The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-10-28
A Friend Of the Stork.
(Globe Democrate.)

Dr. GuStav LlpPman salu some
thing, in addressing a number Of
West End Clubwomen cooperating
in the work of the Elliot Alliance,
which is worth mere than passing
thought, even in time when SC
many things are crowding to the
front that few can gain thought OF
any kind. He advocated the
pensioning of mothers as a means
of conservation of the human race.
Apparently fearing that the
proposition would be held, in a
conservative city, to be too radical
for serious consideration, he ex-
planned tuat the mothers pension
can no longer be called an
experiment, German municipalities
have, he said, long regarded the
protection of motherhood as a
sacred responsibility of the state,
and the Associated Charities OF
Boston and other Eastern cities are
now doing what has already been
we'll done in Europe.
The basic idea of the Mothers
Pension seems to be the creation
and maintenance of fund out Of
which it would be possible to
maintain, IN leisure and degree of
comfort for short time before and
following the birth of children,
pocr women who are now forced to
look upon the approach of maternity
with dread. The injury done to the
race and to organized society under
conditions now existing and long
existing in large section of the
mass, will readily be admitted by
any one familiar with such con
di,ions and their evil influences.
Perhaps it is not too much to say
that the majority Of women living
in great cities find what should be
a pleasant anticipation turned into
dreadful foreboding, and lose all
the sweet delights of motherhood,
! In that purturing of the young in
the first days of feeble and clinging
life, through again taking up,
almost without intermiSsion, the
drudgery of households.
No mother, DIR. Lippman told
the clubwemen, should be suffered
to work until her newborn child is
more than months old, and no
child less than months old should
be taken from its mother. These
are excellent words, and they
embrace more of real potcntialities
for right conservation than many
others more loudly spoken, and
before larger audiences, in these
chatterlng days. And as we seem
now to be swinging In an era OF
pensions, since the men who once
offered their lives are now losing
them at a rate promising an early
and heavy reduction in our old
pension list, il is not easy 10 think
Hof any form of pension which could
be more worthily bes owed than
this DR.. Lippman has proposed
We are sure that none other could
better justify itself in results.
Pensioning superannuated civil
service employees, like SUI erannuat-
ed policemen or school teachers,
will, like the pensioning of soldiers,
be paying for something already
received, Or realized. Establishing
a pension fund for the nourishins
aud prote ction Of women before and
after The birth of children, will be
building for the future. 1t will be
a distinct ad, ance in that war
against race suicide mo which We
are now being urged by some of our
men of light and learning, and
which, from some economic and |
social points of view, seems 10 be a
necessary evil with which we are
called TO deal. DR.. Lippman,
clearly enough, is friend of the
stork.