South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-21
NJ CUAIG ASSAILS
TERRE HAUTE BUT
NOT SOUTH BEND
Expected Expose Gives Place to
Compliments on Condition of
City-CIOSeS Two Weeks
Course of Lectures Here.

Tracing the stream of the social
evil from the time that God created
man and woman down 20 present day
conditions here and elsewhere. Or. j.
A. MCCuaig whose three lectures
Sunday closed his twO-week series of
address in this city, favored large
audience OF men with a comprehen-
sive discussion Of the great problem.
at the high school auditorium Sunday
afternoon.
His expected exposure of conditions
in South BenC was not forthcoming.
Instead he cOmplimented the city on
the good conditions here and praised
Mayor Keller for his attempts TO clean
up the city. a unanimous vote was
taken to support the city officials in
making South Bend a better city in
which 10 live.
The speaker assailed the city OF
Terre Haute in the most bitter terms,
calling il one Of the worst cities in
the United States. and asserting that
Chicago r.as never worse than is TerTe
Haute at the present time.
Relation of Sexes.
Mentally. the relation OF man 10
woman IS the relation OF the right eye
10 the left" said DR. McCuaig in dis
cussing the peculiar problems OF the
relationship Of the sexes. Man and
woman are two cO-ordinating parts Of
Gods greatest creation, which is life.
While mans predOminating char
acteristic is the demand for evidence.
the predCminating characteristic of
woman is the desire to trust For this
reason, women are more easily led
astray, and also are more easily led 10
reform
There are a number of indications
of the existence of the social evil in
every community. one of the most
important of these is the far reaching
unrest. showing itself in the cry votes
for women Man was made to go
first, to take care OF and protect wo-
man. yet the man-made laws often
times discriminate cruelty against
women
The unfair treatment Of women in
the labor market is largely response
bile for the large amount of prostitu-
tiOn now in existence. Authorities
agree that fully so per cent of the
100000 prostitutes in the United
States were dragged down by eco
homie conditions. This could be rem
edied by minimum wage laws for fe-
male workers.
LOCALIZED Prostitution.
Another evidence is the diminished
respect for the marriage vow. as testi-
fed by the loo. 600 divorces granted
in the United States last year These
figures show that legalized prostitu-
ton is not only easy. but prevalent.
Americas decreasing birth rate is
another factor of the question If the
decrease OF the last so years continues
for the next century and a half, the
race Will die out.
The degeneracy Of the family is
an awful evidence of the social evil
There is an illegitimacy that is more
horrible than the illegitimacy of the
law, found right in the homes Of the
land. That is the bringing forth Of
children who are not wanted by their
parents.
Three other evidences are the pre-
Valence of open prostitution, the en-
crOaChment of serious diseases on the
nations health, and the steadily in
CreaSng tide of Criminality all OF
which are products of the social evil.
I'm South Bend. as in any other
place, it is impossible TO beat back en-
tirely the curse of prostitution You
can, however prevent it from coming
out in the open and enticing men and
women. You can suppress il to such
an extent that many of the temptations
VIII be removed from before our
young men and women.
ITO make South Bend a good city.
two things are necessary; its people
must have clean hearts. and the right
spirit toward their city and their fell
low-men. When its citizens begin to
cooperate with the men who are try
ing 10 clean up the city. South Bend
will become even a better place for
the homes of its people"