BIRTH CONTROL

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1931, Page 3

BIRTH CONTROL

INSTRUCTION OF YOUNG. BISHOP’S PRONOUNCEMENT. SYDNEY, October 15. 'Controversy is being waged between Sydney churchmen over the question of .control : and whether it should be v to young people. Speaking be- ' fbte'the .liacial Hygiene Society, Bishop Mpyes (Church of England) said : “W? ; miiat teach the young people ah<>utStp he married the need for birth ■ • a Hied to self-control—teach V;.,tbg® ; 'to ,plan the .number of children Athjeyyare to, have, and then sex comradeship k-the best road to happiness,” said the bishop. He declared thait it was time for a nation-wide campaign in sex instruction. “We must concentrate dn a line of attack,” he added, “and that line must be the' young folk who are about to be married. .Parents simply will not instruct their children when they have the opportunity.” On the other hand, Archbishop Kelly (Roman Catholic) speaking at the annual conference of the Hibernian Australian Catholic Benefit Societies declared that those who practised birth control were false to themselves and to the human race. - 1 “Those who prevent life as created by God are as guilty of a crime against society as those who take it away,” he said. % general of the church to'"‘•'this greatest of social evils,” as the archbishop put it. was well expressed i,n the action of the Christian Brothers, of New Zealand, who dis- . couraged their pupils from becoming chemists, as chemists were made the means of distributing instruments of homicide.”