New-York tribune., 1922-10-11
Mrs. Sanger's
Birth Views
| Win in Japan
advocate, Home After Eight
Monihs' Tour of World,
Spoke Is Times and Set
Up Clinic In the Empire
eague Started in China
Control Would Avert War
and Cure international
Ills. She Says i'm Report

After aa eight months tour oil
furope and the Orient, Margaret
anger sees in birth control a panaces
tcr international ills that will be more
s.ilcacious than limitations of arma-
rents and peace conferences. If wars
s~e to be averted in the future, birth
s,nsrol must first be internationally
p-acticed, Mrs. Sanger told reporters
st tee In her studio apartment in
Cramercy Park yesterday.
In Japan Mrs. Sanger found condi-
t.ons particularly interesting, she said
he older, more conservative element
s1@w in birth control hindrance to
riilitaristic ambitions. They favored
quantity poulation of at least 1Oo,-
sya,0g0, while the liberals preferred q
population of limited numbers and
s. cher quality. She spoke repeatedly
the young liberals" and explained
taat the radicals of Japan were those
yuths who had travelled in America
.4agland and continental Europe or had
t4ai the literature of those nations
: Icy form an active, though unof-
:..nized part of the Japanese who are
erse for war.
Last February when Mrs. Sanger re-
Tested the wise of her passport by
,..e Japanese Consul in San Francisco.
ss.e was refused, but after much dis
l.e was finally admitted, and permitted
IL lecture thirteen times. Her audi
ences were composed chiefly of men, for
,s.e Japanese woman is creature CT
.eat meekness and little freedom.
/ aly an infinitesmal proportion Of the
men came to the lectures, but they
were enthusiastic to the point of es-
&. fishing q birth control clinic which
as in the process of organization as
sae left the country.
Japanese Families Large
The Japanese have great need for
family limitation, Mrs. Sanger de-
ared. The average Japanese family
consists of eight to twelve persons, an
economic error for q country Of SO
small an area, she said, so that accom-
siodations for the overflow of human
Beings must be found in other lanas.
ms imperialistic policy which she
Sc impaired with that of Germany in
$50.
IN China, although the birth rate is
hssher. famines and plaques kill off
The greater part of the population. SO
ihat in family. which originally num-
bered fifteen, only three or four re-
n ain, limitation Of families by the
5izaple but painful business OF death
III .s. Sanger pointed out. She lectured
70 i.500 students at the University OF
:'eking. owned by the Chinese govern.
ment, and at the conclusion of hel
ealk q chapter of the birth contro
teapue was organized through the eff
.crts of the head of the college.
Mrs. Sanger was asked by the presl'
lent of the university why the govern
nent of the United States objected II
her propaganda, according to an anec
.'ote related yesterday. She told him
.l.at the officials of the country fearee
:cr the morals of it's youth.
"Then your country has queer con.
aeption of your young men and women,
.. sds the reply.
League Formed in Hawaii
In Hawaii, where she stopped to ad
4ress an audience of 300, the birth con
erol leader saw a new league formed
II ia only in this country and II
rance that Mrs. Sanger has encount
cred governmental opposition, she SAID
y France bonus is given to large
families, increasing WIFI eaSh ~ !"
oember, in order to stimulate q wan
tnp population. This dearth of future
generations might be ascribed not tx
Girth control, which is practiced .bbI
ew, but to the vast numbers OF stu
sorn babies with consumptive or DIS
,ased parents, she COMMANDED.
The working women of France pre-
fer small families, two or three chill
lrcn, who can be adequately cared for
No matter how complex conditions are
the French woman worker Will ms
time to rush home from employmen
at the noon hour to see that her ch}l
.lren, returning from school, are sup
pied with a good lunch, Mrs. Sange
{ id.
The influence of the Church fur
shes the strongest opposition to tn
s.rth control movement in England
though Lord Dawson, physician t