The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-03-25
DEBASING MOTHERHOOD
U. B. w. Gardiner in the Worlds Work
 for February)

many of increasing her population for war purposes has been answered in many ways. The first, in order of time, was the author
 ized and systematic ravishing of the women of Belgium and of France and the sending of the offspring from this official and bestial 1ebauchery into Germany, to form part ot the future defense of the Fatherland"
 The deportation of the men of Belgium is another phase. These men will, of course never return If Germany can prevent 1t, and so will constitute an effective increase in the male population. But they will either <olun- tarily or through compulsion form some sort of liaison with the surplus women of Ger many and produce offspring which will ill twenty years be available fodder for powder As the excess of Germany's female popula
 tion is now great and will be still greater after the war. this will prove ready means for providing for this surplus.
 We next find the German references to the so-called lateral marriages. There are hundreds of thousands of young women ia Germany capable of bearing children, who are at present unattached because of the ab sence of their husbands at the front. To German efficiency this is a waste of human material God would not have endowed wo flan with such an important function ii it had not been intended that she should use it. And to what better use than for the fatherland: Therefore Germany proposes a 'lateraP' marriage. A man, married or u1l- married-it is inmaterial- only if married he must get his wifes perrnisSion-iS encouraged by the government to form temporary union with one of the neglected women (who must also obtain her husbands consent) whose con- sort is at war This alliance is to last until la child is born, when 1t automatically is to cease, the child being retained either by the mother or sent to an institution to be reared that he may form unit in the future national defense. It is an admirable German scheme, quite typical of the German mind which sui
 fers agony at the sight of anything idle which lis susceptible of use.
 The next development concerned the wo men who have been widowed through the war and the men who have been so crippled las to be of no further use in the war. The Iburgomasters of various German towns have been instructed to obtain list of all war widows in the districts controlled by them and also list of the cripples Advertise ments are then to be placed in papers known to be read by women generally, for wives for the deserving cripples. Thus, playing the role of Cupid, the government will bring to- gether Venus and Adonis, and, as is stated in official instructions, sow the seeds of a new generation which will, in the fulness of its manhood, take upon its shoulders the ma tional defense. a
 It is somewhat difficult for us to con- ceive how, in this enlightened age, sup posedly civilized nation can SO foul the beauty of motherhood, so depreciate the great moral val1e of its wOmanhOOd as to turn the whole community into an official human stock farm by making simply brood animals out of its women. It is an indication of the moral slough into which Germany has descended, so that we need no longer wonder either at the crimes committed by the German soldiery against the women of Belgium and France, or of the complete breakdown of German morality. W | WILSON WINS