Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-01-13
SPEAKS PLAINLY ON
SEX PROBLEMS.
Mrs. c. 3. CaIlard Reads Paper Be-
fore Good Citizens Club

ioTC Soou NitIZenS Ntu0
At the Good Citizens Club 3eting
held last evening at the Carnegie
hall, Mrs. G. B. Callard read a re.
markable plain paper upon the rela.
ton of the sexes and upon the teach
ing of this relation to children The
paper was discussed by members pres.
ent and resolutions We're adopted
favoring the application of some of
the remedies suggested by Mrs. Cal.
lard. One of her recommendation
was that medical examination be
required before marriage license is
issued. On this question the mem.
bers of the club adopted a resolution
in favor of this law provided it can be
made national requirement, "but
before We are ready for such a law"
the resolution reads, 'let us first pro.
cure one to teach sex hygiene in our
public schools"
A resolution was also adopted pro.
viding for the appointment of a com.
L.ittee to act in conjunction with a
like committee from the Columbian
club for obtaining industrial statistics
for Ada county. These committees
will act in harmony with a commit.
tee appointed for the same purpose
by the state fedration of Women's
clubs in compiling such statistics for
the state.
Mrs. George E. Smith addressed
the club regarding the proposed ma.
tional park for Idaho and the men,
bers voted to endorse the project and
to extend their aid in securing favor
able action from congress.
Mrs. Callard, in speaking of the
ravages of the "black plague de-
clared that conservative medical in.
vestigators state that there are per-
sons, aware and unaware of their
suffering with the disease, more than
5000, coo in the United States. Com
mon sense tells u.s." she said. ''that
this is very conservative figure as
great many of those afflicted do
all in their power to hide their mis-
fortune; not" she continued, "that I
for moment wish to state that
5000, 900 of our population are suffer-
ing the penalty oftheir own errors,
but as far back as the days of Moses,
we read that the edict went forth.
Even unto the third and fourth gen.
Grafton
Around 80 per cent of the children
born blind and a large per cent of the
operations performed by gynecologists,
or the specialists on women's diseases
are caused by the supposedly cured
disease of the husband or father"
She said. Even tuberculosis appears
almost insignificant, for medical sci
ence teaches us that tuberculosis
must be contracted by the patient
by close personal contact
out that these diseases of which we
speak may inflict their most deadly
tortures by being transmitted to the
child before birth or in other ways"
This law under discussion would
IL properly carried out, possibly pre-
vent this terrible condition by the
checking of the marriage of any one
In whom the least trace of infection
could be found, also by preventing
The birth OF nervous, partially witted
due to their having parents
VINO were physically untitled for
parenthood by the diseases / have
mentioned or by the dissolute habits
which have drained their reserve
strength. | mean by excessive drink.
ng, drug habits or loose morals or
'ther nature, for we must remember
nat in breeding livestock, the farmer
axes nucleus of animals as near
y without flaw as possible, but we.
VINO claim to be the greatest work
u God. sanction and help the most
discriminate kinds of breeding, brin
orth as future citizens of our coun-
ry, we know not what. The improve.
hent OF human stock should be, like
nat OF livestock, the result of design
ather than accident. Capital News.