Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-16
|G. j. DEAN BRANDS
|CH|LDREN'S BUREAU
DATA PROPAGANDA
Dr.. Morgan Says Reports De.
signed to Destroy Faith
in Physicians.
WAR ON GOVERNMENT
WELFARE is URGED
Liberties and Home Rights Threat
ened by Maternity and Infancy
Act, Speaker Declares.

Interference of Government bureaus
in the American home and extra
constitutional Federal efforts to stand
ardize children" were vigorously at
tackled in radio address yesterday by
DR.. William Gerry Morgan, dean of
the Georgetown University Medical
School and former president of the
American Medical Association.
There are, he said, five Federal bu-
reauS in Washington concerned with
the health, education and labor of
children, although the Supreme Court
has twice declared that Congress it.
SELF has no power over child education
and labor. These, he stressed, are in
addition to the extra Government Ma
t1onal Conference on Child Health and
Protection, supported by private funds
Some of the information coming from
these organizations, Mr.. Morgan said.
is propaganda without any basis in
facts. None of the Federal and allied
agencies, he declared, was able to fur
n1sh him with the actual maternal
mortality rate fer 1880 a few days ago,
yet it is confidently asserted that more
American mothers die in childbirth
than those of any other civilized ma
tons.
Says Doctors Deprecated.
THAT has been the propaganda of
the Federal Children's Bureau ever
since its establishment" he declared,
The idea is to make the public be-
lieve that American mothers and in
tants are not as well cared for by
american physicians and nurses as
foreign mothers and infants under CEN
trail government control. 1t is false
and dangerous form of propaganda
and has been refuted again and again
in medical journals and on the floor
of Congress. But the propagandists
continue their campaign to brighten
American mothers into believing that
they would be better safeguardcd if
their treatment were prescribed and
supervised from Washington by the
Federal Children's Bureau.
THE average prospective mother has
at least SO chances in 100 of saving
her life. That is more chances than
the average man has of living another
year because out of every 1000 men,
ii or IL will die each year while out
OF every 1000 mothers, who bear live
babies, there are only about six deaths.
We might almost say, from statistical
standpoint, it is. twice as safe to be
a mother as it is to be an average
American citizen, or man.
''All this talk of excessive deaths
of mothers is propaganda to socialize
and centralize at Washington the con-
troll of our homes and children and
the doctors and nurses who attend
them. So Is the claim of excessive
infant mortality propaganda for gov
eminent interference in the home. The
truth is that specialization and centrali-
cation of the practice of medicine and
the care Of mothers and children at
is far more dangerous to
the lives, liberties and health of our peo-
pie than any other form of government
ownership or neutrality-suspicious. if
it is centralized in a Federal welfare
agency such as the Cildren's Bureau
or the Department of Labor.
Custom Is Ancient.
Moreover, it is nothing new. but is
as old as Sparta. Sparta had complete
over all relations of par
centuries ago. Sparta had government
nurses, inspectors of marriage ~ela-
tionS, 'companionate marriage, birth
control and all the other Socalled pro-
gressive' notions about 800 years before
the birth of Christ. Sparta's govern
ment controlled the food and drink,
clothes, customs, religion, occupations
and children and education in every
respect Of every Spartan. They had
the same Communism and Socialism
on small scale, the same ruthless die
tatorship as Soviet Russia is practicing
on large scale today. Yet Sparta
persisted for lack of men, as Aristotle
tells us. So did Rome. So will every
other nation that tries by law to amend
nature and abolish the rights of the
home.
But when Congress meets in De- :.
cember the pack of Communists, So
clallstS, bureaucrats, welfarers and seif-
appointed public guardians of others
homes and liberties will be in full cry
Tor Federal maternity and infancy
act
Those who wish to centralize and
soclalize at Washington the care and
control of our homes and children. doc
tors and nurses. after the fashion of
Sparta or the Russian Soviet,
ana who have little respect for what
the Supreme Court calls the sanctity
Of the home and the privacieS of life
are all busy with Federal child well
fare program.
II you American parents desire to
preserve your constitutional rights in
your homes and your States, it would
De good idea to let your Representa-
lives and Senators know that you would
prefer to have them safeguard, rather
Than abolish. the home rights that are
Inc Keystone Of the arch of freedom"
AUTUMN STRAWBERRIES