The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1922, Page 3

Re “Race prodigality, and not race Ph a bent no SE suloide, is the danger against which America must guard.” “With our present death rate, ; and the birth rate of French Canadian provinces, we should haye Seeeeeeree in 2000 A. D.” “The tremendous saving in human life during the last twen- ty years makes it RaSCeesenry to DEFENSE FINISHES ITS CASE IN TRIAL OF SLAYER BODDY last Evidence Shows Negro’s Grandmother and Aunt Were Mentally Unbalanced. Marguerite Mocers Marshall. “Race prodigality, and not race suicide, is the danger against which America must guard. If we are prodi- gal in the increase of our population, our fate as a nation is likely to be the fate of the prodigal—the husks that the swine did eal That is the sober warning of one of our most eminent sociological au- thorities, a careful student of world population, Dr. Edward Alsworth Ross, the very man who coined the phrase “race suicide” twenty-one years ago, the phrase Roosevelt used with such rhetorical effect, Besides occupying the chair of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Ross is the author of “The Russian-Bolshe- vik Revolution,’’ ‘Russia in Upheay- al,” “What Is America?” “Principles of Sociology’? and other important books. He is paying New York a brief visit this week to deliver a series of lectures at the Brooklyn Institute, and I sought him out to ask about a re- port that he was ready to disown his own brain child, that he no longer saw a menace in “race suicide”—the normally small American family Presentation of testimony in the trial of Luther Boddy, the twenty- nwo-year-old Negro who murdered Detectives Miller and Buckley on Jan. 6, was concluded in the Supreme Court before Justice Wasservogel and a jury this morning. The defense rested after {t had in- troduced documentary ‘evidence to vhow that Boddy’s grandmother and aunt were mentally unbalanced and after Justice. Wasservogel had denied « motion of counsel for the defense for a mistrial. The latter motion, first made Fri- day, followed the testimony of Jasper Whodes, a Negro policeman, who tes- ijfied he had not identified Boddy as the person who shot him until that day. The defense asked for a mis- irfal on the ground that the eviden not having shown Boddy was under arrest for this shooting, was prejudi- cial to the defendant. Justice Wasservogel in denying the motion held that while the evidence may have been more properly pre- sented in the direct presentation of the case rather than in rebuttal, it was not, however, such on which he would de: a mistrial, Rhodes was only briefly cross-ex- mined. Fle was asked Sf he were conscious after he was shot Dec. 19 He replied he was conscious until his operation the following day, and then inconsclous until Jan, After the defense had rested it of- fered for the record a report of the Rhodes shooting made by Detective Buckley. It stated that a picture of Boddy without the scar on his cheek was not identified by Rhodes as that He doesn't! He belleves that the menace lies in the revival of the |much-praised ‘old-fashioned family | He considers that controlled fecundity, from the viewpoint of society, a logi- ca! and laudable development. Fur- thermore, he has to support his posi- tion 4 most amazing set of statisti ol yvho shot him, although Here they are erie. Ca SUSE) “Suppose,” said Dr. Ross, “that for | Former Judge Koenig then made aj the next seventy-nine years—that is, until 2000 A. D,—our th rate in America remains what it 1s at present Suppose that during that period our women should emulate the birth rate Yormal motion to discharge the pris oner because of insufficient evidence It was denied ent of the case was limited " ‘ie ne Pawnee J ae Koenig began|8djured by the All-Highest to devote | their lives to church, cooking and chil- dren. Then, at the end of the period, the population of the United States would be greater than the population of Europe. “With our present death rate main- the argument with a definition of the avious degrees of murder in prepara- tion for pleading for a verdict for itoddy of murder in the second de- ee. He declared that the arrest of Noddy by Miller and Buckley was il- egal and then drew a picture of Boddy as panic-stricken, in fear of ore beatings by the police, being nt into a delirium by the green shts of the station, whe he tought another beating awaited him, nd then in this state shooting the po- emen He dwelt at great length on the contention that the arrest was illegal, ice if Boddy were actually under vivest killing of the officers ould then be automatically declared st degree murder. He stressed the that Boddy not identified lust Friday by Patrolman and that the latter had short- atte. outing declared a photo apt of Boddy af not that of the person who shot hom fe why, est tives, th orney's offic egro about in the Latin countri D. With a birth rate equal to that of Roumania and Bulgaria, and an un chunged death rate, we should harbor in 2000 A. D., as many people as there now are in Asia and Africa combined With a birth rate equivalent to that of the native women in British Indi. nine years would equal the population of the whole world ut the beginning of the World War. “Finally, if our mothers decided to rival the birth rate in certain French nadian provinces, 000 A would possess no fewel than %,000,000,000 inhabitants.’* his was shoder., it mus. ! br. Ro | pleasant hazel eyes, deep set v shaggy brows, glanced down at me and 4 quiet little smile hid undev b heavy mustache. He has a distinct yet peculiarly soft voice and a refresh ing absence of dogmatism. Now I'll ck to the beginning of the inter- |v 1 wanted you to read those ex- that! traordinary statistics as soon us pos- Boddy s murder of the two de-|/ pin the Distelet At did not question th: the shooting of Rhodes which, he contended, they cl dy was being taken to the station se by Miller and Buekley He tried te show there was no pr dite erime and questioned tl after feet or fer iy's mind Ly tainted with mental age prevalent in hts family I asked Dr, Ross, “have Lacan aun) anged your mind about HOLD-UP MEN CAUGHT of race suicide?" “In one sentence, because the tre FLEEING WITH $10,000) ,endous saving in human life, which — we have effected during the last score Two bandits! of years, makes it unnecessary that rhe Norman ‘go much fe be created," he replied pre are ae left the| ‘Many persons do not re: earry- nee through improved sr holds and miedical ‘discoveries aunng th period I have mentioned, bas cut the as it is now practised in America, is, | present | tained and a birth rate equal to that} we should haye | @ population of 500,000,000 in 2000 A. | this country, in| Dr. Ross Warns Nation Against Overpopulation And No Means of Support Western Sociologist Has Direful Vision of 3,000,000,000 People Here in 2,000 A. D. Under Unrestricted Conditions. world death rate at least a quarter. When our death rate is, let us say, 13 per thousand, instead of 45 per thousand, there is simply no point in the unlimited fecundity which the world once needed to replenish itself. Unless we plan to scrap our hospitals, our hygiene propaganda, our baby welfare work, there is no reason in the world why we should seek to bring back the old-fashioned family containing from ten to twenty-five children. “I recently met an old pupil mine who has just ninetieth birthday. she has seen doubled—an of celebrated her In her lifetime the world population increase of 850,000,000."" “But there are persons who say we and—also in New Zealand—there are Y y only one baby out of - n dies during the first |vear. In short, the ing of lives more than counterbalances the de- jcrease in births, Te same condi- tion Is to be found in Holland, | France, to which the opponents of amily limitation always point as a horrib owes her stationary, or eve clal property parents to cut | busi ing population to spe laws which compel the up the family estate or |Dusiness into us many parts as there Jare children, ‘he Frenchman longs io keep his property intact, so his deal family is one boy to inherit it, done girl to marry someone else's | oom Then Dr. Ross spoke of an aspect of over-population which must appeal pecially to friends of peace. “population pressure—that is, large |families—in Germany before the war tediy had gre inging on the war Hopulation pressure in Japan, at the ent day, is largely responsible ateve threatening and mili Jund | t t ‘fluence in he pointed out, pres empire's attit Do we want y to nequire a warlike tate of mind through prodi- ity, Uncontrolled population? On our population at the end of seventy- | other hand, do want America \:o eat the husks of the prodi in un language, to be reduced, through overpopulation, to the miserable | trugule for existence now obtaining among the 400,000,000 In China? “ts our population at present in creasing too rapidly I asked the § sociologist. Li's just about ri at present,” he replied, reassuvingly. ‘Not taking Jimmigration into consideration, our ural growth is about one per cent year iat will do very well. If [that rate ts maintained, along with | our present death t n 2000 A. D (we Shall number £23,000,000-——a size- Jable number of people at present using about third of the fecundity with which are endowed by nature. We are not bearing two-thirds of the ehil- dren we might bring into the world It ts simply Sut we have all we neva © the return of th old- in whict d, eignifleantty, “the mother frequently died trying ¢ a twelfth or a Mtteenth child old-fashioned of a inore was likely lo use up four wiv “So long &# We continue to reduce our death rate or even to maintain it s at present, We must control cur t cundity r h 1.” calm first man EVENING WORLD TEN-SECOND pra “Improved sanitation and med- feal discoveries have cut the world’s death rate by one-quar- ter in kel ha HER SPINE HEALED, MARY NORE 1S HOME ONCE MORE Actress Believed Mortally Hurt in Auto Crash Says She'll Return to Stage. Declaring she will get well and re- turn to the stage, Miss Mary Moore, twenty-three years old, is back in her home at No, 210 West 46th Street. After automobile driven by her sister had overturned near Babylon, 1. L., Nov. 19, Miss Moore was taken to the Broad Street Hospital suffering from a broken spine and three frac- tures of the skull, Her death was expected. In a year Miss Moore 1s promised complete restoration of health and command of all the physical powers paralyzed at first by the fracture, She an must have increased fecundity to|showed indomitable spirit from the counteract war losses," Z suggested} tyret moment of recovery. to Dr. Ross i “The wat resulted in the loss of| The removal of the injured girl to 20,000,000 lives, most of them Huro-|her home was her own plot to give pean lives."’ conceded Dr. Ross; “but|ber family a happy surprise, formed | on the other hand, the war also de-|q; soon as she was told she could be| stroyed means of subsistence for ino thalldhat Humber safely moved. She took Into her con- | + fifteen years they have had| fidence only her brother Charles, and controlled fecundity in New Zealand,|]she asked that the removal be made at an hour least likely to attract no- tice, This suited the ambulance driver, who meant to be most careful, and 6.30 o'clock was chosen, when yesterday th morning reets, cov~ ered with snowdrifts and ice, were most clear of traffic and the ambu- lance might choose i's pace und route most surely. GUN POKED IN HIS SIDE, red to Cry Out ax of Hold-Up, ware Max paymaster of the Eagle a4 Embroide Company, No, 102 Hague Str Jersey City omplained to t) that he had been held up ng and robb highwayman nes ffice, while mar within # fo ing what “The this morn- an armed comp ans p thout know- wus man held h se to me passersby could not Silverberg 1 ed 1 | couldn't make an y. The man uid he would kill me If 1 did. We about thirty years old. c bout 1AM, 1 think 1 wore | overeouts" ~~ JUST ONE LITTLE DRINK Woke Up to oA Likely Find Wi yn Se. Magistrate 1 n Essex Market Court to-day held Yack $2.500 bail Tor hwart, of Ni tax nowies T tended ts aes | drink and wo) learn that hy hat's the 4 rard since I Magistrate, "| more drinks you supposs ted." | -- > “MARTY” Mecth 10 BE A DE TRICY LEADER, Martin MoCuc Will be elected executiy r of the Democratic itty minittee from Distrint at a ] to {at 760 Third Ave Hdward F accept the H a} MeCue he \ roof th Assembly ani! and resisenged the latter 5 Ch ROBBED IN BUSY STREET | DROVE HIM TO BIGAMY "THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1922. cea 7 “An old pupil of mine, a woman of ninety, has seen world iation doubled in her lifetime— est) of 850,000,000." “Population jure in Ger- many did much to bring on the pe BR BoB RA war and is responsible for Jap- anese militanc; ONLY ONE DAY LEFT FOR 1921 PLATES ON THAT AUTO OF YOURS Law Will Be Enforced This Year, So Be Sure You Have the New Green Tin Label, To-morrow is the last day for the “black and white" brand of 1921. On Feb. 1, all cars must carry the new “green and white” vintage of 1922. All motorists driving with the old license plates there- after will get into trouble, as it will be illegal to appear on a State highway without the new colors, according to the State Tax Commission. DYED CAT DIED, ACTRESS IS HELD Miss Moran Hoped to Join Cast of “Blue Kitten,” She Says. A kitten died Saturday afternoon in Miller's Cat Hospital in 53d Street after its white fur had been dyed a brilliant blue by its owner, Miss Mar- garet Owen, . 75 West 60th Street, who says she expects to join the cast of a theatrical production called “The | Blue Kitten.” When the first kitten had died, it is charged, she proceeded to color lanother one, and to-day she was brought into the West Side Court on complaint of Harry Moran, Superin- tendent of the Humane Soctety, No. #4 Seventh Avenue. The case was journed until Friday in order to learn whether the dye used was, as alleged by Mo: poisonous. Moran said he was told by the drug clerk who sold the dye that it would undoubtedly kill a cat by poisoning through the pores or through the {mouth when the cat tried to wash ie off. | | | Bigge smokes money; SALISBURY TURKISH CIGARBTTES can get your money back from the dealer | in this town? sald’! so? Common sense. And if he smokes Turkish cigarettes, he LORD SALISBURY Turkish Cigarettes Why? Common sense. LORD SALISBURY is the only high-grade Turkish cigarette in the world that sells for so little NAVAL CAPTAIN ENDS OWNLIFE AT UNIVERSITY CLUB Francis Morgan Barber, Re- tired, Commits Suicide Over Death of Baron Rosen. Capt. Francis Morgan Barber, seventy-six years old, of the United States Navy, retired, committed sul- cide early to-day by cutting his throat with a razor at the University Club, 54th Street and Fifth Avenue, where he had been living for some time. He was found in a basement wash- room by a porter, who forced the locked door, His right hand“held the razor, the case for which was In his pocket. A doctor from Flower Hos- pital sald he had been dead only a short time, According to a friend, Capt. Rarber had been grieving over the death of his friend of forty years, Baron Rosen, who died from having been hit by a taxicab recently. As far as known, Capt. Barber left no explanation of his suicide. He visited his sister, Mrs. 3 Thompson, No. 2014 Seventh Avenue, yesterday, and she noticed he seemed nervous, 4 condition apparent also to acquaintances when he returned to the club late last night. Capt. Barber was born In Ohio and was graduated from Annapolis in 1865. He had various commands dur- Ing his naval career and in 1896 was naval attache in Japan and China. He retired that year. His wife, long a sufferer from bron- chitis, died suddenly at the age of sixty-elght in Switzerland In 1914, st Lawyer What made him NEWS MOVIES don't like LORD “Our natural growth in the United States, excluding immi- gration, is one per cent. a year, ‘That will do a A well.” ‘|TICKET SCALPERS cost “While we maintain our ent death rate we must control fecundity, unless we hang an ‘S. R Oy sign on the planet.” RRR OD split with the renter the aifterence between the cost of cummuting @nd N. Y. (CENTRAL $200,000} that of a round trip ticket.” “Rent: Phote Plan a Big Sa: While holders of “family” tickets are protesting against the new order of the New York Central compelling the signing of the tickets by all who use them, the ratiroad people declare that they are forced to insist upon the practice tor their own protection. 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