of the birth control league similarly praising the late Dr.
Jacobi:
"...He did not wait till the baby was born, nor did he limit
himself to what is ordinarily known as the prenatal care. He again
and again proved his sincere belief that the only way to give
babies a fair chance in this world is for the parents to know how
to regulate the family birth rate."
"The Call" on July 14, 1919, advertised seven birth control meetings to
be held during the week in New York City. Two days later, on July 16, it
advertised an open air birth control rally.
In "Woman's Sphere" of the magazine section of "The Call," July 27,
1919, there appears another three-column article favoring race suicide,
entitled, "How Shall We Change the Law?" We shall quote briefly:
"Once it is no longer on the statute books that it is unlawful to
impart information on the prevention of conception, then people may
freely help each other to attain the precious information so
urgently needed. The 'limited' bill would give this right only to
doctors and possibly to nurses and midwives....
"And while we would not be so unscientific as to deny for a moment
that it would be better for every woman to get her advice and
instruction concerning the use of contraceptive directly from a
doctor, nevertheless it is impossible to overestimate the help men
and women could give each other were the free exchange of
information on methods of birth control legal instead of
illegal....
"We feel quite sure that women will get infinitely more sympathetic
help and advice from each other than they will ever get from any
free clinic doctors."
"The Call" on July 26, 1919, announced that Anita C. Block, editress of
"Woman's Sphere" of the paper, had accepted nomination as a delegate to
the August 30, 1919, convention of the Socialist Party in Chicago.
The September 2, 1919, issue of "The Call" states that it received the
congratulations of the National Convention of the party then assembled
at Chicago. There is, however, no record of any Socialist complaint
against its continued race suicide propaganda. We can, therefore, draw
our conclusions as to whether the Socialists approve of propagating race
suicide.
Away down in Mexico there lives a certain Linn A. E. Gale, a young
Socialist who fled to that country from the United States to escape
conscription. He is a "brave"
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