“GHASTLY MENACE”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18258, 29 November 1933, Page 11

“GHASTLY MENACE”

BIRTH CONTROL SCHEME PROTEST BY BISHOPS LONDON, Nov. 20. Legislation to prevent the dissemination Tv the Post Office or by other methods of circulars and catalogues advertising birth control appliances was urged upon the Government by a unanimous resolution of the Church Assembly to-day. _ .. Speakers complained that such appliances were blatantly displayed in shop windows, while all persons in the elencal and other directories had been circularised. ,ii Advertisements, it was stated, also appeared in the Post Office telephone, directories. The Postmaster-General had been urged to stop them. He had replied that he had po power to do so, although a Lancashire Mayor had immediately withdrawn tram tickets on which similar advertisements were printed. The Bishop of London, Dr. Ingram, said that the Public Moralitv Council had for two years been preparing a bill on the subject. “We cannot persuade Parliament to move,” ho said, “but if the Archbishop and all bishops lead a general movement I believe we shall succeed.” Tho Bishop of St. Albans, Dr. Furse. declared that tho problem was one of the most sinister to-day and a fdiast.lv menace to the future of the English race. “I believe, he said, that, 70 per cent, of the anplianccs arc sold to unmarried persons.” The Dean of Chichester, Rev. Duncan •Tones, supporting the motion, added that, nevertheless, some members of the Assembly felt that there were cases in which it was morally right to vise contraceptives. ’