Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-14
EUROPE'S FUTURE POPULATION
BY FREDERIC ]. HAsKIN.

them The great American psychologist, William,
James, believed this stimulating effect of war; and
in his volume THE Will Believe he gives an i'm
pressive nations and peoples that nave done
great things face of threatened or partial oe-
sruction. is a striking fact that religious scots
which have been prosecuted and bounded ABOUT the
earth nearly always people of unusual qualities
The Huguenots ,Puritans and the Waldenses, are
we'll known examples.
quickening of the spiritual life of nation by
may traced to extent throughout history.
In a short assert the miltarsts. nation works
the fat and sloh accumulated by years OF
industry its spiritual qualities are awakened and its
natonalism intensified. The pacificsts reply to this
is that has brutalizinS well as STIMULATING Ell
fects and that above ALL its rewards cannot possibly
be worth the terrific price being paid in the present
struggle.
There many kinds of to the nations engaged
besides actually killed field of battle The
of this probably exaggerated in
the mind Of the average American it has been in
the utterances of host of amateur and professional
pacificists. Thus the losses of Germany have been
placed high 100000 This is extreme esti-
mate in the first place In the second place includes
wounded and prisoners. The wounded include many
who only slightly injured, and comparatively
small proportion who are injured for life. Many Of
the prisoners. of course not injured at all Some
military experts say that actual loss of life
Germany is so far less than million men. This is
probably mot more than or cent of the of
the nation. If more than 80 cent remain to per-
petuate the race, it cannot suffer immensely from
this cause alone
But it must also be taken into that the
is meantime being propagated largely by the
cent the aged and the unfit left
enjoying the opportunities marriage and family
life while the strongest trenches Then
too, who back from the will be victims
of what the scientists call is
the effect the system terrific shock
of the modern machinery battle. scientists
of high standing expressed the belief that this
nervous shock will be apparent many generations
These are Of unknown factors in the situa-
ton and it remains be what effect they will
have on the future of the European race.
question to be faced after the war
by all of the combatan nations will superfuity Of
women. Always little numerous than the man.
they will soon be many millions in excess One Orien-
tai philosopher has suggested egalized polygamy an
the solution of the difficulty This of course is out OF
the question in Christian nations some scientists
admit that it might be better than the unIegalized
polygamy which is sure in degree result Thus
it is believed by observers that a large number
of women unprotected by marriage will be one Of
England's great problems.
others. however. a bright side to the picture
Arnold the English novelist that be-
of the keen competition for men, only the very
finest women will achieve marriage Thus best OF
the will be perpetuated and the effect of a
shortage of ht will be somewhat ameliorated by
a superfuity of fit women.
One gain for already very noticeable is that
they are taking part in many occupations hitherto
monopolized by The opportunity to work which
is the fundamental need of modern woman, and the
lack of which is the basis of all restessness has
undoubtedly been broadened by war. -
A canvass all of the opinions of the learned
leaves conviction that the will leave the Eu
ropeans a people in many senses impaired, and win
doubtless send to America share of MANNED and
fit but it undoubtedly spiritual moral
values; these, within fact already have
been-felt across the Atlantic.