Evening star., 1915-07-19
HECKL|NG Of COMST0CK
ST|RS PURITY CONGRESS
Delegates at International Meeting
in Uproar-Disturbers Quieted
by Sergeants-at-Arms.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 19.-At the
second days session of the ninth Inter-
national Purity Congress, the program
today included addresses by DR.. Charles
G. Pease of New York, president of the
Nom Smokers Protective League of
America" on 1.-The Tobacco Vice Con-
tributory to Sexual Immorality,' and by
Clifford G. Roe of Chicago on THE
New Purity Plan
Trouble started at the opening ses-
sion of the congress yesterday, when
Leon Malmed of Albany, n. Y, and
William C. Hall. a San Francisco medi-
cal student, tried to question Anthony
comstock, special agent Of the Society
for the Prevention of Vice Of New York
city. on phases of his work. Threats
of arrest from three sergeants -at-arms
were necessary to restore order.
At the close of Mr.. Comstocks ad-
dress on his work in New York Mr..
Malmed was given permission to ask
question. He wanted to know il Mr..
Comstock could justify the methods
whereby the arrest OF William SenSer
of New York was secured.
Comstock Is Heckled.
II consider that question very i'm
pertinent at a meeting of this kind"
replied Mr. Comstock, land L only wish
to state that you are misinformed as
to the facts"
Mr.. Malmed to take his seat. AS the
chairman raped for order, Mr.. Hall
rose and questioned Mr.. Comstock on
his attitude toward the works of Have
lock Ellis. Dr. Won Kraft Ebing and
DR.. Ulrich.
You are out of order" interrupted
the president, as the audience broke
into an uproar.
Mrs Catherine Booth Clibborn, Oldest
daughter of Gen. Booth. founder of the
Salvation Army, was one of yesterdays
speakers.
Clifford g. Roe's Ideas.
Clifford G. Roe of Chicago, president Of
the American Bureau of Moral Education,
appointed by President Wilson as Ameri-
can delegate to the congress, proposed a
new purity plan.
1.-The campaign against the social evil
has spread SO rapidly and widely that
the local and national groups engaged in
it are mostly unaware Of what diverse
world wide movement they constitute,
said Mr.. Roe. Each seems bent upon
some pet solution Of the problem. Some
psycopathic, others say that laws and
police only are efficient in the matters,
while others put their whole faith in
economic education and social hygiene.
While all these are necessary and help
full, the supreme appeal must be greater
than all these; it must be the appeal to
morality-moral education.
Therefore, in this great gathering OF
the ninth International Purity Congress
1 wish to tell Of new plan for this
purity appeal.
.In the past our efforts have been
largely centered upon the school teacher.
the doctor. the lawyer and the minis
ter. Our new plan is to bring the facts
before the great masses of the people.
the farmer, the business. man and the
laborer. The message Of purity. there
fore, is not only preached today from
the pulpit. but likewise from the chau-
tauqua and lecture platform and in
clubrooms and the auditoriums of great
commerce associations"
Mr.. Roe said he believed Chicago is to.
day morally the cleanest metropolitan
city in the world. which condition was
brought about by IAN aroused public
! sentiment-a quickened moral conscience
"a deeper and truer conviction concern
ing the responsibility of citizenship"