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Seite K-TäglZch? Omaha Tribime-Freltag,'5cn 28. November '1O19 jT:e ErnMsgcn der EiRdshnzrttthr. -5w Ufl in Zlatioal. ü-effe sie kicnrevIuüoit. . llrf d Einwohscrwthien toitb iBTi! is den GroßLerlincr Gemeinden jj-.hr feigst di!uticrt. tocil tl sich fiMtaÜ um dir Bewilligung kchebllchir $i'M handelt. Durch rxn vrüdens trag ist vcr NuöZresiicrunz die inb Zge bunden, eine dirctte Abhänzizteit der Einwcknkrwehkkn vom Sieic!zömchrmi liister Ist unmöglich. Gie können künftig : ut noch weltcrbcfiehcn, lernn sie dcn einzelnen Landesbchiirden unierstellt wer den. Das bcdeukt aber zugleich die ,' tUedermibme der entstebendcn kosten auf tt einzctnkn Gemeinden. QM svnach tian die Finanzfrage Anlah zu eingehen xen Auseinanderscbllngen sa mufz gleich ; zeitig such die politische Err.ndlage der 5 nwohncrwehre geklärt wcidcn. Es ist klar, daß diese Wehren weder zu ' ifficrfjeugtn der Rwolutioa noch der k. Aoükrreoortion mißbraucht werden . dürfen, wenn man nicht nach dem Grundsatz Handel will, dcn Bock zum '.(tätintt zu bestellen. Daß sie ,un ,-x clilifch sei sollen, wird denn auch in , jeineni Erlaß deS preußischen Sffiini , Meriums des Innern, dem die Emwoh erwehre i dcn preußischen Scmünde '. Künftig unterstellt sein werden, ousdriick '. ;di hervorgehoben. Man derstcht ti :., johne weiteres, daß die extremen Linke : arteicn mit dieser Institution sehr un lzusmden sind, wcil sie die Pntschtaktik . rsckwcnn hilft. Aber auch die Na stioimlen" sind entrüstet. In der betrcf ssendcn Verordnung vom 13. Etcmber wrd nämlich eine Verpflichtunz der Mit oliedcr der Einwohnerwehren auf Hsnd schlag gefordert, der vom Volke gewähl ten Regierung ihre treuen Dienste zu widmen". Wer diese Verpflichtung nicht ab,icök will,, darf nicht ufgenomme werden. Gegen diese eidesstattliche Er .tf'irena laufen die Nationalen Sturm. Sie behaupten, daß sich ein nationat den leider Wann dazu nicht hergeben TJane. Ta'nit ist zur Gcnüze klargestellt, daß ti den nationalen Parteien bei ihnr Bc tek',i?ung d'r Einwohnerwehren um etwas anderes als um den Schutz der Eiüwohner gegen außerordentliche Gc sahnn zu tun ist. Sie möchten aus ihnen eine Waffe für die Kontcrkevsluiicm schir,Iedcn. Wer auf den Boden :r T rnortaiie steht und eine Gessndiing des Staate? nur m dnnokratischer, Richtung erw.-ctct, der wird sich ebenso z?gcn,die Pwi'!e von rechts wie gegen" die von litt! wenden. JedenfaSs muffen sich die .naiignaleu" Parteien darüber klar werden, daß die GrvZ-BerLner Germin btn fi!r die Emwohnerwehre nur so tan-t Kittes zur Berfügunz ste3cn hxr den, all diese Verpflichtung auf die vom Volk gewählte R:gierung bestellen bleibt. v::- 1.1-.. cw. w.- n.-!?: .... r-s. jjtti. esue VUMKll,uxpe w.i. suinuim juiu werigsleus die demskraiischen Gcmemde Lnireter nicht zu haben. Gemde weil die Einwohnerwehren unpolitisch sei nd iit'kn müssen, darf eS für- fl: 'feine and.n Grundlage als ,die Änrrkn Tiare; des verfassunzsmUsig f:?r,efte8kn ,Etse:issWrns geben. Wollen die JRp ,ÄonzZn" sich dieser Wedinzusg icht tf iüjoa, dZN mög Je dhKe.A. : 'UdliiÜ. ' . $'??'?hir il ft ' t,sexz 'KZV?O'5?'O -v. v " e 4$ ; Frs'nfurt, 14. Okt. Die Ü'füs,! Ticder!chr der Frankfurier titfc ist, wie au Frankfurt a. 58?. A-eÄet wixd, gesichert. Für die nächste Weße hsben bireiis lm Aussteller ihre kmekdsn gn rvlizoge, , - T er deutsche Lster.chr. Cdt Anfang des JahreZ 1S13 gibt eZ in Teuischiand einen regelmafzizsn Luft pos:erkhr, der von der Teutsctxn Lllft Reederei, Bnkin, auf der Strecke Terlia Weimar eröffnet wurde und nach und nach die . Städte , Leipzig. Hamburg. IrLUnsmwlla. Lannsö. b!elsenZikck:n. Warncmünve, Cwinemunde und Wefter' land auf Sylt an das Lukwctz mit ai schloß. Unter den ständigen Störungen Ä'ses streiklusiigcn Jahres hatte der Tkrift naturgemäß viel zu'lcidcn, und id am meisten schädigte ihn der Man gel n SetriebZstoff, der zeitweise, z ei ner völligen Lahmlegung des Berkehrs auf d?Ä einzelnen Stuckn jührte, zu mal auch von den maßgebenden Behörden mit zu wenig Nachdruck für d Bellefc runz deZ unumgänglich notwendigen TenzolS gesorgt wurde, trcdem eS sich um eine allgemeine BerZehrZerriebtung handelte, der dk KcichSpost die Leförde rung ihrer Briefschaften auf do emge richletc Linien überiragen hatte. , " Interessant ist die Sj!isiik dessen, was, ungeachiet all dieser Hemmungen, im ersten Halbjahr c'eistkt wurde. Von 1C32 Flügen tonnten 1420, also 93.3 . y., glatt durchgeführt werben. 4,7 vH. Mußten ouS technischen der WitterungZ gründen unterbrochen werden nd nur 2 ,vH. konnten wigen ungünstiger Witte ru?,g überhaupt nicht auZg?fiih:t werden. JnZzesamt wurden 5"3.1ZS kni, also mehr als das Dreizehnfache deS Erdum fangcS, zurückgelegt. A Laen wurden befördert: 20,968 kg Briespsft. 57,081 !g ZÄtungm, 5038 kg. Pakete. Rechnet an dazu die 3574 befszoerten Perso iWb mit einem TurchschnittSMwicht dien ,7Ii kz, s ergibt daS eine öksam;Ge 'wichtbeförderung für Ha5 erst- Halb p'ii von 201,156 tz. KyviZ eine pert s,i Leisiunz, ' - 's-' " ' '' x. L?m 1. August ob mvit der Betrieb n Fenzinmanipls völlig rhsn, n-M-hm, gerade ier INouat Juli durch die "et räch den 'DSfeetädet nd, die z'NEndsLge die hiichfte StnzckMg e-'.rstt hatte. . Für bai' kommende F tu iaU ist bis BerlängerilitS der C:ie L:rki-Wer:a? m Main g?v!ant, fernst die Lcröiöu.'g -Ä, Tan.zig ZnigZbcrz. Ob der treke.'ecdtlg wternaiZonaZe ' Verkehr auf, p? srnen frcrn kenn, wird fflnj vsz l" xnZitisch'n La sbünz-?. zft wir vr.d :c4'i3 Ängcz i iKr e2 Tfie "Sfatesrnan' 0f Ea'ses Qncstioa "Tempsrance Or Vice U'hich ?"Äsks Why Agitator ttc M Cppose Profiteerin; And Cthcr Crimss. The "Statesman," of Toronto, Canada .prints a strikinfr articlc under the headinR "Temperance or Vice VV liich ?", in which Billy Sunday's uttcrances anj tactics are scverely criticised. Aainst Suinlay's freakish cam paign the "Statesman" citiotes some declarations of a total ab ttainer, the Hon. Edward Blake, who lived for years in Toronto, and adds its own commenL bavs the Toronto weekly: How the antics of "Billy" Sunday, spread over a paz?e of the Toronto Glohe, can serve the causc of temperance it is disiicult to coneeive. To most thinking pcople it must scem strande that a vaudevillc show so flagrantly vulgär should sind a welcome in Toronto. It can be explained only on the assumption that Toronto is not qujte so bad as "Billy" Sunday's acrobatic enter tainment would lead strangers to ins er. We have searched in ain throuRh the pa?e of slanj; and coarse witticisms for any light or argument in regard to Prohibition. "Billy's" creed makes room for a very larße hell and a very small heaven, and with all the assurance of the fanatic who claims to preach by right divine, he consigns tho?e who differ frora him to the nethermost hell reserved for "Billy's" pet aversions. How jdifferent the lan?ua"e of an edu- cated, broad-minded Christian gentleman, who lived for years in Toronto, who spoke as a total abstainerl Hon. Edward Blake may be forpotten in a Com munity that suffers fools gladly, but there are thousands who will recopnize the sincerky of his jjrotest against the "Billy" Sun days of his day. This is what Edward Blake said in 1887 and the words are applicable today as then: No Sympathy With Abuse. "I have no sympathy whatever with the abuse sometimes poured out on those jionest men, who, not themselves in any sense slave to drink, are not yet convineed of the duty of total abstinente. There are amon,?st these many better men than some of those who abuse them. Intemperancc in drink is not the only vice, and there are thinps much worse ' at any rate than moderate drinkinjj. Unfortunate as I beüeve the habit, there are many better men than myself who honestly differ from mc, who have not seen what I think the light in this matter, and their eyes will not be enlightened or their ears be opencd by abuse; they will be only closed and darkened. I. am ready to try and persuade, but 1 am not ready to abuse them. Let us endeavor in all loving kindness to win them to our views. This is our most important and most press in? work. "Canada Not Ripe for Prohibi tion." , "Until prop-ess is made in that, I am not of the opinion that Canada is ripe for prohibition. I do not beüeve that the law, !f carried, would, in the present condition, be useful or perma nent I remember very well the speech made by Sir Leonard , Tilley, that veteran champion of temperance made ftot very long before he retired jfrom Parüa ment in which he declared as the result of his Ion? experience in his own Province, confirmed by all that he had learned eise - where an opinion which pointed out the absolute necessity, irj order that there might be an efficacious and permanent law, for that strons and widely diffused public opinion to which I refer, and I ob serve that even the Mail newspaper, in the article in which it declared its new confession of faith when, "Democracy's Banger". 'Ths Carpsder" Argues Aainst Ssppressicn Thrcugh tspienage laws. "Democracy's banger" is the title of the rirst edit'orial in the September issue of "The Car penter" (Indianapolis), pfHcial journal of the United Brother hood of Carpenters and joiners nf America, and edited by Frank Duffy, Secretary of the Brot her hood rnentioned and one cl the most conservative Labor leaders in the country. The editorial is directed apainst a proposed re inforcement of the Espionage iaw?, and points to the danper involved in such surrwion. It also directs attentien u the Toronto, 0n Oilly Sünday. j with all the fervor, of the nco phyte, with all th zcal of the convert, you nvfcht have ex fected it would out-IIerod llerod, or, as pcople sometimes say, rneanin,' the same tliins, 'been more Catholic than the Pope' declared itsc-lf in thes-c words: 'So vast and rnomentous a chantre is not to le acconi- plished in a luirry. Publie opjnion has to be rnonhlcd and hardened, and ii.vuc than a majority of the ptople brvnpht to the convictioti that drink is. a direct outrace and irrelemaMe cursc which oufrht to be out lawed from amon? men. This is a formidable task.' "I Cannot Honestly Vote for Prohibition Now." "ThereforeI camiot honest ly vote for prohibition now. I can give'no plede for such a vote at any definite tinic. Should the time arrive when I think the law would be useful and perma nent instead of hurtful, I will vote for it, whatever the political results to myself. Until that time comes 1 shall vote again?t it, whateyer those results may be. Lct me point' out to you hcre that there is a lare con stitutional question involved in the prohibition probiern. There are also two financial questions which, thouf;h subonlinate, are each important enoutrh to refer to. First, is the question of revenue. I think the prosperity resultant from the disuse of in toxicatin? liquors would in 'time restore very largdy ihe loss from the duties. But there would be a temporary and erious disturbance to be. faced, and the present condition of enormous expenditnres, hisih taN- ation, and larpe deiiCits is un- favorable to immediate action. Next. I think that there are cer- tain permanent interests exislin.n; under the protection of the law, in respect of which . justice ! mands that compensation on a limitcd principle should aecom pany their legislative extmetion. But I think this demand onght not to prevent the pslinK of thelaw, it the gencra! prood rc quires it. In that case the law should be passed and the corr.- pensation provided. 11 dare 5ay the views I have now , expressed will not please the cxtremisls of either partv. ! cannot htlp it. It is my duty to give my fcllow-countn-men my honest .advice and take the consequences. that aavice 1 have givcn and those conse quences I am prepared to face." Sunday Had Nothing to Say About Profitesrs. . Billy'' Siuidav had a crood deal of advice to ßive to workir.R men; much he said that indi- cated bis indebtedness to capi talists and Bi? Interests; bitt he had noth in ? to sav about the prositeers and the hiiih cost of livinjj. Is prohibition put for- ward as a purely economic pro posal for the benefit of erriployers who see in greater ,production greater prosits? .... Not the Only Vice. "Intemperance in drink is not the only vice!" In the Toronto Globe of a recent dalc appear the followinfr headlints: "Dope plassue in Toronto taxin? powers of police. Osilcers Was;e war on insimous and dcadly traffic. Difficulty in tracin? source of supply. Slany white victims." There are sensible people like Edward Blake who reaüze that force is no remey in the pro motion of temperance " habits, and that the suppression of legitimate pleasures begets an underworld of vice. Toronto it seif is one of the' qreatest ex amples of this on the American continent, as the secret police morality reports prove. , i drastic social ( chauge Europe must face and views the subject in the light of that devtlopment. It reads in part: When will those in power Iearn the lesson of history that suppression incvjtably leads to violence? The crushinsj; out of the civil libertie.?, the repression of discussions and of public opinion is danerous in a derS oeraey. It is through the force of public opinion that evils must be rem?d:V4, and justice made the c; ;-ri?v:c of the Republic. At this time variouj members of Coneress are preparing a new Espionace Act. It ts frtedom of thouht, they ay, which n courajrcs revolutioru People who think this way do not consider whether a Government that can not be preserved with freedom of thoussht is actually worth pre servinjf. The cause for this peacc-tim'e Espionage Law, a drastic law; a law dejtroyinf" the fundamental riphts of man in America, is a result of the tiotoriou investi(ration by the Üverman Com mitte at the dose of the last session. The cry of Bolshevism will be raised anew and every emotional appeal will l e made as justification for the raid upon our traditional and constitutional liberties. Not sat isded with the prohibitive law already tackcd to the Constitu tion. they would go farther and forsake cur inborn and funda mental Americamsm for the Prussianism which wc have fust helpcd to overthrow. The first duty of America is to attend to her lost liberties, and not add an additional bürden to her people. "On the Threshold of a Drastic Social Change." . -The world Lbroad is on the Deplorable Picture of Life in Budapest. ' i;; .. - -.i- 900,000 Persens cut of Werk, fißted lo Penury and Misery by tfie Comniünist Regte. From The, New York Times. Paris, üct. 5. Jules Sauer wein, the foreign editor of Le Matin, draws a deplorable pic ture of üfe in Budapest. With out coal, almost without food. with pumpkins and watermelons the only nonrishment the great majority of the people can pro eure, pillaged by, the Rumanians, the once haughty and prosperous Magyars bow their heads in misery before ' Czechs, Croats. Poles and Kuminiaiis, In , the Ilungarian Capital, there; are 90s.),OCO persons ,out of work. Scarcely t.ny nroney is in circtir lation, except Communist paper, which is practically worthiess ; and, even if one has the price, clothes and the common neces iaries of life are almost unpro curable. , Comparing Budapest with Vienna Mr. Sauerwein says that the former cit where through out the war life, was compara tively comfortable, is now re duced by Commimism to a con dition of wretchedness and desolation which far surpasses that of the Austrian Capital, which shared the, common !e feat He attributes this con dition chiefly to the hostility of the pcasants against Bela Kun's rgimc. It is rehictantly ad mitted by a prominent French Socialist who has also visited Hungary recently that a similar attitude of all the agricultural population will forever prevent Communismf from becoming a practical form of government in Western Europe. The depreciation of currrency and the enormous increase in production costs, which appear to be unavoidable consequences of Communism", cause the peas ants to refnse to exchang food either' for money er goods. The result is that Communist rban agglornerations soon face a starvatiort blockade, as was the case in Budapest Further details of Bela Kun's ill-starred experiment are given by a Danish correspondent of L'Illustration who spent several weeks in Budapest under Com rnunist rule. The article, which is quite impartial, does not allude to massacres or other e,xc"esses, and judges the Communist rgime, which had füll play ac cording to Marxian theories, entirely on its m'erits. The consequences of the so cialization of all factories m ploying more than twenty men was that in thrce nvonths the average rise in costs was 200 SAVES, FEED Stim"jßmit uyBtjLj TTtr-r m jr- müEim - -'"- ii iiSa . v J 'i'ZäJ h-fPn M - Äri v i&z- tu - sjm r rRalslBl ö Larlercv omaha. nebr. . scHoro CATALOa Berückjichticrt bei Einkaufn d VsMtze dsrauef chnZsrrU threshold of a drastic social change; Congress may not know it, but American labor knows it. AU that Congre&s think of in the induitrial ficlds is the men ace of Bolshevism and the Main tenance of the divine ripht of privilege. It Conception of the actual Motive force in its own country is both vaßue and un ound. It live in a world of its own, ' a somcwhat iictitious world, deriving its Information from letters and contracts that tend to gerate the artificial and disparage the real. What hope for.constructive legislation can rest with such a body? The only hope'is that the industri.il Situation of the country has enouh resistance to Isold until economic change can. be re flected in our political processes. In the severity of its Provi sion the new Sedition Bill intro duced by Senator King goes far eyond anything ever before dreamed of as necessary for, the protection of the Government. It appears to be based not niere ly on facts that may have been discovereü", but on x fears that may have been excitcd in the minds of the Senators in the Course of their rambling in vestigations. per cent, while riicipts iiad fallen 50 per cent Each in crease motinted beyond all rea son tinfil nearlv everythin? was being sold -far below the cost price. Thus coal. which cost 29 krönen ($5.80) per hundred weight. was lelivered at 7, and sulphafe of copper for vines, which cost 26 krönen at the fac tory, was retailed at 12. The municipal street rar's, which ' the year before paid 5,000,000 krönen in dividends, faced a yearly deficit of 250.000. 000 krönen. All these loses feil on the. State, which met them by issning paper and more paper. ' '.',..,,,'..' The Hungarian Communists were favored by being able to seize the huge agricultural prop ertie of the nobles, which were mostly in a flourishing condition. Yet these, too, were speedily run into the ground by a rampant extensioit of bureaucratic control.' Thus, in the Koposvar (?) dis trict, a gang of 110 functionaries replaced the bfMce force of five who had been managing the estate to the satisfaction and prosperity of tenants and owner slike. These agents and the agricultural laborers reeeived otitrageous salaries. In a fcw wecks the production was dimin iahed by half, Then mills, dairis and sugar refineries f be gan to siow up as the idleness of the worker? increased. Soon the wbole life of these rieh farms was at a standitill. ,The field were untiüed ,thc crops unharvested, and the animals all slaughtered btcatise it was teto much trouble to feed them. Finally, with' production from the confiscated propertie down to the Minimum', the Comrnmi its appealed to the small peasant proprietor. The latter refused to take their money or accept good at their Valvation. The Corntnunists ; threateued and the peasants banded together and met them witd mahie guns. The viciou rcle was com plete. In ttoe cktes mismanage rhent ebsed the factories; in the country it produced stoppage of the food supply. ' The writer conclude: . "Surely the Hungarian expe. rirnent is enough for the world. It certainly convineed my fetlow traveller, an ardent Comwunist from Switrland, who told mc: 'I arrived füll of enthusiasrrk and joyons expectation ; I depart dis appointed and disülusioned, ready to abandon faith in the principles for which until now I have lrved and fought.' " ' A(Ö44Ä TocitVi&Enma IAKE5 MORE MEÄT tt Cn ro CATTIC Moase wiir AM HO rl in diel Zutuna Anindeu ,und BEYARE TUE IIEADLIIIE VRITER, From The Baltimore New. Newspaper headline have come in recently for a consider able bare of blame for the present condition of tinrest The point made i that great, flaring type pread over cight colurnns of front page tnduce to tinsettlernent; that reader get the "jurnps" frort taking them at face value; that no man can think normally and rationally about the Content of the article he reads when he Starts in under the influence of, a headline writer who has striven to jar hirnf into an excited frarne of mind. The war was responsible, of Course, for the domination of the news colurnns by the headlines.. It was so big that only big type sec'rned proper for it display, and, having once truck thi tride, winning a free and n, harnpered field, it i pretty diffi cult to persuade the headliner to come off his perch. In conse- Decline in French Births. Marriage Law and Plurality of Wives Offcred as Remedy. New From The London The vital question of the grave decline in the birth rate in France is once more brought into prominence by the decision of both French Chambers to modify the civil code with re gard to marriage. ... This grave question, which is, of. course. of pararnount irnport ance to the future prosperity of the country, is scldorn discussed in 'the newspapers, but now at last several interesting refer ences are made to it. As is well known, aecording to the law as it has hitherto existed, difstculties quite unknown in England are presented to young people about to be married In addition to much "red tape" on the part of the civil authorities the formal consent of the parents had to be produced, or if that was refused an application in legal form had to be Made three tirnes to them, couched in "re spectful terms" before this' con sent could be waived. The new law not only 'does away with many lengthy and trj'ng preüminaries, ," but also abolishes the necessity of the parents' consent if the parties concerned are over the age of 30, Te need of increasing the popu lition needs to be impressed on the public mind, and in this con- CjbML ädilA 1A4MMm4VlM Su I 1 ISliK I X r& IIHil r VettrkknA, &uv eUtitttV . ... .. , ffs Hin jeder iita wni Ä mit JVtnaca begrüß l)äbc,! unge. hindert Briefe, Zeiwnaen und Pakete wieder nach TmtMe wi-A innht mprhrw fnnni-!. Gar manches wird seinen Lieben drüben unsere Zeitimg Zkl cn wollen und sönnen wir nun Bestellungen nach Curova entae AtftWH t.VI X CimKltMAMl hvMVn u;i:iiiu yiiitii muu wlivvuhucii u-riucii uifix iiiuuiiu uU9(ifful)u. t Wir schicken je nach Wunsch Onmlza Tribiwe an l5ure Verwandten nach Deutschland. Der Preis x, für unsere Zeitungen, portofrei im Ausland abgeliefert, beträgt pro? v. ' i Jahr: Nr gkgt Bottbezahlng Tägliche Oah Tnböne, per Jahr. . . .$10.00 Wöchentliche Oah Trib, p Jahr 3.00 Man sende Bestellung nebst Money Order an die Omaha Zti- 6t büne. 1307 Howard Straße. Omaha. Nebr. . Alle Adreffen sind in leserlicher Schrift zu schreiben. Geldsendungen Poft der Kabel tex doller Garantie nach Deutschland, Oesterreich, Schweiz, Böhmen, Mahren, Galizien, Uroa tken, Slavonien, polen, Ungarn, Siebenbürgen, Glsab - cothringen, Uumanke, Finlanö, unö anderen eurspSischen candern zum billigsten Tageskurs. 5Sarknlas für spiUcn Gebrauch. . ?chifMcketS auf allen Linien nach Europa. International Exchange lle Sls5nft öS PaZsach, CchiffStickets, ete., geliefert. 1307 Howard Straße, ' Omaha, Nebraska. ' V quence he i still with us, feed ing u day after day very highly seasoned stuff, eVerything a crisis, inaking it somcwhat diffi cult to ober down. The steel strike give him another oppor tnnity, of which he will avail hirnself to the limit, centcring the attention of the world on a struggle a, if it were a "pri-e 5ght that might de more easily disposed of if it were not fought out in the headlines. Million looking on and both sides keenly aware of the "gallcry." In the circumstanccs tt may not be arriiss to warn reader against the Sncradicable pro pensity of the headliner to feat ure "hot stuff." omething with a kick in it. Don't conclude that the world is going to the dogs because he yells at you so loudly, Take his verbal assault calmly. Osten hi bark is worse than his bite. Daüy Telegraph. nection it may be noted that, following the example some years ago of the late M. Lamy, Permanent Secretary of the Academic Franaise, Monsieur and Madame s Cognacq have given an annual sum of 2,250,000 Francs to be distributed each year in the form of ninety dona tions of 23,000 f ran es each to poor families who have more than nine children, all of the same parents. In this connection it is notable as an indication of reviving na tional interest that a congress to consider the question of the birth rate is to be hcld at Nancy very soon. A writer suggests plurality of wives as the only remedy. He points out that one and a half "million young men have lost their lives in war and a half Million more have been severely wounded or crippled, thus making two million women widows or condemning them to spinsterhood, and the women who have mates are not provid ing new citizens. f He continues : "Either Franc will cease to exist for want of Frenchmen, or eise it will be come a wt of extraordinär? Macedonia of mongrel races, Are you prepared for that? . If so, it scems hardly worth whiltj to liave gone through the war." IIL1IL II all ., B " M. . 1 A .Cl.. OTufXV . . u S."I i. 1 ' die Täaliche oder Wöckenttickie.i' Ü : ): lt Ff fll c ,v: t