New-York tribune., 1918-07-08
Her Name Is Erased From
Letterheads of the Or
ganization
Accused the Treasurer
Charges Shown to Have Been
Unfounded by Committee
of Investigation

Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth control
propagandist, who has been in fre-
quent conflict with the police and Fed
eral authorities, and who last year
served thirty days in the Queens Coun-
ty penitentiary after her birth control
clinic at 46 Amboy Street, Brownsville,
had beeen raided, has been ousted
from the Birth Control League of New
York, the organization which was
founded to support her movement.
Officials of the league announced
yesterday that the birth control agita-
tion hereafter will get along without
Mrs. Sanger because, without consult
ing her associates, she had sent her at
torney, Jonah J. Goldstein, to District
Attorney Swann's office with a report
that DR.. Frederick A. Blossom, treas
urer of the league, had not properly
accounted for the funds in his posses
sion. A committee selected by Mr..
Goldstein, and made up of DR.. Antoi-
nette konikow. Henry Fruchter and
Benjamin Esecover, reported that
there was no foundation for the re-
port.
Backed Mrs. Sanger
When the members heard of the re-
suit of the committees investigation
they recalled that DR.. Blossom had re-
signed as director of the Charities Or
ganization Society Of Cleveland to join
Mrs. Sanger here in nation wide
birth control movement. One of the
results Of his arrival was the organi-
cation of the Birth Control League,
whose letterheads bore a list of cob
jects," one of which said "To support
Margaret Sanger in her legal fight for
birth control"
Armed with the committees report.
the members met last Saturday night
at the Peoples House, 7 East Fifteenth
Street. They decided at once to erase
Mrs: Sanger's name from the letter
heads and to expel not only her, but
also her attorney and Hiram Myers, of
the Association for Improving the C on
dition of the Poor, who was regarded
as as: an ally OF Mrs. Sanger. The sem
timents of the members of the league
were embodied in this resolution:
"lnasmuch as Mrs. Sanger, by in
dorsing the action Of her lawyer in
ming criminal charges with the Dis
trlct Attorney against an officer of
this organization, instead of bringing
the matter before the members of tho
league, has violated one of the
principles of true radicalism, there
Tore be It resolved that this organi-
zation withdraw from any further CO.
operation with MIS-. Sanger"
The league elected these new Off
GERS: DR.. Konikow, 1875 Hoe Avenue.
The Bronx, president; DR.. Blossom
vlce-president; DR.. Theodore A. Leh-
mann. second vice-president: Louis A.
1reene, treasurer, and Mr. Fruchter.
secretary.
Mrs. Sanger Still Active
Mrs. Sanger still conducts her birth
control agitation from an office at 104
Fifth Avenue. 1t WAS said Yesterday
that she was out of the city.
"Although Mrs. Sanger was support
ed by the league, she never techni-
cally was member" said an associ-
ate yesterday. "Shc made it a prac-
tlce never to join anything"
Dr. Blossom Was one of the first to
greet Mrs. Sanger when she emerged
from jail a year ago last March. Her
oIsIe !ls, Etnel byrne, also was
sent to Jail in connection with the
birth control agitation. Mrs. Bvrne
went on a hunger strike and was
1orclbly fed eggs and milk admins
tered through a rubber tube. Mrs.
byrne's hunger strike" became of so
much interest that the authorities
were led to issue daily bulletins re-
garding her condition. Governor
Whitman pardoned her after she had
served ten days of her thirty-day sem
tence.
arrested by the Federal authorities ;n
connection with her publication.
woman Rebel" which was barred
from the mails. William Sanger. her
n husband, band, once served thirty days on
Blackwells Island for publicly dis
trlbuting one of his wife's publica.
tlons., The late Anthony Comstock
was the complainant.
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