Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-02-25
Condition More Vital. Than An
other War-0r Than
Ten Others.
YELLOW SPECTER IS seen.
United States Looked To as Savior,
With National. Decay as Vars Aft
i ermath-Middle Glass Most
Affected-Babies Fewer
ia Germany.

llSnlnan WITH Il cOllur OI pfc-WdI SlUSSl-
ness, reading out the following para
graph in the corner of London club:
1.-THE birth rate per 1000 persons
living in England and Wales In 1918
was TT, as compared with 34.1 per
1000 in the ten years 1880. The
rate in Cheshire is only 1919 per 1000,
and that in London 1871. The end of
the war shows no check in what is
really national suicide.
TITS not my funeral" he repeated.
But it was
1t was not only his funeral, but per-
haps the funeral of race. "D-n
posterity!" said the Irishman. "What
has posterity ever done for me?" The
European is saying the same.
This is no scare. It is fact. tits
more vital than another European
war-or than ten others. It is more
mortal than the influenza 1t is more
dangerous than an anarchist bomb in
every street. For Europe, it is the
only thing that matters.
It; is a very old world.
Here in London at election time we
run two giant ladders side by side up
the face of one of our tallest buildings.
AS the results come in, the figures on,
the ladders, representing the Liberal
and tory parties, race each other up
the building. Rearing their height
over Europe's weary war worn
masses, two ladders are seen today.
;e oF IN khca
other, the figure of a little rosy child,
death racing against life And death
is winning.
"The End of the Race"
8 1.-THE End Of the Race" a current
cartoon, shows Europe's last baby in
the year 1000 A halo is shown about
Its wizened head. Its bones show
through its tortured skin. It is sur.
rounded by adoring millions Of aged
Europeans Of both sexes, the last of
their race. It is only cartoons,
But?
IN the death that comes in the roar
ofa gun and the crash Of a shell we
have forgotten the death Of the great.
silence. !. $500 1893 go s: lE
Twenty years ago France used to be
held up as sEurope's horrible exam
ple-France, the country where,
after America. the baby was king.
There are those Who say today that
the war has completed what the
French nation an n j There are:
skilled sociologists who believe that
France, once s.the glory Of the old
world, is dying dying because she re-
fuses to live. Patriotism and pride
keep closed the mouths of her great
men. But is not today's Europe
greater France?
Except in this one thing figures can
be made to prove anything. But the
mathematics of birth and death are
inexorable. There is no room for
doubt.
Europe, to use a pungent American
ism, is ION the toboggan." There are
omens as portentous and inevitable
as that sinking feeling before sea-
sickness. Bonuses for babies is Eu-
y ropes. Here in England we have
already raised that S. 0. S. France.
tried it and failed. Will Europe?
The above applies I'd all classes, but.
to the middle class it comes with fate
full intensity.
Middle Glass Most Affected.
While, with better conditions, fall
ing death rate among the working
classes has during the last 80 years
to some extent. compensated for fall.
ing birth rate, the accentuated fall of
the middle class birth rate has no fall
Z ing death rate of any kind to compen-
safe. prominent medical man has
Just written in the Times: "What we
are witnessing is the death of the mid
die Glass; 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 1t could not. Are we going to
see Europe given over to the working
4 class? And then? .51
The once great middle class, in It's
last struggle for survival, will be
forced into one Of two things; either
a to sell out and go over bodily to or
ganized. labor, or to form a European
middle. class trade union, both for Of
Tense and defense. It will say to
Europe: IF you want doctors, law.
yers. clergymen, you must pay for It,
or we won't serve you.' Z
But Europe, alas! IS beginning to
do without the clergyman. The state
lawyer is beginning to supplant the
private practitioner. Only the doctor
isI. left, and he, poor devil, IS being
nlationalized under national health reg
& 1lere I'll ENGLAND the middle class
fannil feur or Ave has become
two a three. dical men, without
exception, are united in their opinion
that during the past ten years the
birth rate Of that class has been going
headlong 70 sperdit ion. as