ocial Club

aron Von Lodge was the head of a small country known as Lilliland near Switzerland. The time was the early 1900s.

At the latest count there were 82,000 people in Lilliland. That is not bad for a country of 320 square miles between the large Castle Lake and the majestic Alpine Mountains.

But his chief advisor mentioned to the Baron that there was an alarming lack of balance between the number of citizens who were men and who were women. Nature provided it to be near a 50-50 balance. The latest figures showed that there were 10 percent more women than men in Lilliland.

The Baron wanted to know why and how this trend could be corrected. The Professor said that many young men had gone off to the university in France, Germany or England but after graduation did not return to Lilliland.

The Professor noted that with so many more women in the population there was reported more husband stealing by the single women and more men had a mistress or two. These were not good sociological signs, the Professor noted. Family stability was important to a stable society.

The Professor and the Baron along with Lady Angela of Alpine Castle all studied the problem.

They developed a ten-year plan to correct the population imbalance. First, they would make all government jobs more attractive and would offer low tuition scholarships if the students promised to return home.

All the people were advised of the population problem and were asked to help toward a solution.

One additional request was for low cost housing for the newly started families.

The biggest change would be the establishment of a social club for all the citizens who wanted to meet members of the opposite gender in a very lovely setting. Dances, dinners and parties were all free to the citizens of Lilliland. Everyone really liked that idea and it attracted large crowds and worked out very well.

“Everything should be as attractive for the citizens as we make it for the visitors who vacation in Lilliland,” the Baron stated.

After the ten-year plan reached its end, the new population census was improved greatly, the difference being only two percent. That made everyone happy and everything had returned to normal.