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I ft 10 I I 4 OO. Edward Alsworth Ross, "Ilncc prodigality, nnJ not race suldde. Is tho dnnger ngalnst which America must puard." Last Evidence Shows Negro's Grandmother and Aunt Were Mentally Unbalanced. Presentation of testimony In the trial ot Boddy. the twenty-two-ycar-old Nesro who murdered Detectives (Miller und Buckley on Jan.

5, was concluded In the Supreme 'ourt before Justice Wasservoprel and a jury this morntnp. The defense rested after It had Introduced documentary evidence to i-how that noddy's Krandmother and aunt were mentally unbalanced and after Justice. Wasservotrcl had denied a motion of counsel for the defense tor a mistrial. Tho latter motion, first made Friday, followed the testimony of Jasper llhodes, a Nero policeman, who tea-tilled ho had not Identified Boddy as the (person who shot him until that lay. The defense asked for a mls-irlal on the ground that the evidence, not having shown Boddy was under arrest for this shooting, was prejudicial to the defendant.

Justice "Wusservofjel In denying the motion held that while the evidence may have been more properly presented In the direct presentation of the cvso rather than in rebuttal, it was not, however, such on which he ootlld decluro a mistrial. Rhodes was only briefly cross-examined, lie was asked If he were onsclous after ho was shot Bee. 19. lie replied he was conscious until his peratlon the following day, and then unconscious until Jan. 23.

After the defense had rested It offered for the record a report of the Ithodcs shooting made by Detective Buckley. It stated that a picture of Boddy without the scar on his cheek wns not Identified by Hhodes as that or the man who shot him, although offered to him. Former Judge Koonlg then made a loimul motion to ilischargo the piis-nner liecuuse of insulllcient evidence. It wns denied Argument of the ease was limited In one nml one-half hours for each side. Former Judge Koenlg began the argument with a definition of the Hiious degrees of murder In preparation for pleading for a verdict for cloddy of murder in tho second decree, lie declared that the arrest of Hoddy by Jllller and Buckley was illegal and then drew a picture of Hoddy as panic-stricken, in fear of more beatings by the police, being sent Into a delirium by tho green ghts of the station, where he thought another beating awaited him, md then in this state shooting the He dwelt at great length on the 'intention that the arrest was Illegal, itce if Boddy were actually under i nest his killing of tho officers A'tmUt then bo automatically declared list degree murder.

lie stressed tho I ct that Boddy wns not Identified until last Friday by Patrolman Kliodcs. and that the latter had shot t- aftU bis shooting declared a photo- of Boddy a' not that of the iK'isort who shot Km. He fiuestioued why, after Boddy test for the murder of the two the police in tho District At- office did not question tho vcgro about the shooting of Ithodes 'r which, hf contended, they chum 1'oddy was lx'lng taken to the station ise by Miller and Buckley. Hi. tried to' show there was no pr 'ditatio" of the crime and that wldy's mind diluted with mental nii'vali'iit in his family.

HOLD-UP MEN CAUGHT FLEEING WITH $10,000 CHIi'Mii. Ian. T-. bandits vlng tli" rianiee of Clarke N'ornian, wenty-three, and John Can. twenty- ur.

of lloiihi'ster, N. were ar-iftii''d hero to-day us they loft the Jowoliy ctore. carry-S SV 000 Bniii, aftei holding i)V wie place. DEFENSE FINISHES ITS CASE IN II OF SLAYER BUDDY EVENING WORLD TEN "With qnr present dca rate, and the Mrth rate of French Canadian proTlnces, ttc should haTe In 2000 A. Dr.

Ross Warns Nation Against Overpopulation And No Means of Support Western Sociologist 3,000,000,000 People Here in 2,000 A. D. Under Unrestricted Conditions. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. "Race prodigality, and not race suicide, Is tho danger against which America must guard.

If we arc prodigal in the increase of our population, our fate as a nation Is likely to be the fate of tho prodigal tho husks that the swine did eat." That is the sober warning of one of our most eminent sociological authorities, a careful student of world population. Dr. Edward Alsworth Boss, the vchy man who coined the phrase "race suicide" twenty-one years ago, tho phrase Hoosevclt used with such rhetorical effect. Besides occupying the chair of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Ross Is tho author of "The Russlan-Bolshe-vlk Revolution," "Russia In Upheav al," "What Is America?" "Principles of Sociology" and other Important books.

He Is paying New York a brief visit this week to deliver scries of lectures at tho Brooklyn Institute, and I sought him out to ask about a re port that he was ready to disown his own brain child, that he no longer saw a menace in "race suicide" the normally small American family. He doesn't! Ho believes that tho menace lies in tho revival ot tho much-pralscd "old-fashioned family." Ho considers that controlled fecundity, ns it Is now practised In America, is. from tho viewpoint of society, a logb cal and laudablo development. Fur thermore, ho haa to support his position a most amazing tet of statistics. Here they nro: said Dr.

Ross, "that for tho next seventy-ninu years that Is, I until 2000 A. D. our death rate In America remains what It Is at present. Suppose that during that period our women should emulate tho birth rate of the Prussian hausfraus, who wero adjured by the All-Highest to devote their lives to church, cooking and children. Then, at the end of tho period, the population of the United States would bo greater than the present population of Europe.

"With our present death rate main tained nml a birth rate equal to that In the Latin countries, wo should have a population or ouu.uuu.uuu in a. D. With a birth rato equal to that of Roumanla and Bulgaria, and an unchanged death rate, we should harbor, In 2000 A. as many people us there now uro In Asia and Africa combined. With birth rate equivalent to that of tho native women In British India, our population at the end of seventy-nine years would equal the population of the wholo world ut the beginning of tho World War.

"Finally, if our mothers decided to rival tho birth rate in certain French Canadian provinces, this countrj, 2000 A. would possess no fewer than 3,000,000,000 inhabitants." From his great bright it mus. be at least six feet four Dr. Boss's pleasant hazel eyes, deep et under shaggy brows, glanced down at me, and a quiet little smile hid under his heavy mustache. Ho hus a distinct yet peculiarly soft voice and a ref rushing absence of dogmatism.

Now I'll go back to the beginning of the interview. I wanted you to read those extraordinary statistics as soon us possible. "Why," I asked Dr. Ross, "have I you changed your mind ubout tho menace of race suicide?" "In one sentence, because the tre-. mendous suving in human life, which we have effected during tho last score of yeais, makes it unnecessary that so much life be created," he replied.

"Many persons do not realize that science through Improved sanitation and medical discoveries during the period I have mentioned, has cut the THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY Author of Phrase "Race HHMKHMIHa HHHll I "The tremendous snTlng In human life during the Inst tireii; tj years maltcs It nnneccssnry to create so much life." Has Direful Vision of worId deatn at least a quarter When our death rate Is, let us say, 13 per thousand. Instead of 45 per thousand, there Is simply no point in tho unlimited fecundity which tho world onco needed to replenish Itself. Unless wo plan to scrap our hospitals, our hygiene propaganda, our baby welfare work, there Is no reason In the world why we should seek to bring back the old-fashioned family containing from ten to twenty-five children. "I recently met an old pupil of mine who has just celebrated her ninetieth birthday. In her lifetime she has seen the world population doubled an Increase of 850,000,000." "But there are persons who say we must have increased fecundity to counteract war losses," I suggested to Dr.

Ross. "The war resulted In tho loss of 20,000,000 lives, most of them Euro-pean lives." conceded Dr. Ross; "but on tho other hand, the war also destroyed means of subsistence for many more than that number. "For fifteen years they have had controlled fecundity in New Zealand, and also in New Zealand there are cities whero only one baby out of twenty-seven dies during the first year. In short, the saving of lives more than counterbalances the decrease in births.

Ti.e samn condition Is to be found In France, to which the opponents of family limitation always point as a horrible example, owes her stationary, or oven decreasing population to special property laws which compel the parents to cut up tho family estate or business Into us many parts as there aro children. Tho Frenchman longs to keep his property Intact, so his w- Then Dr. Boss spoke of an aspect ot over-population which must appeal i especially to friends of peace. 'Population pressure that Is, large families in Germany before tho war undoubtedly hud groat influence In bringing on the war," he pointed out. "Population piessuro In Japan, at the present day.

Is largely responsible for whatever Is threatening and militant in that empire's attitude. Do we want our own country to acquire a warlike Mate of mind through race prodi gality, uncontrolled population? On he other hand, do wo want America to eat the husks of the prodigal; In plain l.ingunge, to be reduced, through overpopulation, to tho miserable btruggle for existence now obtaining among tho 400,000,000 In China?" "Is our population at present In mousing too rapidly?" I asked tho great sociologist. "It's Just about right at present," lie replied, reassuringly. "Not taking Immigration into consideration, our natural growth is about one per cent, a year. That will do very well.

If that rato Is maintained, along with our present death rate, in 2000 A. D. wo snail numuer i.3,uuu,uuo a sizo-ablu number of people. "Wo ate at present using about, one-third of the fecundity with which wo are endowed by nature. tVo not bearing two-thirds of the children wo might bring into the world.

But we have all we nc-a. Jt Is Mmply futile to urge the return of the old-fashlonod family, in Dr. Ross added, flgnlllcanily. "tho typical mother frequei.tly died trying to bear a twelfth or a tttteenth child Tno old-fashioned father of a ncoro or more was likely to use up thieo or four "So long ui wo continue to reduce our death rule or even to malntuln It as at present, we must control cur Jocundity unless wo to hang our O' sign on the planet," calm-ly'biit firmly reiterated tho first man to tIK nbuut "rate suicide." ''ImproTcd snnjtatlon and mcd; Icnl dtscoi cries linTC cut the world's death rate by pne-qnar. tor In twenty years." HER SPINE HEALED IIRY MOORE IS Actress Believed Mortally Hurt in Auto Crash Says She'll Return to Stage.

Declaring she will get well and return to tho stage. Miss Mary Moore, twenty-three years old. Is back In her home ut No. 210 West 4Cth Street. After an automobile driven by her sister had overturned near Babylon, Nov.

19, Mlsa Moore wns taken to tho Broad Street Hospital suffering from a broken spino and three fractures of tho skull. Her death was expected. In a year Miss Moore Is promised complete restoration of health and command of all the physical powers paralyzed at first by the fracture. She eliowed lndomltablo spirit from the first moment of recovery. The removal of tho Injured girl to her homo was her own plot to give her family a happy surpnse, formed nr.

soon as she was told sho could be safely moved. Sho took Into her confidence only her brother Charles, and sho asked that tho removal bo made nt an hour least likely to attract no tice. This suited tho ambulance driver, who meant to bo most careful, and 6.30 o'clock yesterday morning was chosen, when the streets, cov ered with snowdiifts and Ice, were most clear of truthc and tho ambulance might choose its pace and route most surely. GUN POKED IN HIS SIDE, ROBBED IN BUSY STREET I'nymiiKter Ton Sriirril to Cry Out (HIkth 1'iinm I iiiiunre. of Mold-Up.

Max StlvorberK, paymaster of tho Eagle Swis.i Dnibroideiy Company, No. 102 Hague City, complained to the that ho had been held up at uVbn.k tills morning and robbed of $U'i by un armed highwayman near the company's office, while ninny passed within a foot or two without knowing what was hanp' ning. "The man held his gun so close to me passersby eon 1(1 not wco it," said tiilverberg. "I w.is so mired I couldn't make nn outcry Tho man said ho would kill U' If 1 did Ho was about thirty old. weighed about l.rJ), 1 thi overcoat." ink.

jnd worn a tirown JUST ONE LITTLE DRINK DROVE HIM TO BIGAMY Woke tip to I'lnd Mlnmelf Wed Mke.ly liirj," "a- Jmlee. Magistrate I.evlne in Bssex Market Cuurt to-day hold Max Yachynowlcs In $2,500 ball Tor bigamy. A.nnn Schwartz, of No. 110 Lewis Street said bo had married her on Dec. 3 and disappeared the next day and that no, had a wife.

The prisoner said he attended a party on Dec. 3, had ono drink and woke up the next day to learn that he was married again. "That's the must liki-ly story I've I heard since remarked tha Magistrate. "It" ou bad hart nny more drinks, nv many women do you suppose you would have married." "JlAItTV JWJI'Il to im: A 1115- Tiur-r i.nAnnn. Martin O.

MuCuo will be elected executive member of tho Democratic County Executive Committee from the Twelfth Ai.fin'y DNtrlet at upoclal meeting of the district organization to bo held at 760 Third Avenue- to-night In place of Kdwurd V. Boyle, who has reiii'd to accept the appointment by -Mayor Hylan as a Justice of the Voua of Spoclal Sessions. McCun has been member of tho AflBembly mid a Senator and reslg tho latter nla.e to rieoojne ciorK tho Surrogat. IRE SECOND Suicide," NoW Warns Against Race Prodigality UIMKiil "An old pupil of mine, woman of ninety, has seen world popn; lntjon doubled In her, llfotlnic -Increase of ONLY ONE DAY LEFT FOR 1921 PLATES ON THAT AUTO OF YOURS Law Will Be Enforced This Year, So Be Sure You Have the New Green Tin Label. To-morrow la tho last day for tho "black and white" brand of 1921.

On Feb. 1. all cars must carry tho new "green and whlto" vlntago of 1922. All motorists driving with tho old license plates thereafter will get into trouble, as It will bo Illegal to appear on a State highway without the new colors, according to tho Stnto Tax Commission. DYED CAT DIED, ACTRESS IS HELD Miss Moran Hoped to Join Cast of "Blue Kitten," She Says.

A kitten died Saturday afternoon In Miller's Cat Hospital In 53d Street after its white fur hod been dyed a brilliant blue by Its owner. Miss Margaret Owen, No. 75 West EOth Street, who says she expects to join the cast ot a theatrical production called "Tho Blue Kitten." When tho first kitten had died, It is charged, sho proceeded to color another one, and to-day she was brought Into the West Side Court on complaint of Harry Moran, Superintendent of the Humane Society, No. 4 Seventh Avenue. Tho caso was adjourned until Friday In order to learn whether tho dye used was, as alleged by Moran, poisonous.

Moran said he was told by the drug clerk who sold the dye that It would undoubtedly kill a cat by poisoning through tho pores or through the mouth when the cat tried to wash it off. Who is the Biggest Lawyer in this town? Whar made him so? Common sense. And if he smokes Turkish cigarettes, he smokes Lord Salisbury Turkish Cigarettes Why Common sense. LORD SALISBURY is the only high-grade Turkish cigarette in the world that sells for so little money 1922. NEWS MOVIES "Popntotlon pressnre In Oer many did much to bring on the war and Is responsible for Jap-anese militancy." ENDS OWN LIFEAT Francis Morgan Barber, Retired, Commits Suicide Over Death of Baron Rosen.

Capt Francis Morgnn Barber, seventy-sir yearn old, of the United States Nnvy, retired, committed sui cide early to-day by cutting his throat with a razor at tho University Club, 5Uh Street and Fifth Avenue, where bti had been living for some time. He was found In a basement washroom by a portor, who forced the locked door. His right hand 'held tho razor, the cssfe for which was In hta pocket. A doctor from Flower Hos pital said ho had been dead only a short time. According to a friend, Capt.

Barber had been grieving over tho death of his friend of forty years. Baron Rosen, who died from having been hit by a tail cab recently. As far as known, Capt Barber left no explanation of his suicide. Ho vUlted hlfl sister, Mrs. a SL Thompson, No.

2014 Sovcnth Avenue, yesterday, and she noticed ho seemed nervous, a condition apparent also to acquaintances when he returned to the club late last night. Capt. Barber was born In Ohio and was graduated from Annapolis in 18G5. Ho had various commands during his naval career and In 1895 was naval attache In Japan and China. Ho retired that year.

His wife, long a sufferer from bron- chltls, died suddenly at tho age of sixty-eight In Switzerland In 1914. NAVA CAPTAIN UNIVERSITY -whlob eariBi that If you don't tike LORD SALISBURY TURKISH CIGARETTES you can Jet your moocy biok from tbe dilcr "Oar nntnral prowth In the "TYhllo wo maintain oar prof United Stales, excluding Inial. gratlon, Is one per cent, a year. That will do Tery well." TICKET SCALPERS COST N. Y.

CENTRAL $200,000 "Rented" Onmmntntlon Hooka rhoto IMan D1k Savlnir. While holders of "family" tickets are protesting against the new order of the New York Central compelling the signing of the tickets by all who use them, the railroad people declare that they are forced to Insist upon the practice for their own protection. An official of the line said to-day: "Only those using the tlckots are compelled to algn them, and any member of tho (household may uae them. Including servants. Scalpers havo Ibcen bold In their operations that tho company has been losing betweon $150,000 and $200,000 a year on "rented" commutation and family tickets, which we showed before the Public Hervlco Commission.

Slnco the photos wero put on the tickets their monthly salo has fallen off as groat as twenty-flvo or thirty tlckots at a station. Tho calpora used to hlro out the tlckots for single trips and CIIAIan PURCHASES MADE THE rtEMAINDErt OV THIS MONTH "WII.li ATPllAIt. ON BIU.S RENDERED HA11CH 1ST. Sest Co. Fifth Avenue at 35th Street N.

Y. Established 1879 TO-DAY AND SPRING TWEED with fur collars that are easily removable for later wear. 38.00 Heretofore 4950 to 65.00 QMART, box coat models for women and misses; exceptionally well tailored in tweeds of fresh, clear Spring colorings. Large collars of natural raccoon oropossum. SIZES Women's Misses 2 AND 3 PIECE SUITS Plain Tailored or Fur trimmed 20.00 38.00 58.00 Heretofore 29.00 to 98.50 Tweed, mochatex, moussyne, and' duvet de with coats or capes.

0 oo la ent ilcnth rate ire must control a fecunditr, unless we hang an '8. "lU 6 sign on tho planet," split with the renter the different between the cost of cummutlng and that of a round trip ticket." RAN DOWN TO PAY WIDOW $8,000 Ilroaklyn l'rlnter'a Sentence Snu-pended by Justice Dike. Paul Eckert. a printer of No. 1:2 69th Btrcot.

Brooklyn, whose auton mobile accidentally killed Traffic. Policeman John O. Sheridan, wa given a suspended sentence to-day 'bV Supreme Court Justice Dlko in Brooklyn. Kckcrt's counsel, Abraham KumU man, said ho had obtained permnt Ion from Surrogate AVIngate to net-tlo tho civil caso with tho policeman's widow for $8,000, In four 'pay-1 menu, whereupon sentence was su ipendud. Tho accident occurred on Feb, J4, 1921, when the jiollceman was riding.

a imcycio near iscKort's borne, tiherldan has two children. Mra, TUESDAY 4 MODEL SUITS A 14 to 42 Third floor Second floor Ml 11 31 Zi4 i -1 ZssW.