The New York herald., 1921-11-21
BIRTH ANSWER BY
ARCHBISHOP HAYES
Continued from First Page.


vancement which now dictates the limi-
tation of families
Human experience confirms all this.
Physicians have found that. on the aver
age, successive children In family are
stronger and healthier up to the fifth
or sixth in succession, and that those
marked with special genius are very
often born after the fifth in the family.
The seventh child has been regarded ira
ditionally with some peoples as the most
favored by nature.
Benjamin Franklin was the fifteenth
child; John Wesley, the eighteenth; Ig-
natius Loyola, the eighth: Catherine OF
Siena, one of the greatest intellectual
women who ever lived, was the twenty
fourth. 1t has been suggested that one
of the reasons for the lack of genius in
our day is that we are not getting the
ends of the families. Moreover vital
statistics of New South Wales show that
mothers of five to seven children live
longest, while Alexander Graham Bell
asserts that the greatest longevity oc-
Cured in families Of ten or more chill
dren.
1.-The voice OF Theodore Roosevelt still
echoes throughout the world in his strong
denunciation OF race suicide and the
sins against the cradle. His love of fam
lily life remains one of the most whole
some memories of his noble character.
"Our public policy. In the spirit OF
safety first must set it's face against
the methods of birth control propaganda,
just because this movement as conducted
is one Of the serious dangers Of our dis
ordered times. This months issue of
current review carries. an indictment
which states: There is something almost
terrifying in some Of the criticisms now
being passed on American life by Ameri-
can thinkers.
James NJ. Beck, Solicitor General Of
the United States; Owen Johnson, the
novelist. and Mary Roberts Rinehart,
the writer warn against the lawlessness
and the irresponsbility Of our day with
the new freedom and changing stand
ards (Current Opinion, p. GID Con-
fronted with such social problems as the
gangster, the drug addict. girl traffic and
the like, our welfare agencies. public
and private. are sadly depressed to see
tolerated for a moment the danger OF
spreading, among our unmarried youth
of both sexes. the immoral lure of pas
sion and responsibility lurking in the
present birth control advocacy that aims
at making the marriage relation more
lustful and less fruitful. Social evils
hardly Imaginable will follow In quick
order and with terrible consequences.
May Divine Providence INSPIRE amer
lea to fix its canon against self slaugh-
ter at the very source Of human life. lest
the sacred and highest of the family
mother and child--vanish from our
homes. and the stranger, alien to the
American ideal. who, however. obeyed
Gods command to increase and multi
ply, enter to possess the land"
Mrs. Rublee's reply follows:
THE present laws do not reflect the
will of the people as the Archbishop
states, but We're chiefly instigated by
one man---Anthony Comstock. ] rgree
with the Archbishop that 1t Is right to
prevent obscene and indecent literature
from going through the mails, but l
maintain that scientific contraceptive in
formation which will safeEuard the
health of women and children Is neither
obscene nor indecent. az r'od ~ -
able to inform the Archbishop that birth
control is advocated not only by distin-
gushed scientists, economists and pny-
sicians, but men Of letters, such az II.
G. Wells, Judge J. c. Ruppenthal, Rob-