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22 © THE BIRTHS IN SWEDE SHOWING DECLINE Due to Adoption of Two- Child System. BY F. A. MACKE! 10 The Star and ( STOCKHOLM. December 25 Sweden now has the Jowest birth rate world. Recent statistical re show the birth hs 000 ta 109,000, eement that this | leption of the two-child | Swedish particu 1 the great ci ks which touche lowest ZIE. ) Dails Newe, rnest Hoeijer recently | eh lowest in B ed by Denmark. Norway Sweden's death vat on a level with o Still Declining. laves that not h rate now but that it with astound usually con s Dirth | tanced by will declining zer continue to birth rate dur ration. reaching out 7. lining and stabilizing at th rate controversy is lead sublicists o advocate a luce Swed Canada a n order to colo I elsewhere to controversy is run debates upon the ieve unemployment. Sweden’s figures on unemployment show about 10.000 jobless in the § mer and 20,000 in the Winter. present method sists of finding state work for able- ed men, rather than putting them on dole. in England. § here desire the adoption hing approaching the dole | he government probably will roduce a measure in the Riksdag i early date f The rance, probably by subsidizing the | ‘”V“'wrvn\ ment inds of trade union: This method, h is stron, posed by the conservative pre The Svenska Dagbladet s torially Our edi powerful the general public trade unions to support want urem- ! verse, inimical to any change, and de- | cidealy Rate Now Lowest in World [\win. in all probability. be | | | vou | tion, and rise superior to these heset ting difficulties. essayed that is [ there will he a and | peace and concor i cial reunions. A boy 1 at on time in danger number of minor fancy vill be careful jance declined | lhm will need more than usual care on : . i i statistician of will be quiet and easily amenable to in- | fluence [ tempt to force an i |ever, | with mo What Tomorrow Means to You unt de. fles, which pit the Thi; lomatically I tomorrow e the are | the er. 000,000 | | vou love vour <h emigrants | ze their own | i of public relief con- | 'SHOP WINDOWS IN PARIS I THEATERS FOR CHILDREN unemployment | ¥ op- | | mnd never Y »th vou to snay; Well | date are man a states; | organist Bartlett President | Belmont Christmas Senson Changed Display t caused by their monopolistic | - e policy. The propos le them to continue their offensive wage question, therehy ShL 1995, BE hicaso Dails Neas ¢ ineniployment NEGRO COLLEGE FRATS WILL MEET FOR PARLEY Four Greek L' ter Bnd)et and Two Sororities to Assemble Be- fore January 1 plan will Dece montl By thr A her 26.—The last men and women in s parts of the United es. representing for o Greek ollege fraternities and two Alpha York City ireek letter par ters for - | rallings of the wind \ r tul century minuet, elec hea ow find several hun-' | Tbeen. some of the pla ‘Little Red Riding } the called out to watch over the children. |LONDON STAGE REVERTS il By t ma and Alpha < will meet ines and Kap respec Washing tions i work STINNES’ MAUSOLEU M PROJECT ABANDONED ' Break Up of Thwart Pians to Erect $500.000 Tomb in Ruhr. Fortune December 26 & an impe mausoleum in the Ruhr mausoleum. desizned hy ay. Colozne hitec $300,000 and was intended nble the Hotel des Invalides, e the tomb of Na seven massive r structure topped by In front of the building c s were planned in three tiers “The whole to be symbolic of coal and water power. the foundations of the Stinnes fortune. inally the site was intended by tinnes for an imposing coun ience. The war and the infla n period forced him to abandon the Now the break-up of the for- thwarted the mausolenm Miss Olive Chinese the fivst rapher China PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS = 5% Compounded Semi-Annually Young, an American zirl of Kansas City. Mo.. is zirl motion picture photos to start producing films in Commencing January 1, 1926 Assets Over $10,500,000 Surplus $1,000,000 Cor. 11th & E Sts. NW. JAMES BERRY, JOSHUA W. CARR, President Sec'y. L Chel the v | Lena tions of Chekov The break- |and many at nnes comhinations | thusiastic a Englishmen, in ning to estimate Rus ing discount the Russi everything 1 adily 0 patient tures, EHARITY BUDGETS -~ REVEAL BIG GAIN | Cincinnati and Mlnneapohs magnify \ e, whic, at atherand more pro | Lead in Per Capita Gifts You must assert your determina- | in Campaigns. . BY MARY BLAKE. Cayricorn. planetary ave. aspects quite omorrow’s il late in the afternoon, unfavorable for travel. There sensed x ve to quarrel, and to No work should he out of the or y. In the signs ind pirit of which should insure in all family or so- cvening iated Prese. > CITY, December 26,—Of n cities which are giving In- nz amounts to consolidated char- idgets, the milk of human kind- ness seems (o prevail most abun- dantly in Minneapolis and Cincinnati, althoush there is a chance for di- vergence of opinion, as various stand- ¥ be applied. subscribed * most per to ephilanthropic insti- from all sources, including revenue, and Cincinnati led in voluntary gifts per capita to its com will | munity “chest. = Cleveland, however, all | had the largest chest pledze—S- hiladelphia, with pledges thg next largest. Figures Are Published. res were made availahle the American Associ: mmunity Orzanizations and | City Council of Soclal | . By the Asp harmony. rrow will,"although suffer from a Iments in his in- he will need, however alimentation and vigil on the other hand, will healthy and strong, rn tomo All tha A girl as an infant, ey wutions will be similar In disposition, They Their quietness, however ceeptance of any or they will pos: strong e. more or less, bound have thelr own wav. 5. however, will he accomplished and without any blatant lay of obstinacy. is vour you eminently tactful ver sas subscribed drive, tent and generaliy t which you wish ardent disciple of theory that “more flies are caught s than with vinegar.” You in the best acceptation of energetic, courageous hoth and mentally, and, with it neinnati caplta in the entire popuiation. Minpeapolis wis shown o have do nated from public revenues and pri- | vate sources a far greater sum from | every person - $14.84-—while Paul was oniy siightly behind, with $14.39, vour great Will pew-fand Kansas Gity, Mo., third. with obliging. Buffalo was listed as fourth iriends very fwith $12.91. and Des Molnes fifth, with 1% you are | $4.31 per| hased on its | patiently pers shre term sically nd in spite of are always affable an of course. make and are well liked avs on the level and abhove hoard hester. N. Y. followed Cinein- | stoop 1o tricks in order 1o nati in donations (0 the community in your ends. charity bod at the rate of onr tastes are very domestic. and [$3 per per nd was third, home more than any | gjvy; 89, and San Francisco fourth er pluce on earth. You are kind|iip A and never expect the im ible. either vour r children U listen to re never » judgments known persons born on that Jeremiah Clemens, states- d author: William E. Cha 2 an; Benjamin J. 1. planist, and composer: Homer N composer row Wilson of the United States: Perry tali bsrizht Plan Is Popular. The popularity of the community | chest plan. which concentrates chari- ties campaizns into one grand crash | and gets it over. was attested by tha increasing number of cities which have adopted it. In twelve months ! cuding May .31, 1925, the association sovs, 26 citiex adopted the plan and held their first campaign The amount raised by 206 nity, chests and welfare _federations | (the Jatter has only a slightly differant | meaning from the former) in the same | period was reported at $53,500.000. Deductinz the amount raised by the there was an increase | 634 in the amount raised in the amount the association asked ‘for more in 1924, 33 for and 1§ for the same amount The community chests. for the most part. are for approved charities with- ont reference o race or religion Each philanthropie orzanization is ap vortioned a share of the proceeds | from an annual campaizn for popular | subscriptions. o trom You are on and make coramu- | raised in 192 zhty-one citi Places to Tiny Stages for L Crowds of Youngsters. the Ascociated Prese December 26 son this changed windows of the hiz 1 tment stores into improms; children. Wooden and rope were t up on the siae of women anc iried shows The €hrist | BRITONS URGE EéONOMY. t LONPON. December 26 (). Brit ish business men have taken John | Bull by the ears and have been try-| inT toecoax him into the garden of | cconomy, are demandins the | conduet ot rnment affairs on a strictiy b ss basis. | A delegation from the Association of British Chambers of Commerce re- cently had a conference with Winston | Churehill. chancellor of the excheque and urged closer scrntiny of the ernment expenditure. The chamber | members are agreed that adoption of the business accountipg system in all | state departments is the only effective means of eliminating waste. Mr. Churchill agreed to give the suggzes tions every consideration The opposition press has been claim ing that the government has been spending money with hoth hands ana intimating that the public may have to face yet heavier taxes in the next budget jren filed past the v liniature mechani: costumes executing an eighteenth ie railway trains pattern. ieddy pective s and tonishing lighting erywhere. ies invented new ed old stories like travel onder showinz dolls n w the most elaborat rs as big ers, armies of ht colors and 2 were seen vlets or dramati different scenes of nas. Sunday the erowds that squads of policemen were were so TO ITS OLD FAVORITES Chekov Back in Popularity; Russian “Soul” Now Discounted. he Associatad Press ONDON, December 2% kov and Shakespeare ar ed amount of attention on stage this Winter. Three recently runnini , and Cheke erry Orchar < in suburban in the heart of and Shakespeare 1 Exquisite Dinner Rings There is limithess latitude for the display of origina the designing of these rings— and we show many beautiful examples of personally selected rings at the fairest prices. that many 18-Karat \\hllfl(-nld Dinner \tergoers are evidently longing for Rings, sef with viety of diet, with the result that [| zood size I'lmnmnds $75 Up Others in Pure Platioam 390.00 ‘Ashwell's players in various e o, £h ae 53 Ihsen. claiming and revues ost of the plays and the old Vic and Cheko more attention "find the English produc- very unsatisfactory nglish crities are unen- t them. One critic re- tly commented on the “Sea Guil” sture of futility Rus s nglo-Saxon actors are unable et (hr\kn\ s0 that audiences ions. Bur disposition now in rope to discount the claim s to a special sort of soul. are begin- ccord- to their own stan ‘MURCO”, The Lifelong Paint E. J. Murphy Co. 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