The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-17
The Incubation of War.
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 The ingenious schemes which the German Nazis have evolved for penalizing cebacy. for getting young women back from industry and into domestic service or into homes of their and for putting premiums big families all inspired by one ambition That is to raise the birth rate and n- crease the population. Most of the devices employed 50 far, like direct loans from the State to young couples for the establishment and furnishing of their homes have Been designed to appeal to the poorer classes; but substantial deductions from income-tax payments are now offered to relatively affluent married couples for each child up to five that they bring into the world These are not at fixed rate like the American allowances for dependents" which offer no inducement to the wealthy to have large families, but in ascending scale according to the income, thereby making it clear that the increase of population and not the relief of the taxpayer is the end in view.
 Now Germany is not underpopuated; she has colonies left; she insists that she wants none, and the policy of the National Socialists is to discourage emigration In the mind of any one who is even vaguely aware that unemployment IS as critical a problem in the Reich it is anywhere and that Germanys export trade has gone into an alarming decline the question that must immediately arise is this: "Supposing that the Hitlerites and their policies persist long enough to bring about marked increase in the birth rate, what do they propose to do with many more Germans?" In Mein Kampf' Chancellor Hitler says that they are not o be sent to Africa and Asia; that there must
 
 many's surplus must be settled contiguous ter Iritory in Eastern Europe. For this room must eventually be made by conquest and clearance, by taking up the work of the Teutonic Knights where they dropped it six centuries ago. But this means
 war, and if, with these conceptions of Germany destiny in mind, the Nazis hasten the day when Germany will be swarming with humanity and
 bursting for expansion, aren't they encouraging the production of material in the home just deliberately and with cold calculation though they were subsdizng the manufacture of howitzers and high explosives at Essen?
 There is no other way of interpreting this policy It gives ominous significance to the ten-year limit put upon the truce to frontier disputes that recently signed with Poland. With population density of thirty-six to the square mile Americas
 economic troubles have lately impressed the fact upon all thoughtful citizens that the unlimited mul- duplication of the unemployabe would result in political chaos and social demoralization But the density of population in Germany is 348 to the square mile-nearly ten times our own; the balance of trade is unfavorabe, while ours is favorable and IGermany is an importer of food while exporters. Yet the impoverished Naz Government of the Reich is remitting taxes and paying out subsidies so that each and every German girl will mate, nest and bear children as quickly and as often possble-children of generation that will
 face from infancy the alternatives of starvation or the rsumpton of the medieval Drang mach Osten