Show THE NEEDS GOOD MOTHERS I rv tB n By Dr Clara Ern t. t he de de sper p r we go into the he woman question tho the mor cv ve lI cover how closel closely it Is connected wit with I sociological cn problems It goes with it as with the I whole s sC t question a a stone has been thrown into h the water nd the tho concentric circles spread pread on outI out I I farther and farther I At the 1 fourth furth annual conference of or the tho Prore Pro Pro- re W imen's a association which was held a at on the from September 2 27 to 30 t. t e question of or the Increase of population was wa tl in a 2 lecture b by Dr Professor ProCessor Othmar Spann w W that this question was clo closely connected wIt the woman question t is the highest ideal tho the deepest longing of ot the WI woman's womans v. v mans man's movement Give us good mothers mothers' women who ho are arc mentally and bodily sane women who dema 1 1 all au human rights because they are aro subject to hardest of human duties and who submit to i We need aced this kind of women ant and mother mothel Long b bt the womans woman's rights movement formulated in detail which are arc all inte intended intended in- in tended to e te e woman a n. great man Emperor Napoleon I I. that there was nothing the world was more in inThe il I of than good mothers The grea wealth o of an any nation is its citizens and here it 1 J not quantity that counts Lc Let tho the soil be ho so fertile the depths of the earth be ever so 80 ri riso n minerals the mountains be ever so suo 0 high a c cc ry y will never nover reach its proper el deIts de- de u 11 I Its citizens are mado made from the proper clay understand how ho hoto to bring out all aU that tha t is Js best i iA it ii cm em A suite state In Ich forces are wasted which must spend amounts to support and elevate its it citizens is IR much in the same position as a a. contractor wh lUst put a a. fortune into a great greal enterprise beci his machinery Is antiquated and not up to t hl his management and his maid material ma ma- be ever id ii the enterprise will wUl and must be a losing one The state is S 5 strong intelligent citizens energetic men omen f. n in all walks of oC life but life bul buli Instead what cAn c dl It i see An among children early he helplessness a tho the old hospitals madhouses an and prisons T ought Bought ht of all the physical and mental misery o 0 oThen great eat cities is Then the tho pies of oC the English national economist lalU raise their voices and demand fewer Truly Trul this Is a shopkeepers shopkeeper's remedy Of at cou con e 0 dollar is Js worth only twenty cents in famille re five children have havo to bethe be he clothed and fed ted the state the great national tU family I l I issue sue u. u farol arol No decrease e number of births but Improvement improvement imy im- im provement in the y of children When social t i. i conditions today force many health rong song and ener energetic people to I remain single to r l' lato late or to have hae few children the rem remedy d Is to I it 0 e O these conditions not to be bo boten guilty of or race sule ulc Brides Beides who Who w ci ten to the cr cry Keep down the number of birLeast bir birti Iea Least t of or all th the Vr r-Vr T 1 classes ses Vh Whoever ever know kno an thing of or the psychology of ot theses theses- these cass classes s l admit that unluckily un- un luckily e 4 e l lamong Ii fin imber of ot births decreasing only among t toe the c t higher classes es and It I is ad sad to think hink th th- th hose liose children might be the theand means t and acl carrying carr upward and onward onward on- on ward vard t such practises while the Increase in incomes In- In increase crease crease- comes from the lower louver clas classes es only 5 edlea edis against this und In tho the demands o of the tho thoan's ch h ans an's rights Better public Be or Of high schools for tor girls iris inor In- In 5 of or motherhood the making ages age and other things aUth all aU allt t th the womans woman's rights A L |