elinor Burns, and Emilie Burns, has been published.