The Omaha guide., 1936-10-31

Ivy uiuei n same roof with them
Tor twenty years without ever once
speaking a frank and honest word
to them of fundamental facts Such
fathers, and the world is stin full
OF them. cause more havoc than
all the rapists in the world. Their
hypocrisy and evasion of the
truth make emotional cripples of all
their womenfolk. Makes prudes and
neurotics of their daughters inva-
lids of their wives. Finally they
send their daughters out into life
unequipped in any way to become
sound, healthy mothers and wives.
And SO emotional misery is passed
on from one generation to genera
ton.
More than likely, too. this same
father is no saint in his own RIGHT.
But he would keep his womenfolk
sterile in mind and body He makes
them, as it were, atone for his W
lapses. This vicarious virtue allows
him to feel he is doing his part to
maintain the defency of society. AS
a matter of fact, he is helping it
10 rot at it's very core.
New Trends in Child Rearing
Many parents haven't yet heard
Of it, gut there is a new trend in
the treatmen of children, especially
of daughters. This is a cultivation
of a real, honest friendship with
them. An intellectual and spiritual
~closeness which does not fear hon
est discussion even of the most ia
booed subjects. But to make this
possible. fathers first need to be
friends with their wives. need to be
real and not just legal helpmates.
The home should have an atmos-
phere of gay and fearless honesty.
For each and every quarrel and
fight which fathers and mothers
indulge in. reacts unfavorably up
on their children. The spiritual out
look of children is fashioned from
the daily events that happen in their
homes. If they turn out to pc CO.
wards, thieves, murderesses pro-
titutes. don't blame them. They are
but reflecting the ~ugliness, the
sordidness, the dishonesty which
you gave thief to see.
The Gri-Gri Bush
In native Africa. when a girl or
boy reaches puberty. he or she is
sent at nee into the "bush" to go
to school in matters of sex. The
"bush" simply means going fur
Their into the jungle away from
their respective villages. The boys
go to be instructed by their elders
in their duties as lover. husband
and father. The girls go with ell
derby women to be taught the duties
of sweetheart, wife and mother.
The schools are separate. And they
call Africa primitivei
What do We do here in this en-
lightened and Superior" civiliza-
ton? Why, we let daughters
grow up in ignorance and fear like
Elizabeth, and our sons develop into
brutal rapists, actual or mental.
Where do our children go to school
to find out about their duties as
husband or wife, father or mother?
To the movies! Or to their equally
as ignorant schoolmates who have
learned of sex in the alleys. Maybe
if we consider ourselves very broad
minded, we give them a book to
read on anatomy
New Institute of Marital Advice
Prof Allan P. Gribsby, formerly
of Toledo (Ohio)3 university. is
about to open a school of advice in
New York City on martial rela-
tionship. Girls of today, he says,
are more ignorant and backward
than the most sheltered. mid-Vict-
orian maiden. He blames ignorance
in sex for our high rate of divorce.
We put off marriage in modern
civilizations longer. than any other
age of history. Many of the most
famous women of history were
married and mothers at twelve and
famous women of history yer
fourteen. Romeo and Juliet were
of the latter venerable age. Too
early marriages are not desirable,
but neither are very late ones Just
because we must. for economic rea-
sons, put marriage off here till late,
does not NEAR that girls should be
kept in ignorance; just the reverse
is necessary. They must be able to
protect themselves from mistakes.
Elizabeth presents an extreme x
ample. Those three hundred clerks
stenographers, and shop girls who
p%atronize the New Jersey chiro-
practor who was recently arrested