Those who rant against socialism and the insubordination of the working classes, and who spend large sums of money in a vain endeavor to keep these less fortunate individuals from rising against wealth, would do better if they spent that money in preaching against too many children and in teaching men and women how to limit their families to their means. If the poor were not largely sex-ignorant, and were not over-ridden by religious superstition, they would not have such families, and would stand some chance of improving their condition. A working man with a dozen children stands very little chance of raising himself out of the squalor in which he was born. Give the same man one or two children, and his energies could be spent in learning more, in rising, instead of in the everlasting enervating struggle for enough bread to feed the too-profuse mouths. The children would have a greater chance. Two children put through high school are infinitely more valuable to the state and the family than a dozen who are forced into sweat shops before they are old enough to leave off playing dolls. Here is where the women of today may help. Those who give an intelligent interest to politics can, if they will, help the passage of bills that will allow for sex education, and that will teach families not to have more children than they can decently support. The general idea that all women want children is an absurd fallacy. Most women have them because they do not know how to prevent it. Certainly, the average man, given his choice, would not elect to have a number of children, so that he could have the privilege of slaving away his days to feed them. Nor need the pessimists fear that this will lead to race suicide. The average couple is glad enough to have two or three children, provided they can support them adequately. If some of the economic load of the present were lifted by a wise state legislation, most married persons would be glad to raise a small family. It is the strain of too many children that wears out the parents, and that reduces each child’s chance for a happy, useful life.