United States Children's Bureau

Lest I be accused of bias and exaggeration in drawing my conclusions from these painful human documents, I prefer to present a number of typical cases recorded in the reports of the United States government and in the evidence of trained and impartial investigators of social agencies more generally opposed to the doctrine of birth control than biased in favor of it.

A perusal of the reports on infant mortality in widely varying industrial centers of the United States, published during the past decade by the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, forces us to a realization of the immediate need of detailed statistics concerning the practice and results of uncontrolled breeding.

Some such effort as this has been made by the Galton Laboratory of National Eugenics in Great Britain.

The Children's Bureau reports only incidentally present this impressive evidence.

They fail to coordinate it.

While there is always the danger of drawing giant conclusions from pygmy premises, here is overwhelming evidence concerning irresponsible parenthood that is ignored by governmental and social agencies.

On account of the many children she had had, the neighbors consider her an authority on baby care.

Lest this case be considered too tragically ridiculous to be accepted as typical, the reader may verify it with an almost interminable list of similar cases.