Show 7 The Fifth Mans Man's 9 Disease seas sease By Herbert Kaufman HC fifth man is tainted He is a blight a carrier of disease THE nl 1 par paralysis lysis' lysis and idiocy The titan tasks ahead of us and the I diminished population with which civilization must must 1 be salvaged h 1 and lid repaired deny any further toleration of prudery Unless the next lext generation is saner and sounder than this reconstruction will pi lag interminably There wont won't be so many nany of us by the time autocracy f ra racy y is smashed but the gaps shant shan't count provided we realize 5 E t. t the full menace of venereal disease and adopt necessary me measures lif i t to fit to halt its course ff Verbal squeamishness squeamishness' has too long exiled the subject from Impolite polite conversation Syphilis and lI d' d gonorrhoea are not mentioned by byK K r. r proper t people A cowardly conspiracy of silence abets the I spread of of these race and thwarts any considerable effort considerable effort to toS' toS It S' S i t end them 7 Poltroon fathers fathers' refuse to discuss the contagion with their sons soils and mercilessly deliver them to marrying experience Wives fit r I f and aid d daughters are denied forehanded knowledge only to learn at att atthe the cradle side and operating table of the infamous treason which s t yearly betrays an unaware multitude to infection j i s Common welfare protests against the further marriage of the he hee e 4 f uncured and the incurable incurable against against the Puritanical pact to with- with i f lold defensive information information against against additional insane asylums asylums- i I d k a against g gc t roving pestilence i IL c Crimes offered to national vitality are far heavier and and dei deI de- de i I serve e legal restraint ev even n more than infraction of law and order I their sadder and i consequences are arc deeper J j r These lese abominations ar are perilously contagious and require eq ie not I f Only isolation but registration Every woman has the right to know the physical and mental fitness of the man she is to marry F f and should be afforded the opportunity to discover it The state her her owes itself that itself that i i. i owes owes protection A concealed venereal case is a military offense there are a ai i 1 reasons why it should sho be constituted a civil one I f i r Vice problems s will cease ceas to puzzle us Is health standards will be beI I h higher her the indirect source of several chronic chron c troubles will be beI teach reached Cached ed if we 1 pass ass drastically remedial legislation I F rj The flee doctors doctor's prescription wont won't cure society of the fifth mans man's manse mansI I e disease 1 i J 1 i Copyright 1918 by Herbert Kaufman Great Britain and all other rights right's reserved |