Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-24
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS
W. C. 7. u. HOLDS
ANNUAL MEETING
Local Organization Holds Out
door Meeting at Paxtang
Park

Members Of the Harrisburg w. C.
T. U. held their annual outing at
PaXtang Park to-day. A specially fine
out of doors meeting was held this af-
ternoon int the theater of the park
with Mrs. w. H. Cooper county super
intendent of the open air meetings
presiding. and Mrs. Violet Hollar Boil
Ian, Mrs. John De Gray, Mrs. Harry
Leonard, Mrs. Charles King and Le-
a Bowers Harnish as participants
in the program. Mr.. Harnish, the
principal speaker of the afternoon and
State superintendent of the Pennsyl-
vania Federation. took as the subject
in which he describes the
work of Worlds Purity Fed
Grafton in overcoming the white slave
traffic In an inimitable and eloquent
speech he plead for sex instruction and
an uncompromising attitude against
his terrible and systematized crime.
Mr.. Harnish said. in part:
THE Worlds Purity Federation and
the committee out of which it grew
have been at work since 1900, and
represents the first real organized eff
fort in North America. in a national
and international sense. for the eradi-
cation OF the traffic in women, the
- ol8NS IldlllC, the dHIlllldlOn Oh
pubic vice. for a higher n single
standard of morals, and the safe and
sane instruction of our young in So
cial hygiene.
The slogan of the Worlds Purity
Federation is that. The white slave
traf1c and public vice car and must
be annihilated."
The federation employs three meth
d of attack on this problem: Edu-
cation, law enactment and enforce
ment, n remedial work.
By means of education the feder-
alton aims to have the parents teach
n child sex truths properly before
he is taught the vile and ugly aspects
OF these truths by his ill-taught COM
panions. 1t aims to have the State
provide a man and a IN to teach
these truths to the parents of the next
generation, now in the colleges, nor
NAL schools, and academies, they
bring the instruction down into the
high schools as soon as the public is
wiling to sympathize and cooperate
with such a plan.
The principal cause is the double
standard of morals. The boy must
not see a fallen oma ostracised and
a man whom he knows to be immoral
admitted to the ~hearthstone, invited
to tea. allowed to take the daughter
to the theater and finally marry her.
such d on the part of the par
ents says to the boy, you can be
and may do just as you please, but
your sister must be as pure as an
angel"
Another aus is dress. Would that
parents would see to it that their chill
dren were properly dressed. The good
n virtuous girls and women are not
different in appearance than that
great cosmopolitan company of those
gone wrong. Many good and virtuous
girls and women are ~accosted for
denizens of the underworld because of
the similarity of their dress. paint,
and earrings.
The child does not know the pitfalls
n dangers. because of lack of sex
instruction. Young girls who dance at
nome are attracted by the great white
way, the blazing lights, gaietv. and
apparent happiness of the immoral
dance halls, which in many Instances
cad to the girls downfall. At dances
given by lodges, charity balls, literary
and National Guard fairs,
the speaker has seen the modern
dance danced in that same indescent.
ill-positioned, sin-tempting way to hell
through the door of the dance.
The mar who believes in a sepra-
gated district, let him invite the dis
trict to be placed next door to his
rather than in the slums among
the poor people of the city. Any man
VIC faVors segregation is one of three
he is ignorant, misinformed.
or vicious. What right has any man
say who's sister shall be compelled
live that life? Now then let us show