The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-09
FOUR BABIES A
PATRIOTIC DUTY
California Woman Wants
Perpetuate Revolu-
tionary Stock
STIRS UP D. A. RS
One Says Proposition an I'M
pertinent Insult to Amer
lean Womanhood

NEW YORK, May S.--Daughters
ofils American Revolution, take an
act,o part in Americas revolutionl
Thus kathryn Smith Johnson. OF
I8s A-r,les. charges her sister -. A.
g.. who have been in convention in
Vashugton
G., lour children TO the republic
the california member urges each
feminine descendant Of pioneers.
Don't 3crmlt the sturdy strain OF
.Ir native stock TO die out: advance
tuer...uizatton by increasing the
vr..orI.y of the hardy pilgrims; con
s.r,o thpir early fortitude. SO the
western delegate offers her gesolu-
Various comment has grown out
nf tb, suggestion of Kathryn Smith
johnson coming from fellow mem
hers. r.unNumen. mothers and wOm-
en- hy whom the care OF children has
been taken up as social problem.
Among these last Is Mrs. Oliver
Hartman. mother and a philan-
thropst. who approves the resolu-
ton
Nr, Hartman Favors Plan.
OF think the idea is "A splendid one,
said Mrs Hartman recently "lt is n
good thing 20 realize and put into
words the responsibility that Is due
the republic.
ITO rear children in American
(deals is fine ambition for women
and it is the thing that makes life
happiest.
There is no real life for a woman
without children. That is all "a
vomans hfe. 1t is an excellent Idea
TO make wives feel this responsibility
to the country as well az TO them
sclyos and 10 their families. l hope
the resolution is adopted by the ID.
A. "
some members OF this organization
agree with Mrs. Harrimans views
and some others do not.
Source of Envy.
Mrs SIMON Baruch, regent of the
KnickerboCker chapter of the ID. \.
r.. heartily endorses the resolution.
"T agree with the idea that the de-
sccndants OF the pioneers should help
to perpetuate their race. am happy
to say that / am the mother OF four
glorious sons myself.
Every woman envies the mother
Of children. We may occasionally feel
sorry for the very poor woman with
large family, but as a usual thing
the Childless woman covets the little
ones OF lne ndppy lnOlHtI.
"Her Joy will come afterward to
the mother of many There will be
recompenses later for the woman
who has endured hardships for her
offspring. They bring the greatest
measure of happiness.
I'VE should have proper training
for motherhood. Not the promiscu-
ous street corner knowledge OF par
cnthood, but careful training given in
our churches,
Mothers should rear their child
ron carefully be good mothers, as
slst little ones to good citizenship
But Just because one IN "A ID. A. *.
does not necessarily signify that one
agrees with other national members
who may hapcn 10 offer rc5o!u
tons.
Mrs Oveido NJ. Bostwick. member
Of the Washington Heights. chapter
Of the d. A. r., expresses herself as
greatly opposed to the adopting OF
any such resolution.
Il think that such action is an Inn
pertlnenCe to all the members and TO
every American woman" said Mrs.
Bostwick.
Family life and the size of a
family are PERSONAL matters--they
cannot be regulated by adopting resi-
lutions.
81 realize that our foreign popula-
ton seems TO have more children
Than the native-bu m Americans and
those descended from the carly set
tiers, but ! do not think any good
American woman is shirking her
duties
Who is this Kathryn Johnson? Is
I she married or single and how many
children has she?
Women are intelligent enough to
realize that they should have child
rem and rear them properly, but to
say that every woman should have
four is ridiculous.
NO woman wants any interfer-
ence IN her own personal affairs
snc resents II.
ITO hear about this makes me
wish | had gone to the convention
IN Washington. | certainly would
nave something to say against such
a resolution.
says Women Know Their Duty.
The American race won't die out.
our women are as good mothers. as
responsible in their views on duty
TO country and family as any in the
world And they are patriotic enough
not TO want the newcomers 10 our
shores 20 become the only perpet-
uators Of our race.
But the suggestion that each
woman pledge herself to bring four
in'ldren into the world, regardless
H circumstances, is simply outrage
Gus such resolutions and ideas be-
.onH in the sacred confines OF the
FAMILY circle and not elsewhere.
l have been a mother twice, and
nave lost one child" Mrs. Bostwicc
added. L believe every American
VII, VIII wish 10 have children and
tnai W" do not need to worry about
IN. future Of our country"
Mis-. Bos,wick is, besides being n
!, A. r. first vice president of the
washington Headquarters society.
whether or not the descendants OF
revolutionary pioneers shall each
give 10 the country four more who
may date back their ancestry TO 1776
na' not yet been passed as n reSolu-
LoN. or unanimously agreed upon as
a prlncIple
Inr idea is not without its merits
uul 70 is a fact that its apparently ar
olIary regulation OF families might
dnldsonlze many who cherish views
OF ependence, especially regard
ing numbers Of offspring.
Merchant Killed BY Lightning.
INDEPENDENCE, La. May S.
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