RACK SUICIDE.

White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 369, 18 March 1926, Page 14

RACK SUICIDE.

Dr. C. W. Saleeby is an admiri'r and sincere lover of France. In an arresting,article in the “Ooutleok ’ lie gives the French people some much needed advice. They are busily engaged in building submarines and aeroplanes, and in training their black savage conscripts to use the deadly weapons of civilisation. The narrow strip of silver sea which saved Britain from devastation in years gone by is no longer a defence. Dr. Saleeby’s advice is to dig drains instead of building aeroplanes. He writes: “They would be better advised to dig drains and lay water pipes; to keep the racial poisons—by which term I indict alcohol and syphilis and gonoi rhea out of their homes/’ The point is that the almost stationary population of France is due not only to the prevention of births, but to a more marked extent to an excess of deaths. Britain has reduced her birth rate almost to the French level, but at the same time she has lowered her death rate so that the increase of population goes on as before. Dr. Saleeby writes; “Voneral disease, chronic alcoholism —for the most part respectable and of no inti rest to the police, though of grave concern to the pathologist and the very high rate of illegitimacy may here be conspicuously named as guilty agents of this destruction of the future of France.’’