POPULATION PROBLEMS
DECLINING BIRTH-RATE. THE EDUCATION ASPECT GERMANY’S POSITION. » *lll.h CttK.ss ASSOCIATION —COPT BIGHT Received 10.55 -a.m. to-day. GENEVA, Sept. 1. Professor Ctainr Saunders, professor ol .social science at Liverpool University created sun-prise among the delegates to- the Population Conference oy aeol-ariug that- education i-houid be discouraged in countries which desired to increase the birth rate, because the more -intelligent parents became, the .smaller became -their contribution to the next generation. Different fertility among the classes was largely due to family Limitation. The greatest progeny producing classes in Britain were the Welsh miners .and the Mid*lands agriculturalists-. The criminal class would eventually cease to exist, u«» its fertility was only live-eighths ol that ol the general community. Dr. Grotjahn, of Berlin University, pointed out that Germany’s surviving births were only' 29 per 1000 of married couples. Due to the drastic decline of the birth rate and working class in Germany, the nation would soon face the same population problem as France. The birth rate in German i-ities was not- -sufficient to maintain the present- population.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 September 1927, Page 5
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