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Show ONE OF WAR'S DANGERS With the Old World launching herself into a war that may cause the different nations to settle down to systematic and modern methods of killing each other off, the white race is acting true to numerous predictions. European scholars have spent considerable time lately calculating the life expectancy ex-pectancy of Europe's civilization, and some predict its end in a very limited number of years. Equipped with a collection of well-chosen facts these men are now able to present convincing con-vincing arguments to support their predictions. Dr. Charles Iiichet of France, sees, within the next 100 years, a tired, war-weakened Europe falling easily before advancing hordes of colored people. By that time, he says, the yellow and brown races in Asia will have increased to a point where their continent will no longer hold them; and because be-cause there is .nothing else to do they will sweep down over Europe and wipe out both the white nations and their civilization civili-zation by sheer force of numbers. He points out that after the death rate has been balanced off there are still 350 Chinese babies for every 43 German, 19 English, and 15 French infants. In 10 years, according to his calculations, tho Mongoloids in Eurasia will have recorded a population gain of 140,000,000 while the whites in Europe will have increased in-creased in the same time only 20,000,000. Add such a comparative com-parative increase to the 450,000,000 Chinese and 350,000,000 Hindus who already exist and it is not hard to believe that there may be a real peril in what Dr. Richet forecasts. A German, Dr. Frederich Burgdoerfer, sees the same threat against the( European whites and their institutions. He sees both Europe and Asia packed to the bursting point with people and believes that after the inevitable period of expansion and reallotment of the earth's land the Orientals may dominate our globe. Neither the Chinese nor the Hindus have adopted, to any great degree, science and medicine as a means of battling disease and other hazards of life. They still rely on their fertility to produce faster than epidemics can kill, and they are getting farther ahead all the time. While the whites are reducing the birth rate all over the world as a poor means of solving the problem of overpopulation (which probably does not really exist) or as an alleged means of improving the race, the Orientals are still increasing at a rapid rate. Dr. Burgdoerfer speaks of the yellows and the browns as the inferiors of the whites. This is taking far too much for granted. But even if we do consider the white man superior to all others, nature may not do so- She doesn't judge by the same standard as we do. If the whites continue con-tinue to slaughter each other and disregard nature's minimum mini-mum rate of reproduction, she won't save them because they have the tallest buildings and the most automobiles. Europe i ' has more important problems to solve than those arising t from potty national jealousies and land grabbing. She may still cherish the illusion that the United States will again come to the rescue and rake her chestnuts out of the fire. ; We devoutly hope that the "lesson" we learned by getting into the World war will be taken to heart by us but we are j not at all sanguine on this subject. You know we were i tricked before by those alien-minded internationalists. They are smarter than we are. At least they are more unscrupulous. unscrupu-lous. Our very anxiety to stay out might again force us in. Pathfinder. |