El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-01
Selling Of Russian Provinces
May Remote Russian
Menace Is Belief.
GERMAN BLRTHS
BECOME SCARCE
Efforts To Increase tie Birth
Rate Fail and GoDem-
ment Is Worried.

DEHLIN, Germany, April THE ne
ccssity Of working for very ma
- terial increase Of population nov
as wen as after the war is being en-
phasizcd an over Germany.
Like gigantic storm cloud, the rap
I'D growth Of the population in Russia
is looming up iu front or The German
people dimmnE their view Of a pros
porous and glorious future.
For many years German economists
haVc observed with increasing anxiety
that while tho birth rate remains salts
factouly high i'm the eastern provinces
OF Germany. that is TO say in the parts
inhabited largely by Poles and other
-lav races. hostile TO German and par
ticularly TO Prussian Tule, tha Germans
themselves are slowly becoming bar
rem and that among the educated
Glasses Che birth rate is almost as low
as iu France.
In recent article privy councillor
Mas won Grubcr proves thar 81 the end
0f tho prcscuh century Germany nc
cOrdmr TO present indications, will
taVc e. pouulation of barely 90,000O00
while Russia win have at least $780,
1Un.rCo
Vrsi Take Rrssinu Provinces.
As al attempts To increase the birth
ratio iu Germany have proved futile and
as 30 is apt 10 show further decline
Daring the many years Of hard times
which must follow the war. he declares
that the only way i'm which the threat
ened danger may be averted viii be by
taking away from Russia Finland. the
Baltic provinces. Lithuanias Poland,
Ecssara 1ia and the Ukraine.
DC this is done, Russia viii lose 49,
100000 people and viii be forced to turn
her desire for expansion towards the
east
II is a question Of the children, Of the
boys, Of the soldiers of the future, and
it is easily understood how the calcu-
latious OF Won Gruber, supported by
wealth of arguments. must strike terror
into the hearts OF the Germans, who
hitherto. because OF their higher birth
rate. have maintained their superiority
over The French and who. because Of
their military proves. have had no
reason 10 fear the Russians.
Russln's Birth Rate Increases.
Now Russia's military strength is in
crcasing with the increase of child
births. The last few months warfare
have proved that discipline and order
armies. The Russian people have real
lied what this means 20 their country,
and there is no doubt that they win
take the lesson TO heart
This must inevitably mean that the
Russian army viii i'm a very few years
become stronger and more formidable
than the German. and the reason Of
GermanT's tpresent aim I'm the war-an
NuIoIdnlc peace WIN me western pow
crs and "a weakening Of Eussia-be-
comes perfectly clear.
Herr Won Gruber shows that I'm the
year 500 there were in European Rus
STA and Finland only $4,000. 900 people.
I'm 1850 tho number had increased 20
over 100000. in $40. to nearly 49,
900. 900.
in 1880 he SAYS. So 100000 Of Germans
viii face 10000. 600 Russians and at the
end Of The century the figures will be
go 100000 and 300,00O.O00. respectively.
This means that Russia viii be the
greatest military power in the world, IL
She goes out Of this war unweakened.
Must Increase Births.
The future population policy is be
ing eagerly discussed all over the coun-
try. u is clear to everybody that. even
IN the Russian giant is knocked down. |
DE viii arise again. and that the peril /
from the east viii Increase every year.
il is absolutely necessary. therefore, TO /
create a very much greater surplus OF I
births. 10 populate Germany as densely /
as iu any way possible and 30 may even
now he taken for granted hat imme- /
iiatcly after the war material privi- !
.eges viii be granted TO the fathers of 4
large families as il is already being
lone in France, while bachelors viii be 1
heavily taxed.