The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1936-11-20


poets Of new, unwanted wars, the
blrthrate has steadily declined. If
It keeps on, thirty years hence will
see the start Of a permanent de-
preston from which wen never
recover.
More Babies, More industry
When we are unable to MAIN
tain our present level of popula-
ton, no more building on a large
scale win be possible. Real estate
which has been rising in value
here since 1920, will constantly de-
cline. So viii all other industry,
including farming, teaching. medi-
cine and law. But between now
and this disastrous date probably
lies our period Of gleatest build
ing expansion. Those three mill
lion 1921 babies are growing up,
and win soon be married and de-
mand homes of their own. So all
We wicked land SPECTATORS get
your profits soon or never
The City's To Blame
Cities have always been blamed
for every major evil. Now. accord
ing to o. e. Baker, U. s. Depart
ment Of Agriculture, cities are to
blame for a falling birthrate. In
the city, children are an economic
liability, not an asset. On the
farm, children pay for their keep
from an early age. So with the
sndustrializstion of all western
countries has come a steady birth
decline.
Europe, OF course, suffers far
more from this trend than we. She
Is more urbanized. italy puts a
tax on bachelors. pays for tile ho-
neymoon and offers bonuses for
babies. But these are crutches,.
and have not actually increased
their birthrates a jot. What would
do 1t Immediately would be a ris-
ing standard Of living Humans,
like animals, respond to a greater
food supply by immediate natural
increase. What is the only count
~ in the world today with a ris-
ing standard of living? Soviet
Russia, Fascism's buaboo! Russia
has the largest and only steadily
rising birthrate anywhere, The
Fascists know that Time is on the
side of the Russians; hence, their
haste for war. It's now or never
for them, too.
Hope: A Midwife
What else has Russia they have
not? Hope. A future for the de-
velopment of their culture. If it
were fear of war alone which
blighted populations, as some ex-
perts say. Russia with two enc
mics. Germany and Japan, snarl-
ing at her from either side, would
be blighted. But Russia is, as we
were in our war with England IN
1912. She is fearless because her
futuer is unlimited now. She has
room to expand.
In Allahabad, India, sextuplets
were recently born to a poor wo-
man Of the most depressed class.
One died but the other five are
doing well. But they will never
rival the Dionnes. They will not
become the shrine of whole con-
tinent, the ideal of a whole Gull
ture. The Powers That Be do not
desire to encourage the darker
folk of the world to increase. 1t
is too dangerous. In the long run,
over a period Of centuries, 1t is the
nations of the most people who
survive however wretchedly).
Aframericas' Birthrate Lowest
The birthrate of colored Amer
lea is going down fastest of all
Americans. Hopelessness is the
reason. With the movement of
greater numbers of Negroes to the
cities, the decline viii increase.
Though cities, in one way, offer
greater freedom to Negroes, they
have their own forms of severe
slavery. This goes for whites,
tool. AS long as people have the
earth and the sky to themselves,
they can better endure human
bondage, because these offer ave-
nues Of escape to the spirit. A
bad diet in the country where sun
shine is free and air pure, does not
ravage the body as a bad city diet.
The city diet is killing colored
America. You have to become
food conscious. select your diet de-
liberately and scientifically to sur