The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-09
EDUCATIONAL ASS OCIATION SAYS IT HAS NO PLACE IN THE
 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
WOULD LOWER MORALITY
Speakers Say Scheme is Proposed by Club-Going Women Who Wish to Shrk the Duty of Teaching Their Children in the Home.

St Paul, Minn., July S.-The teach ing of sex hygiene never will be dele. gated to the American teacher if it can be prevented by the National Education Association. This was eyi- denced at todays session when speaker after speaker denounced such course and found themselves greeted with ringing applause.
 We should have but the strongest condemnation for the wealthy, club going woman who has not time to teach her child fundamental truths Of life and would throw the responsi- bility on a teacher or football coach" shouted Dr. Charles H. keene of Minneapolis, supervisor of hygiene and physical training. Such shiftlessness is outrageous.
 When the tumultuous cheering had subsided he went o"'
 Sex education placed on the same plane with spelling and arithmetic will rob it of all it's sacredness.
 We talk about the inability of the poor mothers to teach their children personal hygiene, but it is not for these children that we need to have all the fear.
 Knowledge never will compel purity Sex instruction in schools will but tend to lower the standard of morality.
 "lf we take up sex hygiene in our schools the homes of America will continue to lose ground and will give up the few privileges they now have to train the children"
 N. D. Showalter, president of Che ney Normal School, Cheney, Wash. said:
 When father or mother turns aside a child's natural question or deals dishonestly with sex questions he lays the foundation of aan immor- .ality which may develop into a tre- mendous force."
 Miss Clara G. Baer of New Or leans and Baroness Rose Posse of Boston expressed like views.
 Methods for the conservation of the future race were advocated be- fore the department of social educa- tion by Mary c. Campbell, Chicago, psychologist.
 Every year the public schools pro duce human waste, as is evidenced by those who pass through our courts pschiopathoic laboratories" she said. We should conserve the children in public schools by having a special report every few months on those who are slightly retarded and are beginning to lag behind, so that deviations from normal could De studied in time to prevent mental and moral disaster. Many an i'm moral act has its genesis in it's en- couraged boy or girl
 warning to educators to beware Of cheap juvenile publications which are really nickel novels in disguise, was sounded before the library de- partment by Franklin Matthews, librarian of Boy Scouts of America, New York.
 William E. Jones, Chicago, was re- elected secretary of the national council of educatio"
 The report of the committee on resolutions to be sumbitted tomor- row considers simplified spelling, careful supervision of teachers medi- cal inspection and other subjects.
 The convention today deciend to report resolutions endorsing the bill in congress to pass uniform marriage and divorce. laws. The association will not consider the divorce evil and similar questions.
 Principles and aims of educataion formed the topic of discussion at the general session tonight Election of officers and reports of various | committees is the principal work on tomorrow's program. ---Ot------- upIiiE CKNu ANuC