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Show 00 FACT RIVALS FICTION IN DENVER BABY CASE It Is rather bromidlc to repeat thej old saw that truth Is Strang' r than! fiction, hut, when famous writer con-I fees, a. they sometimes do. tha: the) gSt their best plots out of the d'tlly newspapers, one is compelled to admit I that the old sa"w may be correct, after, I all. There Is a scene In "The Soul of Youth.' ROW being shown ul the Al- hsmbrs theatre in this city, which Illustrates this tact. The scene nhovv 'a young mother making a bargain 'with another woman for her unborn I child, which she agrres to turn over to the purchaser as soon as it is horn. When this episode wv.s flushed on the screen at the fliwt performance of the film this afternoon, a woman In the audience indignantly said. In tones loud enough to be heard all over the house. "I don't believe any woman alive would Bell her baby"' and there were excited murmurs all over the house to prove that the scene had made a deep impression on all vvh witnessed It. As a matter of fact, there was. In May. tVjo In Denver. Colorado. A widely discussed case exactly similar 10 the one shown In the film, except that In ihe Denver case tpc expectant mother had a perfectly good husband, a traveling salesman, and she advertised her unborn un-born In fant for sale in order that she herself might be free from maternal ma-ternal duties and able to accompany the man on his travels' All the Denver Den-ver newpaper carried columns of material about the case, feature writers writ-ers Interviewed the heartless mother, prominent chip women wrote indignant indig-nant letters to the press, and "sob" writers pointed many a moral. Judg. Ben Llndsey, the nofed Jurist, went to j call personally upon the young woman, wo-man, and pointed out to her that , babies really can not be given away like pnpplss In the end the mother decided to keep the baby she had offered for sale or exchange The ease attracted wide publlcitv last prlng and much needed legislation legisla-tion in several states will probaoly be one result of the affair There Is alread) a law in existence In Colorado making It Illegal for a mother to barter bar-ter her child, and provides, through Its dependency law. support for the' mother and child If she has no other means of support In Mary land It it a crtmf for a mother to give up her I --hlld before it is ix months old. the ; law holding that If the baby la breastfed breast-fed for that long It has a better 1 chance of health than the bottle-fed , Infant |