The evening world. Newspaper, April 10, 1911, Page 16

eB Eee — eos 16 Roosevelt’s Dictum That There Should Be Four Ch I; an Insult to Decent Motherhood, Say Noted Women Thinkers = vst aa truly as the woman who hae hed four eit Let Him Confine His Exhortations on Such Purely\~ Personal Matters as the Size of a Family to His Own! Children, Says Mrs. William Grant Brown, President City Federation 01 Women’s Clubs. The Man Who Earns Even ‘$40 a Week Commits ai Economic Crime ii He Brings More Than One or Two Children Into the World, Says Mrs. Julian Heath. 1 Think Mr. Roosevelt Is “ Dippy” on This Matter of Rac He Does Not Suicide. He Is Whimsically Unjust. Represent Things as They Are, Says Mrs. Harriett Johnston- Wood. “Four children to each mother,” the latest dictum of Dictator Theodore Roosevelt as laid down by him in his contributory maga zine The Outlook, has aroused intense interest, particularly among the women. The Colonel! calis the present condition of the American family question viewed by him one of race decadence, which is at least a modification of his declaration that we were in immediate danger of race suicide. “The American stock is being cursed with the curse of sterility,” thundered Mr, Roosevelt. “The race cannot go ahead; it cannot keep ite numbers unless the average man and woman who are mar- tied and who are capable of having children have a family of folir. ‘The meaaure of our respect for the true wife and mother is the Measure of our scorn and contemptuous abhorrence for the wife who refuses to be a mother,” he continues. “And a mother is no mother the is 80 four times.” All of this and the rest of the Colonel's daring views on this sub- ject were submitted by me to New York's leading women thinkers and worke: ind their views follow. MRS. WILLIAM GRANT BROWN, President City Federation of Women's Clubs: I think #omething should stop Mr. Roosevelt's perpetual propen- sity to bows, What right has he to step in and tell me how to rule my life? Lot him confine his exhortations on such purely personal matters as the size of a family to his own children, Rase decadence,” the new twist hts remarkable vocabulary has given to race suicide,” Is utter nonsense. There fs no much thing in America, It - fair to judge even the size of the aver- age American family by the apartment house population. Go out into the coun- try and the large suburban towne and you'll find plenty of children. Go down into the city slums and you'l find many too many. If “the children of the im- migrante” show “wilful sterility” that fact haa not yet been discovered by Women social workers of New York though it is heralded by the om-| § nisclent Mr. Roosevelt. Four children are certainly too ye done to many for the average man earn- (MRS. WILSON WOODROW, Author of '110r!" Masaes. | ing the average salary. He can- “The New Missioner” ana Other| .! “UP t can searcely matter to not support them properly. Books, Col. Roosevelt that what the thinking 1 know a family living near my coun- people of to-day, the real well fi try ome. There are saven ot eitht| wondertul ana ‘gioniws ot rotersions | £7 Len guimany racer” MUIR for | Genetica Lethe) Reel esineet, h 4 Lp yh n¢ 5 of professio: entra pawning ke Other women, themselves perfectly Youngateret lost the exact count some! But I think Mr. toonevelt, in his whole, |Hah. Undoubtedly the Colomel vwoutd i ot men, themselves pi F time ago. The mother, though still! sale broadside againat the women why {Praise the mother of @ half a dozen strong and well, marry and find that Young, ie a broken down invatid. The! shirk it, forgets two things unhealthy, iil-kept children, while he jthetr ands are not physically’: At children are washed and dressed and) Hirst,” there ure many. wives whose | “Tied down the unnatural woman who to be fathers.. Then #f these women Aiven {00d and put to bed—part | husbandn are dead, or at least dead to | Prougnt Sut one child into the world | have the real mother-love tn thelr hearts) time, But there is not even an attempt | ble for these were, | recuse she felt that one < and one.) SERS. CLARENCE, BURNS [they say, ol MUST NEVER MAVE to give them ethical or cultural train- | file Haat thereat | Child onl, was all that she, could prop. iF O88 ey. ANY CHILDRE They will not ing of any wort. Furthermore, | Rifai ie aha " jpibtersel a Galltioad heed Families are smaller than they used) bring little helpless beings into the What my grandmother would call); Kee pilnies Be ' ahce to be, particularly among Ame ho will be blind of deat or} puny.” ‘That {s, they are pale, under- Rrinms SG MIbHiAL iitaliaot the better class, but 1 think Mr sone way and only one sized, sluggish tn movement, slow in ps sume up in his phrase Col. Roosevelt: has Velt i unfair in putting the blame s the old curse laid upon thought. Not one of them will develop twitlog Gf: bne'a earae ce Montene ual point of view, Of, larKely on the women, j the sins of the fathers, It ts to al- #8 man or woman, Each! nproper channels, ‘T should ¢ ty {t to Sts logical con- | steriiliy is due to | low even nd generation of te handicapped from his birth | Say “less proper,” bv I believe ud have to endow rabbita ress, to Jo’ a to shrinking from | ehtldren to come into being. When experts wish to breed choice| motherhood is the great main channel | oe He crane iee oy 62 rile, (can 4 pitiful failure in} In my worl among the poor families of duty streams of life Se stock they take care that the procreation mal} not take place too frequently, For thag matter, as Dr. Anna Shaw ob- served the other day, nature has pro- Vided that the nigher animals shall pro Guee young at much longer Interval (iam the lowe, ones. A cut has six o efght kittens several times a year, A| res colt eomes into the world e, and | Pi be has no brother until at least another of many women a duty to the state, ves nc atitnde mother 4» st arduous an: fession on ed I have Just been readin, ir, A. G@ twelve months have passed. The hue | elis's Hees book. 4 rhe New Mav-) and the Lif a Fine Aft Club, Rian Face, the most developed of all the {hat tie intelligent married woman ne! [think that Mr, Roosevelt's remarks animal species, should the prin- chooses, and has @ right. to.0M “race decadence” are absolutely vul- ciple of qualitative, rather than quan- whether or not her echildren| «ar and insufferable, Every wife is a tative, offapring still further jshall be born into the conditions of mother if the thing 14 possible, ‘Then Mx. Roosevelt and Dr. Charles | omic servitude in which her hus-!why talk about her and scold her for ‘W. Bilot should start a farm. fs placed, Mr.!what ix her misfortune and not her) E admire Teddte for some things, the penstoning | awit? It is the apotheosis of bad breed-, but 2 do wish he wouldn't butt oreraniects AoC tae \ ake, future of the goes so far as to tm go much. ‘MRS, JULIAN HEATH, President of League for Rome Boonomt: a OF ane alone can the nm of fact. There are the Individual and Social Justice fanling ranks. fn and heart, as well s. I rathe 4 right Why does! + A woman who is a4 Leeegu not Mr sevelt suKBest some such philant et or a great artist ts as truly 1 am ao anti-suffragist and 1 believe fn the home. I think no home ts com. pete without nildren, and toat no Woman reaches her fullest develope Until she has become a mother. It @ little child to bring out tenderness and chi #od womanly je only half a wo with this ere But the > woman with lest tt sterile” and all names! Why, 1 have myself, m andl one who says I'm no 1 do think four familly, very nice Doasible to afford 1 The man who thirty or commits brings more than one or two children tute the world. In the past centuri large families we: practical wa instead of sermonizing? MRS. dent Society of on, sider that a insults me mber fi vothe s 4 nice 1 jeed, But the tremendous) necessary to p vide the surplus killed off in the ware When three or four of the « ould merve the Btate by being killed in it service, the argument that aoe cunmot go ahead” withou; large families Wite supported by some eHow of reason, | " ny Now the extra large family of Wh ui dyen is more apt to by an aid to the state which eat up our ts y Woman W ings 1 Eyer with ,the prectica the world goos 4 {nto the valley o' sare eure the Jow of death. It isn a1 that ‘The mo! ane a and caring, The father sorliaty a tile be Wearies of his al) too numerous re- a sponsibilities and skips. The orphan 4) 240 1+ wt , Seylum does the rest. Tho rtate is Aletinctly out. Every normal wife who of the Only tt is barred against me pthough Mr, Roosevelt instats| hood t# the least ut to give! A of solving his difficulty | creative as if she were tie mother of WILLIAM TOD HELMUTH, Honorary Prest- New York THE EVENING WORLD, in e ie |—— Mrs. LILLIAN HASBROUCK, leader in women’s activities in New York for several years: Col. Roosevelt's dictum that all mar. ried persons should have a family of Tat least four children is both vulgar and stupid. Sometimes when some of the things Col. Roosevelt says are re. | peated to ine I feel as though 1 had been | sitting on the back stairs listening to my butler dis ing to my cook, His | sentimet y Uke the virtuous | | | wishers | ming majority. However, Col. troubled so he himself probably has never before this, with log!> will not now. Aw a inatter Ing this subject very much. Veit's remarks aeem to me to be be- neath the notice of intelligent and well bred peonle, ' of fact, T dislike discuss- Col, Roose- | MRS. HENRY LOY EASTON, Prest- Gent of the National Society of Ohio, for the ex-President’s intimatt the woman not a moth member of soctety, t four boys. Women: | velt, in his fondness for neurping the functions of the day from on Nigh, clects to settle the question for the race. He ts fundamentally wrong. Personally 1 think women were put nto the world for other purposes th the bearing of children. ‘They ther functions than the physio ones. MRS. HARRIETTE JOHNSTON.) WOOD, Lawyer and vii of the Bqual Suftrage 1 dent mply dippy I think Mr, Roosevelt is this matte race sulolde, Fur+ ermore, he iy intrinsically unjust Vurthermore, he does not represent things as they are It In the men and not the women of America who are to blame for race or ra If nine- e uniltted \ be fathers before their ge, 4 woul be more t 1 Roosevelt wld address | vung men belaboring at “the race cannot go dren they can? s why they should not woman's nature, PM yw” to sound and healthy maturity are nine | £01 and Wife ‘Phat is, both she and her husband are vundred and ninety-nine ca a | to Just as they | re ited by « couple In the next| thousand anything bu: the an ls to! decide whether they wish to live in « on. Of course the race Is keep: | ame 4 Mas oF & suvUrbeR collage. My Rovse | og ite numbers even. MRS. CLARE NCE BURNS, MONDAY, APRIL Idren to 10, a Family Shall It Be the Ballot or the Four-Baby Family? President of the Little Mothers’ Aid Association: sense of perspective, of the sense of duty or a twisting of that sense into Improper channels, And he implies that all qualities are largely to be found among women, I think that the number of women who refuse to have child- ren because it would interfere with their social duties and pleas- be practi- But thore are who refuse to be- come mothers, and even refuse to ta Vilso eB.) = or sono, te © PEARTA DO 2 Sit Scitar 4 iri to a rooting out these undesirable marry from the highest and most ' right to bring a world unless, so far as she he cnn give it a birthright of th, I know three women, charming, cultured, spiritual. They love children devotedly. But they will en marry—because two of { er \ \ | | T have seen so many little diseased babies and my heart ached for them, ‘just because I love children. Ignorant |motherhood {# a terrible thing. I be- {Meve that women are coming to realize that. 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