The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-11-06
Conference on Control
of Births Over World
Facing Many Problems

NEW york Tho problem of sc-
curing legislation In the various
states 80 that birth control clinics
can ho opened IN thcm will be- one
of tho important measures consid
cred at the first American birth
Control conference to be held at the
Hotel Plaza, New York city, No
vcmbcr II. i2 and ~.
Tho program az planned for the
conference viii be an exhaustive one
and Will consist OF health session
at which viii bc considered Psychic
suppression -its Results" "iudivid-
ual and Racial Health. EuEcnicE--
"a Social Problems Today session.
considering Human WASTE DE
lInqucnCy' and "Iabor'8 Attitude
Toward Birth Control,' private
session for the medical profession,
admission by invitation only, an
ovcrpopulation and war session. con-
sidcriug the World Food Problems"
and "DisY and Defense" A
special session viii be devoted TO
considering the legal aspects ot birth
control in America and 20 organic
ing and securing legislation ~ that
clinics can b9 held.
one Of tht important sessions Of
the conference will be the mass
meeting TO be held at the town han
sunday November 10, whore "A dis
cussion on Birth Control. 1s 1t
Moral'" viii be held. II will bo led
by Margaret Sanger and Harold Cox,
former members OF the British par.
Lament and editor OF the Edinboro
Review. Al this mass meeting the
opponents of birth control will be
given the opportunity OF presenting
their side Of the case and opinions
lt,Y YF,f
Americans on the question. They
VIII be read at the meeting.
That wo can hold such meet
ing out In ~ open shows how tho
birth control movement has grown"
said Mrs, Sanger. started as an
aid TO women II has become rccog-
nizcd as one OF the big problems Of
the world today and is engaging the
attention Of statcemen and cCono-
mists OF every nation.
1T is safe 90 say that the race
would be better today and there
would have been no world war had
The pio6ien of birth control beer
intelllgently considered half a CEN
tury ago. 10 Is fact long recog-
ni2ed by medical science that whore
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 yea. old haa
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 haalth necessary to win out In
tho battle of life. She has lowered
her own vitality and In addition to
being unable to give the initial sup
ply OF health, she cannot give the
attention required.
We think the world viii be bet
ter Off having fewer children, to
whom proper attention can be given.
In the end the result Is the same.
To have four or five children born
in a family and have them all reach
maturity, with -thc mothers health
unimpaired, Is better than TO have /
q dozen children and have only four
or five OF them reach maturity, at
the cost OF the mothers life. We I
think there should only be as many !
children In the family hs can be /
properly taken care OF In a mental. !
moral and physical way We want /
to build the health and minds OF 4
our citizens ana make the world a
bCttcr place In which to live"
The officials of the first American
Birth Control conference are az fol-
lows: Margaret Sanger. chairman;
Juliet Barrct Bublc, vice chairman.
Anne Kennedy, executive secretary,
Clara Louise Rowe, extension sccrc- z