The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-22
AUTHOR'S'WIFE
 PLAYS FOES OF
 BIRTHCONTROL
Mrs. Harold MacGrath Brands Opponents of
 Theory SHOIul IINMIIzzIE- D,S
Father of New York State Law Is Called
 "Joke''

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Feb. 22.-Cow. ards"
 This is the characterization of Mrs Haold MacGrath, wife of the noted American novelist, of those women who refuse to approve and sanction birth control.
 Leaders in the present effort tc amend the existing State laws and make birth control possible, and one of the speakers upon whom Al bany police placed the seal of silence when they stopped a birth control State conference there, Mrs. Mac Grath returned to her home in this city to assail "that joke, Anthony Comstock," father of the present State law, and to preach the need of it's modification.
 Reveals Aims
 Discussing the aims of the birth control leaders in this State, Mrs MacGrath said:
 Most women, and the public, and the politicians fail to grasp what we are striving for, who have first hand knowledge of the terrible and sorrowful effects ignorance brings to women. I personally know of one woman, who was a friend of mine who took her own life because she suffered through ignorance. 1 know of several other women, wonderful women. who died because physicians, under our law, could not give then! information which would have saved their lives.
 Tt is a great joke, this composite law of our State, fathered by Anthony Comstock, who must have been q great joke himself, in his conception of what is good and what is not good for modern men and women.
 Women "Weak," Too
 women SHOW tHellSeiFeo Io pN "' weak as men are wont to picture them when this topic, instituted for their direct benefit, comes up. Just the other day, at gathering of women in this city, we were talking about birth control and it's possl- bilities. l know l must have shocked the assemblage when 1 voiced my opinions on expressions from some of those women who stated they thought the practice of birth control 
 q asked those who had been i'm moral before their marriage to stand m and a gasp went around the circle.
 q believe it is the function of to save lives wherever nossible and under all circumstances. Is it not crying pity, then, that in this matter of birth control their mouths are sealed, their knowledge walled up, by a law, a foolish, prud- ish law, which is costing thousands of lives and untold misery annually to thousands, yes, millions?
 UnmuzzIe M. DIS.
 eve seek merely to permit phy- sicians to reveal to women, at their discretion, that which they should know. Most women who have no children practice either self-control or birth control. Those who have neither are the ones who suffer Men are so prudish, and politicians are so selfish. Mrs. Sanger is a wonderful woman her efforts are not appreciated because they are not undestood, and politicians and so called reformers and public guardians of our morals will not take time nol trouble to acquaint themselves with what we are trying to accomplish.
 "It is time, in my opinion, that we look at this matter in the light of a movement for the public good for the betterment of the health o1 mothers, for making our progeny better men and women physically and for stripping from the public view point of sex relations the false anC misleading disguise which has en shrouded and beclouded it for SC many years, and especially since Anthony Comstock and his kind put so many foolish laws on the statute books of this state"