Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-04-15
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DR.. Temple Speaks on Social
Purity at High School
Auditorium
The storm did not prevent . large
number of Orofino people from
greeting DR.. Newton M. Temple at
the high school last night. The
speaker was introduced by Rev. J.
A. Hoffman,. who spoke briefly on
the next great reform. which is the
fight for social purity.
DR.. Temple is general field secre-
tary for the Worlds Purity Fedora
ton. an organization that is en-
larging its sphere of activity by
sending out an increased number OF
lecturers. the present number being
ten. Organizations are being effect
ed in every state in the Union. DIR.
Temple has already organized sever
al western states, and he is now
gathering up the nucleus for an or
ganization in Idaho.
The address last night was appro-
priately associated with the present
great wave of crime and immortality
for which there are several causes.
lhe first is the war. Every war.
said Dr. Temple. is followed by an
era of theft, vice and murder. The
late war was no exception. Both in
Europe and America the bars OF
social purity were let down. Even
governments connived with social
immortality by furnishing soldiers
" it'll devices for protection against
contamination from disease. World
wide prostitution was the inevitable
result. Social disease has become
the great scourge of the world. Be
ginning in Asia, it has spread west
ward until its ravages are being felt
in every hamlet in even our fair
America.
DR.. Temple startled his audience
when he stated that ninety per cent
of all insanity had been traced to
social disease. Ninety per cent Of The
operations that are being performed
in the hospitals are likewise due to
social disease. And only recently has
has swept away SO many lives in
Asia, had it's original source ocial
disease. If this evil cont MUGS % ad-
vance with such rapid strides du ing
the next three or four generations
as during the past three or four
generations, physicians are wonder
The second source of inspiration
for social impurity was given by
DR.. Temple as being the movies.
which, the speaker said, are over
playing sex stuff" as well as rob-
berry and murder The great major
ity of the mon now being sentenced
for moral delinquency received their
aspiration from scenes in the movies,
where all the details of rime re &C.
picted. These details are worked
out to a nicely for assimilation by
our youth, whose keen Imagination
readily enlarges on what the eye
sees. For this condition DR.. Temple
did not blame local picture houses.
They are obliged to take what the
producer offers, unless they prefer
to reject the films sent. But even
If the operators reject suggestive
matter, the public would refuse to
give adequate patronage to decent
pictures. The producers and the act
Ors are in the game FOR the money
there is it. Suggestive scenes draw
larger houses and bring In larger
returns. Actors are paid a royalty
on their productions If they put on
plays that draw large audiences
their returns will be CORRESPONDENCE
large. If the houses are small, the
returns will diminish accordingly
1t is all matter of dollars and
cents all along the line. and the
social welfare Of the people is moi
F, considered.
What ia the cure? Educational
propaganda. The late Theodore
Roosevelt once said, Turn q ligh,
on a rathole and the rats can't ex
ist" He applied this epithet to cor
rupt politicians. The same law ap
plies to every institution that cor
rupts society. This is what thu
Worlds Purity Federation is nov
doing. The men who are sent on
are educating the people and rails
ing money to be used in the publica
tion of adequate literature on thu
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