The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-01-30
Condition More Vital Than An
other War-Or Than
Ten Others.
YELLOW sPEC1ER IS SEEN
United states Looked To ~ Savior.
With National Decay ~ Wars AZ.
ermath--Middls Glass Most
Affected--6abies Fewer
In Germany.

London. well. It's not my funeral"
said the sprueely dressed young Eng
lIshman with collar of pre-war glossI-
ness, reading out the following para
graph In the corner OF London club !:
The birth rate per 1000 persons
living In England and Wales In 1918
was 1T. ms compared with 3i.l per
1000 In the ten years 1880. The
rate In Cheshire IL only 100 per 1000,
and that In London 1911. Tho end Of
the war shows no check In what Is
really national suicide.
IT'S not my funeral" he repeated.
Bnt II was.
II was not only his funeral. but per
hnps the funeral OF race. "D-n
posterty !" said the freshman. "What
has posterity ever done for mef" The
European Is saying the same
This IL no scare. II Is a fact. II Is
more vital than another European
war--or thnn ten others. II Is more
mortal than the influenza. II IN more
dangerous than mn anarchist bomb In
every street For Europe, 1t Is the
only thing TINT matters.
II Is n very old world.
Here In London nj election time we
run two giant ladders side by side up
the faec of one of our tallest buildings.
As III. results come In, the figures on
the ladders, representing the Liberal
mud tory PARTIES. race eneh ether up
al al Il ta.,it,
over Eurnpe's weary war worn
masses. two ladders nre seen to-day.
TN one IN The figure of death. On the
other, The figure Of u little rosy child,
death racing against life. Aud death
IL winning.
THE End OF the Race"
.'rhe End of the Race" current
cartoon, shows Enrope's last bnhy In
The year 1000 A halo Il shown about
us wixene,l head. Its bones show
through II, tortured skin. II l. SUR.
rounded by a,iarlng millions Of aged
Europeans Of both SEXES. the last of
their race, II Is only cartoon
HUT
If gun aud the crash of a shell we
hive forgotten the death of the great
silence.
Twenty wears ago frnncc used TO he
held up NJ Eurepe's horrible exam
ple--franee. the country where
after America. The baby was King
There are theSe who say today that
the war has completed chat the
French nation began. There are
skilled seciolaglSts who believe that
France. engs the glory ~ the old
world. Is tlNius~-ttylug because she re-
fuses 10 live. Patriotism and pride
keep closed The mouths NJ her great
men Hut Is mt toaas's Europe u
greater frnnces
Except In this one thing figures can
be- made to prove anything, tut the
mathematics of birth and death are
ln.Sorahle, There i NJ room for
inuht
Europe. 20 use pungcnt American,
ism, l. zen The tohegwan." There are
nmens a partentaus and inevitable
as that sinking FEELING before sen.
sickness. bonuses for babies" Is Eu.
ropes. Here In England We have
ALREADY raised that y q. s, France
tried II and failed. WIN Europef
The above applies 10 all classes, hut
IN the middle elass II comes with fate
ful intensity
Middle Class Most Affected.
While. with better conditions. fall
ing death rate among the working
classes has during the last M years
TO snnie extent compensated for a fall.
Ing birth rate. the accumulated fali ~
the middle class birth rate has no fall
NC death ra.a OF any kind 10 compen-