Germany's Low Birth-rate.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 4, 1913:
Rustics Save Empire from Being Like France.
    BERLIN, April 25.— If It were not for the domesticity of Germany's rural population the empire, on account of its rapidly falling birth rate, would soon be in the condition of France. The cause of the diminishing births in German cities and towns is said to be the penalty that the Fatherland is paying for its recently acquired love of luxury.
    In Berlin the birth rate is lower than that of all France, and the suburbs of the Kaiser's' capital are not much better. In Schöneberg, for example, a town of 180,000 inhabitants, there is now a birth rate of less than 13.7 per 1,000. In Charlottenburg, a town of nearly 350,000, the rate is 13.9.