OCR Text |
Show C ARDINAL KAKLEY, who iittomptod to slop presen-tat presen-tat ion of drama dealing with the putting to death of deft-dive babies. ;-i v.. 3 g ' - V 'j t ( v. j i'A V- 4 DEFECTIVE BABIES IS DRAMA SENSATION License Revoked; Then Court Order Permits "The Unborn" to Be Presented. Ry I n I Ti.nt lon.d News Srndc NKW YORK, Nov. UU. Tiie lii-ensii of the Triiu-es tiicntcr wha rovokel tonight to-night to prevent the production of the "medics!'' play, "The I'nhorn.'" But at c:.1n an in iur-' tinu arrived at the playhouse staying tuis action until at" tcr a hearing next Wednesday morning. And the play went on. Knrthermore. between the second and third art, Dr. II. J. HaUelden of Chicago, Chi-cago, famed of the Baby Bollinger case, n. nde hip scheduled appearance and 0 speech . Trouble for "The I'nborn" began late in the afternoon when F. liay oin-stock, oin-stock, manager of the Princess theater, was served with a Dotice that his license li-cense had been revoked bv George Bell, cotr.misrinr.er of licenses. This order uas i-sucd by Hell on complaint com-plaint of Morjsignnr I.avelle, rector of St. Patrick's cathedral. In a letter ad-dressed ad-dressed to the commissioner M"nsignor I.avelle said that "his eminence, far-dinal far-dinal Farley, has heard of this play and is anxious that everything possible possi-ble be done to prevent its public presentation." pres-entation." Mirhael Mindlen. manager of tho play, engaged attorneys to protect bis in-tere-t. and at. 8 o 'cloc k tonight Judge: Platzek granted an injunction allowing allow-ing the play to go on until Wednesday morning. Lr. Haiselden, who came to New York for the purpose of seeing the performance, per-formance, occupied a box with his sister, sis-ter, Mrs. Clarendon Kntherford of Chi cago. aud Dr. Joseph D. Birmingham. I In a speech at the end of the scond act Dr. Haiselden said: "We are tending to become a nation of unfits. Already we stand convict. of furthering the development of tho un-! fit nt the expense of the fit. I can say nothing more illuminating upon this sub ject than to quote from the report of Harry McCormack of Chicago, which shows that while in 1803 there was one unfit human being to 702 normal, in HKI-l the proportion had grown to one io every 150. It is all right, for Colonel Roosevelt to preach bigger families, but everyone must realize that tho real battle bat-tle cry is not bigger families, but better." bet-ter." In referring to the Bollinger baby, Dr. Haiselden said: "Much of the energy and excitement aroused over the going out of the life of one poor little deformed baby could have been put to far better use toward to-ward the saving of lives that are going to count. Let us not become hysterical over the defective, the deformed. Let us rather try to stive the normal. If we do not wo are in grave danger of becoming a nation of misfits and weaklings. weak-lings. ' ' To prevent this fate overtaking the nation Dr. Haiselden urged immediate legislation for the sterilization of the unfit. He finished his talk amid enthusiastic en-thusiastic applause when he said: "Personally I will not with my surgery sur-gery lengthen a life unfit to live. For I hold that to bo the prostitution of ru rgery. ' ' It hns been suggested that Dr. Haiselden Haisel-den while in New York visit the Roberts Rob-erts baby and give his opinion as to whether the doctorB should operate. Considerable Con-siderable feeling against receiving such a visit from the Chicago surgeon seems to have been arouse. I at the Babies' hospital. Questioned tonight, Dr. Haiselden Hais-elden said: , "The New York doclors who have decided de-cided the fate of the Roberts baby are (Continued on Page Two.) DEFECTIVE BABIES (Cotitimicd from rase Oiic( n nr on ir llti' li'itilers ol Hi,, woil.l in our prol'i'siou. I soo midline Hint 1 eoiil l ,lo Hint lins not nlrojulv 1 n .lone." In llio inentil i me. wlitle llio .lis, ns vion ot' s.'ioiit ists mill l.'tvtiion i:ts ,-till in-illi; I'oii.'i'i'iiine (ho In;,- ol' lior hni-v, ! Mrs. -I .is.'pti V.. K'ol.oil:.. l,e mot'.ior', vmis tiii.'illi tot, the lint!, nl.onl the .101.1 slie lins no or s Mie roil;' I ! eoin,e,el ninl I, or eon.lilton t mi i ;lil i wns io).orte,l tenons. j |