Arizona republican., 1921-10-13
Over Population

Folly well Satin finds work for idle hands to do. There is going to be American birth control conference in New York, beginning No vember H. It is to be attended by lot of people ~no well known in various fields "upft" work. most of them of socialist tendencies, all worshppers of the "god-of something else"
 And not strangely, this movement is being pushed along In the interest of peace 1t is the theory of the birth controllers that overpopulation is the tent cause of wars
 Considering the ravages of war, the decmation of populations, would have supposed that the tivites of the birth controllers would have been checked but it not to have been in the face of the that in countries the birth has been lowered until in many them there Is alarmngly small margin between the two rates.
 The first brth-controller of whom have any record was Rev. T. R. Mathus who arose .ng-we suppose before he had fully recovered from a bad dream-and propheszed the er-crowding of the surface of the earth. That nearly a hundred years ago. and the evils foresaw were going to happen pretty
 They not happened, but the birth controllers tell us that they only been postponed by thing that Malthus overlooked. the coming of the machinery age.
 The head of the American movement Is a Mrs Sanger, who sounds this note:
 While continue to produce explosive pop ulatons" said Mrs Sanger who is at the head of the
 
 to keep the peace of the world will result only in scraps of paper. She make the choice of lifting motherhood to the plane of voluntary, intelligent function, and remake the world by means of birth control a world remade would exceed the dream of statesmen. reformer and revolutionist
 'In former ages woman has been guilty of the sin of submission As she has unconsciously and igno rantly brought about social disaster, must. and will conciously undo that disaster and create and better order. The task is hers. She has debt pay and she alone must pay it. She must not think pay this debt in any superficial way. She pay it with palliatives-with chid-labor laws prohobitio regulations of prostitution and agi taton against war Political nostrums and social naceas are but incidentally and superfically useful They do not touch the source of the social disease
 There are some parts of the earth where there too many people. We suppose there was a time when some part of earth was crowded But time there other parts, and of the best parts, that wholly almost uninhabited. Emigration has always re- leved the congestion In early times this emigration sometimes resulted in war. but that has not hap pened recent times. We have always had other of
 There are still parts of the country and of almost every country except in Europe and parts of Asia, where there is room millions and where there for to come America is not nearly filled
 Population does not increase faster ability to derive living fronie soil Europe's great in crease from 1900 190O taken care of by the machine age-mass production. Similar advance ment will always be the case Texas according to agricultural experts, could be made to grow enough to feed all the people earth.
 Steadily we getting and more out of an acre. population should become perilousy large all food will grown in hothouses future Luther Burbanks showing descendants how to raise and harvest wheat crop in few weeks or even days.
 Looking upon the activities of the birth control lers and the other Citizens and Citzenesses Fxits we think of the building of the Tower of Babel when the then earthmen building a way to heaven that they might point out to God the mistakes of commission and omission He was makn