The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1930, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, DEC. 26, 1930 Crusade Starts to Abolish Situation That Forces Mother to Abandon Bal)c; . = Well-Known New York Physician Starts Crusade to Fight for | the Birthright of the Illegitimate Child.- ' By ALICE ALDE L W YORK, Dec. 26.—The city's a n and door-step babies. What | sadder legion is there on earth than | that army of tiny lit innccent humanity that provides such humaf interest stories for | newspaper readers and such fran- tic grief to the thousands of youn unmarried mothers, who each y offer up their tiny babies to the great god chance on the altar of a cold, unsheltered door-step or ash-laden can. The world censors these moth- ers, the world says that they should work and support their babes and | very, very often the world refuses | to employ these desperate young women. The world thinks that she should bear the stigma of the un- wed mother for the child’s sake, but there are those who believe the | mother and the babe should be | succored and helped. | One of these is Dr. ton, well known New cian whose work has into. contact with the unhappiness and misfortune that is ever part of a great city. And so Doctor Hal- ton has started a crusade to fight for the birthright of the illegiti- mate chiid. Doctor Halton knows that 'under existing laws, it better for a child to be abandon- ed than fatherless. If abandoned, | the child has a fighting chance of being - found, adopted and given a name, but if his mother keeps him, it is most likely that the child will grow up with the shameful stigma of illegitimacy. And so Doctor Hal- ton whilst #not - condoning condi- ticns, prefers to make them wide- ly known in her effort to abolish the situation that forces the moth- er to abandon the habe that has cost her such tears and anguish. She is fighting therefore, to give such children a right to possess birth certificates that will help to make them equal and free. Each year there are issued in these United States at least 25,000 birth certificates listing the Iather‘ as “unknown.” For a physician ‘o put down the name of the man named by the mother as father of the child, is to lay himself opan for libel action, no matter how indisputable the proof he may have. Dector Halton and ‘her committee have not yet decided what form the certificate will take, but believe that an entry can be made that will partially remove the stigma of “father unknown.” But the hu- mane physician has made this sug- gestion: “If a man can disown his son, why cannot a son disown his father?” And she suggests that} the phrase “father disowned”, should take its place on the regis- tration blank of such children. But there are others who be- lieve that in time the entry “fath- er disowned” might in time be just as branding as “illegitimate.” And then, another phase of the problem that is occupying Dr. Hal- ton is the disturbing question of the legal punishment for those des- perate young mothers who desert their ycung and who are classed with those parents who deliberate- ly abandon children for whom it is too much trouble to care. It is{ thought that there should be a; charp distinction made between all cases of child abandonment and that a young mother who repents| Mary Hal- York physi- brought her of her act and traces her child| to a foundling nursery should be cympathetically dealt with rather Tme ITYS e C Others there are though who are not so humane and inflict further dered and well-nigh frantic young woman who stands before the bar § |and are merciful in their leniency. |her crime but hoping for mercy from an exacting world. Fortunate- ly, there are well-known men and tle bundles of | Punishment on the oftimes bewil- | women whose hearts are touched ib,\' sorrow and who help mother and child. But the problem is still of justice mutely acknowlrdr:n;llhcro A Washington Bystander 5 PAN By HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—High | atop the big stacks in the Library of Congr may be found a gen- ial, pleasant, always obliging man in a barricade which reminds one of a bank vault— His name is V. Valta Parma, Li- brarian in charge of the rare book | section, Behind the steel bars of “bank- er’'s cages” he stands guard over is | some of the rarest books. A visitor | there is immediately aware of an air of aloofness—up on the top floor, high above the common books. And he is impressed the more when, after his credentials have gained him admittance, Parma himself brings out carefully and ™ cautiously some of his treasured volumes. For these inanimate objects are alive to him—live, human stories of man's progress. A large. square, slim volume seiected at random displays a page of the Gutenberg Bible. It is one of the first printed pages in the history of the world —the German’s initial experiment with movable type. 0ld Folios To another shelf, and Parma brings forth an ordinary looking book in a modern, dark blue bind- ing. Among the most called-for books in the Library, it is said to be one of the two copies in exis- tence. The other is in the Library, too—Adam H. Dickey’s memoirs of Mary Baked Eddy. All other copies are believed destroyed. On another shelf are five deli- cately but securely bound volumes representing a fabulous sum to book dealers—the first five editions ‘of Izaak Walton’s “Compleat An- gler.” And not far away are the first| four folios of Shakespeare's works. There is another—a volume. pub- lished in 1663 and belleved one of two copies in existence — Roger ' Wiliams's “Key Into the Language of America, or a Help to the Lan- guage of the Natives of that Part! of America Called Néw England.” It is the attempt of a puzzled Englishman to give handy transla- tions of the Indian languages to the early setlers in America. Valuable And there is a history of- the Plymouth colony written in 1622, two years after the founding of the settlement. Parma considers it among the most valuable books in the collection. He says this history has been of great assistance to research workers in American his- tory. There are others—thousands of than indiscriminatingly punished for having been unable to.stifle the urge of mother love. There are of course kindly judg-| es who probe the case before them them. The collection is being in-| creased gradually. collection, in which is included an original of the Gutenberg Bible, ‘The Vollbehr | el | and’ which ‘Congress agreed to buy at its latest session, will find space on the shelves in Parma’s cages. | There one may find compiled all | examples of printed work, from | the early days of Gutenberg in Germany, Bondoni in Italy, the Al- dine press, Caxton in England, and from William Morris, who made Chaucer a thing of physical ;hnauiy, to and through the mod- ern presses. | e ,,——— |Zeppelin Makes ) 104 Flights for i Record in 1930 (Continued from Pa& One) lin line with four or five ships and | proper mooring masts and other i]anding Tacilities would cost, he | calculates. ot more than $20,000,000. | ‘With such a line in operation the |cost per flight from Spain or Por- tugal to Brazil would average, every |thing included, about $38,000. Car- |T¥ing 40 passengers at $750 each |would bring in $30,000, and. freight and mail could be expected to make up the other $8,000 and add a rea- sonable prdfit. To Be Overhauled Since its méaiden flight in Sep- tember, 1928, the Graf has cruised an aggregate of nearly 150,000 miles and carried 6278 passengers and 2,200,000 pieces of mail and freight. How many more miles may be expected of it will be revealed to some extent during the extensive overhauling of ‘the ship this win- ter. The Graf’'s 1931 flying program ‘still ‘is. undetermined. A flight' to |the North Pole Is considered prob- able, provided the new year' brings a reasonable improvement in ‘gen- eral business conditions. It’s Bustling Belgium Now; Nation Has Buflding_ Era BRUSSELS, Dec. 26.—“Bleeding” Belgium in 11 years:has become “bustling” Belgium. The Government’s new budget papers show nearly 100,000 houses have been rebuilt since the war, and nearly 270,000 acres of land have been treated to return their fertility. In addition to giving approxi- mately $346,000,000 to civilians who suffered through the war, the Gov- 'ernment has built 140 town halls, 237 churches, 392 schools, 412 other municipal buildings, 9,300 factories, 35,000 miles of highways and 1,800 miles of railways. - e,——— Contracts have been awarded for construction of a $15,000 ob- servatory at the University of Ken- tucky. By C. P. NUTTER | SALINA CRUZ, Oaxaca, Mexicq Dec. 26.—Long chgrished dreams| that this Pacific t might revive to its position of 20 years ago have died, now that the Nicaraguan canal appears a certainty of the, future. And so buzzards lazily wheel over | a once proud harbor, whose en-! trance is so choked with sand that| one may walk dryshod across it;| rust eats port machinery once val-| |ued at $14,000,000; floods wash| down the Sierras into the strcelsi and the weekly train ambles in and | out of town—and nobody cares. i Salina Cruz died 15 years ago| when the first ship sailed through | the Panama Canal, for it was| transoceanic shipping on which the prosperity of the place depended.! | Hopes for its revival were based upon the fact that the volume of shipping was becoming too great | for the Panama waterway, thus cre- | ating a prospect that cargoes might | again have to cross from the At- lantic to the Pacific by land. Nicaragua Route Feasible But the American army surveys of Nicaragua show the feasibil of another canal and word from the United States indicates the probability of a start on its con-| struction within a few years. So| those who have struggled along here, living on hope, have packed | their scant belongings and boarded the weekly train. | Time was when 48 long freight i trains pulled into and out of Salina |Cruz daily. The railroad yards and docks were bechives of indus- | try, great ships stood out in the |roads awaiting their turns ab the jdocks, the town bustled night and day free and| easy. { But when the Panama Canal opened and it no longer was neces- sary to trans-ship cargoes, Sali {Cruz became a way point over- night. Rail service daily fell to ?ono biweekly and now passenger trains creep in only once ever seven days, crawling along over rusty rails that barely cling to a roadbed in which on one takes any interest. 0Oil Saves Puerto, Mexico Puerto Mexico, 143 miles away on the East coast, escaped the fate | of Salina Cruz because oil was dis- |covered on the eastern slope of [ the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. But nothing comparable to the magic of “black gold” happened to keep | salina Cruz awake, and money was The old route was ideal from a transportation standpoint so long as trans-shipments were necessary between the oceans. The line r: 143 miles over hiils no higher than 800 feet above dea level. The first.| |survey was made by American en- | gineers as long ago as the Civil | War and the road was built @ de- | | cade later. | 1In the heyday of the port it was | possible to unlead a ship, get the leargo on trains and reload again at Puerto Mexico on the Atlantic in 48 hours. But most of the sturdy laborers who accomplished such tasks have drifted back into the hills where tropical nature supplies them with a living at less cost to m — - TRAFFIC STANDARD SET HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 26—A “standard” of traffic has been set by the State Highway Department, requiring stop-and-go lights only at intersecflons where the peak load exceeds 500 cars an hour and | more than 125 cars entering from | side roads. | e Drivers’ license laws such as are in effect in California will be! sought in 28 State Legislatures next | ated is Harold Lloyd, scree Blake ‘(left) hi Elizabeth, 5, Gloria, 6 (right), NICARAGUAN CANAL SPELLS DOOM TO DREAMS OF MEXICAN PACIFIC TOWN R | IPLANES PUT CHICAGO SEVEN HOURS FROM NEW YORK CITY i Broadway is now wit shown above. CHICAGO, Dec. 26. — A lat breakfast in Chica nd an early inner on Broadway are now pos- ible. The line Ix cities ticable. New tri-motored plaries, carrying eight passengers will be flown by N. A.'T, whose airmen have car- ried mail over the route more than three years. Service was begun this month. The airline also operates a com- bination air and rail service between Chicago York. This will be cont East bound planes will from the Chicago municipal at 9:30 am. and will land at ark at 4:5¢ pm., a half-hour from New York. Traveling west, th planes will leave Newark at 12 noon and' reach Chicago at 7 p.m Intermediate stops will be made at Cleveland and Toledo. The establishment of the lin will bring the Golden Gate of San Francisco within 31 hours of New York. Planes fly the Chicago San Francisco route in 24 hours. - first direct air passenger een the country’s leading mede such a feat prac- nd DRUNK EXCUSED OF MELBOURNE, Dec. 26.—A man isn't responsible if he s while intoxicated. Such is the ruling of a board of magistrates in a Mel- bourne suburb. The accused was acquitted. 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