Omaha daily bee., 1914-05-31

eighteenth century, whose biography gives
vivid picture of time in which certainly no
one was silent on sexual affairs, and in which
life was essentially chain Of gallant adyen-
lures
"In the select American circles it is already
noticeable that the favorites OF rich men get
certain social acknowledgment. The great
masses have not reached this stage at present,
which is of course, very familiar in France.
But II we proceed in that rapid rhythm with
which we have changed In the last ten years,
ten years hence we may have substituted the
influence of mistresses for the influence OF
Tammany grafters and twenty years hence a
Madame Pompadour may be dwelling not far
from the White House anG controlling the fate
OF the nation with her small hands, as she did
for two decades when Louis XIV was King.
History has sufficiently shown that these are
the logical consequences OF the sensualization
OF rich people whose mind is filed with
sexual problems. Are we to wait, too, until a
great revolution or a great war shakes the
nation TO its depths and hammers new ideas
OF morality into its conscience?"
This is the effect the policy of discussing
mStters that we're formerly hidden from the
young is now producing, in the opinion Of Pro
fessor MuensterbeTg:
1T means to I'LL the atmosphere in which the
growing adolescent moves with sultry ideas
1t means to stir up the sexual desires and to
teach children how to indulge in them without
immediate punishment. Just as in a com.
munity OF graft and corruption the individual
soon loses the hLer feeling for honesty and
crime nourisheS simply because every one
knows that nobody expects anything better, so
in community in which sexual problems are
the Lessons of the youth and the dinner talk OF
the adult the feeling of respect for mans
deepest emotions fades away. Man and
woman lose the instructive shyness In touch.
ing on this sacred ground, and as the organic
desires push and push toward Il the youth soon
discovers that the barriers to the forbidden
ground are removed and that in their place
stands simple signal with a suggestive word
OF warning against some easily avoided trans"
The wisest policy, In Professor Mueuster.
bergs opinion, will be to strengthen the an.
stinctive emotion of mysterious respect, which
makes the young mind shrink from brutal IN.
trusion into the most sacred relationships Of
life -
Among many other interesting observations
on socialism, Professor Muensterberg makes
this forecast;
The country has entered into a career NJ
progressive experiments; the traditional re-
spect for the old constitutional system ~
checks ana balances to the mere viii of tbs
crowd has been undermined. The real Iegisis.
tive reign OF the masses has Just begun. ana a.
would seem only natural that such an sntJraiS
new movement should be pushed forward ~
its own momentum. II the genius OF Amsr,ess
winch was conservative, turns "a ,caI tba ne1s,.
teal machinery here would be more AZ 49,
that OF any other land to allow the an,ene- sA
mept OF socialism. This will not come - A..
or tomorrow, but that socialism NAV srSS,'.1y
be with as the day after to-morrou is J"ueny .h"
sloiii.y "itn which the neutral observer NM,