New-York tribune., 1921-11-18
Birth Control
Appeal Fails to
Move Enright
Ignores Request for Police
Protection at Meeting To-
night at Park Theater, but
Will Probe SUNDAYS Raid
Backers Hire Detectives
Undesirables and Children
10 Be Barred at Door by
Officials of the League

Police Commissioner Enright replied
yesterday to the letter of the birth con-
troll advocates asking for police protec-
tion at their meeting at the Park Thea
ter tonight, but did not promise them
the protection desired. The reply was
addressed to Robert McCurdy Marsh
counsel of the Birth Control League
and said only:
Your letter of the 18th instant at
hand. The action taken by the police
IN connection with the meeting at the
Iown Hall on November Is, 1921, will
be investigated, appropriate action
taken and all concerned will be notified
accordingly Very truly yours.
'R. E. ENRIGHT,
"Police Commissioner"
Mr.. Marsh Immediately wrote an
other letter renewing the request for
poilce protection, saying in part:
While you do not answer my re-
quest for such assurance or even prom
ise any answer in the future and refer
only to an investigation of the action
taken by the police last Sunday eve
nlng at the Town Hail. possibly you
intend your statement that all con-
cerned will be notified to apply to the
future meeting as we'll. In any event
| renew my request for prompt assur-
ance against unlawful police interfer-
ence at Fridays meeting.
Large Attendance Expected
"Instead of being held in Bryant Hall,
ing on Friday will be held at the Park
Theater, Columbus Circle This audi
torium has larger seating capacity
and better entrance, and the change
has seemed desirable on account of the
large attendance expected.
"Let me repeat that the persons ar
ranging the meeting rely upon the
police to prevent interruption from any
source, whether from those in author
ity or from the audience, and will be
glad to cooperate to the fullest extent
in seeing that the laws are complied
with. My telephone number is Rector
442S."
In view of the possibility that there
may be no police in attendance at the
meeting tonight, the Birth Control
League has engaged ten private detec-
tives, who will be stationed within the
hall and will maintain strict watch
for potential disturbers Of the meeting.
All members of the league and friends
who have obtained tickets have been
warned to permit themselves no dem
onstration of any kind which would
be fuel for disturbance; no Interrupt
tions of the speakers or jeers or ex-
cited comments will be permitted.
Officials of the league will likewise
be stationed at the door to see that no
are admitted or persons whose
motives in attending are obviously un-
desirable.
Mrs. Sanger Promises Dignity
Everything possible will be done by
the Birth Control League to make the
meeting pass off with the dignity anu
quiet which characterized all our de-
liberations until the police made them
said Mrs. Margaret Sam
ger last night.
Harold Cox, former member of the
British Parliament, will deliver his
speech on the relation of the birth
rate to war, seeking to show that in
birth control is protection against fu-
ture wars. Mrs. Sanger will speak on
British Control: Is 1t Moral?" Copies
of Mrs. Sanger's speech. will be given
to the press in the afternoon, so that in
case there is police interference again
the public may judge for itself whether
the meeting was in violation of the law.