BIRTH CONTROL.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18413, 20 June 1925, Page 16

BIRTH CONTROL.

TO THE EDITOB OT "TUB PUSS."

Sir, —Your correspondent, L. Coleridge, scorns to mo to display an attitudo of mind which" one fully thought had been left behind in tho days of the Victorian society. His asMKiation of birth control -with tho criminal creed of tho abortionist, and the cry of race suicide, is ono that unfortunately, places an undeserved stigma upon birth control, but birth control does not teach merely tho limitation of families. it 'goes further and teaches parents how they may' bring up children who are really wanted in all decency and purity of home life. It further teaches that married people, who are otherwise unfruitful, may become proud and happy parents of one, {wo or three children, just as many as they are able to provide for with tho advantages of home liie, and all material and necessary comforts. It is- therefore perfectly ridiculous to talk of race suicide in connexion with birth control. How about the mother-suicide who is forced to boar child after child until her broken constitution goes down to tho grave, leaving behind her a numerous weakly and devitalised family, who straightaway become a burden on charity and State ? I would advise L. Coleridge to b'

or to borrow from the Social Hygienic .Society Dr. Marie Stopes's book* "Tho First Five Thousand." Ho will then find that birth control does not preach the criminal and iniquitous creed of the abortionist, I'ut as ai matter of fact teaches the direct opposite, and that is racial regeneration. It would be a rash man who laughed at the work of the. Plunket Society. Birth control takes the work of the Plunket Society right back to tho embrvo stage of life, and in reality lays the foundation stone of tho Plunket Society's work iu tho ante-natal conditions. Tho birth control clinic and the Plunket Society should in reality go hand in hand, for each one is merely the supplement of the other.—Yours, etc., It. M. THOMSON. [Wo have had to abbreviate this letter for reasons of space.—Ed., "The Press."] * CAVE CANEM. TO THE XDITOE OP "THE PEESS." Sir, —There is a loud-voiced sheepdog which frequents Manchester street between Cashel and Hereford streets and chivvies every motor-car which passes for hours at a time, which is a public nuisancol Cannot the aid of the police be invokod and the brute consigned to the destructor?— Yours, etc., BAEKEE.