Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1931, Page 30

BIRTH CONTROL HIT | BY GEORGIA JUDGE Mrs. Margaret Sanger De- fends Cause in Debate With Father of 18. By the Associated Press ATLANTA. Ga., May 15—Richard B. Russell, chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, engaged in debate last night with Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth- control advocate. The jurist, the father of 18 children and whose son, Richard B. Russell, jr., is the Govern i “flood of advertisements, contraceptives and quacks” wi loosed if the law which prohibits dis- semination of birth control informa- tion in the mail were repealed. Mrs. Sanger, the mother of three children, said that since the law was passed, largely through the influence of Anthony Comstock 57 years ago, one and a half million mothers have died of causes incident to motherhood, 80 per cent of whom might have been saved had not the law been in effect. Children Endangered. Fifteen million children, she said, had been “pushed out of life before they reached the first year bacause of weak- ened mothers, poverty and neglect.” Judge Russell said the law is needed to protect the home. “Every one in Georgia who needs to know about birth control already knows | about it.” he declared. “Any Stat> that wants contraception practiced can have it. But I don’t want the malls in my State opened to injurious matter to be placed before the immature minds in the homes. I object to opening the mails to depravity. “I think Mrs. Sanger is conscientious 1n her objections to the law, but when she gets this thing started she can't control it.” Birth control, said Mrs. Sanger, is not only a health and economic ex- pedient, but also a means of improving the moral strength of the Nation. The way of nature has been to con- trol population by the death rate, but social consciousness of the modern world, she said, prevents nature from having its way by destruction of the weak and unfit. Practiced by Group. Birth control, she said, has been practiced for a generation or more by “a certain group, regardless of laws, where the best of this world's things are found—intelligence, com- forts, health, strength.” Taking Benjamin Franklin as an example, Judge Russell said “great men have always come from the poor,” and advocated mothers’ pensions to help them take care of the children, “some of whom will bless the nation.” “It is not the self-sacrificing, home- loving, man-making woman who wants this,” he said, “but the so-called ladies who wapt to attend the theater and the club instead of staying at home caring for their children GRADUATING RITES SET Chevy Chase College and High Ex-| ercises to Begin June 5. The 1931 commencement exercises of the Chevy Chase Junior College and Senior High sSchool will begin Friday, June 5, with class play exercises at 5 pm. Graduation ceremonies will. take place Monday, June 8, commencing at 4:30 pm. During the four-day period of the commencement season st the school,! there will be a home economics exhibit, a gless club concert, an almunae associa- tion luncheon, an annual meeting and dramatic presentation on Saturday and baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Charles | J. Scudder, a piano recital and a lunch- eon in honor of visiting parents on Sunday. A commencement dance will econ- elude the events Monday at 8:30. G 21 Russia now leads France and Great Britain in the number of movie houses. SSA0 0 S DumueT o movie nouses LANSBURGCH'S 7th, 8th and E Sts. Photo- graphs of Individual Charm Created in our Photo- graphic Studio by an artist who knows your best pose. Bring your children. Our children’s portraits are a specialty. THE EVENING Just a Few ‘Mothers and Babies AR, SEVERE QUAKES ROCK VILLAGES NEAR ROME Sticking close to their mothers are these baby monkeys, Which are to be seen here with the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Balley Circus Monday and Tuesday of next week. Populaces Camp Out at Recurrence of Heavy Shock, Which Fails to Cause Damage. By the Associated Press. ROME, May 15.—Severe earthquake shocks which spread terror, but caused no injuries and only slight damage, shock the region around Viterbo, 50 miles north of here, Wednesday night. For two days much of the population of the town of Celleno camped in the streets and on the countryside. The first shock came at 11 p.m. Wednesday. After people had returned to their houses the area was shaken again, at 1:15 am. ‘The tremors were heavy, rolling quakes with a loud rumble. ~After the second shock almost all residents of the little town spent the night crouched around bonfires in their night cloth- ing, praying and ecrying. 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