Monday, May. 25, 1931
Common Practice
Last week the personification of Birth Control visited Georgia. Mrs. Margaret Sanger arrived in Atlanta to argue her cause. Up to debate with her arose lean-faced, white-haired Richard Brevard Russell, 70-year-old Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and father of 18 children.
Judge Russell's son and namesake is Governor-elect of Georgia. Declared the tobacco-chewing jurist, who still works on the State road for fun:
"Everyone in Georgia who needs to know about birth control already knows it. Furthermore its practice is common. Otherwise, how would the State have lost two Congressmen as a result of the last census? It's not the self-sacrificing, home-loving, man-making woman who wants birth control but the so-called ladies who want to attend the theatre and the club instead of staying at home caring for their children. . . . Birth control matter is cesspool literature and I don't want the mails in my State opened to injurious matter to be placed before the immature minds in the home. . . . When I face God at the Judgment Day I will be able to tell Him that, whatever shortcoming I may have had, I have at least obeyed His commandments about producing children."
Retorted Mrs. Sanger: "Absurd!"
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