Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — AGAINST WIDOWS MARRYING [ARTICLE]

AGAINST WIDOWS MARRYING

German Doctor Urges a New Law to Give Single Women a Chance. Amsterdam, Holland. —Enactment of a law in Germany to prevent widows from remarrying so as to leave the few available men for single women is urged in a letter to the Tag by a Munich doctor, Hans von Hertig. He points out that the wlddws, through remarrying after the war, would have a detrimental effect on the birth rate, as most of them are mothers already. “On December 9, 1910,” he writes, “there were in Germany about 300,000 widows between the ages of eighteen and forty-five. At a very modest estimate there are now 800,000.”