Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17
w. G.. T. u. Department
BY 1NLIA A. GARRISON

While the entire work of the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance union is for
the upllft of the race it is done in
a systematic manner through different
departments, each of which is under
the management of a superintendent
WhO is a specialist in her particular
field of labor. In previous articles many
of these departments have been pre-
sented, but at this time with the COM
ing of the purity workers of the Ma
tional league to Los Angeles, 1t is ap-
propriate to present the work or the
w. c. Z. u. through its department OF
purity. 1t is the aim of this department
to teach the principles of pure living,
and the results of impurity; to awaken
parents to the necessity of the wise
enlightenment of children in the home,
and their preparation for the RESPONSE
bilities of parenthood; to arouse pas
tors, Sunday school teachers and moral
leaders to the need for purity instruc-
ton; to assist teachers in solving the
moral problems of the school room; TO
give to young people ideals of purity
which shall protect and uplift them
and thus raise the moral tone of the
nation. 1t includes general purity
work, white shield and white cross So
cieties and work il the public schools
FOR SINGLE MORALS STANDARD
The women of the w. C. T. U. have
steadily associated a single standard
of morals for men and women ana eA-
posed the fallacy and injustice of con-
doning immortality in males and con-
demning it in females The evils arls-
ing from the double code OF morals are
destructive of the home and natlonal
life. They result in untold suffering
and misery from the social diseases
which are brought into homes and from
which innocent wives and children are
sent to untimely graves, or doomed TO
lives of pain in disease infected podles'
OF the thousands Of cases OF blindness
in this country at least one-flfth pc
came blind at birth through Infection
of the ewes with the venereal diseases
of the parents. AS a prolific cause OF
divorce it leads all others, although
divorce records show many times
"cr1eltv" and "desertion" only as
grounds of complaint.
In these days when the white Save
traffic" is being ventilated in popular
magazines and daily papers in all its
hideousness and brutality it would
seem that any movement toward the
destruction of such awful conditions
would he most thankfully and cordlal-
Iv welcomed by every father ana
mother in the land. Abraham Lincoln
said: "Public sentiment is everything
With public sentiment noInlnB can AaiA'
without it nothing can succeed.
MUST ENLIGHTEN PUBLIC
To create public sentiment in favor
of any reform the people must be en-
lightened. President Charles w. Ellot
of Harvard university says:
"In my opinion The social evlls anu
diseases incident thereto ought TO De
publicly discussed, that feasible rem
edies may be decided on and appIleu:
I am entirely convinced the pohcy OF
silence upon these subjects has faliea
disastrously. Another subject whlcn
ought to be publicly discussed among
teachers and parents is the addltlon 10
our school programs of Instructions
in normal reproduction in plants anu
animals, sexual hygiene in the human
species, and the horrors OF seNuai
Dr. Prince A. Morrow one OF New New
York City's most eminent phylsslciIsan4s
and president of the American o9ciety ,
of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxxiils,
saws: sTn the writer's opinion the
most efficacious means of checking the
causes a of social evil lie in the moral
and hygienic education OF the rlsins y
eeneration. If this instruction is