February, 1928 Twenty Cents BIRTH CONTROL REVIEW "Fewer But Healthzer Chddren" MOTHER By LEWIN -FUNCKE HAVELOCK ELLIS NUMBER Margaret Sanger Comes to Berlin By AGNES SMEDLEY THE AMERICAN BIRTH CONTROL LEAGUE, INC Headqmarteu 104 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK ClTY Telephon&elsea 8901-8902 OFFICERS MARGARET SANGER Prondent MRS JULIET BARRETT RUBLEE Vbo-Prrr(dar( MRS F ROBERTSON JONES Actwg Pretdent MRS FRANCES B ACKERYANN Trea~ut~ YRS LEWIS L DELAFIELD Vwo-Prendsnt YR J NOAH H SLEE Arwtad T~OMIH BOARD OF DIRECTORS MRS ROBERT HUSE Fzscutioe Secretary CLINICAL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT DR JAMES F COOPER Yedwal Director DR HANNAH Y STONE Chief of Stab NATIONAL COUNCIL CLERQYIEB Rev Ernest Caldleot, N Y Rabbi Sldney E Goldstein. N Y Rev Karl Reiland, N Y Rabbi Rudolph I Coffee, PhD ,W Rev Oscar B Haww, N J Rev Edgar S Wiers, N J Rev Philip Frick, N Y Rabbi Louis Mann, I11 Rev L Griswold William* Pa BCIENTZBTB Dean Thyrsa W Amos, Pa E C Lindeman, Ph D, N Y Walter B Pitkin, PhD ,N Y Leon J Cole. PhD, Wise C C Little, D Sc, Mich Horatio I Pollock, Ph D, N Y Edward M East, B S ,PhD ,Yass Wfliam MeDougall, PhD ,Maas Lothrop Stoddard, PhD ,Yaas J E W Wallin, Ph D ,Ohio Franklin H Giddmes. PhD, N Y James G Needham, PhD ,N Y John B Watson, Ph D ,N Y Samuel J Holmw, 6h.D. C& Wm F Oghurn, PhS, N Y Walter F Willcox, Ph D, N Y Roswell H Johnson, M S ,Pa Raymond Pearl, Ph D ,Yd A B Wolfe, PhD, Ohio PHYBICZABB Joseph L B~er,IU Amelia R Kellar, Iud H B Brainerd, W S Adolphus Knopf, N Y James F Cooper, N Y Lawrence-- ---- Litehfield.~ Pa John Favlll, Ill Earl Lothrop, N Y ' AHee Hamilton, Mass Ellsabetb Lord Love, N J Frederick C Heckel, N Y Adolph Meyer, Yd Donald R Hooker, Yd OTHER PROREBBIOBALE Alice Stone BLaekweU, Mass Ernest Gruening, N Y EUsabeth Severn, N Y George Blumenthal, N Y Florence Bayard Hllles, DeL Mary Shaw, N Y James E Bmoks, N J Sindair Lewis, N Y Mrs Georglanna Tucker, N J Jwie P Condit, N J Judge Ben Lindaey, Colo Florem Guertin Tuttlc, N Y Herbert Cmly, N Y Owen Lmejoy, N Y Ruth Vin-t, Colo Prs Belle De Revera, N J Robert M Lovett, 1U Mrs Albert Walker, T~M Thendore Dreiser, Calif James Y Yanrer, Pa Mary Wtnsor, Pa LAY IEYBERB Prs Ernest R Adee, N Y Yrs Boyd Dudley, N Y Yrs Sindair Leals, N Y Yrs Oakes Amw, Yass Yrs Simeon Ford, N Y M rs Edward A Lingcnfelter, Iowa Rwmond H Arnold, Calif Yrs Kate Crane Garb Caw Yrs Stanley MeCormleL,N Y Mrs Robert Perkins Baas, N H Yrs Robert B Gregory, Ill Prs WILUam A MeGraw. MLb Yrs Wdter L Benson, I11 Miss Florence Halrey, N J Yrs L Ne-, Utah InJohn E Berrlnd. N Y Yrs H G Hlll,Wf Ym Endhuh, Pa Lowell Brentano, N Y Mrs Fenley Hu~ter,N Y Yrs C C Rumsey, N Y Yrs John Scott Bmwnlng, N Y Mrs William Swain James, W Mrs Homer St Gaudens, N H Yra W E Cannon, Mass Yrs Helen Hartley Jenkb. Conn. Yrs W F Spangler, Ind Mr and Yra Thomas L Cbadboumc, N Y Mrs PlemJay, N Y Yrs T J Swanton,N Y William Hamlin Cbllde, N Y Y rs Otto Kshn, N Y Yra Shelley Tolburst, Mf Mrs Stephen Clark, N Y Yrs W W Knapp,N Y Yrs J Bishop Vandever, N Y Yrs Frank I Cobb, N Y Mra Jamw Lk Laidlaw, N Y Mr8 Henry Vlllard, N Y Yrs John Dey, N J Mra Arthur L L.rrrnCG N Y Yrs Norman deR Whitehonue, N Y Yrs John Allen Dongberty, D C. Mrs Frank P Lea&, N Y Yrs Pope Yeatman, Pa TEN GOOD REASONSforBIRTH CONTROL Last month we gave Woman's Right as the first and most personal reason for Birth Control The Use of Harmless and Effectwe Mechan~calor Chemlcal Methods of Prevention, called Contraceptives This month we glve Reuson II-MARRIED LOVE Thrs rs the rtght of two, husband and wtfe, to learn to know each other, to hold and desrre each other's love and to lay the basts of mutual understandtng on whtch to found a home MARGARET SANGER SAYS - "Men and women have been endowed wrth th~sdynam~c energy, wh~chwe name passlon, for the roundlng out, the development, the fulfillmg and the beaut~ficatmnof theu nature3 Those who deny n expresston, who combat at, or who refuse to partlctpate m it, cut themselves off from the zest and the poetry of hfe "If the brrde 1s enforced Into an uuwrll~ngor acc~dentalpregnancy dur~ngthe honeymoon or the early stages of the11 manta1 love, the young husband 1s deprrved of the poswhle opportunrty of knowmg h~swlfe durlng one of the most lnterestlng stages of her development "It takes tune to arrlve at a full and sympathetic uuderstandmg of each other, and mutually to arrange llves to 1ncrea3c thls under standlng Out of the mutual adjustments, harmony must grow and d~rcordsgradually disappear These results cannot be obtamed ~f the problem of parenthood IS thrust upon the young husband and wrfe before they am splrltually and ecouom~callyprepared to meet ~t" HAVELOCK ELLIS SAYS - "Sexual pleasure, wlsely used and not abused, may prove the sttmulus and hberator of our finest and most exalted actlvmes It 1s largely thrs remarkable functton of sexual pleasure whlch IS dec~slvemsettlxng the argument of those who clam that contmence 1s the only alternatwe to the anrmal (procreatwe) end of marnage That argument xgnores the hberatmg and harmonmng ~nflucnces,g~v~ng wholesome balance and sanlty to the whole organom, Imparted by a sexual un~onwh~& 1s the outcome of the psych~cas well as phys~calneeds There IS, further In the analnment of thls spmtual end of marrlage much more than the benefit of each znd~v~dualseparately There 1s that 1s to say, the effect on the union ~tself For through barmon~oussex relat~onshrpsa deeper spmtual unlty 1s reached than can posslbly be denved from contlnence In or out of marnage, and the marrlage arooc~at~anbecomes an apter Instrument In the serv~ceof the world Apart from any sexual cravlng, the complete splrrtual contact of two persons aha love ecah other can only be attamed through some act of rare lntrmacy No act can be qwte so lntmate as the sexual embrace It 1s needless to lnslst how ~nt~matelythlr second end of marrlage 1s hound up wlth the practtce of Blrth Control LORD DAWSON SAYS - T2;y:l; "If you don't start llfe wlth a head of steam you wont get far Sex love has, apart from parenthood, a purport of m own It 13 somethmg to prtze and to chensh for ~tsown sake It IS an essent~alpart of health born chtldren at and happmesr In marnage If sexual unmn IS a grft of God, lt 1s worth learnlng how to use ~t Wlthln ~ts ts essenttal that own sphere rt should be cultivated so as to brrng physlcal sansfact~onto both, not merely to one The attarn ment of mutual and rec~procaljoy IU thelr relations const~tutea firm bond between two people, and makes for the functron of durabdlty of therr marrlage ue Reclproelty IU sex love 1s the physrcal counterpart of sympathy More mar motherhood rlages fad from Inadequate and clumsy sex love than from too much sex love The lack of proper under standrng 1s In no small measure respons~blefor the unfulfilmeut of connubial happiness, and every degree of dm should be ele- content and unhapprness may, from this cause, occur, leadlng to rupture of the marriage bond aself vated to a post- tron of drgntty WARNER FITE SAYS - and thrs 1s tmpos- "Among personal relat~onsnone rs more replete w~ths~gmficance than the sex relat~on,and none makes srble as long as a rlcher contrrbut~onto the content of hfe In any dtscussron of the ethm of Blrth Control, the rrghts of the marnage relat~onas an end In rtself are bound to bold a central posltron And ~f marrlage 1s to he regarded conceptron re- as an end, and not merely as a means ~t seems to me that the conclur~on1s obvlous as an end important In marns a matter of ~tself,marrrage should represent a cbolce unencumbered, as far ar poss~ble by extraneous obhgatlons, and thls means that, wlth~nthe l~mltsof health and safety, we are just~fiedIn employing all the resources of knowl chance edge to render marrtage ferule or ~nfertde,as those In questron may see fit" Declaration of Prlncrples of OLIVE SCHREINER SAYS - Amerlcan Blrth 'I would base all my sex teachlng to chlldren and young people on the beauty and sacredness of sex Sex Control League mtercourse 1s the great sacrament of hfe he that eateth and drmketh unworthdy eateth and drmketh hlo ow; damnatmn but at may be the most beautiful sacrzment between two souls who have no thought of chddren VOL XI1 FEBRUARY, 1928 No 2 (Cogynghf 1928, Amerrcan Bwlh Control hagut, Inc ) CONTENTS OUR CONTMBUTORS HAMILTON FYFE, an Engluh purnalwt and edt EDITORIAL tonal mter, dramatw cntrc and r-er, w POEMS, by RaIflh Chtyney 39 author of books on polrt,cal queatwma, plays, and volumes of cntrcrsm HAVELOCK ELLIS As a Prophet, by Hamlon Fyfe 4a HUGH DE SELINCOURT, Engluh mveht and The Lrght of Understandmg, by Hugh de Lhncourt 41 cntw, w author of "One Little Boy" (A and C HIS Aid to Psycho analyrra, by Gertrude Donrger 43 Bow, N Y) The Phyarc~an,by Hoprrlon Prlerson 44 Some Rernmlscencer, by Perczoal Chubb 45 GERTRUDE DONIGER ia a student of rocwbgg A Trlbute, by George Setbe1 47 and psychology She w nao morkwq mth one of A Tnbute, by Waldo Frank 48 the great Amencan psycho-a&ta SPEAKING OF THE CONFERENCE, by Abraham PERCIVAL CHUBB w an educator, lecturer, and Stone, M D 48 leader of the St Lmw Ethwal Cdture Soelety MARGARET SANGER COMES TO BERLIN, by Agnes Smedley 50 GEORGE SEIBEL w lsterary and dramatlc edttor of the Psttsburg SwTelegraph HEARTFELT APPRECIATION, edited by Mary Pokrnss 52 BOOK REVIEWS 55 AGNES SMEDLEY, an Amencan teachcng tn Ber- h,was actme rn the early days of the Bwth MARRIAGE IN THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE, by Control Mmement tn New York Csty Haorlock Ellts (from The Forum) 58 THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN FLOYD DELL, author of many novel, the latest of BIRTH CONTROL LEAGUE 60 whcch as