Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-02
BIRTH CONTROL
TO BE STUDIED
Conference on in NeW York
From NOU. II to Is.

y NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-The problem of
SECURING legislation IN the various States
so that birth control clinics can be
opened IN them will be one Of the i'm
portant measures considered at the first
American Birth-Contro1 Conference to be
held at the Hotel Plaza, New York City.
Nov. II, IL and Is.
The program as planned for the con-
ference will be en- exhaustive one and viii
consist of q health session at which will
be considered Psychic Suppression-Its
Results" individual and Racial Health
-Eugencies,' Social Problems Today
session, considering Human Waste,
DELINQUENCY" and "LabOr's Attitude
Towurd Birth Control" private session
for the medical profession, admission by
invitation only; an overpOpulation and
war session, considering the World Food
Problems" and Disarmament and De-
Tense" A special session viii be devoted
to considering the legal aspects Of birth
control in America and to organizing and
securing legislation so that clinics can
be held.
IMPORTANT SESSION
ON NOV. Is.
One OF the important sessions of the
conference will be the mass meeting to be
held at the town hall Sunday, Nov. Is,
where a discussion on Birth Control; Is
1t Moral p will be held. 1t will be led
by Margaret Sanger ara Harold Cox,
former member of the British Parlia-
ment and editor Of tie Edinboro Review.
At this mass meeting the opponents OF
birth control viii be given the oppor-
tunity OF presenting their side Of the
case and opinions have been secured from
prominent Americans on the question.
They viii be read at the meeting
THAT we can hold such a meeting
out in the open shows how the birth
control movement has grown" said
Mrs. Sanger Started as an aid to
women Il has become recognized as one
OF the big problems of the world today
and is engaging the attention OF states
men and economists Of every nation
at IS safe 70 say that the race would
be better today and there would have
been no World War had the problem Of
birth control been intelligently considered
half a century ago. It is a fact long
recognized by medical science that where
there are only a few children In a family
their health IS better and they can be
given better attention by the mother than
where there are many. The high death
rate among infants Of less than a year
old has been due, in the past, to the
fact that the mother has brought too
many children into the world and cannot
give them the initial supply of health
necessary to win out IN the battle of
life. She has lowered her own vitality
and In addition TO being unable TO give
the initial supply of health, she cannot
give the attention required.
FEWER CHILDREN;
WORLD BETTER.
I'VE think the world will be better OF
having feweN children. to whom proper
attention can be given. In the end the
result Is the same. To have four or five
children in n family and have them all
reach maturity, with the mothers health
unimpaired. IS better than to have a
dozen children and have only four or five
Of them reach maturity. at the cost OF
the mothers life We think there should
only be as many children in the family
as can be properly taken care OF IN
mental. moral and physical way. We
want to build the health and minds OF
our citizens and make the world q better
place in which to live.
The officials Of the first American
Birth Control conference are as follows:
Margaret Sanger. chairman: Juliet Barry
4 Ruble. vice chairman; Anne Kennedy, ex-
eeutive secretary; Clara Louise Rowe. ex-
tension secretary: Frances B. Alderman,
treasurer: Mrs. Donald r. Hooker, chair
man Of sessions; Harriet E. Dilla, chair
man Of hospitality.
PROMINENT WOMEN
TAKE PART.
The conference committee IS made up
Of professioc.! and society men and
women rs follows. Mr. and Mrs. T. L.
Chadbourne. Mrs Thomas W. Lamont
Winston Churchill On Lydia Allen De
Vnbis. Prot Irving Fisher, DR.. Donald
r. Hooker, Mrs. Wallace Irwin, Mrs.
James Lees Laidlaw. Mrs. Dom Barbour.
Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Peterson, DR..
and Mrs. Ernest H Gruening. Mrs. VII
lard Straight, Mrs. John Winters Bran
nan, Mrs. John A Fry, DR.. Charles G.
Taylor, DR.. and Mrs. L. Emmett Holt,
Mrs Mexfeld Parrish, Mrs. Homer st.
Gaudens, Andrew II. Green, DR.. Edith
Swift. Mrs Lewis L. Delafeld. Prof Wal
ter B. PItkin, Florence Guertin Tuttle,
Kendall Banning, Mrs. Ruth W. Porter,
Or. Dwight Morrow, Lothrop Stoddard.
Mrs william A. McGraw, DR.. Anna
Blount. Dr. J. Flaviu. Herbert CrOley,
,5frs. Frank I. Cobb, Mrs. Charles z.
sEnoblauch, Baroness Keikichi Ishmioto,
Mrs. Amy Walker Field, DR.. E. NJ East.
William J. Fielding, Bernar MacFadden,
Virginia Young, Mary Shaw, Dr.. S.
Adolphus Kn6pt, Mrs. Kate Crane Gartz.
Afrs. Henry Willard. DR.. Alice Hamilton,
Mrs Walter Martin. Lillian D. Wald, Mrs.
Dexter Blagden, Sara Messing Stern. Or.
Kate ". Baldwin, DR.. Mary Halton Clara
". GaFetar, Rev. Arthur E Whatham,
Rabbi Rudolph I. CoFse, Lowell Bren-
tano, DR.. Mary L Bigelow. Mrs. Robert
B. Gregory, Mrs. Ernest R. Adee, Bertha
Rembaugh, Mrs. Robert Bass, Mrs
J George II. Day, Sr., Mrs. William Spin
neg, Mrs. Charles Tiffany Mrs. Ernest
pnofn ETOronea
Hlckox Young, DR.. John c. Vaughan, Mrs.
Simeon Ford. Prot James A Field Miss
Martha Davis, Robert d. Lovett. Mrs.
Mfnturn Pinchot. Theodore Dresser, DR..
Kenneth Taylor and Mrs. Otto H Kahn.