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maintain a proper standard of living. This 

 will be of interest to the advocates of birth con- 

 trol, and certainly, as far as the married among 

 the very poor are concerned, there is much to 

 be said in its favor. There is nothing admira- 

 ble in bringing forth children who are born to 

 suffering and only destined to fill our hospitals 

 and asylums, whose emaciated little bodies 

 soon find fortunate rest in Potter's field. This 

 is not so much race suicide as race homicide. 



