Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-17

to be a safe cure against the dangers
of contagion 1t should be given at an
age before exposure is likely to take
place"
He further very pertinently remarks:
"It is the province of the clergy and
public teachers to educate the public
conscience and to inform public sem
timent in all matters relating TO
morals. All moral teachings which in
culcate self control, personal purity.
reverence for women and respect for
the dignity and sacredness of marriage
are conducive to the object in view.
It may be question, however,
whether the education of the morals
of young men. with special reference
to the promotion of masculine chastity
and preservation from the peculiar
dangers that beset their pathway in
life has received adequate at
tention from religious leaders.
CRTTICIsE CLERGY
with a few notable exceptions the
clergy may be justly criticised for
their indisposition to touch upon the
social evil. The clergy are too
prone to accept the archaic theory of
the moral etiology of venereal disease.
1t must not be forgotten that
disease contracted in immoral rela-
tions often poisons legitimate unions
and the punishment falls most heavily
upon the innocent"
After all other teachers have done
their part in this educating process
there remains one more powerful and
potent than any other-the press-the
great daily newspapers in which are
mirrored the worlds work from day
to day.
Where one man reads a book five
thousand men read a newspaper. How
important then that the men in charge
of these great public educators should
adhere to the following resolution
passed by the National Editorial as
sociation some years ago:
"Resolved, That the National Edi-
torial association of the United States
earnestly sympathizes with the wom-
ans movement for the promotion OF
purity in literature and art, as tend
ing to maintain the moral standard
and endeavoring to realize the prime
object of the press-the elevation and
betterment of humanity intellectually,
morally and socially; for the suppress
sion of sensationalism, cruel person.
alities and immoral details in the re-
ports of vice and crime, which tend
only to degrade the moral standard
of the community, often melting to
the re-enactment of the horrors thus
depicted; and that we will further en-
deavor to make the press one of the
truest and best friends Of humanity by
refusing space to alf questionable and
impure advertising, also excluding
from our writings and doings the un-
truths and half truths which are often
more dangerous and often have more
of poison than unmasked vice, be-
cause of the pure alloy which pro-
notes their circulation"
The international League of Press
Clubs have reaffirmed the action of
the National Editorial association, also
passing the following:
"Realizing the important place the
press assumes as one of the great
educational influences of the day,
"Resolved, That it shall be our
earnest effort in the future, as it has
been in the past, to assist the guar
dians Of the home in their endeavor
to send forth from thence such citizens
as will guide and guard the best in
terests of the fireside in every land;
as tending to the uplift of humanity.
which leads at last to peace, purity
and truth"