The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-01-13

care should be exercised that thorough
sex instruction be not given too early
lest the very evil be encouraged which
1t was sought to guard against.
The age of thirteen to fifteen, ac
cording to the child's intelligence
seems to be the critical age when cleal
knowledge is quite necessary to say,
the child from the evil which has al
ready overtaken so many. Statistic,
indicate that boys and girls are es
peclally subject TO temptation through
ignorance between the years of thir
teen and eighteen, when the forces O.
nature are breaking forth. just a:
trees bud in springtime. The paren
who rules his child with loving intel
Hgence rather than brute force should
have the child's confidence at this age
The parents are the God-given instruc
tors and protectors of their families
Nothing can excuse them from this
either church work or slum work. OF
even Bible study
The Minimum of WAGES.
1t was brought ont that five of oul
great states have already legislated
on the subject of the minimum wag,
for female employees and of the hours
during which they may be legally EN-
ployed. Amongst these the three high
est in appreciation seem to be Oregon
Iowa. and Minnesota. with evidences
that the laws of the last named state
represent the best features of all pre-
vious legislation on the subject.
The story of the battle to secure bet
ter regulations of vice and better
hours and wages for female laborers
was told in detail In various ways
the opponents of righteousness sought
to circumvent the legislation so i'm
peratively needed by the people whom
they represented. And so far as We
could learn. female suffrage and the
active and intelligent abors of self
sacrificing women have been largely
influential in elTecting the rectifcatior
Of the laws. We surely did rejoice In
this. If the giving OF the franchise tC
women shall mean better laws. more
righteousness and purity in our nation
we surely all would agree that female
suffrage could not come too soon
Our thought heretofore has been thai
which the husband is the head; ant
that the votes of these heads shoult
properly protect every family interest
There Is another side to the ques
ffon hnwnvar wall xrnrth,- of ,opxi1
Grafton: namely. the fact that sin ha,
disordered all the affairs and interest.
of life. 1t may be that under the stres,
of present conditions no wiser thins
could be done than to give the bailo
to women. The most powerful argu
ment to the contrary is the conduct OF
some extreme suffragettes who wal
neither for God. order and time. MOI
for the ripening of human thought OF
the subject. but seem utterly rockies,
as respects life. property and principle,
of righteousness
The White Slave Traffic.
Perhaps many OF us have consider
ed the expression white slave traffic
fiction of some over-zealouS reform
er; but not so. On the very best au
thority we learn that this immora
traffic has It's agents and operatives il
all parts of the civilized world Thes,
operators control as money-mak
ing arrangement approximately 6S,O0t
women. reaping from their immora
traffic about $1SS.O00.000 per year
These large profits enable them to ex
ercise great influence at the polls ant
In the lower courts.
Although not corporation. they co
operate with each other in all parts OF
Christendom. They are constantly OF
the lookout for recruits, as they art
continually losing some through death
disease and the ravages of age: for a,
soon as these white slaves cease to b,
profitable to their owners they ar.
dropped. and become the lowest of til,
low. They are generally obedien
slaves. faithful to their masters. ever
to the extent of transfer from one t.
another. Many of them undoubtedly
would die of despair or by suicide
were it not for the hope continual,
held out by their masters that sooI
sufficient money will be realized to JUS
ify them In settling down in a respect
able little business.
The $4,000 regular slaves constitut,
only about one-half of the immoTa
women of this land who support them
selves solely by immortality.
The great center of traffic appears t.
From there white slaves are shipreC
with considerable regularity in all Iii
rections-to South Africa, South Amer
lea, and latterly to China. Goodly
numbers are coming to the United
States; but finding it difficult to escap,
the government inspection. they lr,
mostly brought in by way of Canada
The audacity of these immoral trader,
is illustrated by the fact that one Of
their agents recently was found on f;
committee organized for the destruc
ton of the vice. This man enthusiast
tically offered $3.50 for the conviction
of white slavers. He was wealthy. haC
a son at college and a daughter com
plotting her education in Europe.
Recent developments have shown
that some high schools are deeply in
fected with vice, and every young wo
man. especially If attractive in appear
ance. is beset with dangerous pitfalls
The ignorance of the innocent respect
Ing these things contributes to the sue
cess of the enemy The unprepared
ness of parents to do their duty seems
to leave no alternative to the sugees
ton that sex hygiene must be taught
in all grades of the high school and il
the upper grades of the grampla,
school
One of the most Notifying thought,
in connection with the entire matter /.
that there are men and women willing
to sell themselves to such n vile bust
ness-to traffic In the morals of til,
young. The matter has gone so fal
that not merely on account of danger,
from consumptives. but also from
those who have venereal diseases
drinking cups for general use are NJ
longer permitted at public fountains
Indeed, authorities charged with re
sponsibility for such matters are a
their wits end to know how to over
take the spread of yenereal diseases
and those which ontcrop from them 4