The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-08
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Il have Just been appointed SO Il
have made no definite plans. But IN
a general way shall commence by
dividing the country into regions and
these regions into groups. For 1t is
we'll known that very often economic
reasons might almost say geo.
graphic enter into the question of
births. The populations of certain
countries are VIGOROUSLY more fer
tile than the populations OF others.
That may be mere coincidence, but It
must be noted and investigated.
Next | shall study the divers
causes of the low birth rate. These
may be divided into three general
heads: Economical, mora. and social.
And while It is too early to be posi-
tive, am. inclined to believe the two
last are the important ones.
while one hesitates to make a
sweeping accusation, the mental atti-
tude OF woman has something to do
with the case in hand. Still. there
are childless couples who would hon
estly like to have children. But 1t is
the social cause which offers the
strangest features, for while logically
one would look for few children
among the poor and many among the
rich. the reverse is only too apparent
ly the case. While the poor contrib
ute largely to the population, the
well-to-do contribute next to nothing.
But shan't anticipate shall pre-
sent my report as a purely scientific
document. It will be the work OF sew
eral years. shall put into 1t the
best that It in me, with strict Impair
tiality, for consider the research the
GROWING act Of my life."
The fact that Charles Benoist, one
of the biggest men in the Academy OF
Moral and Political Sciences, consid-
ers this work the most important, by
far. OF his career, shows how serious
France realizes her small birth rate
to be.
The scientist has read Theodore
Roosevelt on "Race-Suicide" and con-
siders the work highly instructive.
"a really honest woman has no
need to follow the fashion" declared
i Nine. Gabrielle Moyse, a prominent
4 French feminist who has embarked
upon campaign to rid one class OF
4 women from the tyranical oppression
of another.
Women are the greatest oppressors
i of women she declared. Spring,
! summer, autumn, winter, thousands
I upon thousands of poor work girls are
kept sewing night and day, fguratlve
Nv under the lash of her more FORUM
i ate sisters, the fashionable rich. The
i, latter wait until the last moment te
order their dresses, then demand theil
j, almost Immediately delivery.
every woman of conscience should
order her clothes long before they
are needed. Furthermore an honest
woman doesn't need to follow the
I STYLES. She wastes a lot OF time 90
, ing so. A new dress interferes witt
freedom Of movement In 1T one can
not be very comfortable. Let us cint
more and longer to our old dresses
and let our principle aim In life Dc
labor instead Of love.
some day women will come to re
gard their dresses just as one regards
architecture. The ancient building j
considered the loveliest while somt
, structures are manifestly too new.
II 'If women would wear simpler
/. dresses which suit their complexion
J and hold on more to their so-calie'
old ones, working girls would no
/ have to labor far into the night al
. they do now. Instead there would o.
: easier hours and steadier work all TIM
q year round for them.
. Bullet In His Head.
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