New-York tribune., 1921-11-15
Suffrage Aids
To Back Birth
Control Drive
Organizations Which Sup
ported Fight for Woman's
Vote Said to Have Joined
in New World Movement
Court Frees Mrs. Sanger
Mgr. Dineen, Archbishop's
Aid, Told Police of Meet
ing Admitting Children

world will be rallied to the support OF
the present birth control world move
ment, it developed at a meeting of the
organization committee of the Birth
Control League at the Cosmopolitan
Club, 1875 East orrtieth Street, yester-
day. The suffrage organizations are
said to number millions of persons.
The conference committee, meeting
OF which has been called for tomorrow,
has as members John Hays Hammond
ir.. Mrs. Otto Kahn, Mrs. Wallace lr-
win. Winston Churchill, Rabbi Rudolph
|. Coffee, Phi D.; Baroness kelkichi
Ishimoto, and more than 100 others.
many of worldwide recognition.
The meeting of the first international
conference of the American Birth Con-
troll League, which was interrupted by
the police, who made two arrests at
Town Hall Sunday night, will be held
at Bryant Hall at o'clock Friday
evening Mrs. Margaret Sanger, chair
man of the league, and Miss Mary
Windsor, her co-worker, who were ar
rested on charges of disorderly con-
duct. were freed yesterday morning in
West Side Court by Magistrate Joseph
E. Corrigan, who refused to entertain
complaints of Police Captain Thomas
Donohue's patrolmen. The captain did
not appear in court.
Seek Million New Members
The court declared there was INSULT
cient evidence. There is nothing else
to do; l have got to dismiss this ac-
ton" he said. In celebration OF this
decision the American Birth Control
League yesterday began an intensive
drive for 100000 new members.
All efforts to learn who was respon-
sible for requesting that the police in
terfere with the Town Hall meeting
were futile. Mgr. Joseph F. Dineen,
Hayes, when asked if he could throw
any light on the incident said that ne
had attended the meeting, but that MS
presence simply was as the Arch
bishops representative and not for the
purpose of preventing discussion.
al was shocked and Mortified" Mgr.
Dineen added, when | saw that chill
dren were being admitted to the meet
ing. l counted no less than four or
five within a few minutes. l 40 not
know whether they were alone or &C
companied by their parents. only
know that | saw them there.
Priest Informed Police.
"There were police on duty, just as
there are at any public meeting.
called the attention of an oflcer 10
the fact that children were beng az
mitted. Whatever action they took IN
the matter was entirely upon their
own volition | am frank to say that
I approved of that action and that l
later commended chem for it,
"Moreover, | am confident that IN
this great city of ours the majority
of the women are too pure, clean
minded and self-respecting to wish TO
attend or to hear discussion upon
such revolving subject.
"The much-talked-of big attendance
at the meeting is not unusual at the
Town Hall. 1t is located in section
of the city where it is accessible and
where any unusual stir or excitement
is apt to draw a crowd
Mrs. Sanger expressed elation that she
had received an invitation through
Rabbi Stephen A. Wise to deliver her
lecture, Birth Controls 1t Moral p
before the Free Synagogue and had. re-
ceived several such invitations from
other organizations as we'll. She an
nounced that the conference committee
would meet tomorrow to decloe tne
future conduct of the birth control
world movement. She issued signed
statement as follows:
"The same topic, Birth Controls
1t Moral?' which was to have been
discussed by me Sunday night, will be
delivered at the Bryant Hall meeting
Friday night. This question is dis
cussed in my book; w oman ana a, = tnt M
to the mails. This meeting is FREE
mass meeting, open to the public Bott
sides of the important question viii
be discussed. Harold Cox, editor o
sThe Edinburgh (Scotland) Review viii
lead the discussion.
Archbishop Hayes Invited
81 invited DR.. John A. Ryan, of Wash
ington,. D. c., one of the leading Cath
olics of the country, to attend the Sun
day night meeting, and offered to de
fray his expenses. Of course, it goes
without saying that such distin
guished and learned man would bt
given, every opportunity to present his
views. also invited John Sumner, the
leader of the Society for the Proven
tion of Vice. I am inviting Archbishop
Hayes or any representative he Wlshe:
to send to the meeting next Friday
evening. We hope the Archbishop vii
attend or be represented to present the
Catholic Church's side of birth control
"My attorney, Robert McC. Marsh, i.
investigating what rights were violated
last evening and what our redress will
be. The question am desirous OF. set
thing is: By whose authority was oul
meeting stopped? From the facts il
would seem that Captain Donohue, {
recognized officer Of this state, wa.
taking his orders directly from some
one other than a recognized govern
ment authority. If these facts are cor
rect, as there seems reason to believ,
they are, then every citizen of thi:
country has cause to be alarmed"
Attorney Assails Police
Mr.. March, who represents Mrs. San
ger personally and the American Birtl
Control League, said:
81 do not expect to have to take an.
case against the police to the Suprem,
Court | believe we will get favor
able decision in a lower court. l d,
not like TO anticipate court action, 8,
/ do not know what form litigation
will take. Il believe we had better wal
and see what, if anything, the police dt
Friday night.
"Thc highhandedness of the police il
stopping meeting such as we were
conducting last night outrages me
They have no right to stop a scientifi
meeting where decent subject is be
ing discussed The meeting was tt
have discussed the imm oralities of wal
and the relation of birth control tt