Show 00 ENDLESS CHAIN Western Europe's population p In- In Increased increased creased six millions between 1910 H and 1920 despite Its loss of ot about 20 million lives In connection with the war and Spanish Influenza This fact announced by mortAl mortal- mortality Ity statisticians shows that nature e already has more mor than restored Eu- Eu Europe Europe rope to normal In the th matter of Its human life most important loss human loss This of o course will not noticeable until the babies bable young children ot of o the present gro grow to manhood manhood and womanhood Right Richt now floe there th r a 1 snort over Hover there age ac of grown men France checks up and finds that thai last year last year It had 75 1 births against deaths This Thit was a population gain earn of close to i with sith the birth and death rates al- al almost al- al almost most Identically the same as they the were In 1913 But Frances France's population is In In- In Increasing creasing so slowly that her mill mill- tary heads beads are worried They have not forgotten that In it Inthe inthe the 50 years before the world war Germanys Germany's population nearly dou- dou doubled doubled doubled bled while Frances France's showed very ver little mUe increase Frances France's nightmare Is the Ger- Ger German Ger man cradle In the early days of the war France began beean to have more deaths death than births Austria found itself In Inthe Inthe Inthe the same fix in 1915 Del Belgium glUm in 1916 1 Germany in 1917 and Italy in ID 1918 HI The Th only Important European warring country that did not fall faU to diminishing populatIOn during the war v was as England It had more mor births than deaths all through the th war though the sur stir surplus plus of ot births over deaths dropped from in 1913 to as a's as low as in ID 1918 HIS The figure in 1922 had crawled up to The British will come back rapidly In n the matter of man po- po po- po po er er Their death rate in the last 0 0 years has bas been reduced from 17 for each cach thousand to 1 13 Watch the birth and death sta sta- sta- sta statistics statistics if it you want to keep close tab on the situation The militarists still control Europe and concessions in the direction of peace also their degree decree of In In- In In on war preparations are regulated by the supply of avail avail- available available available able cannon fodder as compared with the enemy's The bah baby in its cradle represents the foremost armament |