MARRIAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 18

MARRIAGE

BENEFICENT FORCE

Sir. Waiter gLangdori-Brown. Emeritus Professor of Physics in the University of Cambridge, and consultant physician to; St.- Bartholomew's Hospital, declared that nothing promotes physical, mental, moral," arid spiritual wellbeing so much.- 5.5,, a happy marriage (states the "Daily Telegraph"). "If,".he said,,"l : w?re asked to point to brie thing 7whjch ab/ove. all' others might be/taken to prove the existence of an bv6frifti#g force which is beneficent in intent/* I should unhesitatingly point to a successful partnership between man and woman." Sir Walter waS'Speakifig at a confer : ence organised by the National Birth Control Association;- "We do not advocate childless marriages," he said. "I doubt whether any man, and I am sure that iio /woman,- is, 'complete without parenthood." It was precisely those with the deepest sense of responsibility who were "arixiolisl'*to ensure that by limitation of numbers every child should have the best possible chance.He was fold that birth control mearit defeat in war : -It would'be truer to say that lack of birth control bred war. Again and again it was given as an excuse fora policy of annexation and expansion that a Government must find room for its teeming population. The fear of war had been' a powerful deterrent to many women from having children.' ■~": . * " ■