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Show I I CHILDREN OF UTAH. An evil of the times is the avoidance of motherhood. It is an offense against society that tends to sap the strength of a nation. $3ut the women of Utah arc not among the guilty as the census report re-port for 1918 proves. There were born in Utah, in 191S, 14,478 children, or 32 to each 1000 of population, Utah being credited. with 450,000. I This, we are informed, exceeds every other state in the birth registration reg-istration area, the nearest being Rhode Island with 26 per thousand, v Utah, at this rate of birth, should be growing rapidly. The jlcath rate is not one-third of the births. At the close of the Franco-Prussian war -France and Germany vere nearly equal in population. Then France neglected the essential essen-tial of home building and fewer children came into the lives of j&Yench parents. The result was that when Germany again attacked in 1914, the kaiser had back of him 08.000,000 people and the republic re-public had less than 38,000,000.v The difference had become so great that had France been left to stand alone, the beating down of opposition op-position "would have been an easy task for the prolific men of Teutonic Teu-tonic blood. Fifty years of disregard of the commandment to multiply may bring to America Ihe same distressing weakness disclosed in France, 6nd there may be no ally to help make up the deficiency in man power, i For instance, if Japan goes on observing the rule of reproduction reproduc-tion and continues to increase and America ceases to have large families, in half a century the Japanese may be in position to seriously serious-ly menace this nation. t Utah, in child'birth, is setting a good example for the rest of the c'ountry. |