of an and P. free Wednesday and announced Lindquist, Ben Heden Sorenson. on the reported in m (U.P.)-Perhaps in Art he the now. the the Sterilization of Incompetents Is Hitler Law BERLIN, (U.P.) - A stern, far reaching sterilization law, to improve the German race, became effective Wednesday with publication of the official monitor. Both voluntary and enforced sterilization are prescribed for persons whose descendants are held in the light of scientific knowledge to be likely to inherit physical or mental defects. The tradition, of medical secrecy is scrapped. Physicians are required to reveal namês of patients who are liable under the law to compulsory sterilization. Defects making a subject liable to sterilization are named as hereditary imbecility, insanity. mania, epilepsy. St. Vitus' dance. blindness, deafness, alcoholism, bodily deformity and schizophrenia. Under schizophrenia are specified & large class of mental cases, including paranoia, persecution mania, dementia praecox, and acute melancholia. The law makes no distinction between sexes. It provides that a person may ask for an operation | or that the legal guardian in the case of a minor of a mentally deficient minor may do so in his be-| half. Application must be made thru a police physician or the director of a nospital, insane asylum or similar institution. Decision. in the end, will rest with a "hereditary court" to be es. tablished, with ad appeal branch whose verdict. will be final. Force Is provided fo the event that an involuntary subject for steriliza• tion will not consent to An opera• tion. The law has been long consider. ed by members 01 the Nazi gov ernment. Chancellor Adoi. Hitter's ideal is for more but better German" babies To encourage marriages, the government recently decreed that loan sould be grantey women who ve joha to marry, A per • 01 the loa nould be mark ,ed oft for each baby burn. J. | is 11%