FAMILY ENDOWMENT

the steady fall in the birth-rate has given prominence to the principle of regulating salaries and wages to some extent by the number of a man’s family. For long payments for children have been made to ministers in the Wesley an Methodist church and the scheme has been introduced into one or two educational establishments. In New South Wales there is a state scheme of this kind. Employers pay a tax on the amount paid by them in wages, and this goes in allowances to those workers who have dependent children. This family endowment principle was introduced in 1927. There is in London a society for introducing something of the kind into Great Britain.