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As We Were Saying
By ROBERT SEGAL
Recent action in Washington
and Boston confirms the hunch
that an enlightened American
public is entering a new, pro
gressive era in family planning.
In the nation’s capitol, the of
fice of Health, Education and
Welfare has announced creation
of a new post of Assistant Secre
tary for Science and Population.
In Boston, the state lawmakers
have finally enacted a bill legal
izing birth control.
Neither of these advances has
come easily. Both reflect a
mounting public sentiment de
manding world-wide action to
stem a population advance. The
reality of famine in India, where
some parents are reportedly sell
ing their children for 50 cents as
the granaries give out, has added
to the climate of urgency.
Action at the federal level
follows a great deal of hauling
and pulling due to understand
able doubts about the propriety
of government involvement in
such a delicate field. One re-
calls President Eisenhower’s
significant turn-about of a year
ago when he said that a decade
of close study has convinced him
that our federal government did
have a responsibility to work for
“population stabilization” in
those nations receiving foreign
aid from the U.S. Persistent ef
forts of agronomists, ecologists,
and other students of crop and
population trends have proved
beyond doubt that the world
cannot remain oblivious to the
dangers of overpopulation.
(If the present rate of human
reproduction were to continue,
with world population doubling
every 38 years, it is indicated
there would be 400,000,000,000
people on this planet in 260
years.)
The change in outlook of
Catholic leaders has been
especially helpful in advancing
the cause of family planning. A
five-point statement, initiated by
Father Dexter L. Hanley, S. J.,
of Georgetown Law School, ad
vocating government assistance
in family planning, has won wide
support.
In Massachusetts, Richard
Cardinal Cushing, while noting
that Catholics do not approve of
artificial methods of birth con
trol, made it quite clear during
recent dramatic legislative hear
ings that the issue was squarely
up to the lawmakers. In 1942 and
again in 1948 when strenuous
efforts were made in Massachu
setts to repeal the measure for
bidding dissemination of birth
control information, the Catholic
Church stood firm against
change. But now that the Su
preme Court has acted in Con
necticut’s test case and now that
Rome has given strong indica
tion that Vatican views on family
planning may soon be recast, the
Bay State fight to shake off the
prohibitions of the past was
fairly easy.
True, there was a little hesit
ancy. One lawmaker said he
FISHER IN EUROPE,
ISRAEL FOR UJA
NEW YORK (JTA)—Max M.
Fisher, General Chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal, left by
plane for advance discussions
with leaders of European Jewish
communities and Prime Minister
Levi Eshkol of Israel on over
seas relief and migration needs
which will form the basis of next
year’s UJA campaign.
Arrest Teenage Girls
For Cemetery Vandalism
VINELAND, N. J. (JTA)—Two
teenage girls were arrested here
on charges of overturning and
defacing tombstones in a Jewish
cemetery.
The girls, one 15 and the other
14, were released in the custody
of their parents. Their names
were withheld because of their
youth.
A police official said the girls
told police they did it “just for
kicks.”
would never vote for repeal un
til he was sure Pope Paul ap
proved. A likeminded scion de
nounced the repealer ps an in
strument to legalize criminal
practice. But Cardinal Cushing’s
assurance that each legislator
should make up his own mind
regardless of the Church’s stand
saved the day.
One important consideration
has been a debate over the right
of the state to provide con
traceptive advice for the un
wed. This is linked closely to
doubts as to whether the govern
ment may use anti-poverty funds
to keep the birth rate down.
When the Office of Economic Op
portunity, in issuing guidelines,
prohibited the use of anti-poverty
money for contraceptive aid to
unmarried women or women
living apart from their husbands,
the American Civil Liberties
Union insisted that such a re
striction violated the constitu
tional guarantee of equal pro
tection of the law.
With dramatic action indicated
on the Washington front, with
the nation’s last two hold-out
states (Connecticut and Massa
chusetts) facilitating the avail
ability of birth control informa
tion, and with other efforts
going forward in many parts of
the world, we may all realize
that we have come a long, long
way since those trying times of
six years ago when the Com
missioner of New York hospitals
touched off an explosion by hesi
tating to carry out a directive
that birth control measures be
prescribed for patients whose
life and health may be jeopard
ized by pregnancy.
SURPRISE
Orthodoxy
Growing
In Numbers
NEW YORK (WUP)— Despite
the general belief in Jewish cir
cles that traditional Judaism is
losing out to the Reform and Con
servative groups, a newly-pub
lished survey has borne out that
orthodoxy in the United States
is growing in numbers, financial
strength and intensity of com
mitment by its adherents.
The American Jewish Commit
tee has just published an 82-page
booklet entitled “Orthodoxy In
American Jewish Life,” written
by Prof. Charles S. Liebman of
Yeshiva University, giving facts
and figures on the upsurge of
Orthodox Judaism in American
Jewish communities.
Prof. Liebman estimates that
as many as 1,000,000 Jews in
America can be considered Orth
odox. His analysis also bears out
that there is a trend in the Orth
odox community toward more
rigidity in observance of tradi
tional practices.
HUC Degrees
To 5 Christians
CINCINNATI (JTA) — Five of
the Christian scholars studying
under the interfaitli Fellowship
Program of the Hebrew Union
College-Jewisn Institute of Re
ligion here have been awarded
degrees of philosophy, the HUC-
JI It announced. The five are the
Rev. Leslie Alden, a Baptist; the
Rev. Richard A. Henshaw, an
Episcopalian; the Rev. Mark Ed
ward Hillmc-r, a Lutheran; the
Rev. Jean Ouellette, a Catholic;
and the Rev. James Glen Wil
liams, a Methodist. The Interfaith
Fellowship Program is open to all
Christian ministers and church
men for postgraduate studies in
the Bible and related subjects.
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