New-York tribune., 1912-04-07

IS Infection
these colleges the most enthusiastic com.
mendations OF It's value and assurances OF
the good 1t has done. Twenty-eight thou.
sand copies OF No. /. THE Young Man's
ProblenG 10000 copies each OF Nos. 2 and
3, 1000 copies OF No. 4, THE Boy PROB.
lem," and 1900 copies OF No. have been
printed and, for the most part. circulated.
Dr. Morrow Is the author OF all these
pamphlets. A recent order for 5000 cir
culsrs setting forth the objects and aims
of the society and its method Of work has
lust been received from California
"One indication OF the interest in this
movement is the demand from hundreds Of
libraries for the Transactions Of the 10.
ciety," said DR.. Morrow. This Is due not
alone, It is believed, to the intrinsic value
Of the papers and discussions, but because
they furnish the record Of a movement
which has excited general interest through
out the country
A GREAT DEMAND FOR LECTURES.
There has been great demand for
lectures. The society has now ten regular.
ly appointed lecturers. One OF the most
valuable fields Of this lecture work has
been found in the meetings Of the mothers
of the pupils of public schools. The Pub
lie Education Association, under whose au-
spices these lectures have been conducted,
the public schools in the city that the lect.
urers Of our society are now available for
this purpose"
Many large meetings of men, women and
boys segregated or mixed, have been ad-
dressed in various cities throughout Penn
sylvania. A womans advisory board has
been added to the effective forces In ths
field An effort is being made to enforce
the laws already upon the statute books re-
latng to the quarantining by the health
board Of persons afflicted with any conta-
gious disease dangerous to the community
the enforced hospital treatment of any per-
son afflicted with contagious disease who
cannot be properly treated at home and
the reporting by physicians to the board
of health OF persons laboring under a con-
tagous. pestilential disease. and the en-
forcement of laws relating to disorderly
houses. 1t has been found that only one
hospital In Pennsylvania opens its doors TO
patients suffering from social diseases.
An address given before the ST. Louis
Medical Society by invitation was adopted
by the committee as an official utterance.
and 5000 copies have been sent to care
fully selected lists Of names. such as the
membership OF the civic league, the
women's clubs the ministers and teachers.
the City Club to the $3.50 names given i'm
the Blue Books list of members of clubs
in the city, TO 5000 Of the members OF
the Citizens Industrial Association, and
1000 were distributed at a meeting Of the
Central Trades and Labor Union
At Chicago, DR.. Morrow says requests for
literature have been received from a hun
dred and fifty colleges and four hundred
Young Mems Christian associations, be-
sides a number of churches. schools, set
Elements. womens clubs army and navy
people. business houses and others.
The Chicago Women's Club has taken up
the subject especially from the point OF
view Of the protection of mothers and
children and the proper training for chill
dren. The result of the Women's Club
work has been to introduce the subject
into the National Federation of Womens
Clubs, the State Federation of Women's
Clubs, of woman physician addressing
women's clubs, church associations and
other groups of women.
Chicago public schools have within the
last year and a half made an effort 10
teach the high school pupils something Of
the subject of social hygiene.
The most tangible result Of the Spokane
society's effort is that in reference 10 the
normal schools of the state. The State
Board of Education has incorporated In the
curriculum of the normal schools a course
in sexual physiology and hygiene. This
course consists of eighteen classroom
periods.
In complying with the state law the fol-
lowing recommendations of the principals
of the normal schools have been adopted
First-That the state require each stu
dent who takes the secondary or diploma
in the State Normal School to earn one
credit i'm sex and moral hygiene.
Second-The school gives a series of talks
to the summer students who are entered in
the physical training classes. The students
are expected to take notes and take part in
the discussion. Women physicians instruct
girls. and men instruct the men.
The union of the various societies in this
country into a national organization. under
the title OF the American Federation for
Sex Hygiene, was accomplished I'm st.
Louis some eighteen months ago. Efforts
have been thus far directed chiefly to plac-
ing this federation upon a sound financial
basis. Five thousand dollars was raised AS
a preliminary fund to be expended in secur-
ing large endowment fund which would
enable the federation to begin the impor-
tant work opening up before it on broad,
comprehensive basis and to do the work -
in big, effective way. Twenty-Five thod-s
sand dollars a year for three years has
thus far been pledged to the federation.
Charles W. Eliot. president emeritus OF
Harvard University. is the honorary presi-