The Prescott daily news., 1920-01-28
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 Birth rate per 1000 persons n England and Wai&s in 1918 ss compared with al.1 per s tns ten years 1s51-eo. The
 fNsshlre is only 19.9 per 1000,
 in London 16.1. The end of r shows no check In what is 1ational suicide.
 ! Sot my funeral" he repeated. ik was.
 15s not only his funeral, but per 4ke funeral of a race. "D-n IF !' said the Irishman. What ferity ever done for me7' The tSp Is saying the same.
 \ no scare. It Is . fact. ItisI yItal than another European >r than ten others. It is more fhan the influenza. It Is more rons than an anarchist bomb in skreet. For Europe. 1t is the tAing that matters.
 | very old world.
 s in London at election time we xo giant ladders side by side up Rce of one of our tallest buildings. e results come in, the figures on adders. representing the Liberal 5iy parties, race each other up nnding. Rearing their height Durope's weary. war worn [, two ladders are seen today. Se is the figure of death. On the the figure of little rosy child, racing against life. And death |niIng.
 1The End of the Race"
 10 End of the Race," a current nn. shows Europe's last baby in IT 2,00O. A halo is shown about Vlzened head. Its bones show h It's tortured skin. It is sur. ed by adoring millions of aged eans of both sexes, the last of race. It is only a cartoon. the death that comes in the roar gun and the crash of shell we forgotten the death of the great |enty years ago France used to be up as Europe's horrible exam France, the country where, America, the baby was king. are those who say today that war has completed what the h nation began. There are sociologists who believe that Ee once the glory of the old IS dying-dying because she re to live. Patriotism and pride closed the mouths of her great But is not today's Europe er France?
 eept in this one thing figures can ade to prove anything. But the ematics of birth and death are mole. There is no room for :ope' to use pungent American s Ion the toboggan." There are as portentous and Inevitable nat sinking feeling before sea- ess. Bonuses for babies" Is Flu
 Here in England we have " raised that S. o. S. France Y and failed. Will Europe7 X aDove applies to all classes, but middle class 1t comes with fate Density.
 M'ddle Class Most Affected. le, with better conditions, a fall oealn rate among the working nas during the last 30 years ne extent compensated for a fall n rate, the accentuated fall of ''oale class birth rate has no fall '.n rate of any kind to compen- 4 prominent medical man has 'tten in the Times: "What we .'nesslng is the death of the mid 'uss Upon the coffin of that 1'a De inscribed the epitaph "A @at died because 1t could not NOT because it would not, but se II could not, Are we going to 'ope given over to the working And then? ! once great middle class, in it's ausgie for survival, will be 'a'o one of two things; either ~. and go over bodily to or
 ,aoor, or to form d European s'sss trade union, both for of
 wy qefense. IL will say to
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