CODDLING THE WEAK.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1924, Page 4

CODDLING THE WEAK.

MODKHX I*IiA<TICKS (IUTICISKri I i l!y Seienci' Service'. A st r«ilij4 p!e.'l Ini' mure individualist in iii'eilieiue, anil a jienera! criticism i tlia ianlii 1 iit.'ii nl' ;ln' weak l.y nind r rivilisatinn. won' features ni thu in any lira I julilross uf Dr William A I’lisey. 11l ( 'liii-ayn. newly ekictetl |»rr siili'ii t in tlm American AI i-ilii a 1 Amo riatimi, who ivas inducted into oliiei last inmitli. I)r I’ltM'V at ta' lvi-il till' Slmpparf Tinvitt'r .Maternity Ail, anil I'litnmi'ii'li'.l Fresident Cool aloe Inr hi. "wise statesmanship in tnkin;: a defin ill' stand against I\■ ili• i;• 1 sit|»|>iirt nl' ; \\ i 1 1 1• ranee nl’ siirinlised activil ies.” Statin;; tliat ilia avowed purpose nl llm Art wits to savr lims of mother' atnl cliiltlt'i'tt, • Dr I’ttsey ilnt hired thai. in view nl tlm iinmi i tif n t nvci'-piipiila-tion I ;}' ill ' earth, liniitalir i nl populalinn, lather tliaii imi'i'iis", i., the lonjcal social iilctil. lie said : "In out- country t'litnr • poptilal ion linut make its slip,.' ri out nl territory that is nmv oci'it|iii.'tl. Startin'.; with r. population of A.llOll.nm people in the I’niti'il Stales has in 1 'Jo years passed 11)11.ilftii.tint). Within the span o| eliiliiri*tt non- li\ iit;-: our populatim ivill reach 17. r >.<)!n>.o!Ml. If no I'fl'or is Hindi' at hirth control. Nature nil take eharn.' of the situation hy olini'ii atim; these lon - i aide to resist. W'llel this condition of saturation arrives the humane plan, of snrinli-iie ultru ism ol to-day ivill he v.reeked in tlu strntiule hv society for mere existence.” Alter ih'i'larinn that the Unoivled ,- and jiraet ire of etiLcem ies uas ime it the greatest ef modern needs, and that on.nenkmi'anl not merely the hre-d----inp, aivav Item disease, hut the broedinp; to a stronp; end Imtilthy ste.'k, Dt Fit spy r.d'ocnled mitre of tlm nidfasliiened relation-hip between the d : tur iind his patient.