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Show BIRTH CONTROL GAINS IN JAPAN i ' 'if Nippon May Seek Lessening Lessen-ing of Restrictions to Solve Problem BY NORMAN II MATSON 6poolal Corrospondchf f The Stand ru-ISxaminer. (Copyright, 1922, by Tha Btandjtrd-Exnnilncr Btandjtrd-Exnnilncr ) LONDON. July 2M will deliberate, scientific restrictions of "immigration irom heaven" solve the problem p.c tufesquely labelled the ' 3 allow Peril ? ' The world's leading propagandists t such rc'strlctlona Lhlnk ao and Baron Kelklchl shlmoto, a prominent Japanese Jap-anese liberal, nasurod mc thai no country coun-try is so ready to accept family limitation limi-tation propaganda as lu own. Japan lias outgrown her territory; she must cut down her birth rate. Because t)ii Is quite generally understood and because the literacy average l. high. Baron Ishiniotu said lie was confident thai l)lih control must be. o'ma popular. popu-lar. A falling birth rate, he said, would prove this in tho next few years. The fifth intornation.il birth -..ntr-d conferem . held in Ixindon and attended at-tended by delegates from most of the countries of Europe, the Orient nd America, dedided to hold the Qexl international in-ternational conference In Portland, Oregon. In 1926. It was agreed thai this city was the moat central nieet-i nieet-i UK point now tint the propaganda irunt has swung to Hn Far Cast and the United States, in Portland (un- I , P less thai city dtM lies that It can Ct i j through without such a convention) emphasis will he placed upon urgent I 'I necessity ot lUd'lclng the Asiatic birth ( I rate by peaceful means, and upon the . j "necessity of getting American lawsP j' ' against open birth control propaganda! iwmmUiI opposition i,iv'.:. j In the conference hex- h i-,:ate From Scnr.danavla. Holland, Germany I Austria, Franco and Japan reported rapid spread of knowledge or" the Subject and constantly lessening of Official Of-ficial opposition. In England the birth control una ceased to be a "controversial "con-troversial sbjoct." if the government does not encourage the propaganda It ,ir.', , does not interfere with it. The par liaments of Austria and German are now considering legislation that would i remove the last restrictions; tho French birth rate Is eloquent in a word, the delegates pointed out, is no major countrj arc restrictions so severe se-vere as in the United States ! roni now until the international conference In Portland three years h-. nco the American group proposes according ' to Mrs Margaret Sanger to Intensify its campaign. "Passive ' tactics falling there, is to he resort in militancy. Of the American wonv n delegates that came to London from the L'nited States, the great majority were veterans of the suffrage campaign, cam-paign, They picketed in Washington many of them wnl to jail and hunger-struck. hunger-struck. They th-nk those method- . fr fectivc and are ready, If not rather unxious. to try then- again, MH.ITW PR1 ! I NT Among the militant euffrageta who 1 1 attendee the conference were: Mrs 1 tScorge 11. Day, Sr., of Hartford, Connld Mrs. Clara Louise Rowe. New York; Mrs. ntls Skinner Nw York Mrs. Anne Kennedy, New x jtk Miss France Jol-liffe. Jol-liffe. San Francisco; Mts. Walter M . Xewkirk. PhiladOipnla; Mrs. Kulil-.v j) i New Yorit. So much for birth control. Bur ju it now Englishmen are interested in wireless control. W irri, emh;: have read of ih growing popularity ' a' 'listening in" in the United States with no Utile envy and frankly word . criticism of the government delays A that deprive thSci -f the air: Already ihouiands of American and Fr. n li aets have been "old in this country, onie purchasers oi thce are wond t-Ing t-Ing if they will be forced to throw them away and buy British made apparatus ap-paratus It Is understood that the postmaster general, acting on instruc-;k instruc-;k tlons of the cabinet, hos decided to protect British ma nujact u re rs by presenting pre-senting the Importation of foreign made sets. BBI I l-.t. 1 T E x PEN SI I The manufacturers de lared son? lime ago that their one chance of profiting prof-iting from condurtlng broadcast in' Nations would bo by selling listi nlnr: in sets. The British article is deci. i ly more expensive than that made In America and France and German prices, are of course, lowest of all. The British set that sells for 126 U no better than the Set sold In th United States for $6. Godfrey Isaac, managing director of the Marconi Wirclsjsfl Tel.graph company, sums up the situation: CASK OF PRO! EOTION ,;Thc case for the protection of the 'ndustry can be put In a sentence '.Uhcr the production of sets for wireless wire-less broadcasting will be protecte I Tom foreign competition, or lh manufacturers man-ufacturers will ni be abb- to ostnl-Uh bioadcasrin stations. Unless broad-! broad-! astlng station- are e.-dbllsln d no on-will on-will want to buy wireless sets for there will be little or nothing to listen to. It will cost over $1,000 000 a y.-ai o maintain broadrastinr stations The market must hi protected against thi flood of German and American sets which are waiting to come in Thi-. Is not a question of ordinarv tariffs The wireless industry is quite a n w one working unde( unusual conditions The British firms will have to c,,,, , ,j heir capital in -,-.-. .tine the dem.lM, tor sets The cahi.)ct decision. If confirmed, con-firmed, means that stallons will be erected shortly and broadcasting will beKln In enrm.vt It WHI mean employment em-ployment of thousands of m.n and women' wo-men' it la supposed that the Importation of sets will be prevent d by a oost-master oost-master general to Issue listen in 11-eenses 11-eenses except to those USlhg British apparatus Those who alreadv have bought foreign sets are wondering ll any provision Is to he made ,-,. |