The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-13
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A
 HIGHER SENSE OF MORALITY
Social Service Department By MRS. SIDNEY M, ULLNAN

Few persons in passing think of ths great significance in the modern drama in regard to our every day problems. ant yet such problems are making the stag. and the pulpit vie for public uplift
 One giving a concrete acted sermon of the cause and effect of crime and dis case and the other sermon by wort of mouth, both assisting in directing tho social life of the world
 Twice lately have we been put face tt face with the great lessons on the stage one play in particular has been recog nized as a great teacher. the drama oi Damaged Goods This play deals with the great subject of eugenics and socia heredity and organic heredity. sSoc;i heredity accounts for those artificial characters that make man the social unit and which are acquired anew by eaci generation" says Professor Conn of Wes- eyan university.
 Professor Conn maintains that the ethical side of mans nature is the fouIi- dation of social evolution, and that social evolution is due to set of forces which have little or no influence in developing the animal kingdom. In other worcs the social nhei itance of the human so- cial unit has more to do with determin- ing hurian progress than the laws 1oe ip- heritance found in the lowe orders oi nature upon which eusenics is based. Tc distinguish be,Neer these two forces Professor Conn uses the terms soci:ll heredity and organic heiedty. in his ex- eeedinsly interesting .nev book. entitled
 social Heredity and Sncie Evolution The Other Side of Eug snics' trhe Aa. ingdon Press). His declared purpose is to show that the laws of evolution in ami malls and plants apply to human evolu- tion up to certain point, beyond which man has been under the influence of dis tinct laws of his own.
 The real advance of man over animals Professor Conn tells us, has been in de veloping his social attributes and not in his becoming better animal Mans at- tributes as social unit may be classi- fled under language writing and print ing. the moral sense of willingness tc sacrifice self-interests. customs and the knowledge. accumulated material wealth all or WHICH cnaracerlStlcS or what we call civilization can be and are handed on from generation to generation as a social but not germinal inheritance.
 The problem of organic, as well as so- sial heredity, then, becomes one of great and serious consideration.
 Charles w. Eliot asks the question: ia regard to prostitution. the mother uf social and organic heredity in regard so venerial diseases: .'
 What force can be put into pay against the formidable evils wliclI great iy threaten family life and human hapri- ress. civilization in general and the very life of the race?"
 The solution
 l. Against lust in men
 9 Against the weakness, dependence, mental deficiency. and lack of mora principle of the women who supply the demands of the men,
 g. Against the greed and depravity of the wretches who maintain profitable commerce out of this ficentious demand and supply.
 How can We cope with, the great evil of prostitution. the results Of which are shown in this strong drama of Dam aged Goods
 A report of + vice commissions after surveys of local conditions in i5 large cities and two states unanimously agree in recommending: