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“At the Second Asian Population 
Conference in Tokyo last Novem- 
ber, the United States joined 22 
other countries in calling on gov- 
ernments to establish goals and 
programs for effectively controlling 
population growth, and to provide 
family planning information, edu- 
cation, and services to all their 
citizens as soon as possible. 
“In order to focus international 
attention on the vital problem of 
world population growth, the Unit- 
ed Nations has designated next 
year as World Population Year. 
The United States will cooperate 
fully with the United Nations in 
observing the year and working 
to make the World Population Con- 
ference a success. It is imperative 
that the nations of the world reach 
agreement on means dealing effec- 
tively with this global problem.” 
Up to April 1973, 63 countries 
have contributed funds to the UN 
Fund for Population Activities. 
Where mass media alone cannot 
reach the majority of the popula- 
tion, traditional local art forms will 
be used. In the Carribean, for ex- 
ample, calypso and other tradition- 
al entertainment forms will be 
used, 
We have come a long, long way 
from the days of Margaret Sanger, 
a red-headed nurse, who in 1912 
decided to fight the Comstock 
laws, which made the release of 
contraceptive information a federal 
offense. “Open war’ was declared 
against her by the New York Police 
Department on orders from clerics, 
and one of her public meetings was 
closed in 1921. Emily Taft Douglas, 
a former Illinois congresswoman 
has written her biography. In 1936, 
the United States Court of Appeals 
pulled the teeth of the last of the 
Comstock laws. 
The full text of the report of the 
President’s Commission on Popu- 
lation Growth and the American 
Future is available through the 
New American Library in the Sig- 
net edition. It has had a run of 
over 200,000 copies. The GPO has 
published 15,000 copies and is due 
for a second printing. On March 
16, 1973, the Department of Health, 
Education and Welfare, under Cas- 
par W. Weinberger, killed plans to 
distribute a film on the subject on 
orders of the White House. HEW 
had formerly undertaken to dis- 
tribute 100 copies of the film on a 
free-loan basis. HEW had received 
841 requests for the film when they 
cancelled plans for distribution 
(with an inadequate explanation). 
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of the Society’s programs which see now support through your 
membership. 
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Society, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Ill. 60605, 
and/or 1017 Burlington Ave., 
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