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Show Life and Death Clock to Impress People of Berlin Every live minutes-, the steel hammer ham-mer of a great clock In IVrlln tolls nine strokes, Indicating that nine babies are born on (in average during dur-ing this period In (lermany. A big double-bulbed hour glass beside the bell turns over every five minutes to remind people that seven j Hermans have died while the nine babies were being born. The clock has been built to suggest, sug-gest, In more emphatic fashion than the usual timepiece, the eternal change between life and death-and to Impress upon Germans the dangers dan-gers of a falling birthrate. Pear-1 son's Weekly. |