The Washington times., 1921-10-30

women from England, Hoiianu,
Japan and other lands will dis
cuss the problem Of population.
Japan's problem is too many
babies, not enough land.
SO Japan wants slices Of Cali
fornia, Canada, etc. II the
babes would slow down and
births only equal deaths all
would be well.
The ladies and gentlemen in
New York will discuss birth con-
troll, the right Of women to in
formation which the law says
must not be given. As a matter
Of fact-every doctor can tes-
tify to 1.-THE news is given
freely, and freely used in pros
porous families with prosperous
physicians and is refused to the
poor, upon whom big families
are q heavy burden.
Everything has its reason, IN
cluding laws forbidding parents to
control the size of families. The
worlds greatest need hitherto has
been more babies to make up for
the ravages of war, famine and
plague.
Whenever you see laws par
ticularly atrocious you may know
that some great need once existed.
What could you imagine more hor-
rble than the punishment for
baby killing ul.der the old German
!, Law, s ;s.asssrss q .assrsss s-slas-+ y
Edward G. Punke. Of the Uni
versity Of Michigan. tells you
"The guilty mother was buried
alive in . sack. the law prescrlb-
ing. with the ingenious fiendish.
ness of the age, that q dog. q
cat, a rooster and . viper should
also be placed in the sack"
II was "the fiendishness OF the
age" chiefly the fact that the
ancient fighting, migrating Ger
mans wanted plenty Of children.
Mr.. Punke quotes the state
m.nt that zone German sover-
eien alone condemned 10000
c.rm.n women to death for in
FAINT killing, without noticeably
lessening the practice"
"The Mitsui interests" which
IN Japan means a combination
of Rockefeller, Morgan and Van
derbilt, are in consultation In
Chicago. With pencil and paper,
keen Japanese minds are decid-
inc from the counting-room point
Of view what the sublime Mikado's
fierce representatives shall do and
saw at the arms conference.
Like ourselves, the Japanese
have learned that the best soldiers
are dollars, not living men, until
var actually comes. The Japan
ese ven in the bank vault serves
,ta master with 4 fidelity un-
known to the most loyal Of all the
ronin.
A lady says she is the mother
Of half-grown girls and protests
against wasting sympathy on
EVELYN Nesbit Thaw. What is
there womanly about herr" the
lady asks. II you pick up flower
from a mud gutter 1t wouldn't look
v.rv flowery, nevertheless you
might feel sorry for it and blame
.h. man that threw 1t in the gutter.
After Eveyn Nesbit Thaw saw
her furniture on the sidewalk, and
4. marshal ready to put her out
18th the furniture. she screamed,
~I have taken enough morphine to
till twenty personsl" The land
lord. hearing this, said ne wouldnt
mt her out until Monday noon.
who SAYS that landlords have no
hearth -.
II was Evelyn Nesbit's testi-
,nonv. sticking to her husband,
Thaw, that saved him from the
electric chair. Had she let him go
the law would have given her his
money and she would be living in
luxury.
British labor-in England labor
amounts to something-says it will
call a general strike II the English
Japanese alliance Is renewed.
That treaty would mean another
world war, say the British labor
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