Defeat

Often seen but seldom heard about the Capitol is Representative Walter Marcus Pierce. He frequently sits in the front row of the House with a heavy gold watch chain garlanded across what, in the days of Roosevelt I, would have been jocularly called his bay window. Formerly he was Governor of Oregon. His present wife and secretary is Oregon's former State Librarian. At 73, he is slightly deaf and his voice quavers, but he has a great air of wisdom. He also has six children (by his first wife) and he is Congress' chief advocate of permitting the dissemination of birth control information. Last week on the 21st anniversary of the birth control movement, the Judiciary Committee of the House by vote of 15-to-8 killed his birth control bill. He shook his head in grief, refused to say what his next move would be. Wags suggested a processing tax. Margaret Sanger, however, refused to let her anniversary be spoiled by merely one more defeat. She celebrated anyhow..

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