Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-05-07

MARRIAGE POOL
NOW PROPOSED
<Only Solution of Greatest So
cial Problem Today, Prof.
Carnot Says.
APPLIES WAR LESSONS

PARIS, May The startling pro-
posal that an international marriage
pool be formed to provide for the re-
populatipg of Europe and the salvation
of the white races Of the earth Is made
by Prof. Paul Carnot, famous member
Of the faculty of medicine OF the Uni
versity OF Paris.
Europe, he declared, has a surplus Of
millions of women for whom there
never will be husbands unless some ar
rsngement can be made to have them
marry outside their own countries.
The whole future of the white race,
he asserted, is bound up in the problem.
THE last census figures" said DR..
Carnot, showed q great surplus or
Seales over females in the United States
, I'VE have millions Of surplus women
Then why not a Franco-American
bureau to facilitate the marriage OF
American men with the girls Of France,
where the war left such a shortage Of
menI
why not a Franco-Argentina bu
bureau, a Franco-Australian bureaui In
short, why not a great international bu-
reau where each country may make
known its human needs and provide ia
cilities for courtship and eventual mar
riage?
I'VE, on the allied side, pooled our
supplies of munitions to win the war.
I'VE pooled our shipping, we pooled
our finances and finally we pooled our
men.
is there, then, any reason why we
white races of the world should not pool
their greatest Of all productive resources
so that civilization itself may not perish?
MORE IMPORTANT
THAN BOUNDARIES.
Supreme councils and ambassa doris,
councils and prime ministers and foreign
ministers are sitting up nights discuss
ing territorial boundaries and the rates
Of exchange, but they are actually doing
nothing to solve the greatest social prob
lem that has confronted the world since
Christ was born-the question of what TO
do with the millions Of manageable
young women who are destined to repair
the wars human wastage, but who find
no husbands awaiting them.
Il call it a social problem, but the
whole future Of Europe and the whole
future Of the white race is bound up in
IL TO such an extent that territorial and
financial questions are enthusiastically
small
an the far east, in China and Japan,
hordes OF yellow people are constantly
multiplying until We hear talk OF
yellow peril that will inundate white
civilization.
CITES DECREASES
IN BIRTH RATES.
"In the United States and other civil
lized countries that suffered little loss Of
man power in the war the birthrate is
~Salling OF and apparently nothing is be-
ing done about it.
Europe. staggering TO her feet from
the wounds Of war, confronts a prob
lem Of repopulation with an excess of
between 100000 and 100000 women
over men.
II have suggested the recruiting OF
volunteer army of maternity, an organi-
ration Of women who would agree to
rear babies TO repopulate devastated
Europe, to help France back to her feet.
II have even urged that governments
recognize the right Of woman maternity
outside matrimony and for these sug-
gestions I have been attacked and called
a free lover
y am not.
Il an merely cognizant Of the great
problem confronting the white races of
the world
when I made these suggestions
had no hope that they would be
adopted.
'sThe world is not far enough advanced
yet for that.
But 1 see no reason why there should
not be organized at once an interna-
tiOnal marriage bureau whereby a coun-
try like the United States, with q large
surplus Of would-be husbands, can not
carry on satisfactory negotiations with
another country. Ike France with q
surplus OF would-be brides"