Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-09
Declares False Modesty Of
Parents Causes Misery and
MEN RESPONSIBLE
FOR SOCIAL EVIL
Scorns Politicians Who Ex-
ploit Fallen Women and
Saloonkeepers

The child who learns OF the sacred
problems of sex I'm the language Of
the gutter will tend toward the gut
ter, think as OF the gutter, and pass
into obscurtty.
Such was the truth hurled into the
teeth of women who this afternoon
crowded Zion Lutheran Church to
hear DR.. J. Aspnall McCuaig. of New
York, head of the educational depart
ment of the National Christian Lea
que, who during the next three weeks
will deliver a series of 'Eugenics' lee
lures at Zion Lutheran Church, Fourth
street, near Market.
This afternoons lecture on The
Native Instincts of the Child was for
women only and hundreds of mothers
crowded old Zion Church to hear Dr.
McCuaig who Is recognized as one
of the greatest authorities on eugenics
in the world. His address was filled
with clear, concise, true ringing phil
osophy, proving that sex instincts
when allowed to develop without con-
troll cause untold degeneration, misery
and sin
Concerning the Social Evil
Dr. McCuaig has come to this city
bearing the recommendation than no
less an authority than DR.. Howard A.
Kelly, the eminent surgeon of Balti-
more, Md, who some time ago gave "a
lecture on the Social Evil" in this
city that led to a city-wide crusade
against houses Of vice in Harrisburg
which has not yet ceased and Will not
cease until every known resort has
been closed by the police. DR.. Nc
Cuaigs statements coincide in nearly
every particular with those of DR..
Kelly He opened his lecture series
Yesterday afternoon with an address
TO men only in which he declared that
men are primarily and fundamentally
responsible for the social evil and
commercialized vice.
Should Train Child
In his lecture this afternoon Or.
MeCuaig pointed cut that every child
is born with certain dominant forces,
and that unless the child is trained IN
the control of these forces the grav-
est danger impends. False delcacy
on the part of the parent, the speaker
declared Is causing more wrong doing
than any other thing in the world
DR.. McCuaig said in part:
"The greater danger which con-
fronts the child is that through
false delicacy on the part of the par
ent the child will grow to the age
where it goes out into the world-to
kindergarten or primary school, un-
taught by the mother in the funda-
mental truths concerning sex and the
mysteries of birth and procreation.
Then instead of learning the truth,
which is that sex is a spirit (not an
organism as so many wrongly be-
Iievedl, and the most beautiful and
sacred of all Gods gifts to man. it
will get half truths and untruths in
the language of the gutter, that will
give the child the impression that sex
is thing that is essentially unclean.
Child's Soul Poisoned
Not only will the mind and even
the very soul of the child be poisoned
but all confidence between the child
and the parent will be destroyed and
il will make it almost impossible for
the mother to impart to the child any
of the lessons of control without which
the child be doomed to fight an uu-
equal battle with the world"
Tomorrow afternoon at $50 an
other lecture in the course in "Eugen-
ics' will be given in Zion church 1t
will deal specifically with THE Care
of the Boy and the Care of the Girl"
pointing out the different instruction
that should be given to each. At z 80
o'clock DR. McCuaig will address a
mass meeting of men and women in
the same auditorium under the direc-
tion of the Civic Council of Churches
on Causes of Crime