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Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing Sing, who is also attending the prison congress here, said in an interview today that he is opposed to capital punishment because it does not act as a deterrent but topds rather to make heroes of criminals...
...Congress ended with a massed march to Westminster Cathedral* and a giant open air Mass, London's first...
Shaw v. Pope. Just as Irish Samuel O'Connell was an emancipator in his day, so Irish George Bernard Shaw poses as an emancipator nowadays. Not unaware of the Catholic Congress and of Catholic views on sex, he addressed them obliquely from the sexperts' congress. Excerpts...
...consequence is that if you had a general congress of all such reformers?not merely members of a particular society but all the people who are demanding sex reform?there would be a curious cross-party organization. Probably the Pope would find that on nine points out of ten he was warmly in sympathy with Dr. Marie Stopes. And all of them would probably disagree on such a question as the age of consent...
Chesterton v. Wells. On the second day of the Catholic Congress, up reared the portentous bulk of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. England's three greatest publicists are the Messrs. Shaw, Chesterton and Herbert George Wells. Instead of replying to the Shavian sex sarcasm of the day before, Mr. Chesterton elected to assail Mr. Wells, evolutionist. He began by talking about atheists, of whom, he said, the world has very few. "An atheist," he boomed, "is much more difficult to emancipate than any one else because he is, above all people, the narrowest and most completely captive." But Mr. Wells...