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Show Young Couple Decide to Give Up Children . ' ' CHICAGO. July l (By V. P V-Mr. V-Mr. and Mr a. Joaaph Laveme, tha former scarcely out of hie teena and tha latter 11, today decided to give away their throe email ehlU dren becauaa "their poverty der.lea them tha right to keep them." Norma, I year old, haa already been placed In a wealthier home. Jean,. 4, and Robert, t. are to have their future "pa rente"- picked from a Dumber of appllcanta. "I'd rather die than Siva the klddlea away." aald Mr. Laverne, an exceptionally pretty woman. "Dying wouldn't help them or be fair ta them, and It would only coat money. Wa want them ta grow dp ao they can have enough to eat. We've been' married elx yeara and tried to get ahead, hut wa can't. Robert loat hi. Job, amd aa coon aa he got another the furniture company (urnlehred him Wa haven't tailed to leva each other and the children. "Tha children can't live an lev, though. A lot of people aay wa have no right with our poverty ta have children. Maybe we bava no right to happlnee. of any . sort," aha concluded , bitterly. . i Mr. Lavern. will- eoon become a mother for a fourth time. |