We talk in the eugenics movement of coercive legislation, of sterilization, of segregation, and of the regulation of the marriage laws; but here is a case where the individuals themselves, many inferior individuals say, “I won’t have this child if you will show me how not to have it.” So I urge you not to continue the present law, which will mean absolutely and certainly a large continued contribution of inferiors to our stock. Gentlemen, this is an urgent matter. If you let this go over for two years, into the next Congress, you are bringing on a very large number of inferior births that can be avoided. You know the number that are concerned in the immigration bill now pending—367,000 a year; 367,000 a year is no more than you are dealing with here. Now, do you deliberately want to add to the American people 367,000 individuals, we will say roughly, who will be, on the average, inferior? _Mr. Hersey_: How do you prevent that—how does this bill prevent that? _Mr. Johnson_: This bill will make it possible for individuals who have difficulty in getting access to efficient birth-control literature to get it. At present 80 per cent of the married women are trying one way or the other to achieve birth control. The less-informed women are blundering along with inadequate methods that they employ for lack of better, but which they can not rely on. Therefore by throwing open the distribution of literature, putting this on a scientific basis, like any other science, anybody can go and get material from authoritative sources and thus make it possible for the individual of limited opportunities to get that reliable information. _Mr. Hersey_: Do you not think that that information, if admitted, would be found by the bad stock and good stock just the same? _Mr. Johnson_: Yes. _Mr. Hersey_: And are you not getting the proportion of good stock really lower by this method instead of increasing it? _Mr. Johnson_: No; I do not admit that. Take Wellesley graduates, for instance. Their birth rate is already very low. The existence of birth-control methods has already had its effect. The scientific group as a whole knows now relatively reliable methods. What we plead for is their improvement and equalization of methods throughout the population. The American stock is getting worse to-day, in my opinion, and that is a very serious thing. But in view of the great disparity in birth rates which we have relatively between the superior and inferior stock— _Mr. Hersey_ (interposing): I want to know the practical side. You claim this bill will increase the population in the matter of superior stock and decrease it in the matter of inferior stock. Now, how can you accomplish this by this bill?