Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-21
BIRTH CONTROL
HERE TO STAY SAYS
MARGARET SANGER
Defies Police to Find Her
Clinic Or To Hurt Il
If They Do
FOUR MORE CLINICS TO
BE STARTED ELSEWHERE
Says Two Generations Of
Birth Control will Wipe
Out the Slums"
BY George Martin.

Omitted Press staff correspondent
New York, Oct. 2l.-'The poor, cen
tury behind the-times public officials of
this country might as well forget their
moss-grown statutes and accept birth
control as an established fact. My new
national plan makes it as inevitable as
night and day.
Mrs. Margaret Sanger, short and
smiling with o tinge of red in her hair
and more than that in her eye, sat in
her little two by four hotel bedroom and
said that here today. Within the last
AZ hours she has established semi-seeret
" in this city the first out and out
birth. control clinic in the United States,
the law, n federal indictment and num-
erous arrests all over the country to
the contrary Notwithstanding
"The police are hunting my clinic
today" she went on. "They can't find
it. If they should. they can't hurt it.
1t is an oral clinic aud the law says
nothing about not spreading birth con-
troll information orally. If they do try
10 interfere am legally prepared to
carry hard and bitter fight TO the
highest tribunal in the land with the
best legal talent there is.
''Four more secret clinics win be run
ming in New York within q week. In
less than year there viii be clinics in
Washington, Cleveland, Detroit, st.
Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Denver,
st. Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Spokane
and Butte. They are every one organ
lied and ready to open the minute j say
the word. The Washington clinic will
open within q few days.
! The Women Like It.
"Do the women like itf Say, you
ought to go down in the neighborhood
we have canvassed with secret circulars
in the last As hours. The women are
coming in by the dozens. You can hear
them calling from house TO house in the
congested districts: 'Oh, Mrs Rosen-
baum, you ought to see this; this is
something fiac.'
"Within two years every man and
woman in this country win know how
many children they can afford 20 have.
And when they know that, predict
that two generations of birth control
will wipe out all the slums, eliminate
the birth Of mental detectives, minimize
the number of humans in our insane
nsylums and automatically put stop
to child labor and prostitution.
"I say it will wipe out child labor
because statistics show that % per
lcent of our child labor is recruited from
families that are too large to be cared
for by the parents.
~ say it will wipe out the worst OF
prostitution because statistics prove
that % per cent of the girls taken from
lives of prostitution and PLACED IN in
dustria homes come from poor parents
with nine or more children.
Poverty doesn't force these girls in
TO prostitution, but the lack OF atten-
ton they get, with so many children at
home and the general sordid toAe of
their lives naturally leads them to such
q life.
"My friends and myself are going to
bring the people Of this country to real
ize that man making only $40 week
cannot afford to marry, much less have
children. And theyll learn that the
average working mans family should
not exceed two children, even under the
most favorable physical conditions.
"This is the work the law and pub
lie officials are trying to stop.'