Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-16 | Page 4 | Birth Rate in Europe

HI BIRTH RATE IN 3 II EUROPE. iff? Europe's -war Is stirring all classes R utmoB endeavor and one of the flli direct results of the conflict Is a US I movement to Increase the birthrate. JmI Nowhere is this , subject receiving vffli onore attention than, in Germany. ' il Following the close of the Franco- ) III Prussian war, tho birth rate in France i'flpl eH ' B0 rapidly as to alarm the statesmen of France. Statistics now 1 1 . shovr that Germany has been on the 1 1 1 decline in birth rate, having dropped 1 1 from 40 per thousand in 1872 to 28 in 1 II j -.912. , J I Germany proposes to overcome the I ifchortcomlngs by placing a heavier tax en the bachelor and motherhood 1b to ' S j receive a pension. Germany has been fl increasing in population at the rate If'! iol approximately three-quarters of a Qm million inhabitants annually, owing to Si births, oven at the lowered rate, ex- m ceeding the deaths to that extent, but Jj Germany's neighbor on the east, the jjjj Russians, are increasing at the rate Kb pt 1,300,000 a year.