three-column article in
the magazine section of the paper, entitled, "The ... League." Parts of
the article are hereby quoted:

"Many readers of 'Woman's Sphere' have expressed themselves as
eager to know the raison d'etre of The ... League, which is the
latest development in the birth control movement.

"The answer is that this new league is started to speed up the
birth control movement. Its first aim is to take the question
straight to Congress and repeal the Federal statute which prohibits
the circulation of contraceptive knowledge. All the restrictive
state laws are modeled on this Federal obscenity statute. If that
is repealed, the state laws can easily be made to follow suit....

"The repeal of this obnoxious out-of-date legislation is the
longest single step toward that end.

"The next step is to get the subject taught in the medical schools,
and to have the best possible scientific information wisely and
well distributed. Every health agency in the country should have it
for the benefit of all who are in need. It should be available at
hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, maternity centers, charity
organizations and, most of all, through the Federal Health Service
and the National Children's Bureau....

"Most Socialists are already convinced of the rightness of birth
regulation, but not all of them see the need for working now to
free the information. Some say, 'Oh, just work to achieve Socialism
and when we have that, things like birth control will come without
effort.' ...

"Birth control is a necessary tool for the struggle after social
justice. Therefore, Socialists should insist upon it right now, and
not be content to wait for the Co-operative Commonwealth to bring
it to them, also they should not hesitate to co-operate with
non-Socialists to get it. Birth control is a blessing to humanity
as a whole. Everybody needs it."

On July 13, 1919, "The Call" published an editorial on Dr. Abraham
Jacobi who had recently died. In the course of the editorial the
following statement is made:

"Many honors have been showered upon Dr. Jacobi, but probably none
will be more brilliant than the fact that he was one of the first
to fearlessly discuss the question of birth control."

On July 15, 1919, there appeared in "The Call" the letter of the
director