The Washington times., 1914-02-11

Fhe Social evil'' is as old as the
human family. There is no rage of
history upon, which is not written
the biography of its victims.
Leckey, in his History Of Civil
ization," calls her the eternal
priestess of the race" Victor Hugo
described her as the slave of civ
ilization.''
Although there have been man.
variations Of the species, due to en-
Nironment and local conditions, they
have always followed, broadly, two
lines, typifed by two of the best
known Of different types-Rahab.
whose house was on the walls OF
Jericho, the keeper of a public house,
where the enemies Of Jericho found
shelter, comfort, and help. The
other, Jezebel, on the throne OF
Israel, using her social and polit-
ical power, as well as her magnifi-
cent personal charms, for the per-
petuation Of a scheme of life, which
had as its foundation the degreda-
tion Of the association Of the sexes.
II is significant to rote, that when
AnG OI a btAltE lie was llGAO
out to Rahab, she eagerly accepted
it. and became one OF the ancestors
of the Christ. There is no evidence
that such a change ever took place
in the life of Jezebel. Her knowi-
edge of man-nature, which had al
ways served her purposes, played
her false when she tried her charms
on Jehu. no saint himself, but i'm
pervious to her charms. Other men
rT-tnTT1 HI hu1 4hn
scented courtiers OF luxury, but
Jehu, the man who drove furious
ly," was active, virile; a man who
lived in the open, and was immune.
Is not the same type of man today
more impervious TO the painted Je-
zebel?
Church Not Blameless.
Nor do We find the church blame
less when we study the subject from
the pages Of Holy Writ We find
that Elijah, endued with faith suf-
fcient to Withstand successfully the
$50 priests of Baal. and the thou
sands of faithless Israelites, when he
heard that Jezebel had threatened
70 do that and worse to him." when
he stood before her. the brave man
became a coward, and ran away and
hid under a Juniper tree. The Een-
tence passed upon by a voice from
heaven, THE Journey is too great
for thee, Elijah rings down the
corridors of time as a warning to
all those who leave out Of their
scheme Of salvation the unfortunate
women.
One of the reasons why this evil
has become for so long a time a
part of our social fabric is that il
has to do with the degradation of
natural laws. Anything which affects
natural phenomena is more difficult
70 reach. Because of the determined
lsissez-faire policy, on the part of
the most responsible element of So
ciety. there has been no concerted
effort to deal, intelligently. with this
subject. So long as society declared
the problem unsolvable, it would re-
main so.
But now that the light has been
permitted to enter this dark. forbid
den realm Of human activity, We
hope that at least the evil may be
ninimized. If conditions cannot be
improved and things are to remain
substantially as they are, a part of
our social order, we will all bear our
part in the responsibility Of the mat
ter.
The Segregated District.
But unless there were sufficient
reasons, there could not be such uni
versal condemnation Of the segrega-
ted district. When so many trained
minds are studying the question,