The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-03
Bx Louis Le Rrunl

New york, Jan- S--Dr. Woods Hut sflinson, the distin guished magazine nedico and ieonoclastie s1nasher of medical superstitionss is a Yorkshire man, although he left England for America at very early age. The Attle after dinner orators and one Of the charter members of the m Aginst It, club Dr. Hutchinson will celebrate his ty-second birthday today. Educational1y he is a product pr the breezy West, having graduated from an Iowa fresh water college. and M D.'d at the University of Michigan After seven years of general practice Bf his profession, he became profes-a eor of anatomy at the University of Iowa In 1896 he joined the medical faculty of the University of Buffalo. and later went to Oregon, where he became State health officer Of late years he has resided Tn New Y fork, ia1-s though he has u&zeled extensively and has devoted himself largely to. literature.
 pr. Hutchinson 1aoids many radical opinions, one of whicn is that divorce should be encouraged, rather than discouraged. q certainly believe we should have more divorces, instead of fewer, the church notw1thstand ding, declared the Doctor here should be the greatest freeuom in the dis solution of marriage when the grounds are legitimate The public should certainly revise it's a.ttitude to- ward the woman: who seeks to Tree herself from an alliance that will compel her to bring anflt children into into n1ae world Instead of having ostra- cixed and regarded with suspicion. such women should be regarded as the saviors of the race
 Dr. Hutchinson holds that there are fewer shurnan mis6ts' Tn the United =. 4T,. -rsraEa owing tos the uFfccnscious selection that sent the best and most progres- sive men and women to the New World, leaving the ord and deficient behind ssEngiish villages especially contain a large number of human 1nisf1tzss ?. he asserts, ssand this, too, is due to an upconscious selection which sends only the stronger and more am bilious men to the cities. "
 Despite his iconoc1asm, Dr. Hutchln- son is not pessimistic, He holds that the great najordty of the people are cIares that the mentally defective come less from the sIurns or from Fl lis Island than from the idle and mentally weak of the four hundred, and ten thousands' of New York and other American cities.
 Little old New York will celebrate this year the tercentenary of It's birth, as 1t was in 1914 that the first build ings were erected in what is now the metropolis Of the New World Man hatta4lss pioneer white men were Dutch, and lived in a little collection Of huts on what is now lower Broad way. It was in 1914 that twelve high and mighty lords" representing the : An,sterdam company of merchants appealed to the States-Genera1 Of Hol- land for a charter for the country discove3ed by Henry Hudson Sev- erai agents had preyfolsly been sent to Manhattan Island by the company. and By the time the charter was granted In October. 1914, the first Buildings had been erected on Man haitian Island New Amsterdam was the name given to the village, while the surrounding country was called New NetherIand In the spring of 1914 the few Dutch settlers, headed by Hendrick Christiaensen, built the Onrrlst or Restless. a vessel of IS tons and in this frad1 craft Chris tiaensen passed Hen Gate and coasted IS far as Valiant Bay. He was killed by the Indians the following year.