"Interview with the The Washington Post

New Researches Show It Does not Affect Population, She Insists

Birth control hs succeeded in meeting the attacks of those who respresent it as synonomous with race suicide, Mrs. Margaret Sanger,the foremost American exponent of the movement, who just arrive in Washington,declared yesterday in an exclusive interview with the Washington Post.

"As a matter of fact," she said, "birth control neither adds to nor subtracts from the normal increase of population. Studies of population over long periods of time and in many countries have conviced experts that the increase bears a direct ratio to the ability of the territory under observation to support human life."

"If people are left to their own reseources, to increase their kind beyond the possibility of its being maintained according to the living standard of the environment in whihc they find themselves, infant mortality will act as the check which reduces the adult population to the normal total. Or congestion will incite nations to war on each other and the reduction of population will be brought about in that way."

"Birth control simply means that the mother who has 12 children in a family which can only support four, will not suffer the immense misery of losing eight of her family through disease, malnutrition, and like causes, but will be the happy and healthy mother of only four children--the four who were all she should have had."

"The latest proof of the working of this theory has been had recently in a report just issued by Prof. Carl Edin, of the University of Copenhagen".

"The poorest people of Copenhagen have for the past five yers had access to birth control information. As a result, Dr. Edin finds that the poor are limiting the size of their families."

"But the intelligentsia of Copenhagen during the same period have increased their families, he reports, and the increase has been sufficient to precisely offset the decrease among the families of the poorer class."

"This astonishing fact he attributes to very simple causes. The burden of taxation of the intelligentsia for the support and relief of the poorer families has been lightened; and with the greater means they have been able to gratify their desires for as many children as they could rear and educate."

Mrs. Sanger will leave Washington today or tomorrow, but will return for the January conference, she said.