Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-15
DIFFERENT VIEWS
ON SEX HYGIENE
CONTINUED from First Pase.)

city have urged the board to ha;e tn,
subject added to the school curriculum
as an important adjunct to the propei
education and training of the yonn.
mind.
1t is the view of many who are ia
miliar with conditions thai the teach
ing of sex hygiene to the children Il
inevitable and that the necessity is be
coming more and more apparent.
Physicians Disagree.
Physicians of Newark are not~wholl,
agreed on the subject of teaching Sc,
hygiene in the public schools. Som
contend that it is apt to promote
familiarity among the younger children
that would be unwholesome, If no
dangerous. While the majority are IL
favor of teaching the subject, unde
proper restrictions, there are other
that contend It is best and most safel,
taught III the home.
according to DIR. Herman Herold
president of the Board of Health
many parents are negligent in properl,
bringing the subject to the attention
OF their children.
cit is not only necessary for tn
children to be taught sex hygiene,
said DR.. Herold, "but also for tn
parents. They all need to be educated
along these all-important lines. I
ought to be taught more than 1t is
There is nd danger, and I am a stronl
advocate of it's being put in ever!
school curriculum"
In speaking of the age at which chill
dren should begin to learn and b.
taught the subject, DR.. Herold said: "
am not fully decided, but l think tn
age of IA years is young enough"
Women Should Present Subject.
He said it should be presented to tn
children only by women who ar
skilled and sincere in their manner @
teaching. ut is naturally a mother
duty, but too many of them shirk 1t.
is an inevitable problem that we hav
TO face. and we must deal with
gradually, but firmly"
{. Takes Opposite View.
DR.. J. Fewsmith took quite an oppo
site view of the matter. He said tn
home was the only place to teach chill
dren the problems of sex hygiene. g
think it is wrong and entirely out O
place to teach the subject in the publ
schools said he.
THE children ought to be in
structed; whether the public school /
the place or not, I don't know sal
DR.. George A. Rogers, when aske
about The matter. 1T will have to b
determined by experience said hi
Il would not take my children out q
school because they were being laugh
the subject, unless I saw some ev
arising from it. The parents Shout
begin the teaching at home. The
could put their children's minds in
condition to take the matter seriously
Whether there will result any nal
tendency from the teaching of the sub
ject in classes will only be determine
by experience"
Dangerous, He Thinks.
ut is like putting a loaded reyolve
in the hands of small children to TT
TO eXlain to them or teach them Sc
hygiene said DR.. f. S. Carpentel
Home and by their mothers side
the place they should hear of that, an
after they enter high school it ma
be all right to take up the subject.
DIR. George J.. Holmes, medical super
visor of schools, said: Sex hygien
should be taught, but who should do
and how it should be done l am ne
fully convinced. There are two way
of teaching the subject. One is b
individual instruction and the othe
by class instruction.
There should be no fear on the pal
of the parents. OF course, such In
struction cannot be turned over indis
criminately to all kinds of teacher
Whether the children should have
medical instructor or be taught tn
question by some capable woman wi
have to be determined. but I am sal
isled that the subject will have /
be taken up Systematically and with
out fear.
THE danger is not in the instruC
ton but in the way the instruction
given. If the subject is properly har
died it cannot result otherwise than /
great and everlasting benefit to II
community"