We beg to remain, Sir, Your humble servants, (Signed by): Percy Ames, L.D., F.S.A., Sec., Roy. Soc. Liter., London William Archer, Dramatic critic and author Lena Ashwell, Actress Manager Arnold Bennett, Author and Dramatist Edward Carpenter, Author of “Towards Democracy,” etc. Aylmer Maude, Author of “Life of Tolstoy” Gilbert Murray, M.A. Oxford, LL.D. Glasgow, D.Litt. Prof. Greek, Oxford Marie C. Stopes, D.Sc., Ph.D., Fellow and Lecturer, U. Coll., London H. G. Wells, B.Sc., J.P., Novelist. In this connection it may be added that the nine Federal indictments against Mrs. Sanger were presently dropped. Whether it was due in part to the weight of such messages as this, is not definitely known. But the fact remains that the prosecution for the most forthright, intentional and wholesale defiance of the Federal law that had ever been undertaken up to date was not carried through to a conclusion. A fair interpretation of this act would seem to be that the government itself did not deem the Comstock laws in this regard, as worth enforcing. CHAPTER II BEATING AROUND THE BUSH WITH STATE LEGISLATION _Interest caused by Mrs. Sanger’s arrest caused much activity despite war-time conditions: First repeal bill initiated by National Birth Control League in New York Legislature: Law makers mostly in favor privately, but publicly opposed or evasive: Dr. Hilda Noyes’s experiment in New York village proving that ordinary people want laws changed: Legislator justifies State repressive laws so long as Federal law stands as example: Bills introduced in New York, California, New Jersey and Connecticut: The “doctors only” type of bill appears: Further limitations: Efforts toward freedom stimulate reaction toward stiffer repression in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Virginia: All fail: Fallacy that limited bills win legislators more than freedom bills._