Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-27
KEN Not Typical Russian city
m the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
Klen, more familiar as Kiev. scene
of the greatest ritual murder" trial,
| is the earliest seat of Christianity in
| Russia As the most ancient capital
of the empire it has earned its title
of mother of cities. Its far-stretch-
| ing monastery of Petcherskaya Lavra
is one of the wonders of the world.
| With many church and chapel and
lnnumerable monkish cells within it's
| high wall, the "City of Caves" forms
a town by itself. To the catacombs
| cut out of the solid rock every year
come pilgrims from all over Russia
| to worship at the shrines of the
saints who came years ago from By
zantium.
But Kieff is not a typically Russian
city. 1t has lost its early Byzantine
| character without gaining the modern
Russian spirit-a result attributed to
the rule of the Poles, who kept the
city under their influence for CEN
turtles. So you may call the Kieff
people little Russians, who differ
from the Great Russians as much as
the English do from the Scots. I'm
perialists did their best seventy years
ago by establishing a local university
to Russify the town, but most writ
ers agree that ancient elements are
still alive, and that I<ieff is the right
place for medieval trial.
Public Discussion of immortality.
From the Rochester Post Express
The Society for Sanitary and Moral
PrOphytaXiS which met in New York
was startled out of its complacent
serenity when DR.. Cabot, of Boston
threw a bomb into it's midst To les
Nv 20 FaI,f
vice by moral disinfectants and other
preventive measures is the worthy
object of this organization, and it
was thrown into a profuse moral per-
spiration when the Boston physician
asserted that in his opinion and eX-
perience morals and sanitation were
usually opposing forces.
Sanitation can be taught by word
of mouth, he said, influenced by force
and law, and therefore profits by pub
licity, but immortality cannot be sup
pressed by statute and is only en-
eouraged by open discussion. Silence,
Vagueness, secrecy and mystery are
all factors in promoting morality, he
continued, and the rich as n rule are
more sanitary than the poor, but not-I
so moral.
In this dictum regarding the doubt
full desira bility of publicity discuss
ing a certain class of qestions, DIR.
Cabot follows DR. Munsterburg, the
psychologist and dissents entirely
from the modern theorists who think
to discourage vice by analyzing it in
view of all the people and holding 1t
up for reprobation in the schools, on
the stage. from the pulpit and in the
press. They think, or affect to think,
that innoncence may be kept from
evil by holding before it the ever
lasting suggestion of impurlty. and
that the familiarization with sin is
more than counteracted by the advice !
to let it alone.
This is something like showing chill
dren and immature adults all the |
easy secret ways of getting into an |
telling them that half the world is |
breaking in to steal it, but recon- |
mending them to keep out Ike good |
little boys and girls.
There are many who still think, |
however-and there will be more as |
time goes on-that the intuitive reti- |
cence of former generations on GER
tain subjects and that delicacy |
which was reluctant to discuss them |
with children or as commonplace |
topics of social life was wiser than |
all the arguments which can be urged |
against it. The injunction to abstain |
from all appearance of evil is broad |
enough to cover in its condemnation |
the practise, with whatever motive. |
of holding a perpetual suggestion of |
sin before the eyes; for safety lies |
in resolutely keeping as far as pos
sible all thought of impuritT out of
the heart.