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United States Government
The Birth Control Federation of America
Margaret Sanger Research Bureau
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Cuba
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<h4>Havana Radio Broadcast</h4>
<p class="byline">September 1940</p>
<p>Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a very great pleasure for me to speak to you tonight and to
bring to the mothers of Cuba and to all others who may be sympathetic to
our cause, the greetings of our organization for planned parenthood, The Birth
Control Federation of America.</p>
<p>The cause for which I have labored for the past twenty-five years is the cause of
Motherhood itself. It has been a battle to free it from the dangers and the ignorance
which makes child bearing a tragic waste of life for mothers and infants as well. There
are more mothers lost in child birth in the world than there are soldiers killed on the
battlefield. This loss of mothers’ lives is not necessary and can be avoided if the
mother is given the information and instructed in the means to space the births of their
children from two to three years. It should be her right to have only that number of
children that her health will permit and her husband’s earning power can support.</p>
<p>It is a tragic fact that the poorest mothers in the world today have the largest
families. The well to do--the educated parents are informed as to what to do to control
the size of the family but the working man’s wife is kept in ignorance and conscripted
to spend her life in child bearing. Many of these children are doomed to death before
they breathe the first breath of life. The mother hard work, her lack of proper food,
her own diseased body and her ignorance all combine to deprive the unborn child of its
rights to live through its first year.</p>
<p>During the past ten years at the clinic of which I am Director, The Margaret Sanger
Research Bureau, where poor mothers can come and obtain scientific information
from our doctors, we have had over eighty thousand mothers whose case histories bear
witness to the fact that women die needlessly in child birth. Their lives can be saved
by giving them knowledge to space pregnancies or control or limit the number of children
the mother should have. We have saved by our work thousands of lives and we are saving
them everyday. Now we must insist that the Government
through its Public Health workers shall also provide proper
scientific information for the poorest mothers, the mothers on farms, in homesteads, in
factories who now are unable to obtain this knowledge which will in many instances save
their lives.</p>
<p>Millions of dollars are being spent on health and welfare but nothing is being spent to
help fathers and mothers to obtain means to help themselves. We want to save the lives
of mothers and infants and to bring into the world only children sound in body and mind.
It is not quantity we need but the quality of life must now be given proper
consideration if we will bring "Peace on Earth Good Will to Men” over the face of the
Globe.</p>
<p>I thank you and wish you Good bye.</p>
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<p>Margaret Sanger gave this speech over Radio Station COCO in Havana, Cuba on Sept. 2,
1940.</p>
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birth control--access to
birth control clinics and leagues
birth control--lack of knowledge of
birth control movement
mortality rates--maternal
upper classes--and birth control
women and girls--health of
working classes--birth control and
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[Forward to Sex Problems in India]
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Birth Control Review
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City National Bank of New York
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Lloyd George, David
Vanderlip, Frank A.
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Russia
Cuba
South America
Germany
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Italy
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Mexico
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<h4>Vanderlip's Speech--A Warning Note</h4>
<p class="byline">
<span class="italics">An Editorial by Margaret Sanger</span>
</p>
<p>The birth control movement in America has heretofore
centered its interest upon two points. The first of these is woman's freedom. The other
is relief for the economically oppressed workers through limitation of offspring.</p>
<p>This has been the movement's development in most countries, except England.
There it has been very definitely based upon the principle that failure to control the birth rate consciously and
sufficiently has a constant tendency to permit the population to increase beyond the food supply. This is the first of what
may be called the two principal tenets of the English movement. The second is that
over-population is the first and most fruitful source of ignorance, pauperism, disease
and crime. Around these two principal points the advocates of Birth Control in England
have waged their battle.</p>
<p>English statesmen and economists, however, are keenly conscious that Britain is
over-populated. It is a matter which is discussed constantly by press, politician and
publicist. America is a newly developed country. The overcrowding of population has not
yet made itself so greatly felt. For this reason, perhaps, the advocates of Birth
Control have had less direct interest in this phase of the matter than have the
advocates of the same doctrine in the tightly packed United Kingdom.</p>
<p>It required the World War to awaken us to this phase of the general problem. Conditions
revealed by this struggle and its aftermath make it impossible for American believers in
Birth Control to leave out of consideration, hereafter, the relation between population
and its means of subsistence.</p>
<p>Of all those who have written and spoken upon problems arising out of the war, none has
called our attention so plainly and emphatically to the food question as Frank A. Vanderlip,
until recently head of the City National Bank of New York, one of the most powerful financial
institutions in the country. In an address delivered May 26, which stirred the press of the country into a hysterical discussion that
has not yet run its course, Mr. Vanderlip directed attention to some of the most significant facts in the European situation. In
all the babble of discussion that has followed, no newspaper has yet commented upon the fundamentals pointed out by the financier. None
of the editorial writers was able to discover that the vital points in the address were those which dealt with the European food situation,
as it arises out of over-population.</p>
<p>Here are some of the facts which Mr. Vanderlip brought out:</p>
<p>"<span class="VANFR">
Europe has increased its population
since the Napoleonic wars from 175,000,000 to 440,000,000. Now just think of those
figures- 175,000,000 to 440,000,000! Now Europe did not become any more productive.
She probably does not raise a very great amount more food than she did a hundred
years ago. How has she fed those people?. . .</span>"</p>
<p>"<span class="VANFR">
<span class="italics">The British government will have to get
five or six million Englishmen out of England and nearer to the source of the
food supply.</span> It is that fact that we must grasp; that these industries
must be kept going in these highly industrialized European countries if the people
are to live. Take England--the most thickly populated country in the world--700
to the square mile. They have built up that whole island into an industrial
community that can live only by selling abroad a great part of the product of the
factories, and with the proceeds of that export buying more raw material and the
foods for the population. . . .</span>"</p>
<p>"<span class="VANFR">English industry has made a red ink overdraft on the
future by underpaying labor so that it did not receive enough to live efficiently
and you know that in the mill towns of England there grew up a secondary race of
underfed, uneducated, undeveloped people. Well, England has got to pay the overdraft
now. She found that a third of her men of military age were unfit for military
service. One of Mr. Lloyd George's most
famous utterances was that '<span class="italics"><span class="LLODA">You could not make an A-1 nation out of a C-3 population'</span></span>.
They all see it and that differential (low wages), which England has had in international trade is gone. That is not all of it.</span></p>
<p>"<span class="VANFR">England must maintain her markets if she is to maintain
her population. Remember, she is an industrial community just like an industrial
village. She has this vast population that her fields will not sustain. She must
bring in raw material, pass it through her factories, sell it abroad, and have
margin enough to get more raw material for the food she needs, and she is facing the
demoralized markets of Europe</span>."</p>
<p>Mr. Vanderlip speaks, of course, as a financier. But whether one is a financier, a
reformer or a revolutionist, the facts that he points out are the facts that must be
faced. No matter what our theories or our faiths, these facts stand, they grow
increasingly ominous, and the necessity that they be dealt with grows more
insistent.</p>
<p>What do these facts mean to America--to the people of America? They mean, first of all, that upon America will be made
increasing demands for food for Europe. We have already been supplying England, France and a great part of
Italy. Plans are already under way to "feed Germany" if a peace satisfactory to
those in power, politically and commercially, is made. </p>
<p>We know, too, that while supplying food to England and France, we went through a period
of scarcity and unprecedented high prices. We know that this period was also marked by
high mortality among the civilian population. Witness for instance, the influenza
epidemic.</p>
<p>It is also to be remembered that America, like England, as long as this nation depends upon present means of production and distribution,
will be forced to seek more and more markets and sources of raw materials. What else is the meaning of the expansion of the
United States within the last generation? Why have we taken over Hawaii, the Philippines,
Porto Rico, and why have we virtually held a protectorate over Cuba?
Why is American capital so interested in Mexico? Why is it that we go to South
America for much of our meat supply--and only within the past few years? Why do American packers control much of the cattle and most
of the packing industry in South America? What is the meaning of our heavy importations of rice? Is our
situation different from that of England, except in degree?</p>
<p>A look at our populations statistics may shed some light upon the question. In 1880 our
population was a little over 50,000,000. Ten years later it had increased to
approximately 63,000,000. In 1900 it was approximately 76,000,000. In 1910 it lacked but
a few thousand of 93,000,000. Now it is estimated at 106,000,000. It has more than
doubled itself in thirty-eight years. The rate of increase for the twenty years between
1890 and 1910 was approximately 21 per cent. At this rate, we will have 200,000,000
people in 1950! While only a generation ago, we began reaching out for imports to add to
the stock of foods produced at home.</p>
<p>It is well understood that one of the causes of the World War was the rapid increase in
the German and Russian populations. The German population grew from 41,000,000 in 1871
to 67,000,000 in 1918. It increased 60 per cent in forty-seven years and made a world
cataclysm inevitable because it did not produce sufficient food to sustain its
tremendously increasing numbers.</p>
<p>It took Russia, with the highest birth rate in Europe, forty years--from
1871 to 1911--to increase her population 77 per cent. In but 38 years, we have more than
doubled our own population. It took Japan sixty-five years to double her population, and
her government has been making a studied effort to increase the number of Japanese.</p>
<p>In view of these facts. it is high time for people living in America to give careful
attention to the population problem. It is especially important that those of us who
advocate Birth Control should at once begin to make an intensive and exhaustive study of
the subject. If England, with the most extensive colonial system in the world at her
command, cannot take care of her few tightly packed millions, what will be the state of
affairs when the United States, youngest, most powerful and most rapidly growing of the
nations, with no more colonies to take except by force, shall have 200,000,000 or
300,000,000 people?</p>
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Lloyd George, David
Vanderlip, Frank A.
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Margaret Sanger
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1919-07-00
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<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Microfilm Edition, Collected Documents Series</span>
C16:123
<span class="journal"><span class="italics">Birth Control Review</span></span>, July 1919, pp. 3-4
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birth control--socio-economic benefits
birth control movement--history of
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Europe--overpopulation
Malthusianism--and neo-Malthusianism
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population size--and birth control
population size--and food supply
World War I--causes
World War I--and population size
United States--population growth in
United States--population policies
Vanderlip, Frank A.
women and girls--freedom and rights of
working classes--and family size
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Ellis, Havelock
Laozi
Joyce, James
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Egypt
Cuba
South America
Germany
China
United States
Mexico
Great Britain
Japan
India
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BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW
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<h4>Birthday of the Review and of Havelock Ellis</h4>
<div class="section">
<p>With this issue of the <span class="journal">BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW</span>, we pass our sixth birthday,
and with our own anniversary we also celebrate the birth day of the great benefactor of women and of the human race,
Havelock Ellis. The first number of the
REVIEW was published in February, 1917. Considering the high infant mortality rate among American
publications devoted to the spread of an idea, we feel that we have every reason to
congratulate ourselves. In these days it is indeed a difficult task, almost an
impossible task, to find supporters for any length of time for a fundamental cause.
It is even more difficult to increase the number of faithful readers of a monthly
unflinchingly devoted to a single idea. Due to the fine spirit of self-sacrifice and
loyalty which characterizes our work in all departments, the BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW not only survived,
during its early infancy, the troubled years of the War (1917-18), when so many
non-commercial publications were snuffed ignominiously out of existence, but our
circulation actually jumped from 2,000 the first year to 10,000 in the year 1922. We
have "carried on"-–in spite of all sorts of difficulties which blocked our
path–-some of the obstacles deliberately placed in our way by enemies aiming to
destroy our movement and our magazine. But these obstructions seem to have inspired
our workers and our friends to even greater courage and bravery. We have not merely
won out in this sharp struggle for existence, but most of our readers tell us that
there has been a constant and easily recognized improvement both in the quality and
importance of our contributions, as well as in the dignified appearance of our
pages. It is gratifying to report that our circulation is no longer confined to the
United States. Copies of the BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW
are sent every month to all the important civilized countries of the globe. Bundle orders are sent to
South America, to Mexico, to Cuba,
to Egypt, to India, to Great Britain,
to Germany, to Japan and to China.
This achievement will seem the greater in view of the fact that the REVIEW is kept alive mainly by people who are
interested in the worldwide promulgation of the principle of Birth Control. The BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW is
not only the voice of the movement here but it is the only magazine in the country devoted to the scientific exposition of the
population question in its many and various aspects. The circulation of the BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW presages in a word, the
universal practice of Birth Control. Join us in this great work! </p>
<p class="byline">M.S.</p>
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<div class="section">
<p>There is no man living to day to whom humanity is more indebted than Havelock Ellis.
There are other voices, louder, harsher, noisier voices than his, voices making
themselves heard above the sound and fury of the chaos of these days. In the last
three decades many leaders have arisen–-soldiers, politicians, statesmen–-all blind
leaders of the blind! Some of these leaders have caught the ear of nations and of
crowds. There have been poets, dramatists, philosophers, who have been acclaimed by
the press, who have won for themselves tremendous reputations almost overnight. For
a day or so they have been surrounded by a blaze of glory; and then pathetically the
light has been extinguished. In the meanwhile, this great prophet has lived on
almost in obscurity, far from the shouting and the tumult. The gaudy rewards of fame
and popular acclaim could mean nothing to such a man. And with the passing of the
years there has been no aging of this divinely radiant spirit. His wisdom has
deepened; his vision has retained its calm and serenity; there has been no
senescence, no growing old in this spirit. The reward of this life of inspired and
unceasing service to humanity has been the gift of eternal youth. For is it not the
chief characteristic of youth to look out upon the world not as entering the gloom
and darkness of eternal night, but as emerging into the roseate dawn of a new day?
This has been the vision of Havelock Ellis, and this vision he has, with his
inexhaustible resources of erudition, of science, of art and superhuman inspiration,
awakened in the younger generation of the world.</p>
<p>It would be an easy thing to say that the world has beaten a path to his door. But it
would be nearer the truth I think, to realize the radiant quality of his work.
Ignored, suppressed, condemned by the ever-vigilant powers of darkness, the books of
Havelock Ellis have, nevertheless, wrought the great miracle. They have found their
way overseas, to far countries, across deserts, over barriers set up by ignorance
and official stupidity, into lonely cottages. They have kindled the spark of life.
They have turned darkness into light; cowardice into courage, dismal doubting into
self-reliance. It has been, first of all, this luminous radiation of a great spirit
that has evoked the response of gratitude, that has inspired young men and women the
world over to express their eternal indebtedness to Havelock Ellis.</p>
<p>The younger generation owes yet a greater debt to the wisdom of Havelock Ellis. For
this wisdom is not confined merely to the theme of love in its various
manifestations. It penetrates into every field of life. In an age that has been
characterized by the violence and pugnacity of so many small minds, by the
calamitous activity of so many little men, stridently and egotistically asserting
their superiority, and ruthlessly leading suffering and imperilled humanity into
disaster and social shipwreck, here is one man, great enough and far-seeing enough
to point the way to a real civilization. He has never exhibited that ignoble passion
for immediate recognition that corrupts so many minds of the present day. He has
never descended into the market-place, nor beaten a drum to attract attention to his
books. He has not indulged in controversy or dispute. His mind possesses a fine
plasticity; it has never ceased growing. Havelock Ellis is interested in ideas new
and old. He tests these ideas not by their modernity nor by their weight of
tradition; but by their inherent validity. He possesses an almost miraculous power
of separating the wheat from the chaff. He bridges countries and centuries. He can
awaken us to the ageless wisdom of Lao-Tse; and he can
enjoy the literary heresies of a James Joyce.
That the world might learn of comprehensiveness from him!</p>
<p>Sanity and Health are the fine ideals upheld by Havelock Ellis from the very
beginning of his career as a scientist and writer. By sanity and health–-we must be
careful to qualify–-he has never meant that narrow, constrained or hysterical
outlook on life that has too long masked itself under the defensive name of
"normality." There can be no true sanity, no true health either in mind or body
without an invigorating freedom of outlook. Moreover without the radiant, resolute
vitality that is the finest fruit of freedom and health, men and women can never
develop the courage and self-reliance to create the real civilization of the
future.</p>
<p>Who more eloquently, more spiritually, and, in the truest sense, more poetically than
Havelock Ellis has realized the power and the eternal strength of woman? In this
field he is the prophet as well as the pioneer. To his pages both men and women must
inevitably and finally turn to gain a full understanding of themselves and of each
other. In the years to come, indeed throughout the whole of this long, century,
men–-not merely the writing men, the literati, the intellectuals; but men of every
age and every class-–must be taught, at least to some small extent, to know Woman,
as Havelock Ellis with his divine intuition and wisdom so thoroughly knows her
today. The benefits of such a revelation cannot be calculated. Upon this knowledge
will be built the new civilization. But Man cannot know Woman until Woman begins to
know herself, and women no less than men must turn to Havelock Ellis to aid them in
their quest of self-revelation.</p>
<p>This strange, lost, wandering world of ours, worshiping false gods, led by evil
shepherds into almost bottomless pits, straying like lost sheep in the dark, or
stampeding insanely after miraged rewards must somehow be brought back to the
realization that the real secret of life cannot be found outside of ourselves. We
must give up our romantic dreams and, as Havelock Ellis has so often told us, create
with our own humble powers our own future. This new world will not be brought nearer
to realization by subscribing to grandiose social or political schemes; but by the
attainment of sanity and health in our individual lives. For among the latest words
of his published in this country, we read: "<span class="ELLHA">Every well-directed step,
while it brings us ever so little nearer to the far goal around which our dreams
may play, is at once a beautiful process and an invigorating effort, and thereby
becomes in itself a desirable end. It is the little things of life which give us
most satisfaction and the smallest things in our path that may seem most worth
while</span>."</p>
<p class="byline">M. S.</p>
</div>
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Margaret Sanger
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<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Microfilm Edition, Smith College Collections,</span> S70:990.
<span class="journal"><span class="italics">Birth Control Review</span></span>, Feb. 1923, pp. 27-28.
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birth control movement
Birth Control Review, The
Ellis, Havelock
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