The Alaska citizen., 1912-11-11

lolthsomc and reyoltjns but the publicity that exposes the worst iu order that it may he made better is the test Of real loyalty to city or state" said Dr II Franklin Rall. president O! The Tiff school Of Theol- osy. who spoke al Trinity NJ F. church last nigh, under the auspices of the Mems Brotherhood. on So ciM Diseases and Christian Reme- dies"
 With smashing emphasis Dr Rall leHeled the finger Of scorn al the hypocritiral sham that shriuks from a fearless discussion Of the cauker at the heart of a city's social life
 He declared the time had come when fhe Christian church can no longer shirk it's duty in dealing with the problem of the social evil. Ii must nee, the economic causes which prouuce prostitution lt must cooperate with city and state in providing clean and wholesome amusements
 CHILDREN MUST BE TAUGHT.
 The proper Knowledge of self. he declared. must be impressed upon the young people of the country. either by the teaching of sex hygiene in the public schools or by educating par ents to a proper understanding of their responsibility in the matter.
 The acquiring of sex knowledge" ." declared Dr Ral. can not be pre- vented The only thing that can be done is to see that il is acquired through proper agents.
 In part nr Rall said
 There are many social diseases but there is one that has come. af- ter long neglect. to a special consio- eration today l. is the disease of social immortality which appears in many forms. public and hidden; the most outstanding being that Of public prostitution.
 AGE OF SEX MADNESS.
 Ut has been said that We are sex mad today Is it seX-madness or is il a social awakening? The sex question and it's problems have al ways been with men. the difference simply in this that in the past the sex question has appeared in the lascivious novel. indecent drama and in foul speaking in moral deeds that hid from the light.
 Today ii has come out into the open and is being considered trif- lingly by moral and religious leaders who have too long stunned the task. There is a two-fold outcry today against this consideration
 There are those who protest against any public discussion of sex matters. and there are those who shout muckrakine at every man who wishes to face vice and social conditions as they really exist.
 CONDEMNS HIDING EVIL.
 Years ago l remember a traveller who produced a bottle of perfume and explained how he used il to safe guard himself against contamination from unhealthful conditions which he might find in his travels. That was the old way; We have used it too long. The new way is not to cover over nor to use rosewater; it is to see things as they are in order that We make them better.
 We have been sheltering a moral and physical plague stock in our city, as has every other city in the land; think of our fight against tu- berculosis as in the past against typhoid, smallpox and yellow fever. what an outcry case of smallpox will cause and vet it is probably safe to say that there are five times as many cases of sex diseases in our large cities as of tuberculo- sis How contagious that disease is. what a threat it is to woman hood and to hildhood-innocent as well as guilty-any good physiciau can tell
 And yet to all these things We have been blind in the past. One, third of the inmates of our schools for the blind are there because Of the sins of their fathers; 40 cases .Tere found in Massachusetts in one year of children threatened with lifelong blindness for this same reason And yet all of this is but a fraction of the question. Here is the moral plane. that is worst Of all: it is easy to say that it costs Chicago, directly s15OOO,O0O every year. but what of the hundred thou. sand or two hundred thousand men. morally and physically contaminated and themselves centers of corrup tion in that one city? And what of G0,000 girls demanded each year as an offering for this traffic?
 CITES JANE ADDAMS
 How big the task of the church is Jane Addams pointed out a lit tie while ago If it is discovered that the brothels are filled with over-fatigued and underpaid girls, procured by young men too poor