Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-06
Babies and the Var
Germany Had Too Many
France Had Too Few
The League and Eugenics
Justitying Newberry
Lamb Who Was Trimmed

ing with loud voice in the republic.
For militarism, babies are the raw material
of war; "cannon fodder" as the Germans
called them.
The trouble with the baby theory of war is
that you can never strike that happy balance
of fertility among peoples which will insure
peace Otherwise all the League of Nations
would have to do would be to allot certain
number of babies to each nation yearly and
there would be no more war.
TF THERE are too many babies under this
theory they not only explain but justify
aggression.
One EXPLANATION and justification of the
attack of Germany upon the rest of Europe
was that there were so many babies IN Ger
MANY. The race pressed upon the means of
subsistence. 1t had to find room for its
babies at the expense of its neighbors. Be
side1. the Germans were more productive in
babies than France.
Therefore, from the Teuton point of view,
they were a more virile race. Therefore it
was to the best interests of humanity that
they, young and fertile, full of the energy Of
life. should sweep away the decadent races
that had possessed themselves earlier, when
they. too. had many babies, of the pleasant
nroftabe places Of the earth. Room for the
fruitful loins
As a Russian empress wrote to her i'm
hecile son, the unhappy Paul, who was ad-
miring the Italians and Italy, Don't take
them too seriously; they are only birds of
passage
TT is like the microbe theory of the war,
L namely. that the microbes which went to
make up the Gcrmans-man being but a
colony of cells mcrobes-were young, more
vigorous than the microbes that made up the
races of western Europe and the United
States Varieties of men were like varieties
of potatoes, short lived, as the life of the
race goes. The English and the French
| varieties were still carried in the scotsman s
catalogue. but the scotsman was pushing the
new two hundred hshel to the acre German
variety.
| DUT the older microbes beat the younger
ID microbes and the people with the fewer
| habies beat the people with the more numer =
Gus babies,
And now Europe is trying to prove that il
| wasn't Destiny or particularly fierce microbes
| or the Will to Live that caused the war, but
the mistakes and wickedness of William OF
| HohenzolIern, Won Bethmann -Hollweg Hin
denburg, Ludendorff, Tirpitz and many
| others.
Which. going back TO the baby theory OF
war. shows that it is not the lack of balance
among babies the world over, but the having
of few babies Of the wrong kind-the Ho
henzolern, Tirpitz, Ludendorff kind - that
causes war Either way the League of Ma
tions has nice job of eugenics on hand.
q q q
| TIME counsel for Senator Newberry, who il
on trial in Michigan for spending mort
money to become senator than the election
law allows, produced highly original iusti
fication for Mr.. Newberry's expenditure Mr.
Newberry's friends felt that Mr.. Newberr,
was to run against the best advertised maj
on earth, TO wit, Mr.. Henry Ford. There
fore they assured Mr.. Newberry that he mus
be prodgiously advertised in order to com
pete with this monster of publicity. To ad
vertise Mr.. Newberry on this scale woul
cost lot of money but Mr.. Newberry ha
the money, being, perhaps, next to his com
petitor, the richest man in Michigan. Whel
a candidate has that much money those VIII
! surround him can always find good reason