Birth Controllers Demobilized

Having, after 21 years of aggressive propaganda, persuaded Federal courts that it is not illegal to import, sell, ship or mail contraceptive articles "which might intelligently be employed by conscientious and competent physicians for the purpose of saving life or promoting the well-being of their patients," and

Having inched the American Medical Association into a position where doctors could see the prudence of recommending the teaching of contraception in medical schools, and of investigating the materials, devices and methods of the art of birth control (TIME, June 21),

Therefore last week the founder of the birth control movement, Mrs. Margaret (Higgins) Sanger (Slee), 53, greying and happy, did demobilize her squad of lobbyists called the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, Inc.

Indifferent to the anxieties of druggists who fear that doctors will take control of the $575,000,000 contraceptive business away from them, Mrs. Sanger, exultantly crying, "Here comes the future full of hope and challenge," plans to intensify the work of the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan, convert the rest of the world to Birth Control.

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