Show Limit Families and Give Child a Chanc 0 r Urges Dr Jacobi Babies Babies' Greatest Friend ze I Fry f T a t th r J I 4 t tle le d 1 i r I iLA LI I 1 r i I I 41 k- k S S 1 J I 4 c 4 I IL L 1 11 1 I I T w wt nO A c MIlK t tr e r s A 0 I Ir 1 r wJ III S I Grand Old Man of Medicine at five Eighty-five Urges Work to Repeal Law That Forbids Physicians From Giving to Tired Overworked Mothers Information to Prevent Children Being Born Only to Be Buried By MARG MARGUERITE ERITE WOOERS MOOERS MARSHALL Dr Abraham Jacobi the tho Nestor tho the Dean the Grand Old Man Ian of ot American medicine medicine medicine-he he has hns been affectionately hailed by nit nil three titles titlE'S has has ju Just t celebrated in harness his fifth eighty birthday Work work work a as he lie expresses is s still the tho pro program ram of oC his life He spends hours e cr every di day In tho the consulting rooms of ot his home homet at t No ID 10 East Enst Forty sev se eath street and other hours at the thc hospitals where he Is the most highly highl honored visitor There is probably no other oth r physician phs ph's Clan in America who has won so o many distinctions or done lone so 50 much solidly helpful work as Dr Jacobi Kor lor six fifty six years fars he lie was o n member ot ol the thc X New w York Academy of or Medicine Medi clue cine occupying occupying- its lIs presidential al chair for two terms and serving as trustee trustee trus trus- 1 tee for tor nearly five twenty years cars I Iou Four ou s ago aso after his eightieth birthday birthday birth birth- day was pa past pant t h he lie was elected president of oC the thc American Medical inn tion He lie has been hen awarded tJ a n gold modal medal for or services to humanity b by the tIme American museum of ot natural history history- Believes in Limiting the Number Nimber of of Children He lie has been heen professor proCessor of ot children's childrens dl cases dlf-cases in the New York Medical college e th tIme the medical department of or New York university and tho the Colte College e of oC Physicians and lb IIo has been on the taff of half halt a dozen New York hospitals The Thc New Ness ew York milk committee one ono of oC the thc elt city agencies agen des cies that have ha clone lone most to cut the hue infant death rate owes him a debt and be lie has been heen active In campaigns One of or his bis fellow practitioners says There Ther TherIs is 1 no page of oC medicine in this city on I which the name of oC Dr Jacobi is not not- I Inscribed And it is hi on the thc lines hues nf ut child welfare that the thc most and tho the Lest best est of his work has been done II here r Is the tIme message which this most conservative physician this lover lov los er or and savior of or little children has for or the tue fathers and mothers of lr New NewYork NewYork York after serving them for tor more than sixt sixty years Limit your rami-I rami lies Do not have more children than you can cnn bring up in health and safety safely Work Vork to repeal time thc law which forbids physicians to tn J give e poor overworked overworked overworked over over- worked mothers the iii information formation which almich will wilt pi prevent event children being hoi horn n only emily to he be hurled burled I 1 do 10 not hot believe that any ny man who earns 10 a week has his a 1 light to have ha el eight ht children Dr DI Jacobi told m me with wIlh em If IC he lie hoes dos have that number it is hi likely to mean that so society so- so det clety must hia pay I for or tho ho bur burying of six Ix or seven even of or them Wo We 0 stood In the thc lie little tittle reception fronting on East Cast seventh Forty e It was sweet with American ro roses two tuo lug armfuls armfuls' of I I J n nU ThE Thi A ARC E I U D f I I TW IJ TWI I j J 11 t. t i I ll c. c t CHICORY cHILDRe AK AND 14 POOR FEWER EWER I 1 I them which were among the time doctors doctor's doe doc tors tor's birthday greetings On either side of the mantelpiece stood two photographs photographs' framed with autograph letters One Omie of oC the thc letters lettel'S was sl signed n l A A Lincoln and above it gazed out the thc sad eyes of ot the great groat president who ho was also a great cr lover of oC chill chil hen helm Opposite le him I liot ll the kindly 1 face yf of the doctor doctor- autocrat of ot the breakfast table table- Oliver O Wend Wendell U Holmes Holme Mother Exhausted Children Born Weak Dr Jacobi was as never 1 mi t tall man Now his lila shoulders are aro bent hent b by five eighty ht fhe birthdays his face is scorned with tin tiny creases cre and there is 13 something quaintly old fashioned about the thC cut of his black clothes Yet Co for ho lie made n nIll me an aim impressive figuie fig fig- lii Ill uie e because e he lie stood I as ns the tue valiant forerunner r of oC that day lay when volun- volun ter instead f if f conscript motherhood moth will witt really lift tiet the tho curse cure of oC Eve If JC the a week man has two Iwo children the they will probably live live to j l grow row up ui continued the man u I i life has been devoted to saving child life liCe You l know everybody In in Now New I 4 Ii York knows what the time mortality is 18 I among among tho the lal large e families of the time very cry poor Often the time mother becomes ex- ex and anel unable to bear strong stron he healthy children If H the children ara aru 11 born horn healthy they the are art likely to bo him I i 1 affected h by the evil ovil conditions aroun around i I them which the mother and tat father her I cannot help Of or cour course I think that reputable I f j doctors doctor ought o to be allowed to give 6 I women such mch information tion as will limit lim urn it time tho the children to the number that hat car can bo be h cared larNI for well sil enough h to bring them to maturity In tim good health But Butto Butto to give h such Information Is against ag thc lie law It Jt nu ought ht to bo ho changed but hut 1 to do ho that that Dr Dr Jacobi's voice grew shriller nUll and his lean 11 old ha hand 11 cIt to to do that you Au must nez- nez I the thc hypocrites and anel Anthony ny Corn Com stock Comstock Qu ought ht to have all an j his duties taken away from froni him and ami b be given iv n a n pension of ut 50 60 a year car for tor l keeping his hands ha off oct r t tAnd And neI you ou can cun go o d down wn to your our pa paper paper pa- pa f per and anti tell them I said that he I 1 added grimly 4 4 I Believes Old American Stock Is Dying Dy ing Out At the seaside ho hospitals for tor chil- chil i III ii dien n ii where h he lie has work worked d. d Dr Ja- Ja r COll discovered disco ion long a ago o that that most po j of the time nourished ill diseased t little patients were anywhere from No 5 S Sto to No 0 10 lOIn in lii the thc families of oC working men To the thc argument that out of ot time the lal largo o families of or poor men als havo have often otten risen to distinction his hia reply is simply The majority do donot i H not muot I i 1 believe heUe as ns hearth heartily as you rou do do In Inthe t the tIme limitation of oC families I I I. said let 1 et isn't It true that race ul has i really attacked the old American t stock 7 j it U is ts true he ht admitted You go 0 to New England ingland and you'll find the old families are dying d ing rut It I IVe Ve We must depend on tho the immigrant 1 l to i America In fifty years I t were we're going to see flee a new American I dont don't know what he lie will be no one 1 knows But every ery country in Sn Europe j f will m give l him j l' l Jacobi cob himself emigrated 1 to I I America In 1853 1353 after a political imprisonment im- im J in lii Germany he Germany he never i v ats vu afraid to- to speak to-speak eak his mind Many I k kt years tars t ars later hater h he lie w was s d b by the of- of T fc of oC a chair chall in lit pediatrics at nt the r University of or Berlin I am afraid the will wilt disown r hyphenated Americans I replied that Inasmuch Inasmuch inasmuch Inas- Inas him him for tor he calmly much as this country gave savo him hia opportunity ho lie Intended to Bla stay here t he could and amid make such return as us t. t Undoubtedly there are aro to do to i I I their k selfish In wi wives wis s who me aue purely refusal to have children he h con con- conI I ceded They The prefer preter bridge tables to f r babies Time Tho rich women should have children and tho thin poor women J I should have hae fewer children Meanwhile Mean Mean- 1 j J while an nn additional element clement of or f tire tice Is attached to the caso QC f the poor 1301 mother thier for the helpful i v 1 lion which the la law laV V denies her Is obviously ob- ob obI I j j i at ut the service Ice of or her rich and II t f childless sister Hister 1 y 3 Calls Milk Mik Stations Great Gift to J Humanity I J. J ji- ji Dr Dl Jacobi believes that s some nc faddy fad fad- If dy d things s but many man fine Cine r things have o been done llone during the la last t r r fifty years ears to safe safeguard the Jives Ji and If j I health of oC children l New York Cit City never performed a 1 I jf hoe greater greatel tel service to human humanity It ho said raid ald thanIn opening and amI maintain maintain- B fIng f r fog Ing time the large number numb of at milk stations 1 T where babl babies s and little children can I. I obtain pure fresh h milk Untold good has been done too b by tim the lectures to mothers given by the m nurses mimes in the tho tr I milk stations The rho lives of ot many children c ren have undoubtedly b been en 1 t saved paved ed b by information thus distri distrI- buted ut d II Ve f e were murdering children t up Dr Jacobi tersely Now f were Are Just beginning to find it out t tA A And Amid nil perhaps as he hopes well Avell end lod j by refusing to bear bar the children whose whoso i I D I ilith th Is hi equivalent to o a a. sentence e of P-fl P I J death or death or of ot disease for tor life Ute J I iro t G I |