Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-22

possible through the crusade against
infectious diseases inaugurated Dy the
medical profes sion. and in which the
educators of the different states and
nations have been very able and WILL
ing knights.
DEVELOPMENTS have been very rap
id. One has followed close on the
heels of another. Magazines have
taken up the matter and many OF
them are calling a spade, a spade.
Our educators feel that the subject,
if anything, is being pushed too last
and that they must meet 1t before
too many of our very young receive
wrong impressions.
Moral prophylaxis is the means OF
preventing immortality. We are all
agreed that moral prophylaxis is edu-
cation. The place where we diner
is in the when, where and how this
education should be given. Education
IS very different today than when l
went to school. There is more to ap-
peal to the emotions-theatres, NOV
ing pictures, magazines and advertis-
ing material-all that cultivates the
imagination and emotions.
Some communities believe in the
education of the masses and have or
ganized social hygiene societies to
hold public meetings for this purpose.
Chicago has used this as one means
of reaching her people. Baltimore,
Maryland, has a moving picture show
known as The Illustrated Lessons in
Morals" This has 100 slides each, H.
Illustrating The Gentleman" person
al and National Thrift" and 1.-The
True Sportsman" all for high schools;
for the upper grammar grades 1t mas
10 slides showing What I'm Going to
be When l Grow Up" and for the
lower grammar grades it has SO slides
of What Men think About Boys
Fights" These pictures are rented to
schools in the hope Of counteracting
the bad influence Of the uncontrolled
picture show regularly on the road.
Co-education in the high school is
a different problem today than when
we went to school. Personally, l be-
lieve that one means of prophylact1c
treatment is a division of the sexes
in the ninth grade and on through to
graduation. This is southern GUS
tom, and believe very good one.
In our schools we have for years
been teaching children honesty, cour-
age, responsibility, self-control, self
respect and high ideals, but in all OF
this we have left in the silence the
ideal of the worth and dignity of hui
man life; the self-respect that will
make a gallant lad turn from the cOur-
tesies of evil women; the courage to
run from temptations that naturally
come to all healthy developing young
people, and the honesty that over
comes false modesty and forces these
young people to question the right
authority concerning matters OF life.
The lessons about the development
of the human body and life cannot be
preached to a child; they must come
when he is in the right mood and as
the answer to questions if possible.
The child should be alone with his
councillor, because the sacredness or
his confidence must be preserved. The
mother should be the first moral
teacher Many a man has been kept
from temptation by these first les
sons, sacred in memory of his moth
err, long since gone to her reward.
Many mothers cannot give early sex
talks to their children because they
do not know how. I believe that one
of the schools duties toward moral
prophylaxis is to these mothers. Have
mothers meetings where some person
can instruct them. The necessity OF
mothers instructing their children
may have to be proven to some, so do
not make the object of your first meet
ing a public notice. A crusade looses
half its good results if every step In
it's plan is public Parents must &C.
cept their share of the responsibility
in making men and women out of our
boys and girls. They must know the
common dangers that their children
will meet.
The campaign that has been carried
on for the last ten years with more
or less earnestness II all the civilized
world has not overlooked the diseases
which in the past; have been known
as social diseases. The alarming
spread of these among innocent peo-
pie, due to the use Of the public drink
ing cup, public, towel and unhygienic
habits Of people at large makes 1t
necNssarv for ia IN become better &C.