IF SHE HAD WON

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 141, 10 March 1919, Page 4

IF SHE HAD WON

GERMAN LAND SETTLEMENT SCHEME. These passages from German magazines aro quoted by tho "Eugenics Review": - 1, ". . . and fow things aro more important for tho future of Germany than tho devolopracnt of family life and tho accumulation of a wealth of children. To this end articles and stories should bo inserted in 6chool readers, lecturers and tho Press should combine to instil into tho minds of youth tho lack of patriotism shown by small families. Encouragement must bo given to rural settlement, thus combining healthy surrouudings with the necessary reclaiming of land, and it is especially desirable■ for tho protection of our frontiers that large tracts of land should bo demanded from our enemies, bare of nil population, upon which disabled soldiers and others may he settled." —This from a lecture given in Berlin before the Race Hygiene Society by Dr. von Rehr-Piiiuow. 2. "The beaten enemies of Germany must pay for the measures which will enable her to incrcaso her population to tho end that tho Gorman Empiro may spread and increaso and ever wax more powerful."—From an article by Dr. Walter John on "Taxation of Childless People and State Insurance of Children." Has Germany any right (asks a commentator) to expect other treatment from her victorious onemios than 6ho proposed bo mete out to them if dofeated?