New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
Impressive List of Well Known Names Backs
Propaganda Of Drama with Purpose
Which Claims for Its Object the
Benefit Of Society in General.

question and with unalloyed JOY, many
of these people would restrict.
| They say, among other things, that the
physically and mentally deficient, of whom
there are hundreds Of thousands legally
| Joined in matrimony, should not be per-
mitted to bring handicapped human be-
ings into the world they further feel
| that their supreme duty is to take care
of those women who are not physically
strong, telling them that they should not
endanger their own lives, and, hnaiiy'
with an air of omniscence that to their
critics is extremely trying, the more radl-
cal members of the committee would
regulate the offspring Of every family
basing the number on the economic posi-
| ton of the parents.
Just what their formula is nobody seems
exactly to know, but apparently it is their
opinion that the children Of the poor
should not number thirteen TO the family
although the number of those financially
Independent may remain unlimited.
THE COMMITTEE.
A committee, the members Of which
are strongly interested in the problems
dealt with in the play. has been formed
Under their auspices and through their
active cooperation the performance is
being made possible. Those who have
already signifed their willingness to
serve under the Craftsmanship of Norman
Hapgood. whose magazine is taking an
active part in the work OF crystallizing
the movement, are:
Mrs. O. II. p. Belmont, president of
the Political Equality Association;
Eugene Brieux, author OF Damaged
Goods; the Rev. John Haynes Holmes.
of the Church Of the Messiah and vice
president Of the Child Welfare Com
mittee; DR.. Frederic c. Howe. director
of the Peoples Institute; Mrs. Charles
H. Israels, who is directly responsible
for the reforms in the dance halls
throughout the poorer sections OF the
city; DIT. Abraham Jacob, DR.. T..
Helen knight, medicay examiner OF the
Board of Education and medical director
Of the Magdalen Home; Mrs. Frederick
Nathan, president OF the Consumers
League; DR.. William J. Robinson, presi-
dent of the American Society Of Medical
Sociology; Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt, sr.,
who is spending a large amount of time
and money in the establishment Of homes
for fallen girls; Dr. James p. Warbasse,
sociologist and author; Mrs. Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, the author, and Dr. Ira s. Vile,
member Of the Board OF Education.
DR.. Abraham jacob said at his home,
No 10 East 47th street a few days ago.
that he was strongly III favor of the prr-
posed presentation Of the play. The
Guilty Man"
The piece he said. would treat OF the
vital question of illegitimacy There being
a great need for new laws on the sub
ject, the thing to do, DR.. jacob asserted.
is, first to acquaint the public with the
inadequacy of existing statutes
He knew of no way. he said, to inspire
active cooperation on the part Of the
public quite equal to the system followed
so successfully last season by Frederic
II. Robinson. president OF the Sociolog
ical Fund, in the stage presentation of the
great truths contained In the drama,
Damaged Goods"
THE subjects treated in the play, The
Guilty Man. must be settled by the pub
lic," added DR.. jacob. through their
representatives in the Legislature. They
are not matters for the medical profess
sion to settle. Doctors know that these,
and a great many other wrongs. exist.
but it is not their place. nor Is 1t within
their power, to do anything so long as