Show BERLINS BERLIN'S EMPTY CRADLES Whenever a Frenchman contemplated contemplated plated his mighty neighbor on the theother other side of the Rhine It always gave hIm the shivers on think of the tho low birth rate In France com compared pared with the very hIgh one In Germany To his way ay of thinking Germany Was producing three fu fu- future ture soldiers to every one France was rearing and the outlook was In In- deed bleak But the latest about Ber- Ber Berlin Berho lin ho the continents continent's biggest capital hould give gh-e Frenchmen heart of hope Berlin like all the rest of the world Is feeling the pinch oC ef the high cost of living and the scarcity of houses The result Is that the birth rate has been stead stead- steadily Ily dropping Not Kot only the that deaths have exceeded the births In other words as one German put it U if It were not for the Influx of from outside Berlin would be a dying town Every year Would see Is growing smaller and smaller Its It's th the old story repeated In Ber Ber- Berun un lin as In Pa Paris Js and London and andeV New V e York Life LICe Is so hard and so In the great capItals that small families or no families are becoming the rule The cities recruit their fresh population from outside |