ON MARRIAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue CXXIII, 10 April 1937, Page 19

ON MARRIAGE

FAMOUS PHYSICIAN, SPEAKS

' Sir Walter Larigcon-rrown, emeritus Professor of Physics in the University .of Cambridge,:;and consultant- physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, declared that nothing promotes physical,.mental, moral,. and;: spiritual:, well-telng ;:.so' much as a happy.marriage (states the ."Daily Te1egraph")..,..._.,..!.' .'.■'" '

."11," he said, "I we're asked to point to one thing which above all others might be: taken to prove the existence of an overruling force which is beneficent in intent, I should unhesitatingly point to a:successfiil partnership between man and woman." • . .*

Sir Walter was speaking at a. conference organised by the National Birth Control Association. >

. "We do not advocate childless. marriages," he said. "I. doubt whether any man,; and I am sure that no woman, is complete without parenthood!"

,• It .was precisely those- -v^ith,; the deepest sense of responsibility . wno were anxious to' ensure that by limitation ;of "number^ every'child should^ have: the best possible chance.

He, was told.that birth control meant defeat in war., It would be truer, to say :that lack, of birth1 control bred war.; Again'and"'.again, it was given as an excuse for, a policy, of annexation and expansion that a Government must find room for its teeming population. : : .■.' ,:; .; •...'•■ ~

The fear of .war had been a powerful deterrent to many women from .having children. /