Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-12
urges SEX HYGIENE
Lecture by Dr.. Kicking Before
Board of Trade.
PREVENTION OF DISEASE
Arguments Supplemented by Dr..
Woodward and A. N. Chesley.
COMMITTEES MAKE REPORTS
Resolution Adopted Disappearing
the Abolition of Board Of
Charities.
PREVENTION OF DISEASE
COMMITTEES MAKE REPORTS

A lecture on sex hygiene by DIR. ID.
Percy Hickling, chairman of the public
health committee, supplemented by re-
marks by DR.. w. C. Woodward,
health officer of the District, and A. N.
Chesley. boys secretary of the Y. NJ
c. A., was delivered at a meeting of
the Board of Trade last night in the
New Willard Hotel. DR.. Hickling said
the members Of the medical profession
were appealing to the laity today to
aid in wiping out plague which, he
said, has arisen from lack of proper
sex hygiene. just as they had asked
and received aid in the fight against
the tuberculosis plague.
DR.. Hickling condemned the custom
of silence regarding sex hygiene. He
also condemned the custom of late
marriages, which are demanded by
parents who insist that their daughters
shall not marry until their future hus-
bands have made considerable fortunes.
Mr.. Chesley urged the education OF chill
dren by their parents in regard to sex
hygiene, and declared that the safety OF
the race lay in such education. DR.. Wood
ward discussed the problem as that OF the
nation rather than that OF the tndfv1duai
home. He said the work of bringing
the nation had only been begun.
Report Provokes Discussion.
The report of the committee on chari-
ties and corrections, submitted by Chair
man Walter ]. Ciephane in which 1t was
recommended that the proposed change
in legislation abolishing the board Of
charities of the District and the substituI
of rf oh III no di9a n.
proved, brought out opposition from Col.
Myron NJ Parker and DIR. James Dudley
Morgan. They declared that to adopt
such a recommendation might be con-
strued as Endorsement by the Board OF
Trade of the policies of the present board
Of charities, and they said the board by
its action last year had plainly gone on
record as opposing the policies or the
present board of charities. particularly
with reference to the abolition of the Co
Iumbia Hospital and the Emergency Hos
pita1, recommended by the board of chart
ties.
Col Parker said the people of Wash
ington and Congress had both disap-
proved the recommendations of the board
of charities, relating to the hospitals
He said that Congress had made pro-
vision for the new Columbia Hospital in
the sundry civil bill which was vetoed by
President Taft just before he went out
of Office and that he had been assured
by conferees on the bill on the part of
the House that it would be passed at the
special session of the incoming Congress
with the same provision for Columbia
Hospital.
Dr. Morgan. while stating that he liked
the members of the board of charities as
individuals, said that he considered them
collectively as q board 'narrow-minded
and unfit to make recommendations Tor
the care of the poor OF the city,. he
asked that the report of the committee
be tabled.
Adopted by Vote of "A to 30.
i Chairman Clephane replied that his
committee had brought in the report
without reference to the personnel of the
present board of charities or its policies,
and that it's adoption would not put the
Board of Trade on record as favoring
the policies of the board of charities. The
report was then adopted by vote Of a
to 20, a large number OF those present
failing to vote on the division
Reports were made on the private
schools OF the District by DIR. Thomas
w. Sidwell, chairman of the committee
on private schools; on the universities
of the District by Chairman Ralph P.
Barnard of that committee, ana on
municipal finance by Chairman George
Truesdell DR.. Sidwell reported that the
private schools were aourishing. and
urged that the federal government main
tain supervision Of them in the District.
Mr.. Barnard said the universities of the
District had increased greatly In enroll
ment and in scope of work during the
last few years. Col. Truesdell was not
present and his report was read, show
ing the committee to be busy setting the
District right before Congress, as to it's
relations with the federal government.
Recommendations Approved.
Other committee reports and recon-
mendations were received and approved
as follows:
Public buildings committee-New Gen.
trail High School building and new
building for the M Street High School,
storeroom for general supplies new mu-
nicipal hospital, new fire engine houses,
new National Guard Armory building,
new building for the Municipal Court.
new building for the Juvenile Court. new
building for playground use on the site
of Willow Tree alley now being cleared:
Industrial interests committee-Approva
of House bill to prevent false advertising
in the District of Columbia.
Approval, with recommendation to the
Board of Trade for consideration, of the
action of the Chamber of Commerce and
Retail Merchants Association In protest
ing before the interstate commerce COM
mission against the discontinuance Of free
freight delivery.
committee on dealtn.
Public health committee:
Approval of House bill 4226 Sixty-sec-
ond Congress. second session, to amend
section 675 of the Code of Law for the
District, so as to regulate the handling
of dead bodies
Approval of House bill 25664, Sixty-sec-
ond Congress, second session, providing
for voluntary admissions to the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane. and for
other purposes.