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Show I1 Evanston to solve problem Dr. Elliot : complains about by giving every baby f a bank account. Race sulcldo has been tarred and feathered and ridden on a rati out , of Evanston. ? 111. 'Henceforth In : that aristocratic 'suburb of Chicago : babies arc to be welcomed. ''not only with oncn arms, but,, with a bank account; n "When Charles WEIlot, president I f emorltus of Harvard University, rc-j, rc-j, cently attacked the' college bred ri men arid women becauso they were j not producing enough children to keep up the population of the coun-;- try, Evanston tqofc the rebuff to . heart, for it Is pre-eminently a col-2 col-2 lege graduatcs's town. Men don't nsplre to live there unless they hap- pen to have plenty of money. t Is '' nlso a center of culture and cduca- tion. Others who call tho city their i voting place reached, it' without as-' as-' plring. ' A few years ago the census tak-'j tak-'j ers passed through the town and . counted something less than 30.-Q00 30.-Q00 inhabitants. Tho town, is growing, grow-ing, but the growth is due to Immigration Im-migration from other places rather ! than because of the arrival of ltt-' ltt-' tie Evanstonitcs. Several Evanstonians looked up ; the debit and credit sides of the ledger and found that Dr. Ellot might be thinking of them when he told of the Bmall families of the educated. And while these wise ! men were wondering how to go f about it to bring up the birth rate ; the Stato Bank of Evanston, through Its president, William A. : Dyche, caused to be Issued a state-i state-i ; ment, "that hereafter all children "born in Evanston would be born with a bank book In their hands." As soon as the parents chose a name f for tho youngster the bank prom- ij 5: isod it would enter opposite that . ' child's name a credit of $1 In real u! money. The pass book would then $ J bo sent to the baby. All are not ,i educated. The bank account might Jj ! not n.ttract those with mqpey.. but i.- it certainly would' bring a smile of ?, ' joy to the more lowly. The book Is 1 1 a guarantee that the child will start 'A life with a bank account some-4 some-4 ; t thing his parents never had. The '"1 1 i money In tho bank Is on interest i , until the newly born Jbccomcs of i ! t age. '.The bankor also Invited the pail pa-il i r rents of the child tc make an an- niial deposit In some bank In Evans- ; ton. It was suggested that If as K many dollars were deposited each year as the child was years old I , there would be a neat sum In the jj I PHOT0.6RAPMS BYX 2? fcank for him by the time ho bc- came of ago. 1 The officials of tha bank even went so far as to announce that . they believed tho Jbank account would have a tendency to make the path of tho stork to Evanston cas- jjjj ier. They announced that the bird j? would not only stop at the houses of the poor, but the richer ones j would becomo envious of tho largo ' families next door and the stork ,J! would be Invited to slop at tho j! . houses of the wealthy and edu- ;j cated. $ i- Evanston Is not the only place to jj 4 take warning from r Dr. Kllot'u ns- J, sortlons. In Orange County, Cak. g 1 they heard about the Boston man's , fipecch. Some time after that news j came to the office of the Board of g ; Supervisors of Orange County to g! j tho effect thnt three boys were jjf born to Mr. nnd Mrs. Otto Sum- mors of tho San Joaquin ranch. KJ V Tho news moved one of the supcr- p ti visors to eloquence and the rest of jj! -j the supervisors to tears. 3 ' SUPERVISORS OFFER S100 FOR TRIPLI3TS. $ ; "Such things ought to meet with i: our Immediate approval,' declared I tho eloquent supervisor to tho weeping ones. "I move that wo yj:, vote $100 to ihc patriotic Sum- ft mors family and long may they I live and prosper. Also long may the triplets prosper." Tho money was voted and tho board also wont on record as favoring fa-voring the granting of $100 to every familyN in Orange County which might produco triplets. Dr. Eliot's reference to the raco sulcldo of tho rich and cultured men was as follows: "Wo have come through tho period pe-riod of Immigration pretty safoly. There ha3 been no destruction of our Ideals by the Immigrants. "They have lived up to and cherished them, demonstrating that in. tho United States tho Improvement Improve-ment of the Immigrant races has chlolly and best taken place. "Xone of tho Industries aro here today that were sixty years ago. Trades arc different and the factory fac-tory system has been established. This uystcm Is destructlvq io the worker, and ll never will be possl-blo possl-blo to make it safe. "It has brought out an extraordinary extraor-dinary development of our Industries Indus-tries aud munufacturles, but at expense ex-pense of great results to tho physical phys-ical condition of tho factory and workers, who nro the Immigrants and their children. "If men of -public spirit, of foresight fore-sight and Intelligence do noi find the remedy 1 foresee a terrible '. .. ' v physical and moral degeneracy, already al-ready visible, within tho next 10.0 years, similar to that existing in the English factory cities today. AVc must struggle against It. 'The family life and family discipline dis-cipline has greatly changed. The children of the rich do not attend the public schools; they are educated edu-cated In boarding and private schools. EARLY FAMILIES HAD DOZEN" BABIES. "The early families were large, numbering from ten to twelve children. chil-dren. It is said that 1.000 Harvard graduates and their wives will not reproduce families to equal thorn-selves thorn-selves in tho next fifty yean?." Mr. Eliot predicted natlvo Americans Amer-icans would be outnumbered In 100 years by children of Immigrants because be-cause of race suicide. The declining birth rate in somo points has become a cause of grave anxiety to tho authorities. The situation is so serious that a birth rate commission has been appointed to look into the matter in Great Britain. At a recent meeting of the Scottish Council of Public Morals, the cause of the dcpllnc was attributed at-tributed to the high standard of living, the love of pleasure, and tho higher education of women. The London correspondent says; "An organization termed the National Na-tional Council of Morals has appointed ap-pointed a birthrate commission to report on the declining birthrate. The chairman of. the commission is Bishop Lloyd Carpenter, and the members aro composed of well known clergymen, physicians and social workers. Tho inquiry is to be made in four directions: "First, the extent and character of the decline are to be considered under such headings as tho present British birth rate and infantile mortality, mor-tality, general and classified accord- |