Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-31
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Race Of
Teachers To Make.
U. Eugenics Possible


that you have done about all that can
be done toward the ruin Of d. country.
And when you seek to make your
son precisely like your ncighbor's o
your home precisely like, your neighbor's.
when you give up your own personal
touch Q nyour own personal. matters
when you throw open, that sacred sane.
.tuary Of the home for all the world
then you are facing toward the ruin of
your children and Of your country.
Some. Of the questions connected with
this of sex hygiene in schools are really
grave ones. Indeed. it is;father difficult
to separate -sophistication and religion
from all touch.s one with the other. 1t
makes no difference what You call the
Source. the Power, the First Law, the
Creator. n 81.
Whether with the Bible or the Micro
scope insyous hand. You come at last to
that Line .whichslies between us and the
Mystery ont Of which we came. We cana
from beyond that Line. ,sex.hyglene there.
We pass again beyond that Line Rel.
gion there. The regarding OF that Line,
whatever the religious point of view,
ought to be "a matter Of reverence and
not of f%lippancy. not Of gregariousness,
not of c~oarseness nor of too common com
ment. Observation-Disclosures had nothing to
do with it. hut religion in the universal
sense, of the term perhaps does in some
regard stand face to face opposed to pub.
lie sex hygiene.
And car you really teach morals and
manners. good brecding-theia art Of being
a lady or a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in the
natural home rather Of arithmetic and
geography.
Is there not an inherent differentiation
between the home and the school in some
regards? Do you want some ono else to
make ladies and gentlemen out of your
children or do you refuse to delegate that
job and intend to reserve 1t for your
self? 1t is much a question whether lad
les and gentlemen can be raised en- bloc.
The more; You look at Lake Michigan,
disturbed or calm, the more you will re.
fleet that there is only so much water
in it all the time. There will be plenty Of
good human living. plenty of ladies' and
gentlemen, here after the present Chi
cago school board. or the one succeeding
it. shalr have been forgotten. r.
One other thing you viii notice; When
the waves are coming in the water is
dirtier. You will have to hoil; it before
You can use It., Public sex hygiene is
simply one more of the waves of inter
ioctsing intelligence peculiar to the day.
Boil the water. Fumigate your newspaper
and your school. curriculum. It's the same
water ali the time.
Let's unscramble. Let's try being plain
decent for a while People; used ito, get
along that, way, IN. u u
Law! Law! Amt the picture of Grand
ma there OF the wall sweet?s Dear old
LADY, Wasn't it, too bad she had to
struggle along before the present day and
age Of the world! Grandma has gone back
across the Line that lies between human
life and the M~ystery--that lire which
should be approached with reverence.
And Grandma. in. sp1te Other lack Of ad-
vantages. was a lady bred and born.
wasn't she? .eV$
Being a lady bred and born-home-
made literally-is as good as being a
modern sex hygiened young woman.
Sometimes l almost think 1t would be as
well to be just a gentleman as. a prize
human registered for reference in the
Battle Creek Book Of T~horoughbreds.
Granpa also hands on the wall. Poor
GRANDPA! He. never had the advantages
of a Chicago public school. go ~
Once I sent Grandpa a present of a nice
box of Camcmbert cheese as a dellcacy.
He. wrote back: MY Dear Grandson: |
thank thee for remembering me thus
with the little box duly to hand.
1t was in receipt. however, much darnag.
ed in the transit and we have felt con
to place it In. the Smoke House.
We all wish thee WE'LL
OF course. you can get used to almost
anything in diet. But sometimes l won:
der II q lot Of things which we have pit
led, endured and embraced in our modern
l~ife-coarsened character, bloomless
public vulgarities in print. the
loyeless eugenic marriage, the registered
gentlemen Of Battle Greek sex hygiene in
schools-would not be much better off in
the Smoke House.
At least. that's where they once would
have been placed in q country that once
had Mothers and Grandmas. God bless
them!