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ais EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 6, WARBABIESWIL! American Suffragists Approve Adoption BE SUPERWOMEN OF THE rere Mrs. Pankhurst They We wb ly Along M ¢ Reared Strict- How alern Lines EVERY CHANCE GIVEN Rich Sponsors Sought for Them With View to Adoption To Ask American Aid. LONDON, May 6—Mrs. Ermeti Pankhurst explained to-day the plans of the Women's Suffrage and Polit fead Union to adopt a number war bu of girl “Wo will set up a reat standard,” @aid the Suffrage ieader “tt will Prove a model for the future. We| have secured a large country place In Burrey and have aleo a place in the vicinity of the London Flower Gar- dens he babies are to be brought Up along eugente lines, ‘They will be ecard for by trained nurses. The Madame Montessort system of edu ton will be adopted. The latest ideas for healthy development, for food and for clothing will be utilized, We will probab all the institution the Woman's Suffrage and Political Union H “We are going to depend upon the public for its support. We will even ask wealthy families to act as spon- sors for one war baby each, who, when education Is mpleted, can logally be adop Iso eons 4 plan of Insurance for others who are unaponsc whereby we can furnish a fund for the fe when they reach the » of seventeen or eighteen, We plan to act while other organizations pre trying to find out how to deal with the subject, “We intend to demonstrate that our solution will develop these children jnto super-women, They will be de- veloped according to their demon- strated adaptability, no branch of genius permitted to go un- Aided through I Mrs. Pankhurst said that on June 3 she will unfold the details of her plan to the British public and will then a for financial and moral support. She said that she will appeal to America and other neutral tries for aid so he work can go forward without umber of bables to be cared for initially will depend on the public aid ree i Mrs. I the United Pig and personally ah “Avi tv nkhurst expects to come to ates next winter to lee- enlist American 1 taught jes be these t the of f “There will be was the quick re tain the axe to know about things the world will I since been initiated Into women’s suffrage ————e RAN $46 TAXI BILL AND DIDN'T HAVE A CENT Bartender Rode Twelve Hours and Finally Landed in Police Court. Edward Trainer of No, 320 West Forty-second Street, a seif- possessed young man describing himself as a bartender, cheerfully admitted in ‘West Side Police Court to-day that he ran up a taxicab bill of $46.60 ‘Monday afternoon and night and wound up the ride unable to pay ‘the bil. Magistrate Corrigan held him in $500 bail on a disorderly conduct charge and allowed him to go out In the custody of an officer and skir- migh for the money due for the taxi ride, Maxwell Robinson, « chauffeur, had Trainer arrested yesterday. Trainer chartered Robinson's cab at 8 o'clock Monday afternoon, He hi @ young woman with him, The direction Robinson got was to pro- ceed to Flushing, L. 4. At Flushing iner panion picked up a drove back to Manhatt restaurant up to Inwood on and his com- woman, ‘They n and had din- Then the ner in a Broad they motored Hudson and trom Inwood over to Ase toria, Long Island. travelled by Bridge From Astoria they Way of the Queensboro a chop suey restaurant at ith Street and Third Ave- xi had been in the service twelve bh and had ht mile said Trainer to but I'm broke. I don't see Robinson, how I can pay this bill." his job on account of taxi ri Robinson lo the unfortuna Landlords Prefer World Advertisements! 23,786 World “TO LET” Ads. Last Mornth— ,089 MORE THAN THE HERALD! Because Tenants Turn to World Ads. for Variety! ENMA TRENTIN Of War Babies by Their English Sisters aie Fou “THING AS them | child is born?” been proffered. Fanaven Te H MARAT who have explated Meanwhile, t woman may leave her baby self, although the child’s identity will be pres it again when she desires to do 80, ness and sentimentality. WAR BABIES, The English advocates of votes for women have taken a definite stand on the question of the war bable I wondered what American Suffragists would have to say about them, So I asked three who are eminently quall- fied to speak for the modern wing of the woman movement. I went first to Mrs, Rheta Childe Dorr, author of “What Eight Million Women Want,” Suffrage campaigner in score of States and hard-work- ing member of those two flying squadrons of Suffrage, the, Women's Con pasional Union and the Empire SI e Campaign Committee, Dorr for many Pankhurst's close companion, She will shortly return to England to make a special study of the social problems raised by the war—inelud- ing war babies, “War babies are another proof that England is on the loos observed succinctly. “And | don't wonder, after the shameful ap- peal of the Church for war brides. | consider that the clergy of England are in no small de- qree responsible for the number of war babies. The idea of their urging girls to marry men whom they have borely met, simply for purposes of propagation! feverish, excited girl who hears this talk cannot be blamed if she sees little difference between such a union and one over which no priestly formula has been uttered. op) was are always war bable when normal restraints slackened, After in any na re re- a great town there {llegitl. rere moved or religious revival is an increased number of mate children. In England thi been no physical compulsion of women, as in Belgium and France, but girls, many of them of less than normal mentality, have been swept off their feet by the general delirium, The English, too, are the most sentt- mental nation on th, and the giamour of the soldier is strong. He undoubtedly worked for all it wa worth the ‘I am going to be kiled— Mrs. | montha Mra, | 7 SfCU ee tuerc 1s NO SUCH AN RLGGITMATE CHILD RHETA CHILDE DORR SAYS: “The mothers should receive pensions from the State; Government made war, the war made | war babies, then let the Goverment take care of | FOLA LA FOLLETTE SAYS: { “There are no illegitimate children; there are illegitimate mothers and fathers, but no child| breaks the law by coming into the worl ELEANOR GATES SAYS: “For the sake of such babies shouldn’t there be a helping law to the effect that such perente| are automatically married the moment a living! By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. What ts to be done with the war babies? H All England is asking that question, and all sorts of answers to it have ‘The latest 1s given by the Woman's Soctal and Political | Union, Mrs, Pankhurst’s suffrage society, which has ar-| ranged to adopt a number of the girl war babies and rear them in accordance with the most modern ideas of the French Government has opened institutions where any | with no questions asked and no expen: Such a c tion of a great problem perbaps cannot be expe BLAMES CLERGY'S APPEAL FOR °————— | has! VAMAROIED SHE To ween ABOR Pom UFC Du not Take THe CHILD From THE MOTHER. Eves GATES ate PRC | w xp and wisdow roe una) nould women « child culture. i It has been proposed that Parliament pass an act ! THE legitimizing once and for all, the babies born of unmar- | ried mothers since the war bes 1 te forgiv a truly superb bit of British hypocrisy, is that th a babies becau mothers should all be married by proxy! The Goyern- | ment has been urged to pension them, the church has| their country. been implored to forgive them “for the sake of the men! ferdiveness | think their sins with their blood.” | | se to her: rved so that she may late yed, matter-of-fact solu-| ted from Lnglish smug: @ task mu been won't you be kind to me’ Mrs, plea,” added | POAC LED Muded girls: te of who © OF WAR — PAY IT pune untra mod It of r those om » be a? elr passio be expected nd? WOULD FORGIVE MOTHERS FOR} IR OWN SAKE. “The church has been implored the mothers of th If it's a questi They are to sentence we hear so much were their fathers have | expiated their sin by dying for the mothers had better be forgiven on their own account, and suffering for their country— ) harder than dying— and they have qiven her the citi- zens which she admits she wants, at great cost to themselve: economic effect of the war has | to penalize thousands English mothers, married as well as unmarried; —, THE UNMARKIED ONE th BETTER THAN THE MARRIED ONG Witt A POODLE bOG If-de- aint narching | why the of jewar | ion of living The of them Dorr, her flexible h takin to hard labor for life. on a slightly sareastic curv “The Government niust accept the THINKS GOVERNMENT, NOT | responsibility fur the Mhancial sup) WOMEN, MUST ACT. | port of the war babies, whether pen- “I don't see how these war babies | gio) ven directly or the French can be legitimized, in the sense that | Gove it's plan of adoption is im- we ordinarily understand the word," | jtated. Many Suggestions to this she weat on reflectively. “Many of | oftect aye proof that we are growing the fathers are dead or ai re socially minded, for every war Many do not know that they are brought war babies, but never x fathers, and undoubtedly have no de-| proposal that the state charge itself sire to see again the girls with whom | with their 4 The next step will they asociated for so brief a time.| bo for women all over the world to There must be women who themselves | unite and declare that there must be cannot name the fathers of their! ny more of the war which means these dreadful thin the children must be | “The hopeful thing about the pres- cared for. 1 don't seo what. the ent situation,” added Miss La Follette, Woman's Social and Political Union | +s that the state, being foreed to take n do, for I think it must have hard-| care of these war babies don't se ly any money, And anyway, I believe | jow it ean evade the duty—must that the problem of the war babies Is | henceforth have ar ling of re decidedly up to th. Governmen sponsibility for alld iren, | “The mothers of war babi “wh should receive pensions from the timize the war bables by act State. They say that this is en- ament?” I asked. dowing immorality. But the Gov- “There are no_ illegitimate ernment endowed immorality children,” she said quickly. “There when it entered the war. | think the Suffragiats should keep their hands off the whole problem. The Government made war, the war made war babies—then let the Government take care of them Let this expenditure be openly ac- cepted as a part of the price of war.” | ‘ola La are will, iMegiti of others.” eanor Hette, who amilingly ad-| is an activ # that she belongs to every Suf- | cite Caing frage organizatioa in New York and)» who over s for women rd y of carin the respon. the | mo Ho of the war bables upon thi ae Government and not upon quite frat Suffragists. The daughter of Senator! anity will Robert La Follette and the wife of | te situation George Middleton, the playwright | yo ie he that war babies are simply a! gravely poignant women,” “How can of of pro war dovs to we them?" she asked. @ time when sane, selfs. ju controlled, far-sighted men have ab- |. solutely forgotten the future and tive {0 1Ne 1 only in the present moment, how can ana homes. imate mothers, i and illegitimate fathers, but no child himself breaks the law by coming into the world. he should not suffer for the sins ates, the en owr it do you think of the proposal if you And AUTOMATIC MARRIAGES AS S8O-) LUTION OF PROBLEM, athy for © mar ota 1 clearing up| a the ques Mt ¢ i Ww fully ti stituted duly Ite true that Guicty ones —~ AGT ~ we Amisten es then naked the own minds sweet 1 juntas human ay! ® unfortunate that the par- ents of the War Babies did not houldn't there be a helping law —to the effect that such parents aro automatically married the moment a living child is born? This would effectually attend to any such oversight. Knd, at tho same time, it might make a few men who are willing to take ad- vantage of weak or trusting young womon, a little more care: ful of assuming such a responsi- bility. SORRY THAT MOTHERHOOD EVER A CRIME... wore than a “But mind, unt tunate, to inission of the Heense, tat motherhood should unted a-erime! How those long dead have led question for us the dee! my this by for tint. thoneh, that there were moth long before there wos matrimony. "In settling this question,” she tinued earnestly, “the ehild should. be the first consideration, And no plan will be a plan that deprives the ehild ft parents. vat least one 4 mother, And allowed to re they will ne lack som of ¢ tho! # FIVE DAYS 1W PRISON FOR! =." sor svrrm oon cemany RECKLESS MAIL RIVER oso, mamas sae be mall trecke. A Track Ohaut { g Through Crowd | ¢ U ati M H hed wot vent to prison for five daye . veo ant women | BLAMES city’s STREETS. 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