Show I Joins Br Pro I on Birth Control r Editor The TIle Telegram I lave have been reading the discussion on birth control which appeared recently in The Telegram both pro and con and it seems to me that the pr pros pros' s have hare had the had the best of the I argument so far lar What has a always w ys of impressed me in any discussion the subject i l' selfishness of ot tho the people who are opposed to birth control They preach but they d do donot donot not practice what they preach Two outstanding examples of ot th's are Kathleen Norris the writer writ er r and arid Mussolini I have read several sev sev- cr oral eral l articles by Mrs 1 Norris where she assailed birth control In very scathing terms and yet she has had b but t one child herself a son son Mussolini M as everyone knows ts is is the worlds world's s champion advocate of large families According to him no woman has nas done her duty until she has brought twelve children into the world w and in his opinion sixteen or eighteen n is nearer th the ideal family Mussolini and his wife h haye ye been married almost 2 23 years and nd they have had four tour children children chil chil- dren during that time At any rate rat we va we must give Mussolini Mussolini Mus Mus- credit for tor not wanting to transform his wife wite into a beast of ot burden I have often wondered what Mussolini Mussolini's s thoughts are when he goes to one of ot the towns of ot Italy on oTt an inspection tour and sees the poor little peasant mothers trot out lr progeny for tor the dear Duce to admire Does he ever have any pangs of conscience when he looks at the little male Italians knowing full wen well that they are b be- be I ing brought into the world m merely relY to be used for cannon cannon fodder for fec forthe for forthe the next neat Great Conflict that he Is always talking about Conflict there the certainly will win be in spite of ot all the lecturers who travel the country saying There will never never never nev- nev nev nev- er be an another ther war war This sam same statement was l heard eard a great many times before the la last year ear yet jet it came Just the same What is going to to become of ot the ev ever r increasing number of ot unemployed unemployed unemployed 1 There were almost five tive million unemployed d In this country last winter acco according ding to fl figures ures from a reliable source With the ever increasing g number of laborsaving laborsavIng laborsaving labor- labor saving devices putting l large rge numbers numbers num nurn- bers of men out of employment the number of d will be greatly Increased sed as is the years year years go goby byA by byA A short time ag ago I read two news items in the tie newspaper des describing g two new machines s which would supplant human labor One yOne One was a a. a cutting machine which had been purchased by a large clothing hing manufacturer and with but one op operator took the place of cut cut- Another machine In a a steel plant att attended by two men took the place of ot more than men The latest Invention of ot this kind Isa is isa isa a calculating ting machine machine- for use In I large business houses where men I Ian can an accomplish the work formerly attended to by 65 Inventions like this go on ad Infinitum In spite of this some of ot the leadIng leading leading lead lead- ing lights of ot o our r Ass Associated Industries Industries Industries Indus Indus- tries will tell telI us in iii In a perfectly nonchalant nonchalant nonchalant non non- manner th that t there Is no need heed to worry because nearly allor all of or the men displaced by sav eav labor sav laborsaving ing devices are being absorbed b bother by other industries In my way of ot thinking they are being absorbed Into the ranks of hoboes and criminals crimi crimi- nals I agree ree with the writer who said that any anyone one who encouraged poor people to have families should be sentenced to life imprisonment Four children should be the limit In I these strenuous times JACK STRAIGHT |