Advocates of birth control say that Holland has had a Neomalthusian League openly operative since 1881, with fifty-two clinics where contraceptive information is publicly given. As a direct consequence, and solely from the work of this League, Holland has a dropping death rate and an increase in population, and even the stature of the Dutch has increased four inches since 1881. The main objection to these statements about Holland is that they are absolutely false in every particular except that the population of Holland has increased--from other causes. Before the great war every civilized nation had a dropping death rate and an increase in population except France where birth control worked against the increase made by the progress of preventive medicine and a diffusion of sanitary methods. The assertion about the fifty-two clinics in Holland was investigated. An army officer sent out by the committee searched fourteen days before he could find even one secret birth control propaganda station. The present prime minister of Holland, de Beerenbrouk, is an earnest Catholic man, and if anyone talks birth control in Holland during his administration he guarantees them a long term in jail. There was really a Neomalthusian League with 6,704 members, now greatly decreased in number, in the northern Protestant provinces of Holland. As a matter of fact just where this league exists the birth rate decreased and the death rate increased and where it did not exist the direct opposite is true. As to the increase of four inches in stature--since this is a physical impossibility the spinner of the original yarn was an ignorant romancer, lacking plausibility in his untruth. Where there is birth control there are no children to increase or maintain the population, but the New York birth controller who invented the Dutch story says that in Holland where there are no children born through birth control the population increases through birth control.