Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-06
oBY HERBERT COREY

the physical wealth Of the provinces she
would still not be safe from aggression unless her
annual crop children nearly approaches that
Germany. For years births in France have just
paired losses by death and emigration In Germany
population increasing constantly. According to
the economist Rommel, who wrote twenty years ago.
this that the experience of 1914 would inevitably
be repeated in time
eff hungry want the goods owned by
weIl-fed Frenchmen," said he "they will sooner
get This is the operation of the
natural law by which water flows down hill 1t
may monstrous-but It is true"
Therefore France is trying to discover why French
Bureaucratic efforts along the
line years past have been embalmed in unread
reports Today the writer's to have solved the
problem Their conclusions may be briefly summarized
follows:
Child bearing restricted France because of the
intense individualsm of the Frenchman
Because Women work hard here that they have
n time which children.
The cures suggested
Make IT costly fatherless Tax the 100000
bachelors of France and the spinsters and childess
couples On the other hand make the third baby
source of revenue Grant sufficiently large to
the parents of three-chid family the arrival
of the third child to be eagerly anticipated
Liberate the fathers Of more than three children
from military service and amend the laws governing
the distribution of property by will.
The ideal French marriage Of the past has the
in which the only of couple marries
only daughter OF another The girl brings dot and
the is established in. business by his father The
elders retain enough property to make their old age
comfortable In time they die and the and daugh-
ter whose menage has been increased by child
two enabled in their from business
at early This is the ambition Of the middle
Frenchman. wants become a "rentier'-a
VINO lives free of care well-founded income
1t is obvious that this pinnacle of content can be
quickly if the parental pocketbook is not
taxed to support large and hungry family.
1t might be argued that the Frenchman might
accumulate enough to satisfy this desire and still
leave his children enough to begin life on Here
meets not only the peculiar indivdualism Of Gau
but parental affection that approaches alteration
wants to make that his child will every
II law forbid
the entang of estates and requires practically
equal division of all property among the children
Bearing In mind the fact that French fortunes are
small, consider fortunes in America, and it
becomes apparent that the leave one
well fixed" would apportion only a small sum
among half dozen
The working classes governed by the same
ideals The girl may not bring dot to husband
only small one-but the newly married coupIe
work from the day of the ceremony an eye single
to that day when retirement will become possible
Not only is pinchfng economy necessary to this end
the bourgeois household does its marketing In sous
but the women work hard the men. The small
shop is managed by the woman. As goes through
France one sees the work in the fields A
Frenchwornan OF the poorer class has give
to child bearing. She is too continually busy
It may be confidently predicted then, that parlia-
will of these days action to encourage
increase in the baby crop A century ago was
discovered that exemption Of newly husbands
from military service resulted in increase of
100000 year war a daily possibiIity-it
has always been possibility of day in Europe
the canny Frenchman very often refused
himself with the responsibility wife and child 1t
may be assumed that parliament will extend the ex-
emption fathers of three children or more Those
who do not marry those who, being married
parents, will be taxed into remembering their duty
addition the third child in the French household after
the is apt to be of revenue
1--WE must make parentage profitable" the new
theory. Not relieving father of a tax but by
paying him decent annual for a rendered
the state"
Through all the columns which are being given
to these twin propag French press
runs like the red pattern war is
to come Europe does expect universal peace.
Copyright 1916 by Herbert Corey)
The middle west, in its cordial reception of
President Wilson, demonstrates that it doesn't