The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1916, Page 3

BRIDGE KING MUST THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, IS IT RIGHT TO LIMIT BIRTH OF CHILDREN? PAY WIFEALIMONY Some Doctors Say YES! Other Doctors Say NO! FROM WINNING Practice of Control Not al Crime, Says Dr. William| — J. Robinson ~Publicity’ Mrs. B. Elwell Suvs Hus of Its Methods a Good! id Made $30,000 in Thing for Humanity—| @ Night. | Many Who Refuse to! | Practice It Are Often’ Sex Gluttons. j Sin SOCIETY ¢ -ARD TEACHER Has Half Million From Books and Lessons While She Nixola Greeley-Smith. a the medica Wh at opinion tn the nu whick is tn favor of birth Dues Housework. I asked Dr. William J. Robinson iy of No. 12 Mount Morris Park to be Should Mrs. Helen D. Elwell, Wite\ ine spokesman of that portion of the | of Joseph B. Elwell, king of bridge malice frater-| whist, succeed in bringing to trhal the nity whiten adKos separation suit she filed day in Ae : the Supreme Court, secrets which so- ig ia her ciety has long wanted to learn will of the Federa be brought to Mgt. statute forbid- Hlwell, who has writ ding the diffusion books on bridge, has ) of knowledge re- bridge teacher and ineid u lating to family) taker of winnings’ that ran as high limitation, Long} an $80,000 in one evening before Mrs. Mar- Players who once w the source garet Sanger un- of much merriment mong the elite ¥ dertook the cir- because of their poor methods are Maid Hy Dice: Wiwell to have culation of the birth control pam- phiet which resulted in her arraign- ment yesterday Dr... Robinson result that the sudden change caused |PFeached dissemination of such no ond of gossip in exclusive circles, knowledge among the poor. He has Although the ells have been liv- fought the fight for birth control for ing upart sin 11, when, Mrs, Kis twenty years, and from being an ob- well alleg her husband abruptly ject of suspicion and distrust, even left their apartment, announcing the | among the members of his own pro- intended to lead his n life, the es- | fe, sion, has grown into so many trangement has been known to but “honors and employments that It few intimates. After considering her) wou1q ye impossible for me to enu- papers, Supreme Court Justice New- burger awarded Mrs. Elwell the full) ™erate them all. On the staff of the transformed into near champions over night by her husband, with the amount of alimony she asked for--|BTonx Hospital and Dispensary, $5,000 a year and $1,000 for ber law- Fellow of the American Medical As- yer, W. Gibos Whal sociation and of the New York Elwell is the ‘owner of country Academy of Medicine, editor of The homes at Newport and Southampton, Critic and Guide and of several and while Mrs, Elwell do that her husband pure not clalm | medical magazines, author of many used these |text books and treatises, Dr. Rob- with ce id Rit oo la Jaze * inson told me yesterday that com- sobs, she suys that Mee ieee °F plete victory for the advocates of caine trom bridge, {lly Umitation seems now very Royalties on six books on bridge, she | HC4t alleges, bring him from $5,000 to| “The Sanger case has served to dis- $7,000 yearly. Ilis lessons to the olite |Seminate knowledge of the very sort brings in, she says, about $18,000 a the statute trice to suppress,” he sald. “Whenever one person learns of birth control methods fifty persons know it y soon. Mrs, Elsie Clews Parsons |made @ suggestion at the recent din- ner to Mrs. Sanger which I have been | advocating for years. It was that women of influence and standing year. Llwell, she alleges, thought n ing of winning from $1,000 to $10,000 in a single night. It was quite usual, she alleges, for him to clean up sums within that range, and not infre- quently, she says, his talent has net- ted him as high as 000 In one eves ning when the games were piayed in Fifth Avenue mansions and in New- =| make public confession of the fact) port. Who the losers were Mr port PBB) adh a Reng! \that they have practised mothods of Troll dots TOF tacit be given wed | birth control all during their married the Case goes to beige te Mc st of ae lives, Such a course would, I think, busband’s time sinc Hy all a} 1 Mra. Elwell it | the married women in the United and | States above the stratum of great |poverty and Elwells were married SEDOPRECE—SROORE 18 Biccnwa io 1900 and: has |eases where religious conviction in- Richard, living with his m | terferes. It {9 not a crime to practise a time after the abrupt leav By are control. Mrs Llwell says, her husbund con-| phe statute has not ; taued to pay the apartment rent at}. 20 Statute has nothing toway to $1,800 a year and allowed her $250 « the individual woman who promotes month for spending money. He re-|her own happiness and health, who re- be edhe to $225 and lator | fuses to exhaust her body and kill her ‘i ¢ spirit by the production of an unlim- it she declares is not sufficient |"! lim: | ennpor tted family. It merely forbids the giving of such information to others. So why should not women of wealth and standing in every community! to support her, She is accustomed io and 2 four servants, « chauffeur ‘large and handsome car,” &) but since her husband cut t budget she has lived in a $40 @ month apartment and has dono all the housework herself. from their poorer #! who need it mos “Certain arguments have been ad- vanced against the practice of birth control,” I interrupted Dr, POGMSLGGTIEDEDED OPEN NOSTRILS! END A COLD OR CATARRH § 4} How To Get Relief When Head > 7 and Nose are Stuffed Up. POLDUAGOH Et HIOHOSE Count fifty! Your cold in head or catarrh disappears. Your clogged nos- trils will open, the air passages of your! head will clear and you can breathe freely. Le more snuffling, hawking, | mucous discharge, dryness or headache no struggling for breath at night, ers-—the women Robinson. The most important opposition family limitation comes, of course, | from the Roman Catholic Church, Dr. Jamey J. Walsh told me once that the practice of birth control is on a par with the custom of the anolent Romans, who took an wmotic after a !banquet so they could go on cating. Geta small bottle of Bly's Cream |!" Dr. Walsh’a view birth control i Belm from your druggist and apply « | Just another namo for sex gluttony?" | little of this fragrant antiseptic cream I am glad you asked me that in your nostrils, It penetrates through question,” Dr, Robinson said, “be- | thing | every air ge of the head, sa ned | and healing the swollen or cause it enables me to say that it j6| A med {the experience of nearly all phyai- mucous membrane, giving you instant | ciany that the persons who do not relief. Head colds and eatarrh yield practise birth control are the se: stay stuffed-up and gluttons, The moment men and women realize that they are to be- |come parenta—whether they wish It | or not—they feel that they have noth- Jing to lose any longer, In other words, BELL-ANS | ance aguinst further pe Absolutely Removes men a hava you lo ay: ia tho areas i i , . owledge of methods o indigestion. One package | pent shat, knows re a proves it. 25c at all druggists. | {ela nnsves Jaan tna: miapleeciac | =} rope plied Dr, Robinson, “In Hole jand we have the example of « coun. | tribution of such knowl . where | family limi is practically uni- For ~ Constipation All lost or found arti ‘amie ton Bureans Arcade, Vark Row: Uptows Office, northwe: and the Lelicious Laxative Chocolate, | Ex Lax relieves constipation, regulates ‘thy stomach aud bowels, stimulates the yp Offiee. 2! Brookisn, for 30. 4 following (he printing of t i. | liver aud promotes digestion. perro | young and old Ie, $e aod jeu ‘IDCLAX * e ‘ a SANG 3 * SOPYEIOE 2-06 % MRS mARGARET ER. bree eabeeedeeee aus ee Men and Women Using Birth Control Methods Injure Themselves | Physically, Says Dr. James J. Walsh—Not Guilty of Murder, but of Sin of Lust—By Prac- ticing It Rome Rubbed Itself Out. rerirreereirrey Marguerite Mooers Marshall. What és the opinion in the medical profession which é# opposed to birth control? To obtain this view [ went to Dr. James J. Waish, K. C. St. G.. Ph.D., LL.D, LAtt.D., S¢.D,, and probably the H most distin. 4 guished Catholic 4 physician in 4 America For ‘ years he was 2 dean and profes- , sor of the history 3 of medicine at 5 3 the Medical ® School of Ford- ham University; 4 he “ts a professor at the Cathedral ®| College of New York; he serves an $ consulting physician at several well * | known hospitals, and he is the au- 2) thor of “Modern Progress and His- $ tory,” “The Century of Columbus, “Makers of Modern Medicine” and a od % | number of other plump and scholar- Td $ ly volumes. I doubt if any one can state more authoritatively and more POE OLTEE NS ODO 24 OGOE Yersal and where the population increasing even before, “Wherever the birth rate goes down the death ri more rapidly th the same or an even greater de- 1910 the siead of 4 loss. nd the mort h rate fell to 28, but the mor tulity fell off one-third, to 12, #0 there was a distinct gain in On the opulation In- other hand, cleverly the arguments against the limitation of families, the sentiment back of the law under which Mrs. Margaret Sanger now faces prose- is an of the world’s greatest men and women would never have been born if their |mothers had possessed Mrs, Sanger's pamphlet.” e goes down in It ye ihe may prevent oocastonally cution by the Federal authorities. he birth of a man—or of eo " 7 * lmonster, some wretched ‘uarderer,| ‘This 1s Dr. Walsh's first forty-two birth rate in Holland |some anti-social beast,” Dr. Robinson | centimetre shot: lity 18. In 1912 laid, But if that be taken as an ar- “The persons who practise birth control are comparable only to those Roman decadents who, after gument, then abstinence—celibacy (t- aclf—ix a crime, for how can any cell- bate know that but for his abstinence some powerful genius might not be child mortality increases proportion. {born nine months later, Birth pre-{ eating ene large, Lucullan ban- ately as the number of children per|vention must necessarily prevent family increases “until ‘we have aliany more undesirables than gen | emetic in order that they might at death rate in families of eight chil- | tuses, since geniuses, even when birt Gren and bver which ia two und onec|is unrestricted, are so very few and| nee have the pleasure of gorging half times hs gre of four children “Another argument of the opponents | of birth control is that such knowl- edge leads to immorulity,” “Far from having that effect, it would diminish immorality,’ Dr, Robinson answered. Prevent the birth of illegitimate not prevent contrary, it of immoral- children, but i immorality. ertain “It ie urged tha yob the world of BOY HERO OF SERB ARMY HERE IN FOE'S BOOTS Me Took : Prolich Says it do Ont at as that { and unde fori geniuses; families I said, “Fear may t virth control may that many Them From} ¥ German ile Slew—Opert Star Arrives. “Shall we take them up one by one?! woman serving in the the o} Among Mine. coloratura soprt coming to the House to revive Maria Barrientos, ther passe thi ano of SI Motropolitan "The make this admission, which would go killed in a battle of the Bulgur » far to destroy the ignorance and bia war a few years age prejudice which keeps such knowledge| a revengeful spirit, Kons who Opera nl Wivhera.” BIG JUMP IN OIL PRICE Low WASHINGTON snd di upon whon th Aualo Heads Clyie Sain dent, Ben. saeure., [aaa A Vedernt N. ae » oe pAMOUS CREAM “any iis, On He themselves with more rich di.” “Just why are you and your ehurch far between. “When every other argument hi been disposed of there remains that ooposed to the limitation of families * “L do not know of anything in whe}! asked, afte Gld or New Testament which con- [emetic epigram, b ined the bv of Ma ypa ick Gaal “The Catholic Church does not in- Robinson replied; “but assuming that the Bible did conigin an injunction {siat that you shall.have @ great many bitinst their use, Tewould simply ask |children, does not order you to have any children at all,” Dr, Walsh replied those whose conduct is guided by it earnestly, “It has nothing to say to to refrain from doing what the Bible forbids, but not to attempt to force their morals and their conduct. upon {the husband and wife who choose to thoey who are gulded by difterent|iive together as brother and sister. tandards, Indeed, it has bestowed its highest sanction and approval on certain royal couples who have maintained such a relation, se wet this clear, for once, But what the church, what every civilized nation, does forbid is that a man and woman become hus- band and wife in fact and then that they interfere with the consequences of their association.” “By doing so, they commit the crime of murder?” I inquired, “No, but they commit the crime “But that, of course, much,” HE CARRIES A SIGN IN HIS HUNT FOR JOB oung Man in Hard Luck but En- gaged to Wed, Arouses Interest on Nassau Street. is asking too Passengers on the Espagne of the} 4 young man, well dressed and of replied the deetor. French line, arriving to-day, were} intelli uppearane carrying @| they break a law of natur greatly interested in Konseantine Pro- | sign which announ yat he was h for the moral argument Neh, A thirteen-year-old hero of thelin search of a J cd the at-|The effect of birth control on the war in Serbia. The bo: tention of noon s along | State is the next point usually con- ‘ et to sidered in any diseu of th 4, nursing perity and and Pam | ntine en-| still out of work, lemen,” was listed when the recent German-Bul-| die of wntetice on the sign. “1! garian drive began. He was cap-| appl you, Can you use a strong, tured unwounded by German tre energetic, willing man in your shop The Germans turned him « department, | employ~ Dy. Harriet Cockburn, Canadian rbian Red! The sign carrier auld he had met (littl: encourager bur was going | to! Cross, on her promise to tuke bin) iy stay out until he out of Hurope, She means to adopt) said he was Harry him. Tho youngster was dressed In| twenty-five years old remnants of khaki uniform and wore) O80 Mundred and to hobnailed shoes ho said ho lil taken! onthe, Bapla from a German soldier he killed | refer » in the ind inte 1a he iB enti ed in a post. > $30,000 MORE FOR INQUIRY. Iter Gets NEW YORK: 19 West 34th Street. DOWNTOWN STORE: 14 West Mth Street, DRAWN DIRECT FROM THE WOOD et Restaurants, Saloons, | Oyste: and Chop Houses Devot, Auth Av, & B5tb 01, ‘Witulesale 1916 juestion, It was no surprise to mey that Dr. Waish considers the prac- tice a social danger, for in one of lis books he has ¢ Rome to the preval cide, “The bart didn’t ki all the Romans,” he told me. “Simply, there were no more Liomans born nd the barbarians occupied their places. od the fall of ce of race sul- “Rome rubbed itself outy and to- lay we are rubbing ourselves out in exactly the same fashion. In almost every town in the State of New York, Where there is not a large foreign 1 bad listened to the| population, the death rate is higher than the bir rate, They talk about making Australia a ‘white man’s country.” In the year 2000 A, D, there will be no whites in Australia, if the prosent death rate and birth rate continue. "And then these peoplt come out and talk birth control!” he added In- dignantly. “The advocates of it! seem mostly to be unmarried.” Not all of them," I reminded him. Mrs, Elsie Clewe Parsons says abe knows of no mother who, for the sake of hor daughter. is not looking forward to breaking the law under which Mra, Sanger was aocusod. sin~only disgrace, if we are found out. “But Dr. Walsh, nomic argument flies,” 1 protest that she cation of th of tho misery she witnessed among the lai families in the London slums.” “It isn't the large familie mothers are poor about whom we need to worry,” he replied, “There ly @ recent publication by the Now York Board of Health which shows that the children of foreign-born mothers, who know nothing of birth control, have a much better chance of there is the eco- inst large fam- whose life than the children of native mothers, In this city thirty children of every 1,000 born to American mothers die, death rate is only German — and tro-Hungarian mothers, 26 per 1,000; for Swedish thera; 22 per 1,000; for Russian and lish mothers, 20 per 1,000, ‘A large ramily of children will get along all right, even though they are poor, if their mother stays at home and takes care of them, instead of going out to talk 3. What a child requires love, and that 5 what the Ameri- ‘can mother ought to give—as the foreign mother gives it to her child, “Yhe sort of woman America needs most to-day is 4 woman like my mother, a Woman who bears and brings ‘up twelve children, without neglecting one of them, and without feeling that eho is a martyr to ap unjust duty. “another argument against birth control which you must not forget is that it is only in the latter hal? of large families that you find geniuses, Nearly all the geniuses of the world have been born after the fifth ohild in theit respective families. Benjamin Franklin was the fifteenth child, John Wesloy was the nineteenth and Cath- srine of Sienna, who dominated her entury, was the twenty-sixth, Bvery child, after the first, weiehs half @ pound more than its predecessor at birth. Who cun tell how many great poets, philosophers, statewn soientists the world is being depriv Hi of by the modern mother with her one | or two children?” For English mothers the per 1,000; for “There is one other point.” I said. “as a physician, will you tell me it he modern methods of birth control | do physical injury to the men and! alled birth contro a (in his opinion) oe most pro- 1 this was the doctor's about birth control.” ultimatum. “phy {4 indefensible.” aly, mor wid sock Tomorrow, Thursday, January 20th Co Every Suit Included Choice of Any Suit in the House Formerly $25 to $60 In a Sweeping Sale Tom talk; |) $ “ESCAPE OF SPY STIRS UP JUDGE; « DEMANDS Ns NY Says Marshal Had N Had No Right to Take Prisoner From Jail Without Legal Order. BRITISH ARE INDIGNANT. Consul’s lyn Lawyer Says Brook- Authorities Were Warned Twice. ‘The escape of I. T. T. Lincoin, al- leged German spy, from the custody of Deputy United States Marwtal Francia J. Johnson in Brooklyn has aroused the ire of United States Dia- trict Judge Chatfeld, who denied the writ of habeas corpus under which Lincoln sought to escape being re- turned to London to be tried for for- gory and to face charges of espion- age. Judge Chatfleld aid to-day: “ff there was noglect or criminal. ity in this matter it Is up to United States District Attorney France to WILSON GETS GIFTS FROM BELGIAN CHILOREN Trunkful Sent to President and Mrs. Wilson—Little Ones Badly in Need of Clothing. { WASHINGTON, Jun. 19—P, HL Chadbourne, representing the Bel- gian Relief Commission, brought to the White House to-day a trunkful jee. simple presenta sent to the Pres- ident and Mrs. Wiison by Belgian children, They included dolls, pictures, baste of the Belgian royal family and em- broidery work. All were Jald out on the Cabinet tale for the President's inapection, He read accompanying messages personally, and said he was deeply aftocted by the sentiments, Mr. Chadbourne told the President clothing was the the Helgians at present, scribed low flour bags, with holes out for the head and arms, were be- ing used as shirts by many children, DRINK HOT WATER BEFQRE BREAKFAST Says you really feel clean, sweet and fresh inside, and are seldom ill. | If you are accustomed to wake up start an investigation. ul breath or ‘A prisoner of the United States + y headache; or if your Government should not be tuken|meals sour and turn into gas and from jail for any purpose, untesw on{2cit® you have a real surprise awnit~ an order signed by the Judge of the court or the District Attorney. Tho United States Marshal has no author- ity to take a prisoner from jail, un- less he is equipped with such an or- pu, To-morrow upon arising, water with phosphate morning, immediately drink a glass of hot a teaspoonful of limestone in it. This is imtended to » and then wash out of } your ch, liver, kidneys and dor; furthermo| morse though tho | titty Tet val “int athe deputy was armed with @ legal or-| gestible waste, poisons, sour. bil der, he had no right to stop in a restaurant or anywhere olse with his prisoner. 1 will say that I did not issue an order authorizing anybody to take Lincoln from Raymond Street Jail.” United States District Attorney France refused to say whether he had issued an order or not. United States Marshal Power refused to tell who gave him the authority to take Lincoln out of the jail. The British Consular authorities wre jndignany over the escape of Lincoln, especially since they have learned that be pald frequent visita of late to the quarters of the United States Secret Service in the Federal Building, ip Brooklyn. Charles Fox, counsel for the British Consul, who successfully fought Lincoln's efforts to gafh his freedom, sald this aftor- noon: “The Federal authorities of Brook- lyn were warned twice of what wa Ukely' to happen if they allowed Lin- coln any lberties. inooin, despite the warning, was given undue lber- ties, This is the most flagrant case of criminal, negligence T ever heard of. The British authorities can nothing in the matter, It the Hrooklyn officials who we, to take do is up to allowe) some Lincoln to esc tlon. ———< lian Doctor mn Here Snide} Ari came to t oun Tide ine h go in-bed and in grea Raldwin ile vy the laat orrow at | BROOKLY) 460-462 Fulton Street, NEWARK; 645-651 Broad Street, | dangerous 1 thus cleansing, sweetening purifying the entire alimentary canal. Those to sick headaches, lious attacks, constipation or a of stomach trouble, are urged to get a quarter pound of lime- stone phosphate from the drug store and begin enjoying this morning in- site-bath, Tt is said that men and women who try thiy become enthu- siastic and keep it up daily. It is a splendid health mm for it is mora important to keep clean and pure on the inside than on the outside, because the skin pores do not absorb impurities into the biood, causing disease, whil the bowel pores do. The Label 9 of bathing inside not new, as millions of people practise it. Just ay hot water and soap cleanse, purify and freshen the skin, so bot water and a teaspoonful of limestone hosphate act on the stomach, liver, Kia idneys and bowels, Limestone phos phate is an inexpensive hi powder Sad almost tastel Adve. DANGER TO PUBLIC HEALTH SpecialWarning of Vital mportance at This Time--How Lives women W w them dents You bel reapende: r. Walsh, iy Miguel Lisboa, sixty-five yours fervently, if slangily. “Such meth: | beep le sith dak B S Ode are productive of the worst [ld 2 native of Trax, died mud May [4 aved sort of nervous disorders. 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