Show SECRECY PERIL school conference Coli ference speaker advocates Edu cAlon caon as cure sees the religious aspect and I 1 declares that the will to do the right should go with the knowledge of the right buffalo N Y representatives of the many boards of education who were hero here gathering hints for the teaching of sox sex hygiene in the high schools at the international congress on oa school hygiene fly glene displayed much interest in an address on the social emergency delivered by dr william T foster president of reed college and also president of the pacific coast federation for sex hygiene dr faster foster said in part wany many generations have joined in the conspiracy of science in matters pertal pertaining ning to sox sex and reproduction the result Is widespread igno ignorance ranco of matters of the utmost importance to the individual and the raco ignorance of which many good people are proud during these generations in which the horns home the church and the school have withhold the truth from young people other agencies have boon been busy dis falsehoods having almost no opportunity to hear sex and matrimony discussed with reverence our oung people have almost invariably heard board these subjects discussed with vulgarity partly as a result or of all this has come the tha general acceptance of the double standard of morality which has bitterly condemned d the girl made her an outcast of society and excused the boy for the same offence offense on the specious plea of physiological necessity with the sanction of this double standard tacitly accepted by society the majority of men have grown up la in indulgence and have developed habits which are or which they believe to be beyond their control millions of men who recognize no law in sex life but their own appetites are thus contributed tri buted to us by tho the past they are factors in the present situation and must be reckoned with As a matter of fact act the educational phases of social reform are of 0 mot immediate importance nothing can so profitably occupy the attention ot of social hygiene societies as the education of the public no aspects are more important than those concerning morals and religion the restraining fear of disease may and probably will be thrown off by science whether education in scientific aspects af 0 f the subject will do good or harm in a given case depends on the extent to which moral and religious ideals control the conduct of the individual the inadequacy of mere information in matters of sex Is painfully evident to the knowledge of what Is right must be added the will to do the right all the other aspects of the social emergency treated with superhuman wisdom would still leave the greatest problem unsolved As moral and religious instruction Is the dominant educational need of the present generation so the moral and religious aspects of sex problems transcend the others in importance to attempt to deal with sex aspects of school hygiene as though these problems were distinct from other phases of the social emergency is to invite failure from the start the union of the american federation for sex hygiene and the american vigilance association to la a step in the right direction for it gives promise of seeing the social emergency clearly and seeing it whole |