Today -100: February 18, 1922: Of wars of aggression and dishwashing

Japan bars Margaret Sanger, who was intending to lecture there on birth control, from entering the country. Sanger says Japan is badly over-populated and unless it introduces “a scientific limitation of her population increase... I can see nothing but a war of aggression that must come inevitably within the next 20 or 25 years.” She was warned of this future war of aggression by the head of the Dept of Medical Affairs in the Japanese government.

Two women on the Three Oaks, Michigan City Council resign, saying they’d “rather wash dishes than argue over a paving contract”.

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