New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 23, 1915, Page 6

AN BIRTH RATE IS FALLING OFF ty Formed to Bolster Pop- ulation Decline pondence of The Associated Press.) lin, Nov. 10.—With the formal gtion. on October 18, of the jsthe Gesellschaft fur Bevoelke- [Politik,”” roughly translated, the jpian Society for Population In- Py’ the efforts of a relatively 'body of men to check the de- P, that has been noticable in the %, birthrate for more than forty ave at last won widespread jnition. Face Retrogression. N&s taken the war, with its ter- jiproads on the pick of German d, to bring thousands to a on of the soundness of the ‘of the few—that the birthrate empire ig going backward, and fter the war, Germany faces the ssion that has been going on e if something is not done. new society, which informally been in existence for three 8, has mapped out very definite te plans ‘for combatting the Increasing childlessness of the fation. These plans include a amount of ‘legislation which ptly is app¥éyed By nearly all 8, and an educatidnal program ledical and pedagogical circles. . Revise Taxation, B ‘legislation .includes a revision xation schedules which shall an equal burden upon the family and the bachelor so that the will be “literally driven into fiony.” It .includes ‘“‘mother- fremiums™ infended to counter- economic difficulty of bring- ldren into the world, and the ). of supporting them. @reat importance in the eyes of olinders of the new society, the ifontemplate: a -regulation of ¥ so rigid that the present ten- gto sterility, admittedly great, § sreatly lessened, especially ken in corjunction with the tion toward .earlier marriage, 4t is hoped, can be brought .. The society. counts on a cam- _to decrease.the training period ades and professions so that men will bécome mioney earners h earlier time, and upon educa- The Standard Remedy 'l Relieves Constipation Easily Without Griping or Diseemfort. 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Only the social demo- cratic party, of all the many parties in the empire, has not gone on record 1« in favor of most or all of the de- tailed plans, and only certain labor circles, who fear that increased popu- lation means lowered wages eventu- ally, have not taken up cudgels in behalf of the society. The originator of the movement may be said to be Prof. Julius Wolf, one of the most distinguished and I widely known economists of Ger- many ,formerly of the faculty of the University of Breaslau and now at the Technical High school of Berlin. He is president of the new organiza- tion. Russia’s gigantic increase in popu- lation, the tremenodus fertility of its people, induced him many years | medical, |ago to begin studying the population problem. He devoted more and more time to it as he came to realize how strong a tendency Germany showed to follow in the same footsteps. His ideas became increasingly radical as he found that Germany's Dbirthrate had dropped from 40.7 per thousand in 1870 to 28.5 in 1911, and was still decreasing. Gradually he has gathered around him a group of the most eminent ' scientific ,and pedagogical men from every part of Germany, who form the nucleus of the hew so- ciety. He has written much on the subject, but he has worked in other and more practical ways, and has in- terested the legislative forces on which he feels he must reply to pro- ceed practically. The society proposes, first of all, a revision of direct taxation. If marriage is to increase, it believes, bachelors must be “literally drivea into it.” And to drive them into it, they must be made to pay a tax equal to that paid by the man of an aver- age family. They now pay about the game direct tax, and their advantago ¥France had gone backward, and how | To Women in Need of a tonic and corrective, there is no rem- edy so helpful as a natural one. 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In recognition ,however, that an injustice can easily be worked if gen- eral conditions, especially working conditions, remain the same as at present ,the society looks forward to a readjustment of the existing ap- prenticeship and training periods through which workmen and profes- sional men now have to. go. Th! readjustment may have to be legisl: tive, it may come voluntarily in many cases. In the one way or the other the society holds, it must be made possible for the young man to earn a livelihood at an earlier age than heretofore ,and hence to marry earl- Mr. Coffee Bean Seems to be having a hard e him of caffeine, a powerful, habit-forming ‘drug, but without time of it these days. has been found out. 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Ten days” trial of Postum has shown many the sure way out of coffee troubles, “There’s a Reason’ —sold by Grocers everywhere. = Send 26 stamp for 5-cup sample of Postum. Postum Cereal Company, Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. ier. Prof. Wolf is also a champlon of the ‘“‘motherhood pension system’ now in vogue in Australia. He wouid have the state offer 300 or 400 marks to the mother who gives birth to a fifth child, and some other sum for each additional bab: He very frank- ly calls the system ‘“bribery,” but believes it would be effcctive bribery, and that the money would be the deciding weight in the scales when the question should come up of Whether another child could be af- forded or not. Prof. Wolf counts on the effective- ness of a universal campaign by doc- tors and teachers, ministers, priests, for earlier marriages, though this applies largely to the country dis- tricts ,and especially to Catholic sec- tions where the influence of the priest is great. Considering the rigid regulation of disease, Prof. Wolf points out that at present the German man marries, 22 the average ,at the late age of Minimize Disease. He proposes to minimize disease by registration of the diseased, and the quarantining the disease spreaders. “Though the war has opened pco- THE VERY LATEST VARIATION OF THE TALL CHAPEAU of A tall crown of black pressed beav- er, with a rather wide brim af black | velvet and a rakish bow of novelty ribbon overhanging, sives this popu- lar effect. ~This hat is both modish and serviceable- i indemnity which will do much to re- lieve any possible economic stress. On the other there is the possibility that we shall have new territory with its fertile population to aid in build- ing up that of the Empire as a whole.” The new 000 a year, and not at the Russian increase of 14,000,000 annually. “It is in that direction that the dan- ple’s eyes to the need of checking the German decrease in the birthrate,” said Prof. Wolf, “I do not personal- | ly believe that it, alone, will have a | ger lies. We are too closely approxi- serious effect. | mating France, standing still while “The German population of 70 out Slav neighbor grows by leaps and millions is roughly divided into 33,- bounds. France, in my opinion, is 00,000 men and 500,000 women. slowly but surely sinking back to a Iven if our losses are very heavy at position something like that of the end, say a million dead, there Spain, a second rate power. We do | 4 still remain 32,500,000 men, a large not want to do the same thing. | like the roster of all the distinguished proportion of them capable of being “The outcome of the war naturally | medical, legal, pedogogical and scien- fathers. The decrease will go on can have a very far-reaching effect tific men of Germany. The first three unless we look deeper than the war on the whole problem. If we were are represented by the three vice- for its causes. conceivably to lose, there is no doubt Dpresidents, Dr. Dippe, President of “That it has not been greater ' that the economic results would make the German Physicians’ Association due solely to an even larger decrease it difficult to carry out our plans. If, of Leipsic: Prof. Dr. Georg von Mayr, in the death rate, so that the situation . on the other hand, we win, as of | former imperial under secretary of has looked rosier than it actually is. course I believe we shall, the plans | state, to Munich: and Doctor of Laws People have been too prone to look 'are infinitely easier of execution. von Strauss and Torney, president of at the net increase in population, | “There is to be considered on one'the Senate of the Prussian Adminis- which has been stationary at 800,—!side that. we probably shall get an trative Supreme Court of Berlin. has established headquarters at Kurfuerstendamm 45, Berlin. Its directorate reads society | | | i - At 1 S Woodruff's Thanks- ving Week We offer you a nice line of Fresh New Nuts Mlxedes 1 15¢ i Inut: Egleh Valnie 20c Paper Shell Almonds ....lb 25c Fancy Florida Oranges, sweet and Juicy 35¢, 40c and 50c doz. 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