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Comments from Two New York Newspapers on Conviction
Of Cultured Woman Who Fought Against Sex Prudery
Emphasizing Need of Keeping Law Respectable,
From New York World: In a federal court In
Brooklyn Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett has been con
victed of sending obscene matter through the maH,
The matter in question consists of a pamphlet on
sex written 11 years ago for the Instruction of her
two sons, then aged 10 and 14. It is a small
pamphlet, 1? pages long, with a simplicity and di
rectness about it which no one has questioned. It
attempts to tell children what is worth knowing
about sex. cleariy and decently; and In a few para
graphs it disposes of whole volumes of rubbish that
have harassed youth since prurient books on sex
ology began to make their appearance.
There are three facts of special interest in this
case.
In the first place Mrs. Dennett’s pamphlet has
been widely commended and widely used by various
organizations whose ethical standards are beyond
dispute. It has been published in the Medical Re
view of Reviews, Indorsed by clergymen and writers,
used in the Bronxville school system and sent
through the malls by health societies and religious
societies over a period of 10 years.
In the second place, not a word of evidence con
cerning this use of the pamphlet was permitted to
reach the jury, Judge Burrows ruling that testimony
along this line was immaterial and irrelevant, and
the case being decided by having the pamphlet read
aloud, for the purpose of deciding whether it of
fended “the common sense of decency and modesty
of the community."
In the third place, it is quite evident that if
this decision stands, then a formidable obstacle has
been placed in the way of the education of youth
In matters of sex, at a time when the deslrabllty of
such education Is conceded by all enlightened peo
ple and has become, In fact, perhaps the first con
cern of all who have youth In their care. Mrs. Den
nett, whose pamphlet has for 10 years been put to
use by such organizations as the Y. M, C. A., now
faces a possible sentence of five years in jail.
It remains to be said that this indictment, of
very great Importance to the public, has taken
place in the City of New York and not in a remote
village in Tennessee; that the decision was reached
in 40 minutes; and that the jury consisted not of
12 “hill-billies" at whom it was great sport for
metropolitan newspapers to sneer, but of 12 average
citizens from the supposedly far more enlightened,
tolerant and progressive community of New York.
The case is deeply disturbing and deserves to be
thought about, discussed and understood, insofar as
it can be done, in relation to the question of public
policy which it raises.
From New York Herald-Tribune: Children
grow up. More children are born. It has been
happening since the first man appeared upon the
A GRICULTURE SEC RE TAR Y’S
WIFE IS REAL DIRT FARMER
TRENTON, MO.-(AP)-A prac
tical-minded dirt farmer, herself
the owner of four f8.rms, is Mrs.
Arthur M. Hyde, wife of the new
secretary of agriculture.
Mrs. Hyde goes to Washington
equipped with abilities as an offi
cial hostess gained while her hus
band was Missouri’s governor. Be
hind her life as the wife of a pub
lic official lies a girlhood spent on
her father’s 1,000-acre cattle farm.
Until she was 23 years old she lived
there.
Secretary Hyde’s appointment
came as his wife was busy planning
spring improvements on her farms,
which she manages personally.
“I don’t see how I can manage
my farms by correspondence," she
said. "I prefer to inspect them my
self."
One farm is stocked with Guern
sey cattle. One summer M-s. Hyde
went north to make a personal se
lection of herds from which she
would buy. Later she sent ner resi- 1
dent farm managers to purchase
her choices.
"Arthur, you know, is a town
boy,” she reminisced. "He had a
farm until recently, a 500-acre farm.
I didn’t manage it, but sometimes I
was his adviser.”
Mrs. Hyde's practical view of ag
riculture was demonstrated last
fall when she refused to sell her
timothy seed. She ordered it stored
it for the winter, anticipating an
advance in price. Now it Is worth 75
cents more a bushel.
Mrs. Hyde was rather reluctant
to leave the quietude and content
ment of her Tfgnton home, yet she
welcome^ residence in Washing
ton as a "new adventure” The
Hydes’ daughter, Caroline, attends
high school in Trenton, but will
complete her preparatory work in
the capital.
Thus this Missouri farm girl
leaves her housekeeping and farm
management to enter the circle of
cabinet members’ wives—intimate
ly acquainted witu pioblems of her
husband’s work.
Sad Over Success
From London Graphic
One of the greatest stage succes
ses, from the point of view of the
box office at least, “Charley's Aunt,"
written 37 years ago, is “still run
ning," if a little leeway is given to
that expression.
“From the time he was a young
actor, my husband had ambitions to
be a dramatist," writes Mrs. Bran
don Thomas, his wife.
The late W. S. Penley, who had
made a great reputation as a farci
cal actor, asked Thomas to write
him a play so that he might make
his escape from slapstick comedy.
“In the course of the conversa
tion," continues Mrs. Thomas, “my
husband said, 'You have played so
many different parts that it is dif
ficult to think of anything in the
way of an original character for
you’; then suddenly looking up he
asked, ’Have you ever played a wo
man?’
“ ’No,’ replied Penley, 'I never
have but I’ve always wanted to.’
“'Good,’ exclaimed my husband;
but the woman will have to be a
masquerade by a man, and we will
get the fun out of it by showing
how badly you play the woman.’
“With that germ In mind the
work was started, and at the end of
two months the play was finished.
When It was read to Penley he
roared with laughter throughout ‘he
reading . . .
“Great as was the play’s success,
it broke my husband’s success, it
broke my husband's heart as a dra
matist. fbr it was his ambition to
have his serious plays accepted, and
everybody demanded that he should
write another “Charley's Aunt.” a
play written in an outburst of high
spirits, a mood not easily repeated.
It might be said that as a dramatist
my husband became his own most
dangerous rival. As an actor he was
Law-Making Poetry.
From Cedar Rapids Gazette.
The Journal of the Iowa House
for March 36 contain the follow
ing entry:
“E. O Osborn of Knoxville, la.,
entertained the House of Represen
tatives during the r.:on recess with
the reading of several of his poems."
And sure enough, there were the
poems, 14 of them, spread on the
journal! In spite of the fact that
this was undoubtedly one of the
most momentous events which has
occurred in the state legislature In
many generations, not a word about
It apparently was carried in dis
patches.
fancy what an impression would
not prevented from playing serious
and even emotional parts, and it
only added to the good feeling of
the audience on the first night of
“The Eeternal City’ at His Majesty’s
theater in which my husband played
the pope, when a shout came from
the gallery, ‘Bravo, Charley’s
Auntl’l”
•—— '■ ♦ ♦
Dr. Ayora Sticks.
Prom Kansas City Star.
In the selection of Dr. Isidro Ay
ora, who has been dictator of the
republic since 1926, to be its consti
tutional president, Ecuador retains
In office one of the most interesting
and attractive figures In South Am
erica. Dr. Ayora, a full blood Inca
Indian, is the most noted surgeon
in northern South America, with
clients from his own country, Ven
ezuela ar.d Brazil. When the mili
tary clique, three years ago, over
threw the existing regime and
looked about for a president who
would have the confidence of the
republic, they chose Ayora, who con
sented to be president in the after
noons if he could have his morn
ings and evenings for the piacticc
of his profession. The military clique
intended him to be a mere figure
head to sign papers and lend dig
nity to their regime, and when Ay
cra showed signs of restiveness and
a desire to accept the presidency
as more than a formality, they con
spired against him, arrested him
and threatened to shoot him unless
he should resign. He refused to re
sign, and the military leaders were
afraid to shoot. He then turned
their coup d’etat on themselves,
took supreme charge of the govern
ment, and has been sola dictator
sinoe.
But Ayora has been a benevolent
despot, and scrupulous in the ob
servance of his duties. He balanced
the nation’s budget for the first
time in many years, effected econ
omies in government, restored or
strolling troubadours of Provence,
idly strummed his harp and sang
lyrics of love and life!
Vet, this is what occurred. It Is
be made in the east If it were known
that the Iowa house relaxes at
noon by listening to the original
poetic compositions of its members!
Senator Brookhart has given the
east the idea that lowans are so
distressed financially that they can
spare no time from the stem strug
gle for existence to court the softer
elegancies of life. What surprise
would gTeet the news that sturdy
lowans In the house liad paused to
hearken while one of their number
of Old. QrJUJCJrf,
der, established an educational ;y*
tem, and at all times expressed th#
hope that soon he could retire a>
dictator and return Ecuador ti
constitutionality. He made an ex
tremely favorable impression on the
Hoover party last year, particularly
by cne incident, in which, while
he was visiting the battleship
“Maryland” on which Mr. Hoovet
was taken to South America, he
asked to see the ship's hospital
There he saw a sailor, seriously ill
Dr. Ayora asked a few questions
removed his high silk hat and his
frock coat, rolled up his sleeves,
made a thorough examination, out
lined the ship’s doctors where an
operation should be performed, put
cn his silk hat and frock coat, and
thereby ceased being a surgeon and
became again president of Ecuador.
The next day, according to the story
told by Will Irwin, the ship’s sur
geons performed the operation ac
cording to the suggestions of Dr
Ayora, and the sailor rapidly recov
ered.
...
College Dr France Unique.
From the Living Ago.
In June, 1030, the College da
Fiance will celebrate its fourth cen
tenary. At this celebration it will
inaugurate a new building, work on
which has just, been started, for the
part-ments of chemistry and physics
The College de France was found
ed in 1530 by Francis I at the sug
gestion of Guillaume Bade, who was
then royal librarian. Budc was a
scholar who did much io advance
the study of Greek in France and
who wrote works on philosophy and
law; he was a friend of Erasmus
and narrowly escaped getting into
trouble many times because of hia
liberal ideas.
He called the doctors of the Sor
bonne "prating sophists,” and It was
perhaps his low opinion of them
that led him to propose the estab
lishment of the new Institution
Certainly the doctors were noj
pleased. The first subjects taught
in the College de France were Greek
and Hebrew, and the learned men ol
the Sorbonne made a great fuss
saying that the morals of the young
were being corrupted and their faith
in the Bible destroyed. Serious as
these accusations were, they did not
impress Francis I, and the College
de France flourished.
From its very birth this instltutior.
has held a unique position In
French education It enjoys complete
liberty to teach whatever it chooses
Subjects are taught or not taught
according to whether there happens
to be someone on the faculty tc
teach them.
Each professor has the same lib
erty to teach what pleases him, in
the way it pleases him to teach it
And, most Important of all,•any
one can attend. There are no fees
no formalities involving credential.*,
from other schools. On the other
hand, no degrees are given.
♦ ♦ -—
A. Gen. Charles George Gordon
a British soldier and adventurer
died fighting the Mahdi desert
tribesmen in Khartoum, the Sudan,
in 1885, Just two days before the ar
rival of a British relief expedition
He had been besieged nearly a year
The reading world followed the
drama with intense interest only tc
be shocked by its tragic end.
doubtful if there is another legisla
tive body in the union which could
stand up so nobly under a dose ol
14 poems at the noon hour, un
fortified In any way. The Journal ij,
silent as to the general effect. The
Congressional Record manages
things better. Whenever one of the
representatives or senators breaks
into verse, there is always appended
tlie familiar notation (applause) or
(laughter and applause.)
Q. Where is the Sargasso sea? M
A.
A. It is between 40 degrees and 70
degrees west latitude, and between
20 degrees and 35 degrees north
loni^tltude.
earth. It happened even In the Victorian era, al
though people were very careful not to mention
the fact. And there is not and never was anything
disgraceful in the fact, although the Victorians con
trived to throw a cloud of shame across the exist
ence cf sex in human beings.
When James E. Wilkinson, assistant United
States attorney, told a Brooklyn Jury on Tuesday
that Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett’s pamphlet, "The Sox
Side of Life," was "pure and simple smut," he im
plied. by its own logic, that every parent Is smutty,
that sex is smutty, that the system by which th*
race is perpetuated is smutty. That, it seems to us,
is smutty logic; it Ls the attitude of mind which hai
created fear and shame about sex, which brlngi
children up in the dark, unnecessarily uninformed
and hence, morbidly curious.
Mrs. Dennett’s pamphlet is a frank and explicit
statement of the facts or procreation. Written first
for her own children, it was reprinted In a medical
review 10 years ago, and has since been circulated
by Y. M. C. A.’s, y. W. C. A.'s, public schools and
theological seminaries. It ls similar in content to
publications distributed broadcast by the United
States Public Health Service. But the Brooklvn
Jury was not permitted by the court to hear th«
testimony of doctors and educators who had found
the pamphlet useful or even to know how it had
been used, or that the government distributed
similar matter. It merely heard the prosecuting
attorney read the pamphlet itself. Now, it is un
doubtedly true that anything about sex can b*
made to seem smutty, and the jury, thus blinded,
brought in a verdict of "guilty ” The pamphlet was
obscene; Mrs. Dennett had been spreading ob
scenity abroad.
The prosecuting attorney did not charge oj
suggest that Mrs. Dennett, a gray-haired grand
mother, was an Immoral woman, promoting im
morality. The pamphlet, he thought, was legiti
mate for its original purpose; it was ail right for
Mrs Dennett’s own children. But, he said:
"When she raises her kitchen window and says
to your children and my children. ‘Come on over,'
then It’s time for us to put a stop to it. A
mother, he implied, may instruct her own chil
dren; but she must not let another particularly
wise mother assist her or tell her how. This, it
seems to us, is preposterous. The subject of sex Is
delicate, and many a mother has been puzzled
how to tell her own children what she knew they
ought to know. Mrs. Dennett’s pamphlet has
helped thousands oi mothers; it should help thou
sands more. Now it has been declared obscene.
As Morris Ernst, Mrs. Dennett's attorney, said,
that is “to condemn the children of the next gen
eration to getting their knowledge of sex from the
gutter.”
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The death of old Lord Iveagh, head
if the Guinness family of Guinness
itout fame—on the Iveagh estate of
fiio.OOO.OOO no less than $22,000,000
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great stout brewer's on an easel.
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side by side. Call him ‘Cause’ and uv
Effect.’"
One Out of Many
Knlcker—JJrunton surely got a pencil
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Boeker—Ilns she wonderful cluirnc
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Knlcker—I’ll say bo. Knows a good
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Won Hi* Release
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