East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-01-30
Why Is scx

OF Norman Hapgood is journal OF
diva n cemen,
Why l. Sex with reference
knowledge Opposed? to political and
social questions
Mr.. Rapgood may also know some
thing about art though appearances
are against him. The artistic features
in the new Harpers are weak in one
respect-their looks--and il at all ex.
pensive should be supplanted BY pho.
Biography which is cheap. quick and
lifelike
The editorial department of Harp
er's however makes amends for short.
coming in the magazines illustrative
features. Mr.. Hapgood delights to
point out frauds and shams and an
editorial of the 24th dwells on the in
teresting subject of why certain news.
papers are opposed to the teaching of
sex hygiene in schools. The editoria,
in full follows:
Search your mind to the bottom and
Your psychology may be subtle enough
to find out why the great defenders
of decency are those who are the
the great upholders of public special
privilege. In New York City. for in.
stance, political and economical
special privilege has never had any
other servant SO faithful year in and
year out and on every subject as "The
SUM-" nor is there any other paper
which more delights in printing a
story in which an excuse exists for sex
exploitations. A famous editor of the
Sun used to say whenever the circu-
lation began to decline, Smut her up,
Smut her up" 1t has been a consist
ent policy of the Sun, whenever an in
decent play was put on, to give elabo-
rate extracts to show Just how indecent
il was. II, however, any attempt is
made to give serious consideration to
tie problems and standards of sex.
the Sun will always raise a scream
that morals are being undermined
end propriety outraged. For a long.
long time. mankind has been dealing
with one of the Oldest and one of the
81 eatest moral evils in the world, and
! il has now reached the conclusion
that it is possible almost entirely to
remove it. segregation and other
cynical devices have proved to be
failures; the hope now is in know
ledge, and that light seldom fails. A
! few good men, and a great many good
women are endeavoring to see that the
! terrible facts about the sacrifice OF
/ youth, usually poor and ignoran
youth, are understood, so that little
boys may be brought up to see low
sex morality as the unworthy ant
cruel thing it is. Against such {
movement special privilege newspa.
| pers can absolutely be counted on t.
take the leadership. These are the
1 facts; our readers may work out the
puzzle in psychology.
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Charles Wellington Furlong's ac,
count of the Roundup as published
| in the Worlds Work is one of the bes
descriptive narratives ever given o.
the show. Mr.. Furlong learned. of the
! Roundup by first hand methods. H
vas in the game all the time, rod'
with the cowboys. tried the hurrican
dc ok of the bull. Henry vogt. and thu
acquired the atmosphere for his story
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Ex-President Taft says Canad;
should profit by our mistakes. In tn
past Canada has been profitng by ou
gullibility Judging from the investi
cation into their publicity campaign
Enjoy the summer while it lasts.
Student insurance is a feature o
German continuation schools. For al
! insurance fee of 19 cents a half yea
, the students in the school for builders
for example, are insured against al
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