Show progress of the birth control bill seen en IYA WV 0 Arti TO Q MEMBERS of the judiciary com of tile the senate and house were deluged with letters from all parts of the country urging favorable action on kissel bill pro posed by the voluntary parenthood league for the purpose of removing from the old anthony comstock law of 1873 the prohibition against circulation cul cu tion of contraceptive information the pending IIII bill Is known no as the birth control bill billj contrary to general expectations organized opposition has not level devel ped aped according to its apons sponsors ors who say the appeal for its adoption Is growing steadily senator cummins rep la in and representative kissel rep N Y who introduced tile bills have ived only one adverse letter each up to the present the protest to senator cummins carne came from john sumner simmer successor to I 1 anthany comstock as aa head of the new york society for suppression of vice comstock dom initiated the old statute which the cummins kissel bill would amend by taking out tile the words I 1 eliat th at prohibit circulation of scientific knowledge knoy ledge as to the control of conception cep tion although the birth control advocates finally have succeeded in getting the bill before congress there Is a demonstration I 1 on ton of official timidity there therb in dealing with this vexatious social issue fri which multitudes of people are deeply interested there Is a washington office in charge of energetic and zealous advocates there Is a campaign paper called tile the birth control herald which Is 16 described us the official organ of the I 1 eague ue izi i Z |