The New York herald., 1921-11-21

ert Ingersoll Havelock Ellis, Angus
| Ferel. Dean Inge of st. Pauls Cathe-
dral. London John Hays Hammond, Jr.
and Prof Irving Fisher, and that :he
health OF both mother and child is better
when the children do not follow each
other too fast.
The Archbishop asserts that the vital
statistics of South Wales show that the
mothers of five to seven children live
longest. 1t will be interesting for him
TO know that in Holland. where birth
control has been scientifically practiced
for the lasl fifty years and where there
are over fifty birth control clinics. the
infant mortality rate has fallen until it
is the lowest in Europe and that there
has been marked increase in the
health, wealth, stature and longevity of
the people, as we'll as an increase IN the
population.
I'VE are glad to inform the Arch
bishop that he is mistaken in assuming
that there is an immoral lure of passion
and irresponsbility lurking in the pres
ent birth control advocacy that aims at
making the marriage relation more lust
ful and less fruitful Birth control ad-
vocates early marriages and the proper
spacing of children according to the
health of the mother and the economic
ing the health of the mother and child.
at making the home life happier, at
safeguarding the economic security OF
the father and the family and of pre-
venting diseased, defective, feeble minded
and insane children from being born into
the world to be burden not only to
themselves but to their families. the
State and the nation.
I'VE do not believe that sex love be-
tween husband and wife when no chill
dren are expected Is 'lustful.' We be-
lieve with Lord Dawson, physician to
the King of England. who says: 'Ro-
nance and deliberate seif-control do not.
to my mind, rhyme very we'll together.
Sex love has, apart from parenthood, a
purport of its own. 1t Is something to
prize and to cherish for its own sake.
1t is an essential part of health and
happiness in marriage. II sexual union
is gift of God it is worth learning how
to use II. Within its own sphere IL
should be cultivated SO as to bring
physical satisfaction to both, not merely
to one. Reciprocity In sex love is the
physical counterpart of sympathy
Lord Dawson further Gays: The first
point / wish to make is that people need
more knowledge Of the scientific bear
ings of sex relations and more clearly
defined guidance of their rightful pur-
port and practice. They are imperfectly
provided with both
"Sr William Arbuthnot Lane, one of
England's greatest surgeons, says of
Lord Dawson's statement: I congratu-
late Dawson on telling truths that badly
needed telling in the open, although all
reasonable people have accepted them In
private
"Dr. Bernard Hollander, one of the
leading British specialists in mental and
nervous diseases, says: AS for birth
control, it is an economic necessity. The
church Is out of date on this subject
Archbishop Hayes, I am sure, will be
interested to know that Dean Inge of st.
Paul's Cathedral, London, says Europe
with a stationary population will be
much happier if conditions and prob
lens Of social reform can then be tackled
with more measure of success. .
When the workingman has to pay for
the education of his neighbors' children,
to support schools for the feebleminded.
hospitals for the incurables, reforma-
tories for the morally degenerate and
prisons for the hereditary criminal, he Is
likely to realize that his neighbors have
no right to impose these burdens upon
him. and that 1t Is his interest to apply
the sacred trade union principle of linflta-
ton of output to his neighbors' procrea-
tive activities, especially IL the output is
Of thoroughly bad quality
"Also that the Bishop Of Birmingham
has stated that what a nation needed
most was not an unlimited number of