BIRTH CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 135, 10 June 1925, Page 7

BIRTH CONTROL.

A BISHOP'S ADVICE. NOT PALATABLE TO VTCAR. LONDON, June 1. The vicar of Brighton (Canon Hicks), speaking from the same pulpit in Brighton Church from which the Bishop of Birmingham advocated birth control, because fecundity menaced human welfare, said he profoundly disagreed with this teaching. "I myself abide by the teaching of the Church, 1 ' he said. HEATED DEBATE AT LABOUR WOMEN'S CONFERENCE. LONDON, May 29. "We young mothers want the latest scientific information about our job. We are sick of sentimental flummery. If we cannot get the information we need there will not be any babies at all." This bombshell from Mrs. Bertrand Russell disturbed the serenity of the Labour Women's Conference at Birmingham. After a heated discussion the conference adopted a resolution favouring doctors in the public medical services giving married people information on birth control. Mrs. Lasky, in supporting the motion, said she had heard people oppose birth control for the workers, "because," they asked, "where would we then get servants and soldiers?"' Miss Gwynne ejaculated: "Will you control your birth controllers?'' She warned her hearers that the question might split the Labour movement in two. Mrs. Simpson, as a staunch Catholic and the mother of 1.1, urged Catholics to support birth control. Mrs. Eldridge said that as a tenth child she was glad that her mother did not stop at the ninth. The disturbance was calmed after the chairwoman had requested one delegate not to insult the remainder by imputing impure motives to them.