CANADA: Racing Mothers

While the U. S. Congress was kicking over its traces, refusing to pass the Sales Tax (see p. 12), Ontario's Legislature moved last week to snatch a rich reward from the fruitful mothers of Toronto. On Oct. 31, 1926 wealthy Charles Millar of Toronto died without heirs and left his $500,000 estate in trust for that Ontario mother who should bear the greatest num-ber of children between the date of his death and midnight Oct. 31, 1936.

Ontario women went to work. Indefatigable Mrs. Henry Brown and Mrs. Grace Bagnato have brought forth steadily,...