Imperial Valley press., 1921-11-05
WAR DANGER IN
OVER POPULATION
Family Limitation To Be Dis
cuSsed At November
Conference.

The nrst American Birth-Control
Conference will be held at the Plaza
Hotel. New York City. November II,
l2 and Is.
This conference will be OF special
interest to those who have followed
the arguments that point to the direct
connection between -population
and war. Since the world war more
thought has been given to the subject
and the fact that it v Ill be held as
practically the same date as the inter
national conference on armament,
where the question brought to the fore
by the growing population OF Japan
will be discussed.
That there is need for some method
Of controlling the birth-rate OF thsI
world has been foreseen for many dec
AIDES. Rev. r. r. Nautilus. who wrots
his treatise on over population nearly
"A century ago. was the first 20 point
out some OF it's effects. That many
Of his estimates were not realized andI
that some OF his prophecies did notl
come true are due TO the great
achievements OF the machine age
These Improvements postponed, rather
than abolished his problem.
Between 1901 and 1911 the Gross in,
crease in England and Wales was
greater than the total increase during
the eighteenth century. Between lsoI
and 1911 the population doubled. m
this rate WAS 10 continue the Bfltlsn
alone would equal the present popula
ton OF the world in three and hati
centuries.
Other great populations are also In
creasing or are being held down osl
hunger. 1t is estimated that half on
mankind do not know what sufhclenq
food means. According to one scien-
tist. if the 800. 0O0, 600 inhabitants OF
India and the 500. .O00. 900 inhabtants
OF China consumed food at even hal1
the scale that Americans and Britons
think necessary there would be little
or mono for ths rest OF the world.
The present population OF Japan Isl
about $4,000, 600 and it is increasinsl
at the rate Of almost million year
In 1872 Japan had a total of 1910, S2S
i'm her borders. With the opening of
that country to the sanitation ana
health measures OF the West the In
crease has been great and it is becausi
of that increase that the problem OF
what Japan will do With Its excess
population has arisen.
While women continue TO produce
explosive populations" said Mrs1
Sanger. who is at the head OF tha
movement in America. the best ef-
forts Of statesmen to keep the peace
OF the world will result only in scraps
of paper. She can make the choice Of
lifting motherhood to the plane of
voluntary, intelligent function. and re-
make the world by means OF birth
control. And a world so remade would
e,:reed the dream OF statesman, rei
former and revoiutionist.
In former ages woman has BEEN
guilty OF tho sin OF submission. As
she has unconsciouslY and ignorantl1
brought about social disaster. so Inusti
and Viii. she consciously undo that
di""c.e. and create : new and better
oTdo. The task is hers. She has a
debt TO pay and she alone must pay i'll
She msst not think to pay this debit
in amy superficial wa. She cannot
ray Il with palliatives-with child
labor laws. prohibition. regulations o4
pros Iitution and agitation against war.k
Political nostrums and social panaceasf
are but incidentally and superfciallyi
useful They do not touch the sourc9
CT the social disease.
The first step in the payment OF
her debt is Birth Control. Through
Birth Control she viii attain TO vol!
lIn;ary motherhood. Having attaineS
TINS, the basic freedom of her sex, shel
will cease to enslaVe herself and th.s
mass of humanity. Then, through thei
Of the intuitive forwardl
urge within her. she will not stop att
patching UP the world; She will re-
make it,"
Among the other members Of thss
committee are: winston
churchill, novelist; Dr. Alice Butier.l
cleveland, Ohio: DIR. Henrietta Dill.t
Professor Of Sociology at Smith Coi-t
ege; Juliet Barrett Rubles. New York
City; Mrs. James Lees IaidIaw NewI
York CITY; Rabbi Rudolph l. C0hee.i
Toledo, Ohio: Mrs. Wallace lrwiu.t
New York City; Professor living
Ff,>h"r, Ya,e University; Or. LYDIA A.
be Nilhis: Mr.. ana Mrs. Lowell Hren-
ano. 81 York City: and Mrs. Homer