Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1911 — URGES BABY EVERY 2 YEARS [ARTICLE]

URGES BABY EVERY 2 YEARS

Dr. Eliot, Harvard’s President Emeritus, Gives Recipe for Happiness Though Married. Boston.—As a result of dfference of opinion between Dr. J. Lovett Morse and Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, on the subject of large families, Boston women are up In arms. "I don’t agree with Dr. Morse in his advocacy of small families,” said President Eliot. “I believe no restriction of the birth rate can be supported by morals or economics. The durable satisfaction of life depend upon having the normal number of children, and the normal number of children is five or six to the family. A mother should bear a child every two years. “Granting that marriage should come at the average age of twentyfour, this periodical child hearing should continue until the mother is forty, resulting in eight chldren. This high number, however, would be lowered in average by the death of either parent or two or more of the children. I believe in monogamy, equal chastity and the normal birth rate. “Durable satisfaction of life is not obtained by families that have only one or two children. Therefore, I am not able to accept the economic excuse for limiting the number oT children. The number to be born has a natural limit, and the economical limitation is wholly unnatural.” -