The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda

As an advocate of Birth Control, I wish to take advantage of the present opportunity to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the"unfit" and the" fit," admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation to the mentally and physically fit though less fertile parents of the educated and well to-do classes. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the overfertility of the mentally and physically defective. (p. 1)