:*Religion ana Ethics:: SEX O’CLOCK IN AMERICA WAVE of sex hysteria and remedy, women, under the new dis- It rather enjoys the coprelalin of it Sex discussion seems to have pensation, are to abandon themselves al." invaded this conntry. Our 10. promiscuity. I canmt see that former reticence on matters trranciprtion tends that way. Tt scems "No one it partially in favor of of sex is giving way toa rather o me that emancipated woman, Ys- 3a most thinking people are i frankness that would even’ startle Inowing good and evi, will choose her Y2t of liberty and hee Cantor pre Tara Prositation, as Life remarks, san rather than be chosen” Sk ery. esd of i the chief tople Of polite rack sex o'lock permanently or nll Vice and crime. he insists are the fie scon point to ancther hour? symptoms of poverty, which itudf is a ‘One writer in the St. Louis Mirror, symptom of the. disease known as James F. Clare, asserts that we must privilege, We shoud strike atthe r0Ot “Eveatin is now directed to the end ant today to’ wortan the sume prow hot at the branches of enabling « wn to get moneys" Gut Seay that society tacily grants 10 "The vice crusade business in Chit youths sty what they ek wil enable the male. This statement fas arvused cago, New “York, San’ Francisco, ‘vem tg there quicest “No. Gare Esormf discussion and protest. Mr everywhere, think Reedy, ie beng Novas and no metapnyice No ced himself, the a rade, crongly overdone. "There ia too much senoar HOR. Aft scence, scence it fae sens from ‘the attitude of is ag- tonal in its campaigns. There tse Soto the hands of thove whe pursue resve contributor. He points out teo much censorship of songs and ito ( know, ut wo get Education is ‘that Clark's point of view is the logical dances. It is all as spasmodic and P01 draw a man out of himself, but to s point of ven 4 s raw materi ings to fimeei No one cucome of the hideously materaitic Saint Vitos dance-ike as some of the $°7¥ ate hms to nae, No one toy that disregards spiritual values condemned) performances themselves, icuwcetmed with ceral things. All hat pers AL Gp aot believe” be "Theiss am epidencalfransy in it Gon’ "hnd wine few af eeecth cy daya "at given the prophylecic and -And the pubic iant so much shocked) tty eases tia we ate bees tn INDIANA UNIVERSIT Reedy places the blame for the sex hysteria upon the hedonistic mater tic philosophy that pervades Amer jean life. The poor, he says, learn their worst vices from the rich. Every ody lives for a good time in the up- Yer world, and the infection spreads Gownward “Is there.” he asks, “any- thing of the spiritual left in education in America, broadly speaking? There is not.4 cenher people, we haye a right to say what they shall ing of dance and whom they shall marty and whether they shall marry at all” We want 0 make people good Dy science” ‘There’ is, however, the writer elo- quently continues, a return to the Spirit, which, indeed, most people have never forgotten. We are beginning again to discover the common man ard to forget the superman and his ine dalgence in himself, and his imitators. “When we get back again to teaching that man Is made for dhe etcrniies and ‘not for his lit, feverish hour here fas we are getting back 0 it—we shall Find’ that we have only been on a long. ‘drunk of materialiom, that we have Been ‘Of Circe's swine, We shall not abolish Vice, but vie will be more decent, more ‘natural, more healthy thaa itis nb with Hts hortid, formal, arfial glare. Some ‘of ut may, ar in'the past, set aside the Ten" Commandments "as interferences Gh our energies, but we won't set 0p {he Seven Deadly Sins "in ‘heir places, We ‘shall be free of eugenics, and of ‘economic determinism and. the survival ‘of the fittest and all the Spencerian, Berg Seniaa, Nietsrchean gods, and have U- ‘ty of the spirit to develop ourarlves by Virtue of that human in us that isnot one With the dragons of the prime, We will hot be eood as long as, or because it pays’ and then ick over all the traces. We will be as good as ve can, with an ‘reasioual stumble, and try always to be bette, and: we will not turn raiders tom ‘morrow against the people who are doing merrily the things we did toulay. We hall realize that bed tho we be, and our Brothers, too, we all have souls to be saved and they can't de saved by govern ‘eat, or by science or by ambody bat furseives, aspiring to” our better selves in the Fkenete of the ideal we call God. So. we shall quit trying to destroy vice as ie Mourshes by raids and censorship ‘We shall begin at the beginning and be virtuous ourselves and tesch virtue 10 thers by showing them the eternal. not the temporal, values of conduct, motived by justice and upon love” Dr, Cecile L. Greil, a Socialist writer, welcomes the fact thet society is drawing. its head ovt of the ‘sand ‘of prudery where it had hidden it, fotrich like. "Bet she, feo, fears the hysteria of sex discussion. | She espe- cially warns the members of her own sex The pendulum with women Swings more rapidly to extreme de ress, she asserts. This may be be- ‘cause of her highly sensitized nervous organism, which fastens with almost hysterical tenacity. to anything which produces an emotional appeal. And surely ncthing that hae come to her for study or reflection in all the ages has been as important to her, and through, her to posterity, ab is this freedom of sex knowledge, which guards the citadel of society and makes for a bet- ter, finer race of citizens. “Tut one danger larke in her midst. Sex free. CURRENT OPINION dom is frequently hysterically inter- preted into meaning sex license And the science which shall give her the right to freer, happier motherhood en- tallsall the responsibilities that freedom im any other sense does” The modern social system, the writer continues in Phe Call, is'a terrific endurance test sgainst the forces within ourtelves and the forces that attack us without Vanity and love and sport she admits, Guoting a Judge of one of the Night Courts, make more prostitutes th economic pressure and exploitation. “Youth is extravagant to. prodigalty with tse [tie drunk with ts own Imoxicating perfume. It looks down into the glass of life ar did Norcia into the brodk, snd like Narciaus falls in love with its own beauty. And we surround that young, passionate, bursting blossom with every temptation ‘to break down its Fesistant power, Ture it into sentient Dolesting desire and eroticism by lurid fieratare, moving pictures, tango dances, suggestive songs, cabarets, noise, music, life, rhythm, everywhere, until the senses are throbbing with leashed-in physical passioneverything done to lure, but nothing to instruct. So one day the leash sraps, and apother boy or girl is Outside the pale We do mtch for the developing of the intellect’ and for the fuse of our hands ao that we may tend our young people ost isto the big battle hur ‘es beyond the home, but for the Datte against the physical forces, the law of the magnetic attraction of the sexes, St the dangerout period of puberty. and Adoleswence, we do nothing. Education {a the only thing that car save, rational libertarian’ edueation on the subjects per~ taining to the laws of personal and social hyve.” Society is apt to regard the fourteen= year-old adolescent as a litle dreamy Scheol-girl, ties prety ribbons in her hair, and keeps her dresses well con- fred to knee length, forgetting that all the extemals of the child mask the seething turbulent ocean undernecth. Tn the child dwells a fully awakened woman. Nature goes through a vica- ious process of sex awakening with all its stupendous morbid psychology and complexes. The position of the boy at puberty, contends Dr. Greil, is still ‘worse. "He has not even the hereditary inatinets of inhibition that his Title sister has. "Society smiles on hit acts, call ther ‘sport! sowing his wild oats ee. He be- comes a moral cowatd and sneak, con cenrly to secret vice, to the brothel, fo dissipation and roguery. “And the crop he reaps from the wild oats he sows fil our streets with ‘proses, foandling asylums with nameless and give him a heritage of venereal dive fase to wreck his future usefulness and hhand down as a sad legacy to bis pos terity. He fears mo moral cofel His mother and sisters live ‘mosphere of imaginary him off from intimacy, and the ander- sanding which his mother coald impart to him if she were his friend instead of transcendental ideal far up on 2 ped Stal out of his reach. His father, per- ays the omly human’ being who ‘ould save him at the crucial period, is his bit terest for of at best 2 total stranger to im, shilding: himeelf stter exhausting sll the phases of sex liberty for himeclf an armor of virtue and respectability, which ‘simply antagonizes the boy and ‘widens the breach between himself and Society “He becomes an_slien in his own home, an outeest free to mingle with the world of vicious freedom that welcomes fim veth open arms, makes him the tool fof lost souls atd stains him with a smear ff fith that ruins him etterly before he {a old enough to Tear that bis much: Prired sex freedom ba bondage that makes him pay exorbant prices in le fof srength, ideals and health. Tru life does teach as thoroly as any academy, ‘bat how He makes ur pay The necessity of sex. education is generally recognized. Yet there are also evidences of reaction. ‘Thus the Chicago Board of Education rescinded the order issued by Mrs. Ella Flagg ‘Young, in whose hands rests the school system of Chicago, providing for tec tures on sex hygiene in the schools. The Ecclesiastical Review, a Roman Catholic. publication, maintains that whatever warning and instruction may be necestary should be left in the hands of the priest. Nevertheless, the editor, tho grudgingly, prints a list of books con eugenics for the use of Romar Catholic teachers and priests 10 3 them in. following intelligently the trend of public opinion. Another Reman Catholic publication. America, asks for the suppression of vice reports and of vice commissions, except for restricted particular investigations, The publication attacks Doctor — Eliot's championship of the Society of Sani- tary and Moral Prophylaxis, Eliot hat no right, in the opinion of tmerica, to declare that before the advent of the Society and its head, Dr. Morton, the Policy of the world was “absolute Silence” with regard to sex hygiene. ere is," we are told, “a world of difference between absolute silence and the wise end prudent discretion which bids father and mother and teacher refrain from handling the topic in public and without discriminating Sense, whilst it at the same time ine spires them to say at the fitting time the right word which shall safeguard their children, and to say it with a cireumspection not likely’ to destroy the sense of shame, which is the best natural protection of the innocence of these little ones.” Radicals and conservatives, Free- thinkers and Catholics, all seem to be- Tieve in solving the sex problem by education, but as to the method that i to he fellosted there are sbysmal dif-