Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carefully separated trilogy of American government, built in three concentric spheres, there has generally been little friction between the two inner bodies, local and state control, while the latter and the federal administration have rubbed each other the wrong way violently enough to form a strong issue in campaigns a century apart. Indifference, and a personal touch, have helped to satisfy the two smaller divisions in their relations; but here in Massachusetts, the section in which originated the ideal of local self-government, and its expression in the town-meeting, the small towns, through their associated selectmen, have spoken vigorously...
Your quotation from a pastoral letter of Cardinal Hayes, relative to birth control, in your issue of Dec. 17 is all right in its way but does not state the Catholic view point on the subject. May I direct your attention to the November issue of the Catholic World of New York. In this issue there is an article entitled "The Church and Eugenics," by Rev. Bertrand L. Conway of the Paulist Fathers. In part it says...
...Catholics often misunderstand our position on birth control, for they seem to believe that Catholic married couples are bound to have children to the mother's capacity for child bearing. This is not our teaching. It is perfectly ethical to limit the family, if the method used is self control by abstinence and continence. This may even be obligatory, when a mother's life or health would be seriously jeopardized by further childbearing, or when real destitution would result from further additions to the family...
...Catholic Church absolutely condemns birth control as essentially immoral, because it implies the limitation of the family by artificial prevention of conception. It is an unnatural perversion, for it goes against the order intended by God, and defeats the immediate end of a natural human...
...Medical School and the State Board of Health, will cover colds, pneumonia, and venereal diseases. Bishop Lawrence has long been interested in social problems of this sort and during the war he worked in conjunction with the late President Charles William Eliot '53, of Harvard, on the control of venereal disease. At that time he was President of the Massachusetts Society of Social Hygiene. Although now retired, he is still active in adapting his own war work to times of peace...