Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-06 | Page 4 | Old Maids and Maternity

OLD MAIDS AND MATERNITY. Senator Moses of New Hampshire is sarcastic in opposition to the mater nlty bill. "We bare appropriated $1,000,000 to supervise an expenditure of $-130,000," he said. "As a result we have a law which will give illiterate mothers a pamphlet when they need a doctor, and which will put into the back yard of very house an army of bob haired, horn rimmed spectacled, flat chested old maids to inquire how the mother spent the night before. Instead of a land of the free we are becoming a region of the regulated " One Is forced to smile at Senator Moses" description of the busy old maid who, having no children, knows all about maternity The power of ridicule Is used to the utmost in this attack and yet the old maid may never have a part in the operation of the law How easily are we swayed by the clever speaker with imagination.