The Cordova daily times., 1922-08-28
JAPANESE TALK WAR AMERICAN
 WOMAN SAYS

This was the lasting impression loft an the mind of Mrs. Margaret Sanger. who has returned to Eu- rone enroute for America after an extensive tour in the East under the aegis of the International Blrth Control Association.
 Mrs. Sanger traversed the East Dropagating an unknown and very delicate subject and was accompanied only by her twelve-year-old son. ohe returns to Western civilization proud and happy with her accomplishments.
 None of the old pioneers has been beset with the difficulties that nave hampered the progress ot Mrs. Saneer, In the first place the Jap anese Consul at San Francisco, act ing under instructions from Toklo' declined to grant Mrs. Sanger her wise to enter Japanese territory. Nevertheless, this did not prevent Mrs. Sanger from boarding the snip sailing from San Francisco bouno for Shanghai which was going to make Tokio en route.
 LAPS HEAR HER SPEAK
 Happily aboard that ship was the Japanese delegation from America returning to Japan from the wash ington Conference. To Baron hato' chief of the delegation, she made her complaint, and the latter, after consulting with M. Hani Harl, de- cided to listen to a speech from the plucky little American lady on the extremely delicate subject which she intended to propagate among the people of the East.
 So convinced were they after the address that they Immediately wire ,essed their Government and suggest ed that it should let Mrs. Sanger into fits country without restriction The reply was that it would allow her m nroviding she did not give any pub lie address. She LOOK chahce anu gave the undertaking.
 Then Mrs. Sanger's friends be- came annoyed with her, for on her arrival at Tokio all the reporters from the whole of Japan boarded vessel not with the intention of interviewing the returning Japanese delegation on their impressions or Washington, but to interview her on the question of birth control.
 WARNED BY AUTHORITIES
 On arrival she was again warned by the authorities that she would be debarred from addressing a pubic meeting. Yet immediately she was asked by scores of independent so- cieties to address their members on the subject Naturally she compiled. She was also obliged to bar the topic of birth control, but she clr- cumvented that by remaining her subject Population and War"
 But on the question of economies they were all agog. It is just as ex pensive to rear and educate large family in Japan as it is in New York, and the matter of cost reused the Oriental conscience to a great degree. ~H" H % @slM%
 "The result was that before I left Japan we had formed an Association, with branches in every big city, and clinics were in process before left. In addition, I addressed meet ing of the Peers Club All who at tended were from the aristocracy, and they displayed the greatest in- terest in the subject. Count Kara Tara presided, and that was the, most enjoyable lecture I delivered, be- cause they all understood English. | 'The only opposition I encoun- tered was from the high military castes, for they still look upon the common population as so much common fodder, and the more Japa- nese bred the more lives they have to play with in the securing of mili- tary advantages.
 EVERYBODY TALKS WAR
 "Everybody talks war in Japan, and everybody regards it as inevita- ble. The poor people hope to avoid it, but the rich and the manufac- turing classes look forward to it.
 My own impression is that war cannot be avoided; the Japanese population is too crowded, and they must have an outlet. Adequate out let at the moment is not available, and hundreds are starving through overcrowding.
 NO OPPORTUNITY OVERLOOKED