IF SHE HAD WON

Evening Star, Issue 16993, 15 March 1919, Page 4

IF SHE HAD WON

GERMAN LAND SETTLEMENT SCHEME. These passages from German magazines are quoted by the ' Eugenics Review': 1. ". . .' and few things are more important for the future of Germany than the development of family life and the accumulation of w wealth of children. To this end articles and stories should be inserted in school readers, lecturers and the Press should combine to instil into the minds of youth the lack of patriotism shown by_ small families. Encouragement must be given to rural settlement, ihv.s combining healthy surroundings with the necessary reclaiming of land, and it is especially desirable for the .protection of our frontiers that large tracts of land should be demanded from our enemies, bare of all population, upon which disabled soldiers and others may be settled."—This from a lecture given in Berlin before the Race Hygiene Society by Dr Von Behr-Pinnow. 2. "The. beaten enemies of Germany must pay for the measures which will enable her to increase her population, to the end that the German Empire may spread and increase and evßr wax more powerful."—Prom an article by Dr Walter John on-'Taxation of f Chi!dles3 People and Stote Insurance of Ghil- j Has Germany any right (asks a commentator) to expeot other treatment from her victorious enemies than she proposed to XPMt* caxt to them if dafeauulP