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Pamphlets headed “Family Limitation and the Church and Birth Controi. by John A. Ryan, S. T. D., and printed by the Pauiist Press, were distributed by young men on the streets before. and during the meeting. The Birth Control Review was scld on the sidewalks in front of the theater. ?The Rev. Dr. Reiland Present Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee, vice-chairman of the meeting, introduced . Dr. Lydia De Vilbiss. of Washington, who presided. She, in turn, introduced the Rev. Dr. Kar' Reiland, rector of St* George’s Episcopal Church, who said that while he lacked knowledge which would permit him to apeak authorita- ’ . tively on the subject V)f birth control, be wanted to protest against the police .violation of the right of free speech nt the Town Hall meeting. He said he thought some of this misdirected enthusiasm could well be turned against “a play at the Eltinge Theater, which had been proceeded against in the Chief Magistrate’s court and whose producer had boon bound over for trial.Mr. Cox, taking as his subject the topic of the meeting, Birth Control--Is It Moral? said he proposed to prove that it was. Ho named the four purposes of the movement as being to preserve the health of mothers, to irn- • prove the estate of the child, to raise the standard of life throughout the community, and lastly, but by no I means least, to prevent further 'wars. ‘ ■ He declared that so long as the world was allowed and encouraged to overpopulate there would be wars, if for i nothing more than room to live inTouching on Sunday night’s alVair, ■ said that he, as an Englishman. | * ; wanted Jo appeal to those in the audi-11
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New York Tribune
New York, New York, US
Sat, Nov 19, 1921
Page 26
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