New-York tribune., 1921-11-19
Filled Theater
Applauds Talks
OnBirthC Control
Meeting Disrupted by Police
Sunday Resumed Under
Police Surveillance, With
Notes Made of Addresses
Thousands Turned Away
Canon Chase Replies to Ar
gslments Made by Cox
and the Other Speakers

held its postponed mass meeting last
night in the Park Thcater. Columbus
Circle, under official surveillance.
Last Sunday nights police interfer-
ence, which was marked by the arrest
of Mrs. Margaret Sanger, was not re-
peated. However, three official stenog-
rapkers, representing the police. the
District Attorney and the Corporation
Counsel, sat on the platform and took
down in shorthand every word that
was said.
Asked the reason for this. Inspector
Belan, in charge Of the police detail,
said that if anything contrary to law
were said at the meeting indictments
would be asked. based on the stenog-
raphers' minutes.
Mrs. Sanger Cheered
An audience which packed the thea
ter to the doors cheered Mrs. Sanger,
Harold Cox, former member of Parlia-
ment, and other speakers advocating
birth control. Later, Ehen those OPP
posed or in favor of the movement
were told they might speak five min-
utes each from platform or pit, three
who attempted to speak in opposition
were hooted down. The only op-
ponent allowed to make his remarks
m peace was Canon Chase, of Brook
lyn-
Robert McC. Marsh, attorney for
Mrs. Sanger, told the audience that
last Sundays police interference
would not GO unchallenppd
ut was too great an abuse to be for
gotten" he said. Proper legal action
will be taken against those RESPONSE
ble"
House Fills Quickly
Mr.. Marsh exhibited letter from
Police Commissioner Enright in reply
ia the lawyers request for specific as
surance that the gathering would have
police protection. The letter said
there would be sufficient detail on
hand to preserve order, enforce the
law and prevent any violation of the
law"
Ten policemen, under Inspector John
Bolan, commanding the Sd District,
kept the street crowds in check in
front of the theater or on the move
When the doors were closed, before 8
o'clock; the hour set for the meeting,
more than two thousand persons were
clamoring for admttance Many of
these exhibited tickets, but were told
that the theater manager had said it
was unsafe to admit any more The
house, which has a seating capacity of
400, was filled within fifteen minutes
after single door was opened Sew
eral hundred persons stood in the
promenades back of the orchestra and
balcony seats
= A woman who described herself as
spr. Norea "A. Lowrey, a physician, of
al264 Lexington Avenue, was arrested in
front of the theater when she declined
to move on at the direction of police
man. AT the West Fortyseventh Street
police station she complained that she
had been roughly treated by Patrolman
Ginty. She said she thought her arm
had been broken, but an ambulance
surgeon found no fracture. She was
Charged with disorderly conduct.
A young priest who arrived after the
meeting opened and who. declined to
give his name, was admitted after some
parley with the doorkeeper when he
ssaid he had been asked by Chief In
Nspector Lahey to attend.
Z Pamphlets headed Family Limitation
and the Church and Birth Control >
by John A. Ryan, S. T. D., and printed
by the Paulist Press, were distributed
by young men on the streets before
and during the meeting. "The Birth
Control Review" was sold on the side.
walks in front of the theater.
- The Rev. DIR. Reiland Present
Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee, vice
chairman of the meeting, introduced
DIR. Lydia De Vilbiss, of Washington
who presided. She, in turn, introduced
the Rev. DR.. Karl Reiland, rector of st
Georges Episcopal Church, who sale
that while he lacked knowledge which
would permit him to speak authorita
lively on the subject of birth control
he wanted to protest against the polic
violation of the right of free speecl
at the Town Hall meeting. He said n
thought some of this misdirected en-
ethusiasm could we'll be turned agains
= a play at the Eltinge Theater," whicl
had been proceeded against in tn
Chief Magistrates court and who's
producer had been bound over for trial
q Mr.. Cox, taking as his subject tn,
topic of the meeting, Birth Control
Is 1t Moral?" said he proposed t,
prove that it was. He named the fou
purposes of the movement as being t.
preserve the health of mothers, to i'm
prove the estate of the child, to rais
the standard of life throughout th
community, and lastly, but by n,
means least, to prevent further wars
inf1e declared that SO long as che worlt
was allowed and encouraged to over
populate there would be wars, if fo,
nothing more than room to live in.
Touching on Sunday nights affair
sshe SAID that he, as an Englishman