Now here is help. (It makes my blood boil that your doctor should have been so helpless when you took your problem to him, but there is no use berating him, for it is probably not wholly his fault that he knows so little on this subject. The laws won’t let him study the matter.) I am sending you a wonderfully clear explicit pamphlet which tells the best and simplest methods for regulating conception. It is written by Doctor —— who has made a business of studying this problem, law or no law, for over twenty-five years. The methods recommended in it are practically the same as those taught by the best authorities abroad. I am not stopping to tell you how I got the pamphlet. But I was a “criminal” according to our State law when I got it. And I am a “criminal” again according to Federal law, now that I am mailing it to you. But I am willing to be that kind of a criminal a thousand times over if only I can at this late date make up for letting you go so long uninformed, and if only I can now put your poor tormented mind at rest. With boundless love, MOTHER. For writing such a letter and for sending the pamphlet to which it refers, this mother could be sent to jail for five years and fined $5000. That she would not be discovered is probable. It is also likely that if discovered she would not be indicted. But that would be due, not to the law but merely to the fact that the authorities are almost wholly negligent in enforcing the law. The Federal law makes no exceptions whatever. It is a crime for any one, even for the best of reasons and in the greatest need, to send or to receive by mail anything that tells “where, how or of whom” information may be secured as to how conception may be controlled. The number of unarrested “criminals” of the type of this mother is beyond knowledge or computation, but they are everywhere. Many of them could not tell exactly what the law is. They simply know that the whole subject is under a cloud, that doctors are mostly unsatisfactory when asked for instructions, and that whatever one learns has to be learned secretly. Here is another kind of letter which it would be a crime to mail. A Philadelphia physician writes to an Iowa physician: DEAR DOCTOR: