The Archive · 1934

Causes and Ideas: Present Trends

sreetat. 70 71 begins to turn ard; abies! demand nurses, doctors, shoes, felothing, toys and anon' business revives in earnest.. The tale. Daralfols that mmursery rhyme of the "kid chat wouldn't go" until the point of, intransigence "was passed and then—"the rat began. to eat the IRrease, the, grease began to grease the rope, the rope began the hang the butcher, ete, and the Kid began

with all its supporting. legislature The Reich's Loan Account, may prove to. have just such function in unravelling the obstinate sequence to Germany's economic re-

Inthe {ifth of series of -provoe NationeleSoclatist regime the writer dear off the changing position of omen teaman's return fo the home after. he tind ueivean world of men' te clearly ilidepiondent being io. discussed end The necaotion to tore Hte's. dra seonten of all nattonatitien, articles on Germany under the is tovday with, the all-important problem that country. The burning question of women a enbject Ca into "Womien's place is in the home." Such is the Personal conviction of Mr, Hitler and such the judgment National Séelalism. Like a clarion sounding its messaite throughout the Jength and breadth of the Third Reich it calls women from school, factory, shop, office, stu and ministerium Back to ' the rea Im Wer, Kirche and Kuchen" which ly reassigned to them as their most natural, most influential, most honoursiblo and most glorious sphere of activity, Women's flights into The larger life, tolerated in. less critical times, are no longer admis Suble. Dispensablo now, is woman's ccomtributlon, however signal, in the nation's life, Deferrable once own satisfactions as a the larger world of affairs. "such, dim to, insignia ficance in comparison with the specialized "contribution which women are called to make to the nation's life in, the newly glorified Tole of wife and mother.

Nowhere did" I hear the deposition of women advised as employment relief measure, set iv'ia ante to assume that it has not deen overlooked that, should they be removed, at, lerist ari equal number of men could be engaged in their places "and would thus. provide as fective a relief scheme as any Single one yet advanced. So avid aes fur grand the woman work, rho oven, though she may not be the undeniably is a key to employment relief, public life and "function. From Certain women who have tasted the Joys of abundant life and creative participation in management of this Present and the building of a futare World, the voice of dismay is heard, for disagreement werous, but definitely deploring the submersion, of German' women

the seemingly inevitable regression, inthe rostesteg realm of home and which is indicated for het higher!

"Feeble though the protest, it has! nevertheless been no easy task even to begin to make effective the deter thined transfer from, public life to the home even for the small petjeentage of women effected. With of National Socialism, mich wholesale. front their posts in convenient conformity vith thus releasing

Ninjustees of auch expedition, how ests layed" en. The ever, received immediate condemmation and proved the fmpracticabilits of such, direct. approach. - Whevetapen the state, guided by' the most Todern theories of control of cone fet, have engaged in & programme of' environmental aianipulation hich maybe counted upon to pro: Hluce a" sct.of elreumstances. most favourable' to. the early. marriage' find family life end. decidedly Une favourable. to the unmarried and childless state, Falling Birth Rate No More Tndependenee

of merry patriotic German, sigalarly: The ulation problem, a concern: By all kinds of seductive lures and Jelever devices the feet of women challons women workers with the fare being led into paths of party: State elsims upon her a> a poraible Spprovale Among the first steps, was that of forbidding double earn: founder of a family, The nation, it ely in need o ings, when it served only the cause of increasing luxury. This applied rejuvenation. "during the the. husband-wife and to past fifteen Sues eae pre the father-daughter relationship. Pious "normal birthiate "was Women with independent means Sine bya mien Diets, This were asked to Riva, way to more alate did of escape caries dete: needy" persons. 'These controls fin but wae' tationalzed on the fexeluded" many' able women from theoly" tmnt in times of economic professions in which "they were depression, it was better to have {her cine werner Especiatly well qualified to serve by talent, ability and long experience eaned For and with better prospects into" Wevent studien have proved trid in which they were finding: great he falinelous and icomen were excluded by fiat, When tis faction. me paruamuent, the new elections took plore Bivery Poverty in ehitgren it is November, not a woman's name ap-Sai, Gaus 9 ganta poverty 08 peared among the candidates. all kinds of industry are thereby: Perhaps. the most colourful shift the environment consisted in the so-called Reich's Loan Account, population in"an abnormally large whereby, in a scheme almost proportion which becomes 'a dead humorously hear to bribery, the weight for the rising generation to.

Government proposed to loan' to entry, which in itself presages in-any. working woman who wisted' to creauid" economic stress: From the marry the sum of RIN 1,000, with] standpoint of the state's future, the which to set up a home, The re-facts are equally impressive, for the payment was ea easy terms, for an resent declining bireheate augers Pnlarging family. progressively Pratnitaly aheigking state, "There fiuced the indebtedness while. with Graded educational helps for the fully" "storked" family, favourable taxation rates, special building. requirements for new homes, which fake cognizance of children's needs lay, light and. air and' treatment for full families all along the line, scroo further to smooth the way to early marriage and to allay' all anxious Fears for the future, uch is_ the. allurement offered to women. "She fs quite free to accept for not the help offered and marry if she pleases but the way of the nonconformer is hard. Heavy' uration is the price of single Blessedness for maid and man alike and also for the "child-poor™ homes. Suck discriminations. have a" ten: dency further to reduce resistance ind. actively to. induce conformity' with government preferences rather than {0 pay too dearly for indepen dent views and other people's privileges though such is not pre: eluded. ing the Young the farseeing' ministeriumn "does In thorough-going Teutonic style,

of rest with present day efforts in this generation of young people but already reaching back with the precision of nature herself into the ranks of the boys and girls who are being early exposed to state ideals Jand conditioned to prefer the approved way of life "to accept uncritically in their maturer years, Present state dictum, the becomes the guiding principle in this ease ax the bending moves naturally toward the desired fend.

An ineveascd emphasis on sewing: and cooking and other domestic skills in the "school curr gently leads young girls into i five feminine activity, A faller course in tion throughout the entire school life is proposed as a guarantee of more thorough fitness for future motherhood. "Upon the health of depends the health of the isan oft-repeated slogan.

including race hygiene, the histo A proposed course "in biology, fand development of the family wit laws of heredity related to infections diseases, eugenics, and a, study, of moderation in living of which Mx. Hitler is the great exponent and example, when in full swing, will pro every graduate with" a al knowledge of life pro-

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