Show 1 U 7 S leads in high rate of man mari tage facts are brought out in international survey SAN FRANCISCO the united states is the most marrying na tion in the world according to an international survey just completed here without legislative promotion premiums subsidies and other means employed by some european Eui countries to encourage marriage and raise birth rates the marriage rate in the united states for a num her ber of years has been a little in ex cess of 10 per 1000 1 of population the survey shows in the meantime germany s mar nage rate has shrunk from 11 1 per 1000 1 of population in 1934 to 9 1 in 1937 the austrian rate is 6 5 per 1 and the czecho slovakian rate before the country s dismember ment merit was 8 3 in italy where a bachelor bachelors s taxis tax is imposed to spur marriage and baby bonuses to encourage it its former marriage rate of 6 7 in 1935 has in creased to 8 6 other governmental measures to increase the birth rate holever hov ever have not been so bucce success Ss ful in fact the birth rate is stead ily decreasing from a peak rate of 29 7 in the period it dropped to 22 7 in 1937 in the two great democracies of europe england and france the marriage rate in the former is 8 6 per 1000 an increase in recent years bears while that of france shows a decline to 6 6 per cent the latter is regarded to be due largely to un favorably economic conditions the united states still maintains a relatively high birth rate being 17 9 in 1938 compared to a rate of 22 5 during the 1921 25 period while all other countries show a decline in birth rate since the 1921 25 period the united states is still exceeded by japan with a birth rate of about 20 per 1000 1 germany 18 8 and italy 22 4 austria and the now dismembered czecho slovakia showed the lo 10 est rates slightly above 13 per i L of population |