Foreign News: At Least One Child

Miss Charmion von Wiegand, only daughter of famed Karl H. von Wiegand and, like her sire, a Hearst correspondent, reported last week from Moscow:

"It is to be noted that the average Russian woman, though the state does not demand she have any children, and means to prevent maternity are at her disposal every hour of the day, usually has at least one child."

In the early days of the Soviet regime the mortality among women undergoing in the State hospitals what would be in other countries "illegal operations" averaged 32%. Thirteen years of...

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