280 Birth Control - Its Meaning All of which should very greatly help modern husbands and wives to a better and saner sex relation. Sterilization of the Unfit There is a method, developed some years ago, by Dr. Harry C. Sharpe, and used by him in the Indiana Reformatory, that offers an ideal solution to the problem of propagation by the unfit. It merely means that the man or woman, by an exceedingly simple operation in the case of the man, and by a relatively simple operation in the case of the woman, is rendered sterile. Dr. Sharpe says: "Since October, 1899, I have been performing an operation known as vasectomy, which consists of ligating and resecting a small portion of the vas deferens. This operation is very simple and easy to perform. I do it without administering an anesthetic either general or local. It requires about three minutes' time to perform the operation and the subject returns to his work immediately, suffering no inconvenience, and is in no way hampered in his pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, but is effectively sterilized. I have been doing this operation for over nine years. I have 456 cases that have afforded splendid opportunity for post-operative observation and I have never seen any unfavorable symptoms. There is no atrophy of the testicle, no systic degeneration, no disturbed mental or nervous condition following, but, on the contrary, the patient becomes of a more sunny disposition, brighter of intellect, ceases excessive masturbation, and advises his fellows to submit to the operation for their own good. And this is the point in which this method of preventing procreation is so infinitely superior to all others propsed - that it is endorsed by the persons subjected to it. All the other methods proposed place restrictions and therefore, punishment on the subject; this method absolutely does not. "After observing nearly five hundred males in whom I had severed the vas deferens, I am prepared to state that there is not only a diminution of the muscular and nervous fatigue resulting from muscular exertion, but also a lessening of fatigue