The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-09

re'eC'lVes who were on hand to stop
the lecture if it proved to be as OBJ
Jectonable as members of certain
women's organizations sought to con |
vince Mayor Hoan it would be. in
their efforts to prevent the celebrated
exponent of birth control from deliv- |
ering her talk.
After about Is. minutes, the police
women adjourned to attend the Mitch
ell-LOgan fight.
Plain But Convincing.
Mrs. Sanger is far from political
orator. She made just a plain sort
Of a speech, just about like the sort
Of a conversation two women would
hold where one sought advice from
another who was better posted on the
subject under discussion.
There was no tinge of the sensa-
tional in the talk It was just the
firm conviction of a woman who has
dedicated her life to the subject as
poured out to an audience which drank
in her words.
The lecture was full of high lights
1t was one statement after another,
each driven home by the endeavors
OF the speaker to prove her points.
Offers Several Plans
That the birth rate should be con-
trolled by some means or other was
the declaration of Mrs. Sanger. She
offered several plans for this, but
came out as an advocate of none of
several in particular.
Birth control, she stated, was as
old as humanity. Nature, she pointed
had its own methods of controlling
birth and pointed to wars, pestilence,
floods, famine and disease as the
means to this end.
Child labor and unemployment walk
hand in hand, she said, for the simple
reason that families of the lower
standard do not practice birth con-
troll. The "littIe stranger" she de-
clared was looked to before its birth
as just another Garner of bread.
FavOrs Early Marriage.
The point in her speech which seem
ed to strike home most forcibly to
her auditors was Mrs. Sanger's state
ment that she favored early marriage,
but that there should be no children
for the first two years. "There must
be a foundation of love-" she said.
Again she said there should be a
two-year interval between the birth
of children, one year to recover from
the previous birth and another year
to prepare for another.
The mother about to bear child
should not be forced to manual labor,
Mrs. Sanger said, claiming that this
was simply robbing the unborn child
of capital and that child born under
this condition came into the world
cheated of what was justly due it.
Mothers suffering from communi-
cable diseases, such as lung trouble,
throat Affections or such, should not
be allowed to bear children until pro-
nounced cured, she claimed, otherwise
the disease. passes on to the child.
Will Improve Race.
Birth control, was her claim, will
not make for race suicide, but fol
race improvement. She combatted the
: argument that it was natural to bear
: children by asserting it was also nat
: ural for a man to grow beard OF
: for his hair to grow long, but de-
5 clared he cOmbatted nature by having
: his face shaven and his hair clipped
l regularly.
5 Immortality viii not follow in thc
wake Of this practice, she said, bu
: declared birth control, will also raise
+, the standard of morality. The woman
t of social and professional ambitions
3 drives her husband to company O.
/ prostitutes, said Mrs. Sanger.
= FavOrs Sterilization.
The unborn child is entitled, SIT
r said, to question its father befOr
birth on questions of his ability
d through his standard of living, his in
come, his physical qualifications AM
q other similar points, to be the fathe
of a family.
Predetermined persons, she said, ar
three times as prolific as normal per
: sons, bringing this out in an effort t
n prove her demand for sterilization.
A mother should not bear children
e said Mrs. Sanger, while she is suffer
ing from any transmittable disease
e if she has tuberculosis, if her childre
y already born are not normal in ever
: respect. not before she is % or 2
years old or if economic conditions i
T the home are not right.
{ Hits Abortion Evil.
: Twenty-Five thousand women di
j every wear through child birth an