GERMAN MARRIAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 December 1937, Page 10

GERMAN MARRIAGES

TEN MAIN RULES. The organ of the German National Socialist Medical Association publishes the new version of the “Ten Commandments for the choice of a mate,” as drafted by the Reich’s Department of Health, says the “New York Times.” There is nothing remarkable about the principles .as such, but the commentator stresses the fact of their having been submitted to and approved by the Ministry of War, for widespread distribution among the army, navy, and air force.

1. “Remember that you are a German. You are what you are not through merits of your own, but through those of your people. Therefore in all your actions consider the commonweal first.” 2. “Keep mind and soul clean! Stay away from all that is spiritually alien to you or repugnant to your temperament. Beware of all that your con-

science warns you against! All too often, unfortunately, the prospect of money or pleasure causes a person to forget it.” 3. “Keep your body clean! The pleasure of a passing moment may permanently endanger your health and that of your children and' become a curse to you, your children, and grandchildren. Act yourself as you would expect your future mate to act! Remember that you will become an ancestor of Germans!”

4- “You should not remain single if you are hereditarily healthy. He who remains single without a good reason for doing so breaks the chain of generations. Your own life ?s limited in time, but your clan and your people live on. Your physical and spiritual heritage will be revived in them.” 5. “Do not marry without love.”

6. “As a German, choose a mate only of your own or a kindred race. Only where temperaments and dispositions blend is there harmony. Where different races mix there is disharmony, which leads to the degeneracy and decline of individuals and peoples. The Nordic streak is a tie that binds all Germans- You are part of it and it is your sacred duty to guard it.”

7- “In selecting a mate for your- , self, find out all aoout the forefathers You do not marry a mate but also a family and ancestors.' Valuable and sound posterity may be hoped for only if there be. an equally valuable ancestry. Nothing is more precious than [ the seed of a noble race. A contamijiiated heredity will produce nothing [good, Never marry the one good member of a bad family!” 8. “Health is the premise even of physical beauty. It offers the best guarantee for lasting happiness, for it is also the premise of spiritual harmony. Before marrying, submit to a medical examination for fitness and have your future mate do likewise.” 9. When you decide to marrv, choose a, companion and not a play-' mate, rbe purpose of marriage is to leai healthy offspring. Only if two people be well mated, physically, moi <illy, and racially can this supreme goal bo achieved, for every race lias soul of its own, and only kindred souls understand each other.” 10. “lon should desire as many childi en as possible. Only children guaiantee the continuity of a people. lon will pass away; what you leave to posterity remains. Your people live on for ever.”