Show WHY VICE LIKES I THE DARK Dr Harden Marden a P. P practical cal philosopher opher whose Rhone message to humanity is always inspiring and uplifting has written an article Purity Is Power Po-cr In the NO issue of Pictorial Review lie intends to write a series of articles for lor or them on the tho new woman her opportunities and the spots danger in the new era era just beginning lor for wo woo men men- We quote quota the following Thero Thera it is between between between be be- is as strong an affinity tween evil things as good I things All AH forms of ot dissipation belong belong be be- long to the samo same family Tho judges in rn tho childrens children's courts tell us that t nearly every boy who goes wrong be begins begins gins with smoking cigarettes nas ca a a. much more moro demoralizing influence upon a boy because of his immaturity than upon a man This is especially true if it he learns to smoke during tho the dangerous erous y years ara of puberty when ho already has all aU the temptations which he is ablo able to control The boy should be shown the strong probability of being initiated into au an au anevil evil things if ho he IB ie IS' IS introduced to a single vicious practice Alcohol morphine morphine mor mar phine cocaine all U sorts of deadly drugs all forms of or dissipation vice and crime go to together Each attracts tho other is what makes it so 80 difficult to reform a person when he is ia started down hill T rho Tho ho affinity of all an the bad things is a trem tremendous l pull ull downward I as aB the affinity of all that is good I and pure puro and clean tends to pull a aman aman anian man nian up when ho i is il going in that direction direction tion when whoa he is trained with the family of good influences A point which most moat parents overlook or do not fully appreciate is the tho greater temptations which aro open to the youth after dark Somehow tho the good m us seems to subside at night or else it is i. minimized by the greater grenter magui magui- f ing in and the greater eater prominence of ol tho the bad ad in us which tends tens to come out after dark Most of the wickedness of the world is committed after dark A fraction o of the frightful expense in great cities caused aused by crime crimo i it expended in lighting lighting light light- in ing up Uj all ll the tho dark dismal places of the c city ty especially tho the slums making the streets and the alleyways an and byways byways byways by by- ways as nearly light as possible would diminish h crime crimo crime immensely and would prove a tremendous investment for tho the tit i I Crime is afraid of f light Bad people are dral of ot light They want to o get into dark places out of sight Flooding Flood Flooding in ing out cities with light would reduce crime crune and all vicious practices tremendously When men men are doing wrong they thoy want to get et out of the tho light into the dark street awn away from the public gaze gazo awa away from the observation of their sir A police ins inspector in addres addressing ing New NewYork NewYork NewYork York public school graduates said enId I just came from the Tombs where I closed the gates behind a wealthy mur mur- rarer I want to toll you young men that DO per cent of ot the crimes Crimea committed com corn today are eau caused ed by evil com corn I I have known groups of ot college boys to go to fo tho the city at night and indulge in drunken vulgar debauches and thon hate themselves for it for months months' afterwards afterwards afterwards' after after- wards wards' This is one of the dangers of colle college o life Par Parents should understand this boy ana philosophy as nR a n most moat pernicious pernicious pernicious per per- thin thing Even clean innocent beautifully r reared ared children who scorn so 10 pure puro that nothing t can CM contaminate tb them m aro arc often touched by the thc leper spot of vicious contagion when thrown into int had bad company as tho the soundest and rosi rosiest st of apples soon rot when kept in contact with other othor apples which have havo bo begun un to to decay Ono One low lived impure boy boy or girl Jeirl contaminates a aholo whole holo store factory school or neighbor neighbor- hood |