New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1923, Page 24

VNt Sl L Father Cotter Attacks Birth Control in Sermon at Miq;iqn Preaches on Live Subject of the Day at Gathering in Church of St. John the Evangelist. f birth A scathing denunclation o control was made by Rev, John Cotter in a sermon at the church of St. John the Evangelist last evening. IPather Cotter is a member of the laSalette with Rev, order and in company Thomas Conlon is conducting a mis- sion at the church The sermon is as follows “Today we fecl a sad truth stares us in the face wherever we ~the alarming falling off rate, Children are not of the of marriage but they are fts prim and principal end—a fact that people today are trying to ignore. This doc- trine of birth control which is being propagated throughout the country 1s working untold havoc. Tt is proving the ruin of society, the destruction of the family and the moral and physical degeneration of those who practice it, and unless it is stopped we face a dark future, while those who are re- sponsible cannot but expect a terribld Judgment from Almighty God. “This detestable vice which attacks the honor of maternity and the in- tegrity of the home often goes under the name of birth control, child mur- der, race snicide, according as it is practiced by a European, an Ameri- can or an Oriental, but it is nothing else hut a flagrant violation of God's most sacred laws and an outrage against naturc. We have it punished in nations and in individ- uals. When the dogs of war were Jet loose over Europe, in 1014, Ger- many had a population of 69,000,000, while IFrance had only 35,000,000, In 1870 their population was aimost equal. Had France the population she should have had, we might never have heard of that terrible war which turned Furope into one ceme- tery: or if it was to be, it mi It &0 of birth secn v 1t have | 1 an ended long before it did. The total! for the want of a little milk. This ls] ruin of those who practice it. excess of deaths over births in France | for 1914-15-16-17 was 883,160, which not include the 1,400,000 sol- in the war, Who will I'rance has not been pun- terrible crime of race does diers killed that for her say ished sulcide “We read i holy seripture that Onan was struck dead by Almighty God for this detestable erime which brought down fire and from heaven to destroy Sodom Gomorrha, What wrecks of man- hood and womanhood are strewn along the pathway of life because of this w ing away of the vital forces of life, Tt is the sin of society today and is sure to bring the curse of God those who commit it, tetribu- tion must come sooner or later, “There are all kinds of wealth on Park avenue, New York, but there Is no wealth of children, How many i town city has its Fifth avenue, Thank God, our parents and our grandparents knew nothing of this defestable which today is found not only among the Iour Hundred but among rich and poor alike, sap- ping the very life blood of the na- ti eanting like a cancer into the \ of society. “This doectrine of birth control is socially wrong and morally sinful, It is socially wrong because it fails to bring about what it sets out to ac- complish, and, to come down to facts and leave rhetoric and meaningless phrases aside, what thought have these people who use contraceptives of bettering the human race? Is it not rather to shirk responsibility and satiafy criminal passion? To Dbetter the human race is something very much to be desired, but it was never bronght about by the so-called so- ciety woman who rides around in a luxurious limousine ous poodle in her lap, who spends all her time at evening soclals and aft- ernoon teas, who runs to Newport in summer and to Palm Beach in winter, “These people will shed tears over v dog and found societies and tals to care for their pet ani- and they will allow the fam- child a block away to starve and on or vice d a brimstone | with a malodor- | e NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1922, IMMEDIATE OUTLOOK BEST IN YEARS; “There is a worse feature ahout this degrading vice. When some have not been successful in accomplishing t wicked designs, they will not hesitate to go to some unscrupulous doctor-— whose place is in the electric chalr wrong, it is morally sinful; of course, | rather than in the medical profession to tell this to those who belong to|-—and they will have him do away [ the upper crust of society is to evoke | with the unborn child, Such practi- | a laugh or a sneer, 8in to these| tioners are nothing else but murder- modern Pharisees is not a violation | ers whose standard of morality is the of God's law but to have a dirty face, | pockethook of their clients," to live in the back streets, not to wear fine clothes; this is their con- ception of sin, To commit a breach | of etiquette is deserving of the most | rigorous censure, but to go out and | violate another man's wife or to ruin | a pure, innocent girl is nothing-—a ‘:mrdnnmlvl(» weakness of human na- ture, | | “Birth control is wrong because "i |18 an abuse of nature, the prostitu-| | tion of that noble faculty which God | has put in man and woman for the! propagation of the hunian race. To | interfere with the fountains of life is | wrong, a violation of the natural law, | No one has a right on human life, no one can tamper with its sources, a sample of modern philanthropy. This abominable erime of race sulcide does away with the primary end of marriage and turns this sacred insti- tution into legal peostitution, “Birth control is not only soclally STATE BONUS FOR SOLDIERS OPINION Attorney General Will Make Rul- ing This Tuesday Hartford, April 18.-—A formal opin- “The Catholic church has always|jon by Attorney Gen. Frank Healy | waged an external war against this| wiil be placed with the leglslative degrading vice which makes a prog-| committec on military affairs on Tues- [titute of the wife and burns mar-|day in answer to a question placed | riage into a cloak to cover vice and |pefore him as to the right of the gen- hide an immoral life, Nice names| eral assembly to | often hide ugly vice. The real name bonus bill, The opinion has heen | for birth control is murder. The mor-| written, It is understood that the at- | ality of an act is not derived from the| torney general will hold that an ap- ;mv-ann by which it is brought about| plication for money for a spldier's | but from its conformity or non-con-|bonus would be unconstitutional. The | formity to a fixed rule or law, and|opinion it is understood is based upon the law of all morality is the law of {a study of the legal side of the sit- God. uation as determined by precedents |which in themeelves were determined | "‘Thou shalt not kill' is still a part of the Ten Commandments notwith-|by the constitutional limitations, The committee on military affairs | standing the attempts of these foul-| 1minrl<=d..gwop1p to spread the doctrine|has had under consideration for two | of birth control. Because birth con-|{months a proposed honus bill and trol, or child murder, has not about|there was a division in the committee | it the gruesome aspect of the murder | as to a report. On the proposition of | committed by the assassin, this does|submitting the question to a referen- ! | dum of the voters the committee ask- not take it out of the category of mur- | der, for it is the taking of human|€d Attorney Gen, Healy for his opin- {life even though that life is still un-|ion as to the constitutionality of the ! developed and only in the process of | appropriation of money for a bonus, | formation. It makes no difference IR | whether that child is six months old| M G s DI or six weeks old, it has a right to live, AT HE D IT | even though it be illegitimate and a i | | child of sin and shame. - i ; “Pa d6 away with the. unbor ehild “ Fire Department Called Out at 1:30 ] or to prevent its conception by con- | A. M. for Blaze in Closet of Pleasant | traceptive methods is outright mur- der, a crime that means the depopu-{ Street Home—Damage Is Slight. lation of nations, the destruction of | the family and the moral and physical A small fire in a Kitchen closet at | the home of Mrs, Rebecca Silver at |53 Pleasant street called Engine Co.| No. 2 out at about 1:30 o'clock this| | morning. An alarm was rung in from, Box No. 212 by Policeman Thomas| [ Tierney. When the firemen arrived they found a small fire burning in a closet off the kitchen. Chief \‘\'Illiumi J. Noble expressed the beiief that the | fire started from a box of matches. | Damage to the extent of $25 “'a.!j done. 7 | Engine Companies, No. 1 amd 23 were called out at about 11:15 o'clock | this morning from an alarm rung| from Box No. 446, to extinguish a blaze which had started in a pile of | | rags near the furnace at the home of Philip Zwick on Commonwealth ave- nue. FIGHT SCHOOL FIRE | Building ¥From Blaze. 11923, | Within Two Hours After Going on '@ | Strike, Students Rally to Save| lat once, because the present |cannot be long lived. RUHR INVASION Wellesley. Hills, Mass,, April 18— Roger W. Babson is very optimistio on the immediate outlook. Since re- turning from his inspection trip, he has been going through the mass of reports and figures which accumulats ed on his desk during his absence, These statistics are even more en- couraging than he had antlcipated, ‘American business has certalnly waked up"! according to the statis- tielan, *The . Bahson chart showed nearly no unemployment, Where the blast furnaces were then being banked —new furnaces are now being start- ed and premiums are being pald for prompt steel deliveries. The copper industry is showing activity for the first time for several years and many of the miners have been glven a | wage Increase ‘of 60 centg a day. | Building is still booming and the 1023 |figures will exceed any previous year, notwithstanding the big volume of 1922, “The most remarkable change in sentiment I find right at home here in New England. A year ago the -pass a soldier's |mills were cutting wages and great numbers of workers were out on strike. Today the mills are working overtime and the largest concerns are advancing wages. Of course, this is an unhealthy sign for the long pull | because it is due only to the artificlal barrier on immigration. On the oth- er hand, increased wages are a great temporary stimulus to trade. The purchasing power of many cities is simply the total of these cities’ pay- rolls. Increasing wages in New Eng- land's mills of ‘1214 per cent, in- creases the purchasing power of the communities to almost a correspond- ing amount. This means that these manufacturing centers will-——during 1923—be the best places to send sales- men, because most wage workers spend all they get. Moreover, such salesmen should be sent to these cities boom It is not based on a firm foundation. Many of these men now getting an increase in their wages will be out of work bhefore 1924 is ended, “While coming north last week | from my winter home at Mountain Lake in the beautiful Ridge Lake sec- tion of Florida, I saw cotton being planted in Georgia. It is evident that the South is very happy with the present price of cotton and that a arger acreage will be planted in Corn planting has started in the Southwest and the seeding of oats is seen throughout the South and west. Winter wheat, doubtless, was killed to some extent last month in tucky; but these fields will soon be replanted—for even the farmer is | feeling better than he has felt for some years in spite of the fact that he is mot yet out of the woods. His great | difficulty was that the price of wheat he had to sell went down so much | more than the price of wheat he had p _— | Doylestown, Pa., April 13.—Thirty students of the National Farm school here, less than two hours after they | | had struck in protest against the dis- | Ilinois, Indiana, Missouri and Ken- | 240 ASYLUM ST. AIDS, SAYS BABSON to buy, What the farmer wants s higher produce prices or lower mers chandise prices, Now to have mer. chandlse prices go up still higher In 1023, as everything Indicates will be the 6, the farmers must get high- er prices for their 1923 crops or else there surely will be another collapse in 1924, We cannot get good business by disregarding either the Multiplica- tion Table or the Ten Commandments, *“I'he Ruhr Invasion is also helping spring business over here in America, Por the first time In history—except during the Great World War-~we are shipping coke to ¥rance and Germany, Japan, which had ordered great amounts of steel from Ruhr mlills, is |now turning to the United States, Jurope, which last year had turned agaln to production, is now busy play- ing politics and watching the exhibi- tion of a War Pageant staged in the Ruhr Valley, While Eupope s indulg- ing in this luxury, sh®mnst ecat and live, Hence, France and Germany are |again buying goods in America, as the export figures to be issued shortly by the Department of Commerce, will clearly show. How long this situation will last, no one can tell; but it is helping us here in the United States, “Spring business is also being in- creased by the bellef that Congress will not be in scsslon again until De- cember and then for only a short ses- sion. Whatever the motives of our politiclans may be, the fact remains |that they are a great drag on the prosperity of America. Under our| present system of government the | {only reason we have any prosperity is | because of our tremendous natural re- |sources. Our forests, mines, fertile fields, and other great gifts of God enables us to afford to indulge in fac- |tional legislation and political 10g-roll- ing as a pastime. Hence, when we cease this selfish game for nine {months, business almost always plles lup. Certalnly this is one of the chief causes for optimism today. | “I am very. hopeful for immediate | | business,” concluded Mr. Babson, “‘as the robins come back and the trees Jleaf out business will be good, and all lof us prosperous. I only add—Ilet us be sure not to abuse this prosperity, or the Babsonchart, which now stands lat 49, above normal, will quickly drop back.” | [Bar Association Pays | Tribute to Beardsley : Bridgeport, April 18.—A tribute to | the memory of Judge Morris B. Beardsley, who died last month, ws given at the meeting of the bar the short calendar session of the Ifair- | | field county superior court today. The culogy was pronounced by Judge John H. Perry of Southpert. Appropriate 1esolutions were adopted. J00D VIA, AIRPLANE Miami, Fla., April 13. ood for the 22 Fort Myers motorists stranded in the heart of the everglades was start- ed to them today hy airplane. | City [Items. Matinee at the K, of C, Falr Satur. day afternoon, 2 P, M, to 6:00 P, M Entertainment and dancing. Admis sion I'ree—~advt, Open alleys at the Casino tonight. advt, ¥rench Hat Shoppe, 87 West Main 8t, Prof. Bldg, Exclusive millinery. —~advt, Open alleys at the Casino tonight, —advt, ' “Starlight Bay" fox-trot at Morans', =advt, Dr. and Mrs, B. D, Radeliffe have returned from a trip to Detroit and Cloveland, Rackliffe Bros, offer Norwalk Tires at t;ld' prices, You save the advance, ~—advt, 000 given away at the K, of €, ndvt, Meet me at the K. of C. Fair to- night.—advt, Elm Hill strictly fresh eggs, Spe- ctal for Saturday, 40c doz Natlonal Tea Importers, 123 Main St-—advt. Elm HiN strictly fresh eggs, 8pe- clal for Baturday, 40c doz National Tea Importers, 123 Maln St—advt, Rackliffe Bros. offer Norwalk Tires at old prices, You save the advance, —advt, { The Sports club at the Y, W, C, glve o whist and 500 party in the gym this evening at 8 o'clock. The affair is open to the public and the proceeds will go towards the plano fund. Miss Carlyn Kingsley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kingsley of Bas- ’ sett street, is rccovering from a recént | operation for appendicitis at the New | Britain General hospital. i advt. i | FINAL TOTAL IS $87,794.66 | United Community Corporation Still Has Over $12,000 to ml:e to Megg | | Goal Set For Campaign. A total of $37,742.66 was reccived in the United Community corporation drjve for $60,000 to date, according to figures announced today by James S. | North, director of the drive. This figure includes $1,065.57 collected in § the dime banks. 1 Among the school children, Miss Washburn's room at the Camp school reported the highest average in the city, the figure being $1.40. The next highest average was that of $1.33 at- tained by Miss Larson's room at the Lincaln school. i The next highest was Sister M. Re- gis' room at St. Mary's parochial school with an average of $1.05 and the fourth highest was Sister M. Ar- mella’s room with an average of 95 cents, Richard Pelton turned in the high- | est amount of any child, he having reported $7.40. William Attwood was next with $5.40. Of the Boy Scouts, Fugene Raynor turned in §4.80. The Caesar Misch Store Home of Cheerful Credit, ] — | missal of flve of their number, rallied |§ | dormitory, from destruction by fire. | & N W I Ky ‘:at d I 0 ¥ A loss of $65,000 was occasioned by | @ o o e n u | the blaze, which the director of the |§ | school, Dr. Bernhard Ostrolenk, said |§§ THE ENTIRE FAMILY From Grandpa to “Sonny” Can Satisfy Their Apparel Needs If You Open A CHARGE ACCOUNT?" 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Everything is in shape now to serve you most satisfac- ] res $33.,$45 New York, April 13.—The mimicry | |of her parrot today saved the life of | | | After quarreling with ‘her husband | 'Blrs. Reid siashed her wrists in her Then she eried for heip until she be- came faint, 63 CHURCH ST. Mrs. Reid's mother living in the same house, heard the pargot and rushed | M's. Louis H. Reid. studio apartment on East 57th street. The hird, however, carried on. her daughter to the hospital.