Birth Control Review Volume 5-6 Author:Anonymous This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...ignorant or illegal preventative been lowered during the past few years without such knowledge of Birth Control as has been sugge... more »sted. The fear of bringing illegitimate children into the world, or of giving birth to a diseased progeny has not kept the youth of our country moral. Plain speech on such matters would, in my opinion, make vice less attractive by removing all mystery from it and by showing it in all its hideous features. 4. I believe that knowledge that enables parents to limit their offspring will increase human happiness and raise the standards of the entire population. Fewer and better children are needed,--children that are wanted and planned for instead of unwelcome "accidents." David Starr Jordan Chancellor Leland Stanford University TN ANSWER to your questions, let me say I do not regard the possible over-population of the world as a pressing question now or for centuries to come. The real problem is the over-congestion of certain districts, results of weakness, ignorance, indolence and oppression. The cost of a few dreadnoughts applied to sanitation of the tropics, to education, industrial and other, and to development of new industries would go far towards relieving this. There are even in Japan and Korea, millions of acres of unoccupied land, fitted for rye, oats, hay and grazing, but which cannot be utilized without capital and without governmental efforts towards establishing markets for cheese and butter, now scarcely used in the Far East, where the people subsist mainly on rice, an unwholesome food when unrelieved. In Japan, only the homeless poor will emigrate, those who have even two acres of good land preferring to stay at home, "where our customs fit us like a garment." The "menace" in...« less