gi"t!, mm g'unmifflm(pnp n Kmwmmwmwimj wwMKmw,w "! trip to Europe and salary thrown in, to help out in the work during the cruel winter ahead of them . There is no question but that the visiting nurse is one of the useful among the charity group. She has it in her power to do an immense amount of good; and she usually does it. Visiting nursing is the most worthy charity that the general public ig called upon to support, but it should support it intelligently and critically and not allow a criminal waste of its funds to go on. Mrs. Wm. P. Bos senberger, Williams, la. , BOOZE ADS Editor Day Book Extra!! Found another liquor "ad" in our true anti liquor paper, the Chicago American. You will find it on page 19 of Dec. 12, 1914. I am a constant reader of your Day Book and am more than pleased to see some people waking up to the facts, what paper to read, when true and no hidden articles can be found, and that's the good, honest Day Book. Hoping you will remind our dear readers of this "ad" and then tell them to read the ads of that true and honest (supposed to be) Chicago Evening American. Hans A. Jahn, 3830 N. Whipple st A READER REPLIES Editor Day Book I wish to say a word in reply to the article in The Day Book of Dec. 3, headed, "So called Charity Questions a Woman's Right to Have Babies." The case presented was indeed pa thetic and its treatment by the Jew ish Charities most deprecatory. Most of us who have come in touch with charity organizations as at pres ent conducted are very certain that they are demoralizing to both the giver and recipient They act as an opiate on both, soothing the - con science and deadening- the sense of justice of the former and destroying thought and independence in the latter, keeping bothhhndfolded to the 1 real issue of creating a social condir tion which will not degrade men, women and children, as our present system does. But on one issue I differ from the writer. I think the questions Miss Frank and Miss Brackenstein put to Mrs. Goodman were most pertinent. "Why do you have babies? What" right have you to have babies?" Mrs. Goodman is a nervous wreck Mr. Goodman a victim of tubercu losis a helpless father and mother and four helpless children, supported by others, and a fifth baby expected! 111 admit the injustice of their having to depend on others when all they ask is the chance to work. The strongest indictment of such a con dition will have my support, but this is a situation they find themselves in, a situation that has not come upon them suddenly. Handicapped by hideous poverty, disease, indescribable misery and wretchedness, they expect another Lbaby! They knowingly accept this heritabe for their child, before and after birth. Poor little innocent.vic tim! To me this seems nothing short of a crime and I too say to Mrs. Good man: "What right have you to have this baby?" I believe in a child's inalienable right to be well born. I believe that women must take the stand of re fusing to bear children except un der the most favorable conditions that 20th century civilization can create. Many modern women are doing this. In spite of criticism and con demnation they are freeing them selves of the old social and religious dogmas that made women virtually slaves. These dogmas have mili tated against an intelligent and vol untary motherhood. Intelligent and voluntary mother hood does it not seem that in this age it should be granted as one of the great fundamentals? Alas we are not yet intelligent' I enough as a community to demand mrnHt JMWM:Wr AvM HBaaaal