BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW

1 BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW edited by Margaret Sanger - TWENTY CENTS A COPY FEBRUARY, 1924 TWO DOLL~RS A YEAR 200,000 BABIES UNDER ONE YEAR DIED IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1923 BIRTH CONTROL ORGANIZATIONS THE AMERICAN BIRTH CONTROL LEAGUE, Irrc Hcodowrtm 104 F~TH AVENUE Uwnr Conm, PA. Vwe-Prsndsut, Mrs G Oakley, Ph~ladelpha RuDm , Rev L Griswold Wdlams, Reading, Pa Omo-Cuwrn Predmt, Dr Ralph Reed, Indlanapoh IU~IAUA Prodant, Dr Amelia R Kellar, Indianapolis W~nm Covm Prodent, Mrs W F Spangler, Richmond, lnd. YICH~L~ , Mrs Willram A MeGraw, Detroit Mleuc~oarrrs Tmpomry Chrman, Mrs W E Cannon, Cambrldgc Coaauncrrr Prendsnt, Mrs George H Day, Sr , Hartford ca~oum Prendmt, Dr Y Morgan, Denver, Col Buwa Colnxau Prsndent, Mr A M Stephen, Vancouver MIDDLE WESTERN STATES COMMITEE Cburmpll Dr John Fanll.

2 Chrcago, ill secret-9 Mrs Walter Beluon. Wmaka, ill Nm Yaur STA~, Lmwunr. Coax- NEW Yom Crn Chmrmon, Mrs Richard Blhg S~ucoe Chrrnar Mrs Lieber E Whittic Scar~~narn Chasr-D, Rev Phrhp Prlek Roc- Charman Mrs Thomaa J Swanton Bmuo Chauman, Mrs S Merrd Clement, Jr KKW Gmas Charman, Yrs J Bishop Vandever Sxrrmvwa Charmon, Mrs Frank M Ldtt Crmmnmm Chmmron, Mrs John Scott Brmlng, Jr BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW 104 F~FTH AVENUE, NEW YOBK, N Y Vol VIII FEBRUARY, 1924 No 2 CONTENTS TH~ Wonm WE LRa Ia Ndcs on eorrent event& Tax Aunurr. MK~O A mrd ol eeblesunent by the American BIRTH Contml Leeso* Nm N-Th Un~ted States Mlddle Western States, Pennsylvanm Colorado, Commg Events, Murco, England Scotland, Rwia A Penomal of Havelock Elk by Y41gwet 8~gOr Hadock ULc-Hu Oft to Wo- by Ruth Hale Th.

3 P~a-IrJ of Sa. Part 11, by Hugh de Bdlmcourt How early ould the mother bgin to guide her baby in re#ard to hb sex Ille? Hcn is tho answer Mm Smods 0- Canma The kt* al an opponent and the reply to It A hrma Worm Nmnro Pmxsa CuPplaobLarge Famd~cs III Germany Arthur Brishane on Overerowdmg Too he for ThoP Incomes Letten fmm motbus who cannot do the fmposihle. Havelock Ellu SpeaL. JO Extraels from many of ha boob shdw the beauty and heipluine% of hra thought and writing "ne Dance of Lfe " by Ruth St Denis 6a An appredauan h; an artlst of Dr EUha latest bmt Plrss CLYPIXO~-Bertrand Russell 64 From Seattle 64 Havelock EllnrAn Appreczatton, by Ellen Ksy 64 Boox Rrvumn MAv~mn AT ?

4 HE C- by E M East-Orland E Wlute 56 THE ROBAEY OF PAX, by A A 8tophm-Harold Harasy 66 LRINO WITH Om Can-N, by Clara D Pwr#on-- Frank 8 C Wwk, 66 Pmuon~w W OUU ~TOBB 68 Boom RECEIVED 68 TO Om M~lanrm IX New YOUK STA~ 68 Pubbshed by THE AMERICAN BIRTH CONTEOL LEAGUE, INC Monthly on the first of each month Subscrlptlon prlce, $2 00 a year Entered aa Becad Clad6 Matter, March 11 1918, at the post odree at New York N Y under the Act 01 March 3, 1879 he BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AMERICAN BIRTH CONTROL LEAGUE Four Steps to (hr Coal- &stahon, Educahoq &ganuation, hgdahon MARGARET SANGER and ANNIE G PORRITT, Edrtor8 Vol VIII FEBRUARY, 1924 No 2 The World T HE Blrth CONTROL movement In the Unlted States, m ~ts actlve educational work, dates back some ten years But the Amer~can Blrth CONTROL League is httle more than two years old What a healthy infant ~t is may be judged by the account of ~ts second Annual Meetmg, whch was held on January 10th Unllke many unfortunate human chlldren, the League came Into the world at the rlght t~me, eagerly des~red by ~ts parents and greatly needed by society It found awaltmg ~t opportutles.)

5 Almost unhmited m extent, for serv- ice and usefulness, and ~t has done ~ts utmost to make use of these opportunltles It looks forward to ever mcreasmg admty, until ~ts rmsslon is ac- compl~shed and hberation, through conscious con- trol of the famdy and of population, is brought to mothers, rel~evmg them of the burden of unwanted ch~ldren, to soclety, m the decrease of the unfit and the dependent, and to the nat~ons In l~ftlng from them the specter of over-population w~th its haunt- mg dread of war D R HAVELOCK ELLIS, whose blrthdm we commemorate thls month, was born on Feb 2, 1859 HIS first book on the subject whlch has occupled so much of his tlme and thought was "Man and Woman," pubhshed In 1894 In 1897, he publlshed the first ~nstallment of The Psychol- ogy of Sex,-& work that was completed In 1910 It 1s d~fficult now to realm the storm of abuse that was let loose upon h~m for venturing to put for- ward hls new and noble concept~on of sex and of ~ts functlon In human hfe The Psychology of Sex sounds the deliverance of woman from the bondage of shame and lnfenorlty so long her portlon It IS mtten wlth the finest taste and reverence.

6 And In the purest and noblest of Engl~sh Of his other works, "L~ttle Essays of Love and Vlrtue," and the "Dance of Life" are the most recent "Affir- matlons" was pubhshed In 1897, and "The World of Dreams" m 1911 In the articles by Ruth Hde Ellen Key and Margaret Sanger, we glve Dr Ellls from the woman's polnt of mew We Live In results of the quest~onna~re addressed bv the Ptctonal Rev~ew to ~ts readers last October, THE askmg thelr opmon on candidates for Pres~dent and on seven Important questions, are publlshed m the February Pzctonal In all 19,578 ballots were cast But none of the seven quest~ons appeared on all the ballots Blrth CONTROL stands fourth on the llst In ~ts total \ate It recelved 16,521 votes, 13,541 In favor and 2,980 opposed, a favorable ma- jor~ty of SIX to one The result 1s very lnterestlng and confirms our behef that a vast majorlty of the lntekgent women of the Umted States favor B~rth CONTROL The thlng now to be done 1s to get them to stand out for their bellef and to organlze and work for ~t Too long ha\ e educated women beheved In BIRTH CONTROL for themseh es.

7 While domg noth- mg to extend ~ts benefits to thew poorer slsters T HE movement In F~nnce towards a hlgher b~rtlirate is meeting a check from the vast bod1 of voters who have small fam~lles Proposals to gne preference as regards appomtments to off~ce, to men wlth the largest number of chlldren, and to gr~de taxation so as to fall more head! on the childless and on those wlth only one or two cinldren, are not popular w~th these voters, and the~r protests are causlng some embarrassment to the enthuslasts "pour la Natalzte" The proposal of the "vote faintlzale" under whlch a father would be allowed a \ate for every mlnor chlld, 1s also belng opposed as dangerous to the majorlty who mlght thus Le out- voted by a mmor~ty I T IS w~th profound regret that we record the death In Washmgton, on December 30, of Ar- thur H Gleason.

8 Journal~st and author Blr Glea- son was one of the fa~thful friends of the B~rth Con- trol movement m the days when ~t was m great need of fr~ends He was often called Into confel- ence In regard to the greater Issues of the mo\ ement and hls advlce mas gven and accepted Our suc- cess owes much to hls keen and broad intelhgence Bzrth CONTROL Remeze T HE Second Annual Meetmg of the actwe members of the Amer~can Bnth CONTROL League was held In New York on January loth It was a remarkable meet~ng, both as regards the tremendous extent and scope of the work reported as havlng been accomplished In 1923, and the pro- gramme presented of future act~v~t~es The meetmg was opened w~th a greetmg from the Pres~dent, Mrs Margaret Sanger, a greet~ng lookmg forward rather than backward, and stress- Ing the work st111 to be done rather than the ac- compl~shments of the past After the read~ng of the Mmutes of the Fmt Annual Meetmg, Mrs Frances B Ackermann reported as Treasurer The total revenue of the League for the past year, rased by membership dues and contr~butlons, amounted to $36,375.

9 All of wh~ch had been spent In the work The Bzrth CONTROL Revzew and l~tera- ture department had cost In addlt~on $26,527, wh~ch had been rased by subscrlpt~ons, sales, and volun- tary contnbutlons Durlng the year the Revzew had gamed 6,346 new subscribers Its monthly clrculat~on had men to 12,000, and 9,862 books and pamphlets had gone out from the hterature department Some Idea of the work done at Headquarters may he formed from the summary of work pre- sented by Mrs Anne Kennedy, the Executwp Sec- retary whose report followed that of the Treasurer MIS Kennedy reported the rece~pt durmg the year of 71,041 letters, all of which were read and an- swered In add~tlon 219,426 c~rcular letters had been sent out The membership of the League now numbers 18,108, of which 13,106 jolned In 1923, 5,484 In 1922 and 177 In 1921 Durmg the year 8,650 men and women called at headquarters on varlous errands of busmess and enqulry There were 60 volunteels who had come In to help In the work The number of groups addressed by Mrs Sanger.

10 Mrs Kennedy and other League speakers was 124 and the total attendance at these meetlngs was 63,840 Taklng up the work In greater deta~l, Mrs Ken- nedy recap~tulated the actmt~es of the League month by month January, February, March and the first ten days of A