MORE GERMAN BABIES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 377, 8 March 1937, Page 5

MORE GERMAN BABIES

CANNON FODDER

ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS.

Old-fashioned Prejudice Should Be Abandoned. Press Association —Copyright. Received 10.30 a.m. London, March 7. The Daily Herald asserts that the German leaders unceasingly are campaigning for more babies for future cannon fodder, and systematically are educating the nation to accept the idea of “extra wives.” High officials who are continually hinting at the necessity of a new attitude toward unmarried mothers include Dr. Ley, who demands that the old-fashioned prejudice against illegitimate children should be abandoned.

He says |that unmarried mothers must be granted the respect and protection afforded married mothers, which the latest Nazi law translates into effect by decreeing a term of imprisonment for men responsible for illegitimate children who refuse aid to expectant mothers, both materially and ] mentally, enabling them to feel socially equal with wives. The journal “Race” openly advocates the acceptance of the idea that all unmarried women should have the right to have children, and points out that many healthy women can never hope to have husbands owing to insufficient men.