Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-29
WOMAN FIGHTS
RACE SUICIDE
PROMINENT MEN PLEDGE AID
FOR MOVEMENT
New Hampshire Priestess Of Large
Families Wants Census of All
Unmarried Men Taken
First

Special to The Herald.
TEMPLE, Tex, April 2S.-The germ,
bacillus or whatever it is, called race
suicide had best bestir itself, for new
enemy is hunting it's habitat and Ne
mesis is on it's trail. A new plan Of at
tack against the insidious enemy of
the nation has been evolved, and the
fight is to be carried right into the heart
of the fastness of the suicide bug. The
very root of the evil itself is to be ex-
posed and held up to the scorn and
contumely of wondering public. This
new movement has for it's priestess Mrs.
Isabel Windrow Marshall of Concord,
N. H.
Armed with the conviction that the
country's future is imperilled, Mrs.
Marshall has cast herself into the thick
est of the fight against the despoiler Of
the cradle and proposes to fight the in
vader to finish. In her search for an
antidote or counter irritant that could
be applied to the race suicide poison
this woman has within the last three
months traversed every section OF
Mexico and has returned confident that
she knows now what Is necessary to be
DONE,
Recently she returned to the United
States and rested a few days at Temple.
plan which it is expected will meet the
fullest approval of the White House, if
successful, was learned for the first
time.
The lady possesses a charming and
magnetic personality and talks most in
terestingly on many topics. Her busi-
ness in Mexico and other portions of
the southern part of the United States
has been in connection with the cam
1r,I,S So1, ic launch
against the bette noir of the hero Of San
Juan. Her explanation of why the race
suicide germ was more likely to be
found in southern climes was not eX-
actly clear, although very exhaustive.
The first method of attack on the evil
which it is asserted is sapping the
strength of the nation will be in the
nature of census to be taken through
out the entire United States of unmar-
ried men of 25 years of age and over.
Mrs. Marshall hopes by means of this
census to arrive at solution of the
race suicide problem, which, she claims,
is becoming so real and far reaching
that a condition of emergency exists,
which must be dealt with vigorously in
the very near future.
Mrs. Marshall said when questioned
upon the possibility Of success crowning
the heroic labor she has undertaken:
III must nOC De UNDERSTOOD LldL inc
investigation I have recently been max
ing into the conditions in various parts
of the country on the subject referred
to have been for the purpose of satls-
flying an inordinate feminine curiosity.
Such an assumption is very wide Of the
mark. You would not think this to be
the case were I In a position to make
public the names of men prominent in
public and private life VINO are among
the prime movers in the preliminary
details connected with this important
census and who will continue actively
associated in the work until 1t is COM
pleted and even afterward. In due time
the plans will be made public and the
names of those interested In the move
ment will appear.
TT will probably require twelve
months to complete the enumeration, "
continued Mrs. Marshall, "and it is not
probable that work can be commenced
before the close of the present year. 1t
all depends upon what the census rel
veals as to what our next step will be-"