The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-21
WOMEN Want IT
Birth Control Sensation Meets
With Ready Response.
First Out and Out Bold Clinic
in This Country.
in ALL PARTS OF COUNTRY
Oral Information to Women
Who Would Know.
Too Many Poor and Undesir-
ables, Advocates Say.

New York, Oct 21.-"The poor.
century hehind-the- times public Off
Gals of this county might just 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 md day"
Mrs. Margaret Sanger, short and
smiling, with a tinge of red in her
hair and more than that in her eye.
sat in her little two-by-four hotel bed
room and said that here today
Within the last twenty-four hours
she has established in this city the
first out and out birth control clinic
in the United States, the law, federal
Indictment and numerous arrests all
over the country to the contrary not
outstanding
1.-The police are hunting my clinic
todavr she went On. They can't find
it. If they should, they can't hurt it.
1t is an oral clinic and the law says
nothing about not spreading olrttf
control information orally. If they DO
try to interfere am Legally prepared
to carry a hard and bitter fight to the
highest tribunal in the land with the
best legal talent there is.
-Four more secret clinics will be
running in New York within week
In less than a year there will be
clinics in Washington, Cleveland, De-
troit, ST. Paul. Minneapolis, Milwau-
kee, Denver, st. Louis, Los Angeles
San Francisco, San Diego, Portland
| Seattle, Spokane and Butte Ihey
are every one organized and ready TO
open the minute 1 say the word. The
Washington clinic will open within a
| few days
Women Want 1t.
DO the women like it? Say, you
| ought to go down in the nelghbor-
hood we have canvassed with secret
circulars the last 4 8 hours. The women
have been coming in by the dozens.
You can hear them calling from
house to house in the congested dis
tricts: oh, Mrs. Rosenbaum, you
ought to see this, this is something
fine
Within two years every man and
woman in this country will know how
many children they can afford to
have. And when they know that l
Predict that two generations or blrth
| control will wipe out all the Sums,
eliminate the birth of mental defec-
tives. minimize the number of hu-
mans in our insane asylums and auto
matically put a stop to child labor and
prostitution.
q say it will wipe out child labor
because statistics show that 81 per
cent of our child labor 1s recruited
from families that are too large to be
cared for by the parents
81 say it will wipe out the worst of
prostitution because statistics prove
that 95 per cent of the girls taken
from lives of prostitution and placed
in industrial homes, come from poor
parents with nine or more children.
| Poverty doesn't force these girls
into prostitution, but the lack of at
tention they get, with so many chill
dren at home and the general sordid
tone of their lives naturally leads
| them to such a life.
my friends and myself are going
to bring the people of this country to
realize that a man making only SIS a
| week can not afford to marry, much
less have children. And they'll learn
that the average working mans fam
lily should not exceed two children
even under A1e most favorable phys
ical conditions. This is the work the
law and public officials are trying to
stop