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Show GERMANY IS MADE BABYLESS BY WAR, i SAYS EXPERT Birth Rte Drop, at Alarming Alarm-ing Speed as Fatherhood Die in Trenchet. h ' By J. W. T. Mason By Speeial News Service.. .' NEW TURK. June 33 If the great war lasls two and one-half years longer, babies will disappear almost completely. In Oermany. unless the government, devises measures to check the proportionate fall in birth rates during the first, two years of war. (iermany Is facing tne greatest catastrophe ca-tastrophe thst ewrr threatened modern mod-ern nation. An slsrming decline of chitdhood Is hovering over the land at home, while th- obliteration of Germany's Ger-many's youth and rosnhood is occurring en the 'battlefields. Decay of the tierman race, because ef Insufficient replenishment from sources Inside the enuntry. Is not a fantastic dream of teermany's enemies, ene-mies, but la a dlsouietlng possibility of the future, whloh tsrrman scientists have been ordered by the government '- mvssllgsia ,. During IHlii. tierniian ninns ren o Je per cent beljw the record for 1U. the vear the war began), and according to fignrea which have Just succeeded In passing the Oerman censor, the decline de-cline In ll was aboet 4 per cent under the 1S14 figures. The same steady fall Iri births, at the rate of ! per cent additional yearly, would make the decline 1 per cent at ' the end of wllb the practical dis appearance of babies from liermany. It Is not certain, as a matter of absolute abso-lute fact, whether this blight upos future fu-ture Oerman humanity would be wholly nempiete. for Oerman etatlstlcs refer not to small country villages, but to cities of 15.000 or over. It la possible the birthrate has not fallen so extensively in the grirul-tursl grirul-tursl districts: but If not. this Is due in a large excess of Illegitimate births. Russian prisoners if war are being ex-' ex-' tenstvely used to supply the ssr'a deficit de-ficit of agricultural laborers In tier-manv. tier-manv. and these are understood In have usurped ths places of husbands of Uerinan peasant women, who In many cases actually assisted In the capture of the Russians. The Herman governing class realises there Is no future for tlermarty If It has to depend for its coming man power upon such unions ss these. Ways must he devised to keep the cities well supplied with lusty youngsters If Oermany Oer-many Is to play even a secondary psrt in the world. Oirmany hss lost 1.200 000 in dead since the beginning of the war. and r.oo.ooo In men so latdly Injured ss te be useless for serious work when war ends. About XO0.009 Oerman youths reach military age yearly. Decline by JO per cent of Germsn births In lll. means that 30 years theresfter. there will only 040.000 tier-mans tier-mans of military age; and decline of 40 per rent of births In 1910, means that In III no more than 4110.000 tier-mans tier-mans will he reedy for the army. To the 1.700.000 Hermans killed or permanently Injured since beginning of war. must be added 480.000 potential soldiers, who disappeared from the future fu-ture armv 4-nlls In t1S and 101 through NOT HAVING ltKKN BORN. Militarism cannot exist without manpower: man-power: and there can be no adequate manpower for Oermany with births declining de-clining In anything like the present pro-pert pro-pert ion. ' The birth decline. In fact. Is the third great movement working to overthrow the Prussian militarist rulers the two others lieing growth of democrsey -within Oermany and pleasure ef the allied arsMes) outsMe, (ermart sociologists and governments! governmen-ts! professors are holding conferences throughout the empire, trying to devise de-vise ways or restoring a normal member mem-ber of blithe but. to the present, without with-out success. The government Is ready to orrer V4lJlSJJfir " wards to parents of large fauiilics. but tterman scientists are convinced this isTOway to tweerTne problem. The encourage large families smong the few who are willing to undertake the necessary sacrifice and responsibility responsi-bility ts far less important than to persuade the great middle class families fami-lies of Oermany to do their share to-ward to-ward keeping Germany populated by contributing two or three children each. The Oermans are not willing to do this under present conditions or living, lince the Franco-Prussian war. there has been a fall, decade by decade, in the Oerman birth rate. The Increase In Oerman population has been due. during that period, to reduction in the death rate, which the government has sccompllshed by hygienic improvements improve-ments and better living conditions. Hut the present fall In the birthrate la accompanied by the greatest increase tw the death rate, due to the war, that te world has ever known. When the soldiers return home from he trenches, there will he in Improvement Improve-ment In the birth rate; hut the call now Is Ut KVKK MOItK MKN FOB THK FRONT. Kvery Oerman who Is now killed means his elimination from the total of ruture Oerman fnthers and fathers are Oerinauy'g most pressing demand for the future. THK ONLY HKAL HOLCTlnX FOB OKBMANT IK TO KM THK WAR SO THK FATHKUM OF THK FC-TCRK FC-TCRK CAN KKTI B.V 1IOMK If the war goa much longer, piling up rver Increasing future poverty for Germans, there can be no satisfactory solution even after peace is declared. For. not only will an increasing number num-ber of potential fnthers have been killed, but those who survive will be relucted! to sssume parental chow with taxes so huch and living conditions condi-tions so unsatisfactory. If the birth rate scientists report truthfully to the Kaiser, they will say Quick peace gives Oermany her only chance of meeting this new enemy st home- |