The Denver Jewish news., 1919-01-29
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS.
January "a, 1919.

iuteieSl oS so6r HNny rettefS. II is
| oppOrtune and deserves the commenda-
ton Of all thinking readers. 1t gives
much food for thought and for ac-
| tion.
There is indeed An Urgent Need
for fine training and education on
social hygiene for many of the boys
who were unfortunate in not obtuin-
ing same from Uncle Sam. but more
especially for our rising and future
| generations. And this need can be
easily met by our good women and
organizations cooperating with par
ehts. ministers and educators teach.
ing our boys and girls to live clean,
pure, healthy and honorable lives OF
usefulness by proper knowledge of
social hygiene. The training however
should begin in the home. In a frank.
kind and loving, way, parents should
shstruct their boys and girls AS to the
nature, object and requirements of all
their organs for good or evil. They
should warn them against the dan
gers of abusing them in any manner.
and should safeguard. instruct and
warn them and treat them like reason
able beings. There should be no lack
of confidence between parents ana
children. No mother does her whole
duty to her growing daughter or IA
father to his son, until they have in
structed them of the dangers. An
ounce of prevention is worth a pound
Of cure. How many girls and boys
have said Oh if my parents had only
advised me.
Parents are careful to teach their
children religion, send them to Synagos
and Sunday school. careful about their
mental development their studies and
reading matter, are anxious to have
them associate with cultured people.
To teach them the difference between
right and wrong. honesty and dis
honesty. desire them to acquire good
breeding but that which concerns
their very health and life. viz; proper
knowledge of sex life and organs,
extreme silence. The children are per
mitted to find out for themselves. and
they often pay bitterly for their ignor-
ance. and to the extreme sorrow of the
parents, whose criminal silence on this
important subject may ruin the lives
of their sons and daughters. for whose
happiness they would make any sac
rifice Impurity is often the result of
ignorance.
Our good women can also very ma-
terially assist in the maintenance Of
the splendid standard set by Uncle
Sam. by insisting upon the SINGLE
standard for both men and women
Not the double standard. overlooking
and condoninE the acts of the man. and
severely condemning the woman. They
should insist upon higher and purcr
standard of society. because where
ever woman has dominated, she has
refined. elevated and purified. and has
made the home the sweetest. purest
place on earth. BY becoming
prominent factor in this movement.
our good women can practically over
come the social evil Ga rose by any
other name would smell just us sweet e.
The present success of the Prohibition
movement due TO womcn's good in
flucnce was ridiculed only few years
ago.
Away with prudery. false modesty
and the crime of silence by parents,
ministers and educators. The silent
course has been tried. Statistics and
records of the insane, blind and other
hospitals, also recent statistics of the
L. $. Government show its terrible
price Whatsoever u man soweth,
that also shall he reap"
Educate, Educate. The minds of the
boys and girls should be directed i'll
legitimate channels. they should be
taught to Keep their minds and
thoughts pure and clean. Plenty of
hcalthful exercises. physical and lncn-
sul and outdoor life should be earn
cstIy recommended.
If parents thru ignorance of the
SUBJECT OF IulU lulSt ut'i'h'
to do this. they should purchase pop
ular books on the subject and place
them i'll the hands of their children
Parents who allow their children to
grow up without in any way. or. at
any time instructins or advising with
them in the use and abuse of the
sexual department of their systems.
do them Il very great and lasting
wrong.
Free public instruction should he
given to both sexes.
Purity strengthens. Impurity weak
ems. one is constructive. The other
destructive. Good thoughts lead to