Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1955-09-30
Minnesota Eyewitness

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The HennePn County put
tiny al is the newspaper
Help for chliess couples young planning
Planned Parenhood League sos Hennepn Minneapolis
There nqurtng away
ant Mrs Jane c Browne he executive There
three clinics Minnesota Minneapolis
st Paul In the Hamm Building and the in Rochester lo
h Street But between the Dakotas and the
not one clinic Information center this subject
that comes crucay and often into human life
Now the Hennepn County League a part
of the Planned Paenthood Federation of America 1t also inter
national with links IS countries TO the largest
omnous Problem Number One looming the world Population
Control Problem Number Two OF War And caused
primarily by Problem Number One
The story goes back a hundred and fifty years
In 1885 remarkable English gentleman Thomas
Robert Nautilus went to Cambridge University
clergyman When he was thirty he published his great work. An
Essay the Principle of Population As Affects The
OF Society 1t excited deal
thoroughnAs collecting
verhcauon of his The final edition published 1903
Nautilus happily professor
tory and political and he remained until his death In all
his relations he not without
pushed the beauty
slightest
The aim Of his study the happiness Of mankind His great
discussion which ne
the pecby Of society His father believed RouseauS
dream of and perfection but Nautilus said that
eV WI" Always De hndeed oy the mns consequent on the ten
dency Of the population than
stene Indeed the superficial optimism Rousseau and
responsible of
French Revolution and It's terrible
Al Nautilus thought that checks to the
aon but those due either to vice or misery disease war
fsmne) But later he introduced
preventive check Of what he called moral restraint This enabled
him to soften the harshest conclusions"
And then about thirty New spirited
haired
Nautilus hope Of restraint by
scientific knowledge by conacspon by education This became
The foremost thinkers the 10Th Huxley Der
Shaw. j. Mill, r. necessity They
that appalling disaster mankind because It's
hepessy horyngly multiplying population THE
have been part Of that disasterD
To show you just figures; Three hundred years ago
Europe had $50 million $40 million" Asia then
had $50 mihOns ilg4 millions We
had
the terrible incidentally adding
tragcaly crowded population every yesrD
When Margaret first startled the world she said
speech Birth the keynote Of social awakening
consequences To
ovrUork
worry crOVdng
child poverty this
enough hypoctcal Snc"
Of the medical proclamation at that tim. the New York aw de
Information
today Planned leagues
country They Civ.
n be-
low
parenhood and guidance Protestant
cIerRmen physicians and psychologists They medical h'
unable children
n all
great opponent IN. Planned has
besn Roman Catholic Church.
efforts deal with the unacceptable problem Of
population consequent poverty q IN
II intend to write this subject about
MONTH
Protestant great
PsrenthooH point they
pressed certainly not Enthusiastically unspiualy this Tay
permits intelligence
plies freedom pro
human relations the creation Of human nfe"