The New York herald., 1922-10-31
FIND BIRTH CONTROL
MEET TAME AFFAIR
Police. Present in Force, Hear
Mrs. Sanger Talk Upon
Travels Abroad.
RETURN VERY PEACEFUL
Speaker Says Her Plan Holds
Solution for Problems Of
Far East Lands.
RETURN VERY PEACEFUL

Two stenogra3hers from Police Head
quarters sat close to the stage in Car
negie Hall last night and filled their
books with notes they will never need }
transcribc. The Ameri san Birth Con-
trolls meeting to welcomc Margaret
Sanger homo from her tour of the world
was as peaceful as the sheepfold in Cen
trail Park. Words were spoken that
were regarded as indicate in Clarissa
qarlowe's day. but none OF them came
within mile Of breaking the law. which
says that the actual methods OF contra
ception must not be communicated.
Two policemen in uniform at the back
of the auditorium listened In vain. A
dozen more were distributed in Seventh
avenue and Fifty-seventh street t,-outside
the building, and an inspector walked
past now and then. That was all. IL
was all very different from the meeting
at the Town Hall on December 13 last
year, when Police Capt Donohue stopped
Mrs Sanger's meeting before 1t started.
because. he later explained. he had seen
children in the crowd and feared for
their morals. No children were visible
| last night, but a few youngsters in the
upper teens were scattered among their
elders.
Mrs. Sanger talked principally about
her visit to Japan and China. and be-
fore and after speaking received bou-
cucts Of flowers. Haywood Brou "
chairman. The other speakers were DR..
Goldstsin Of the Free Synagogue; Mrs.
Josephine Bennett. who called for mem
berships in the league at 81 apiece and
got a good many and Or. Lydia Allen
De vilbiss Of New York and Washington.
Praise Japan's Attitude.
Although Mrs. Sanger had trouble in
getting into Japan and was more or
less restricted while there. she speaks up
Tor the Japanese.
After battling in this country and a.
| this city win gross, Wholesale. un.
the name Of religion and democracy"
she said, ''it is 10Y to he received
even by ones opponents with Intelligent
respect and courtesy. | did not meet
with prurient and vulgar leers an !
ribald laughs. At the Peers Club !
kspoke to twenty-five OF the most emi
nent dignitaries Of the country I coul
! not help comparing the breadth and
subt!ety of the minds OF these officials
of the Imperial Japenese Government
with the unspeakable vulgarity an
teering crudity of the politicians of New
York. when we tried to bring the prob
our State legislators at Albany
Mrs. Sanger saw In voluntary restric-
| ton of the population the only solution
! Of the crowd problem of japan and
China. "A drastic national policy OF
birth control" she called 1t. speaking Of
Japan "limiting the numbers. improving
living conditions and aiming at the per-
petuation Of peace and the development
Of art and science "
| In some ways she found Chinese wom-
en- superior to their occidental sisters,
!, ''for although they bind their feet they
do not bind their minds" IN China she
| felt that she was witnessing the last
| act in the national tragedy of overpop-
ulation." Famine funds and Christian
missions for China she deplored in SO
| far as their work Is the relieving and
perpetuating types who should never be
born at all. much less allowed to repro
| luce and perpetuate their uliseries and
Diseases
Says Funds Arc Wssted,
"As long as the American people pre-.
! fer sentiment to science" she said. this
! waste Of funds to throw into the bot.
| tomless pit OF charities and philanthro-
| pies may be expected to continue Mean
while the work Of cleaning up our own
| house is neg ected and the millions that
should so into American research and
science. into the cultivation and refine.
ment of American life. are diverted to
this mad carnival of sloppy sentimental
ity." She said that birth control advo-
Gates are fighting for race of thor
oughbreds."
Rabbi Goldstein found the birth con-
! troll movement mot immoral but pro-
foundly moral" lie said II protects the
child. preserves the mother relieves So
cial distress caused by too large fami.
| lies. and contributes toward interna-
tional peace by removing a cause and
| eAcnse fvr war--overpopu alton"
1 There was a good audience buk the
! 11a1l MT fii11