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2c 2c LAST EDITION LITTLER CALLS I. C. DEAL "A STEAL" THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL.6, NO. 78 Chicago, Friday, December 29, 1916 398ga SEX IGNORANCE CALLED MENACE OF POOR BY JUDGE StELK Boosts Birth Control Knocks Big Poverty-stricken pamilies Claims Poor Should Be Taught Pre ventatives -Shocks Ladies in Woman's Club Speech. ' Society ladles are talking about it by the thousands today. A perfect roar of gossip was passed around last night Because she never ex pected to see it in print, nearly every iady who was present at the Qhicago Woman's club yesterday, when Judge John Stelk ripped the lid off this birth control business, made it her busi ness to tell h$r iriehds. Of course, they whispered it You; know this birth control stuff js to be blushed at by ladies; but they whis pered it because "no newspaper would ever dare to print the truth" about the talk of the judge, who ia also a man. Stelk laid aside the clammy robes of law yesterday and pitched, in as a husky human with -six growing kids,