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(I NOON EDITION ONE CENT BASEBALL- CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED INSIDE OPEN NEW HOSPITAL FOR VICTIMS OF DOPE FORMER RUSSIAN PREMIER IS DEAD M THE DAY BOOK .An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 4, NO. 141 Chicago, Saturday, March 13, 1915 3! I "WOMAN REBEL" SET AGAINST POOR PEOPLE HAVING LARGE FAMILIES She Tells Poor Folks How to Avoid Too Many Children -Husband Arrested for Circulating Her Works' Now She's Coming From England to Save Him. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH New York, March 13v This is a free country, enlightened by a free press. Yet in this free country no single newspaper belonging to its free press has dared to tell the public about the case of William Sanger and his wife Margaret, who calls herself "The Woman Rebel." I am going to write it, and if it reaches you you will know that at least one paper in the United States is the possessor of its own soul To begin with, the Sangera are both of them lawbreakers as the law stands today in the United States, and you may approve of the law they broke and think perhaps that they should be punishes But if you are a husbaat'aad have a wife you love or if yJSare a woman who cares for her'u&feand your whole being will protest against the bringing of a fugitive from justice back within the jurisdiction of the law by torture of the loved one left behind. And that is what the state of New York has undertaken to do to Margaret Sanger by her arrest and threatened imprisonment of her hus band. And that is what it nas succeeded in doing? For Margaret Sanger tor tured by her husband's arrest as the result of her lawbreaking, is coming back from England. Margaret Sanger is a highly intelli gent woman, a trained nurse, who three years ago made up her mind (Ufc ifrrtftortfii r,H