The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-07-01
PARIS JoTTINGS.
Paul LeroyBeaulieu Appeals to French
men on Birth Rate.

Paris, June 29.--Paul Leroy Beaulieu
the eminent French economist, has issued
a striking appeal to Frenehmen and
French women, in which he points out
the grave danger OF the depopulation and
the Standardization of France by the
reduced birth rate. Last year the deaths
exceeded the births in France by almost
$4,000, and the total number OF births in
1911 was 1858. 900 less than the annual
birth rate during the second period of
the second empire.
NJ. Leroy Beauleu declares that the
drop in the French birth rate is immoral,
due to the universal wish to limit the
family to the minimum. 1t is not alone
due to the fear of the expense Of bring
ing up children, but also, he claims. to
the pure egotsm of married couples,
who do not wish to be bothered by the
rearing of infants.
The economist has several remedies for
what he considers very threatening sit
uation for the future of France. First,
he thinks it is absolutely necessary to
teach the Frenchman that the normal
family should include not fewer than
three children This teaching should be-
gin in the schools. both public and de-
nominational, so that it may be propa-
gated as truth essential to the main
tenance of the nation
Furthermore, he favors the adoption
of a law, to be applied without eXcep-
ton providing that no persons shall hoA
public positions or be eligible for gov
eminent employment of any kind unless
they have three children The need oil.
the third child-that is what must be
insisted upon throughout France, NJ. Lee
roy Beaulieu declares. He estimates that
OF the average ten marriages usually one
or two bring forth no children, while
the remaining couples content themselves
with either one or two children.
As an additional encouragement. the
economist recommends the establish
ment of system of state premiums.
The sum of 800, in his opinion. should
be given for each third infant, as well
as for each additional infant This
premium should be distributed ire
spective of the fortune of the parents,
and millionaires should receive it as well
as the poor. He estimates that 100000
900 per year would be the cost to the
state of carrying out this plan He be-
lieyes that these, premiums, if they did
not increase the birth rate, would GER
tainly hinder it from falling, and consid-
ers it very much better to spend the ma
tional money in this way than to distrib-
ute it in old age pensions.
1t is better, he says to suppress the
pensions and have $4,000 to
60, 900 more births per year, for the sal
walton of France demands that the coun-
try shall be populated.
Mulai ,Hafid, the sultan OF Morocco.
who recently left Fez for Rabat. has
a reputation as a poet in the Moham
medan world and is also recognized as
a writer on philosophy His best known
poem has recently been translated into
Spanish by Senior Ricardo Baetsa.
The sultan starts by confessing his
with life. Translated |
literally. this portion of his song reads.
From the heights to which fate has
borne me, see naught but human heads !
servilely bowed. So high am | placed !
that my hand outstretched could not |
any other hand, any friendly |
hand. Then he reverts to the happy |
epoch when as a simple camel driver he
loved the beautiful Bedouin girl Aneisc
and her alone. To-day, surrounded with |
riches and honors, wearied with pleasure, |
the sultan sadly meditates upon the ir-
revocable past and upon his first love.
Then, advancing to more impersonal |
subjects. the sultan writes:
Patience! Fate whispers to me. And |
while expectant that the star of an
cient days shall shine again, resplen
dent. over our heads, | still shall add |
pearls. more and more pearls, to the |
regalia of Islam; and may |
the keen edge of the sword of ven-
geance open to us at the propitious
hour the road to the final triumph! |
Night sings my songs in secret to-day; |
but tomorrow they shall be intoned |
in the broad light, freely, gloriously!p
The inference is taken to be that he |
hopes one day, not distant, to shake
off the yoke, or the protectorate of
the foreigner, and to reconquer his in
dependence as the cherif of the Moors.