People here seem to be taking more and more earnestly to birth-control. The police declare that Dooks on birth control are being rapidly sold and the interest evinced is proof that birth-control is being resorted to on a large scale. The Japanese Government} has definitely set its face against anything even remotely resembling Eirth-control, which it holds to be unnatural and deleterious to the race. The police, however, are in 4 quandary what' to do. There is ro definite law levelled against birth-control, and they would to know at' what stage they can Iogally interfere.
The greatest champion of th-control in Japan is Baroness Ishimoto, who holds views that are regarded as radical, Talking your correspondent, she said: "Life in Japan has degenerated largely because of the reckless produc children. If the country is to prosper this ought to stop. I be-Heve that no one has the right to bring into this world offspring that cannot be properly attended to, and I also believe that the same applies to nations. The wars of history can be traced back to overprolificness. Hungry stomachs can-hot reason, and just as a person will forget the rigours of the law, or brave it, to steal and thereby appease his hunger, so will nations inclined to kick the traces whea menaced with national hunger.
Japan is poor; why make her poorer by dumping children that cannot be properly looked after and eared for? Prolific breeding, I regard as verging on a sin against the country, against the community and against society."
The police are doing their best, nevertheless, to stamp out the cult of Sangerism, if they can, and have commenced with the confiseation of all books of Dr. Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger.
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