Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-31

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(The famous novelist, author OF ''The
Mississippi Bubble "54-40 or Fight
THE Purchase Price, John Rawn''
and The Lady n the Pirate.'D
PART 2, i6 a3s
Clarence. barrow said something much
worth while the other day in a public
address, AN obsession is spreading all
over this country that people can be born
perfect or that legislation can make them
perfect. It's a mighty poor home
that isn't better for a child than a state
institution" And he added, actual Gu
genics would be possible only ii there
We're SOME OTHER RACE to boss the
job. that would be as high above us rs
we are above potatoes j"
1t would be easy to say that school
teachers are another race-to divide our
fauna into men, women and school teach.
ers. 1t is more police and more truthful
to say that school, teachers are them.
selves just human beings. Some OF them
are unmarried human beings. A great
many of them came up out of the ranks
Of plain, ordinary human beings like you
and me-camc out of homes. l have known
them to have red hair and bent noses. |
was once a school teacher myself-having
been obliged also to drive a stage coach,
practice law, chop wood and do a great
many other things In order to maintain
a meal ticket. +.
So may be acquitted of any discour-
tesy to that profession. which was once
my own. Very likely you also once were
a school teacher. Almost everybody in
not divinc--at least not all of them, al
though when younger l nave seen some
[ thought were. But mostly they are
merely human after all. Sometimes they
hold their jobs through politics as much
as through wisdom or fitness. But when
YOU apply sex hygiene sweepingly to all
the schools your child has to take what
it draws in its particular school and You
have no choice about. it.
There is another side to 1t as well.
Pedagogy is not the practice of medicine.
It is. not even,the practice of polite man.
'ners and good breeding, although It may
incidentally have much to do with these
matters, 10 many and many a clean
minded, decent school teacher. brought
up In a good home. the mere thought Of
teaching sex hygiene would be a task Of
terror.
1t is a task Of terror anywhere, for
n one, In any capacity even that Of par
n But ! It's properly the. parents task
of terror. II they cant handle it. II
they don't know how, if they have been
ignorant and lave themselves had
no chance in the world, time enough then
for them as parents to go to the teacher
or some other source Of wisdom, and
learn how. But it is not q public matter
nor q %gregarious matter.
AT times the public well might weary
Of much of this sort of thing. Who wants
the sanctuary Of his home invaded? Who
wants sacredly private matters thrust
into his face at his breakfast table? Who
wants a registered ancestry or an aseptic
marriage or a child shot full of sex by.
giene at the schools? Let us unscramble
a lot OF this tommyrot Of today and try
living like Grandma did.
Sex hygiene. eugenics, a lot more OF
this sort of rot, must eventually prove
rather hopeless, because they are all liv-
lng to correct conditions to correct in.
1ividuals en- bloc, not individuals indi-
vidually considered. The tendency Is to
wipe out the home, to wipe out the par
ents. to wipe out the individual.
That means the wiping' out Of ckarac-
|erad When you have completed doing