The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-02-06
Europe's Drop in Birth
Rate Causes a Scare


just written in the Times: 'What we
are witnessing is the death Of the mid
die class" Upon the coffin Of that
class will be inscribed the epitaph: "A
class that died because it could not
live Not because it would not. but
because il could not. Are we going to
see Europe given over to the working
class? And then?
The once great middle class. in it's
last struggle for survival. will be
forced into one Of two things: either
TO sell out and go over bodily to or.
g,nized labor. or to form European
middle class trade union. both for Of
tense and defense. 1t will say I"
Europe: If YOU want doctors. law
yers. clersymen. you must pay for it.
or we won't serve YOU"
Sut Europe. alas. is beginning I"
do without the clergyman. The state
lawyer is beginning to snpplant the
private practitioner. Only the doctor
is left and he. poor devil. is 'eing
nationalizeu under national health reg
ulationS.
Here in England the middle class
family Of four ar five has become
two or three Medical men. without
exception. are united in their ~pinf"n
! that during the past ten years the
birth rate Of that class has been going
headlong to per1ition.
Now come the figures of the mar.
riage age. published few days ago.
| Between 191l-l4 50 per cent of all
bachelors married: N 1917 only 3'.t
per cent In 1SS6-?0 80 per cent mar.
ricd. The proportion Of bachelors VINO
marry mt over thrty-tive mas beer
steadily rising with swift upward
climb in 1916 and 1917. Only 34.>
per cent Of spinSters marrying during
1917 were under twenty-five years o.
age.
Among the middle classes the age i
rising nj an alarming pace. II look
rs though within Il cnmparatlEe'.
short time here III England the md
de class will with the Increased a@
of marriage. give to the race on
those Stunted specimens OF ch1lu iii
when are 81 Often. lNVlsi l''1 N'""'
! the fruit Of hate unions.
I, is significant chat no single pei
son has come forward ~ contest III
above, I; cannot be contested. "
nrp looking ON the passing OF Gas
, Mcnhcrs of parliament are hes''
a ming to sit up and take note
I Babies Fewer in Germany, Even.
Even Germany. the nursery ut T.
: rope, which produced its million hah1'
|, Mt tn, bidding Of the war lord
food for his cannonS. is fast depop
!. latine. The war has done this. 1!
Germans of the cities refuse I" ma
r children. "We cannot feed them
e they say. I'VE cannot even feed OF
- selves"
During the war the German rrott
70 sorS sn,emnly debated no'ygnmy as
n remedy, Some Of them approved
Q, But Germany is no Utah and Rer
=. no Salt Lake City. Today's Fa'h
IT land is strictly Homogeneous. Ec'
he o,nv is the father of morality. I
re modern German finds 1t hard enou
NJ 10 keep one wife. He does not WI
y" half dozen.
~ For ten years before the war f
lie land. like the rest If Europe, had
III gun to yield herself t" the p!eas'
craze, With the war and that fral
desire to forget which became G
m that craze passed into frenzy. Tod
he over IL months after the war.
re music halls and picture palaces
or crowded to the doors. l have IN
the experiment of listening t" the
m versn,ion Of II couples of BUSH
ire girls in the early trans and buses.
hle this number no fewer than ii used
ca EXPRESSION: "Where are YOU going
Gu mighty" bnt what has all this to
I'VE witt, the birth rate?
ice Everything. Pleasure to the Engl
man, as to the European. has bee
but y narcotic as essential as tobacco
tie alcohol. Pleasure costs money. II
IRE exces>ful means Selfi>hness. Pl
ure means effort and effort abs
.u- vitality. Pleasure means the bre,
of the home. The modern Eurol
.,,s ms to choose between pleasure
~, children. He chooses pleasure.
~ The Unborn Suffers.
ALL Then comes me COST III 'i''hs.
,ep- Europeans nightmare. The war