The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-11-18

to make capital of his knowledge and
become the educator OF scores of
associates i'm TN most detrimental
way possible, IL will be better TO
forestaH or at least correct the evil
likely TO be engendered by accidental
and improper education. Directors To
this undertaking argue that while IL
may not be impossible TO altogether
prevent the importation of such malin-
formation and misinformation. they
would rather rely upon the policy of
an assumed ignorance and defer such
education To the latest possible period
But the reformers have enlisted in
their cause representative men of
the medical profession men whose
almost sacred calling admits them be-
hind the veil of individual and fam
lily privacy and opens their eyes to
sins and sorrows and entailments of
misery of which the world has hard
~ a suspicion. When complied med
ical records prove beyond cavil that
the annual toll of death which is a
consequence of the common ignor-
ance exceeds the mortality from tu-
berculosis. typhoid fever and small
poN combined. the case must be adj
mitted TO be bordering on the des-
perate. When il is shown that an
appallingly large percentage of in
validism, blindness. insanity and
eases requiring heroic surgery is
also result of such ignorance the
case is aggravated. When i'm ad-
clifton TO these arrays of fact IL is
stated that a majority of the suf-I
ferers are entirely innocent wives ana
children, and then the staggering
conditions disclosed by the records
of the juvenile courts are laid on
top. it must be admitted that the
reformers have cause. In spite of
all this the intent of the good cause
may be diverted and more harm than
good done TO the rising generation ii
the education is not accomplished
with the utmost tact ana .delicacy.
There Is but one altogether proper
place for such education and that is
in the home, but no law can compel
the institution OF this department of
education i'm the home. II is common |
practice To leave this education to
chance. American parents are too |
busy and too much aloof from their !
children 10 undertake it without be |
ing themselves first schooled. How |
many fathers are on terms of such |
intimacy with their boys as TO un-
dertake the task without excruciat-
ing embarrassment for all concerned? !
How many mothers have time To
maintain a similar intimacy with |
their daughters? For answer we
may rove the public streets and visit
all kinds of assemblies at night and |
find scores and hundreds of boys and
girls. who should be under the pro-
lection of home and parents, going
at large utterly without restraint,
and the institution of the Juvenile
court. while an immediate and neces-
sary consequence affords but a SUI
perficial suggestion. The entailment
Of human shame and misery that
follows through the lifetime of many
whom the parents should have saved
from folly and ignorance. and for !,
whom, i'm the default of the parents. I
the state should intervene, is a mat
ter of common ignorance. The league
which is undertaking this herculean
task is promoting the education of
adults in the facts of consequence,
while it hopes 10 educate the young
to a better understanding Of them
selves and of the responsibilities of
life. Work has begun in the way of
discreet publications, i'm the institu-
ton of special classes i'm the public
schools of several cities, while i'm the
churches an effort is being made TO
educate parents up to the necessity
IF accomplishing what needs to be
lone as delicately as possible, in the
pest place of all-the homes of refined
PEOPLE.
1t is a matter that one could wish
we're not of necessity, but the condi-
ions which force it cry out even as
he blood of Abel proclaimed the sin
If Cain from the ground.