The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-14
FINE ADDRESS
TO MEN AT ''lY''
DR.. WINFIELD S. HALL, NOTED
SPEAKER ON SEX PROBLEMS,
CONCLUDES SERIES OF TALKS
IN FARGo-WILL PROBABLY BE
IN FARGO IN NEAR FUTURE.

More than 1876 men heard DR.. Win
field S. Hall in his talk at the
gymnasium mems banquet at the Y.
M. C. A. last night. His subject was
The Problem Of the Adolescent Male.
The banquet which was served
previous to the lecture was most ex-
cellent, and earned for the women of
the auxiliary the thanks and satisfac-
ton Of every man present.
Robt. McCulloch, vice president OF
the Y. M. c. A, vas POSTMASTER and
called first upon Roy Henderson,
physical director, who responded with
a short talk on the meaning Of the
gymnasium banquet the "Y" has ever
held, and upon the work which the
department is doing and hopes to
do.
The postmaster then called on John
w. Hansel, the new vice president OF
the Fargo college board of directors,
who in a short address, introduced the
speaker of the evening. ... ,
DR.. Hall went at once into the heart
of his subject He aid first that it is
not the calendar that tells a mans
age, but the quality of the blood YES
sells. A man may be 40 years
young if he has cared for himseInl
properly, or he may be an old man at
81 it he has given himself over to
dissipation.
the problem of youth is a problem
! of the greatest interest, said DR.. Hall.
and, in a study OF this problem, the
ftrsl fact to note Is hat the law OF
reorganization governs the individua.
hUiAan life, ais 1t governs the lite and
development Of every living organism
The law of recapitulatlon, briefly
slated, is that the history Of the race
is repeated in the growth and develop
Iment OF each individual. This ODD
not only tor the physical, but for the
psychic and social development a!
we'll.
The race, in it's progress to thu
present Stage of civinzaulon, passed
through tour distinct PERIODS, namely
SaVagery, barbarlSm, chlValry, ant
lastly modernism, The age in which
we are now living. The millennium il
not yet, and the race is still striving
upward. .
DR.. Hall then went on to compar
the, periods of race history and pro
gress with the periods in the life o
the individual. First, the period 0
savagery. Rood, shelter, the salts
faction of the purely animal need
characterize the savage of the race
Inc savage was d. cave u"Cl1AA5, LdA
sailing individual, a child Of nature
and a creature Of instinct.
The second, stage OF the ace wa
into the age Of barbarism, a gradua
transition from the stage of savagery
when the cave jewellers learned to liv'
in crude dwellings, instead of caves
when they learned III agriculture
and how better to satisfy their crea
ture comforts. This was an age Q
cruelty, when might was right. ]
was an age of hero worship, and j
was also an age, when war and tn
chase were the sphere of the man, an
the woman did the work, all the har'
d%rudgery. Woman was mans chatte
bought and sold, and bartered.
The succeeding age, the age o
chivalry, is noted for he strikin
change in the attitude of the man to
ward the woman of the race. TIL
youth was not entitled to the badg
Of manhood until he became knigh
Grant. to some lady of the court, an
the woman was elevated to a positio,
of honor which she had never befor
occupied. The period of chivalr
merged. into the period of modernism
the period in which we are now liv
ing. n
DR.. Hall then went on to show no,
these periods are texemplif1ed in tn
life of every individual.
The savage Is the infant Of the rac'
The infant is the savage of the rae
The instincts of the savage are show
! clearly in" the boy, who simply mus
have q cave to play in. Also, when
: rain or melting snow leaves pools {
water, he must have a raft to sa
about on. Instinct, nothing more. r.
sentiment, anger, hate, revenge, thos
are the mental processes of the say
age, IL you cross him, or destroy n
totem pole or his fetiches. The lit
things with which a boy fills his poci
Tets and his room are his fetiches, an
lust as dear to his heart as the totel
pole Of the savage. BE careful no
3 you throw them intoqthe fire, OF !chal
Z acterize them as trash, n WORTHLESS
! unless you want your 1~0-year-old br
!, to hold the feeling Of hate and r.
: yenge toward you that the savage I
oIthe race holds toward the one WI
desecrates the things nearest to i
heart.
The period OF barbarism in the Ii
Of the beysbegins usually at about q
age OF 10 years. This lis the pre-ad,
lescent age. The boy is distinctly
savage. He lis crude and cruel cruz