The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-24

The means by which social disease and
the white slave traffic may both be
eliminated at the same time was given
last night by DR.. c. Edward Janney, OF
the American Vigilance Association. in
the course of a lecture on social diseases
at the exhibition hall of the Interna-
tional Congress on Hygiene and Demog-
raphy.
In the first place" said DR.. Janney,
I'VE should educate the parents. the
teachers, and all who come into contact
with the young in any tutorial capacity.
1 do not advocate introducing sex educa-
ton into the public schools at this time,
but l do think that teachers, parents,
and others should be prepared to give
them instruction when necessary.
THE second step in the eradication OF
social disease is to wipe out the centers
of the diseases themselves. In Balti-
more the association with which 1 am
connected has had much success by OBJ
tanning the names of the landlords who
let their premises for these purposes.
We see the owner and tell him that he
can have his choice of terminating the
lease of else we will get a grand jury
Indictment.
Once we have closed up a house, we
make sure that they do not resume their
pursuits
Way to End Evils.
OF 100 women whom We have driven
into the open in this manner since we
began our work last winter, a majority
have left the city.
Already We have shut forty houses,
and seventy-five presentments are now
fro for hui h. or,l strrr-
THE policy which has been SO success
full in Baltimore, is to my way of think
ing the best way of ending the social
evil.
Dr. Clarence ]. Blake. professor of
otology in Harvard University and pres
ident of the ninth International Otolog-
zeal Congress, yesterday declared that
unnecessary noise caused an uncounted
loss every year in waste of energy, phys
ical distress, and in a decrease of human
efficiency.
Aside from the deteriorating effect on
the sense of hearing, DR.. Blake asserted
that unnecessary noise also leads to
nervous disorders and bodily fatigue.
Dispute Over Eugenics.
A marked differepce of opinion devel-
oped yesterday over the relative present
importance of eugenics as a science be-
N"cch ILL., w. IN. nays. ASSlSldHl ScSFt-
tary of Agriculture, and DR.. Lightner
Wilmer. who is in charge of the psyche
logical laboratory at the University of
Pennsylvania.
The address in which DR.. Wilmer took
issue with DR.. Hays was entitled Elk
ceptional Children and Exceptional
Methods of Education"
"Eugenics as a practical problem is
of extremely small interest to-day"
declared DR.. Wilmer. 1T is impossible
to breed mankind as plants and ami
mails are bred, and 1t is unreasonable
to ask men and women to marry on
any theory of race-betterment. We
cannot expect them to marry with
much more than their own happiness
in view.
Negative eugenics is about all that
we can hope for for a long time to
come; that is, the employment of means
to insure that feeble-minded or other
wise mentally or physically defective
children will not reproduce. But this
is only an extremely small part of the.
problem. II we eliminated every one
of this class to-day, inside of twenty
years we would have another crop just
the same. and they would continue to
be with us until we have eliminated
the causes which produce them"
DR.. Hayes expressed an entirely op-
posite view.