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: im nnwifciiiJ woman, breed and bring to the day light of Chicago three times as many babies as the women of the rich and well-to-do class. "I am getting the figures on Chi cago," said Mrs. Sanger to a Day Book reporter at Congress hotel today. "And I am sure that the showing in Chicago will be much the same as that of Paris and of Berlin. "The women on the fashionable Lake Shore drive have the money to pay physicians to tell the growing daughters, young married women, how to take care of themselves. They know how to stop babies from com ing when babies are not wanted. Skilled physicians give these women this knowledge on how to stop the babies from coming. "In the stockyards district, or any other swarming working class dis trict, babies and babies come and these babies are not welcome. They arrive because the mothers don't have the same knowledge as the women on the Lake Shore drive. "A survey in Paris showed 32 births per 1,000 among women in a resi dential district of rich. In a poor working class district, a typical one, the birth rate was 116 per 1,000. "In Berlin the rate was 47 per 1,000 among well-to-do women and 157 per 1,000 among the poor. - Mrs. Sanger lectures Sunday night in Little theater, Fine Arts bldg. Her secretary, Fania Mendel, said today that all seats have been sold, with more calls coming, and the lecture may be given in Assembly hall, Fine Arts bldg. Several hundred were turned away at the lecture Tuesday night in Workers' Institute. The big main proposition she stands for is that working class wom en should have the same information about birth control, regulation of the number of children to a family, that rich women now have. The Sanger woman was a trained nurse 14 years in obstetric cases and personally served mothers in several thousand births. She is herself the 1 mother of two superb children, and has won her way against terrific op position by force of an unusual per sonality. "Of course, it is not pleasant for some girls to face the facts of birth control," she said. "But I would urge upon any wife of an underpaid ma chance that it is far more unpleasant for her to find herself years later burdened down with half a dozen children she never wisher for, help less, starved, shoddily clothed chil dren dragging at her skirts, and she only a dragged-out shadow of the woman she once was. "Women of the working class, es pecially wage workers, should not have more than two children at the most. The average workingman can support no more and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion. "It has been my experience that more children are not really wanted, but that the women are compelled to have them either from lack of fore sight or through ignorance of the hygiene of preventing conception. "It is only the workers who are ignorant of the knowledge of how to prevent bringing children into the world to fill the hospitals and jails, factories and mills, insane asylums and premature graves. "The working class can use direct action by refusing to supply the labor market with children to be exploit ed, by refusing to populate the earth with slaves." SCOTT AND FUNSTON TO MEET OBREGON SATURDAY El Paso, April 27. The Scott Obregon conference regarding the future of the American expedition in Mexico will be held in El Paso or Juarez, probably opening Saturday, it was learned from official sources here today. o o Ottawa, Ont Fire in Central Military stores last night $5,000 damage.