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Show LCADINQ THINKERS OPPOSE SEX HYGIENE Tin. I'nitPii States Commissioner o F-bii . mu h.v of Inti' eotnu' In It r eiHiBliltrabto cltiiiftm, beoanso of an llidoi .-i nieut, in bin recent Annual Repot Re-pot t, of sex hygiene for '.ha pubilo schools. Tola Is not surprising In View of the Widespread res!-' trice to this attempted Innovntlon' In .nr pot -ttlnr ei icntion. L..i; nu ptMt'smrn, ediienton, ch t Ki'lllrii, and even physicians of nation-nf nation-nf f't'i.itatlnti, ore on record as bM'-e nncoiniirornlsing In their .opposition. BS-Pn sldcnt Tatt. In nddres iIur tiu -&dn .es of the Pierce Pii.trcy itllOn' of Phlltdrlphia, hel.l th-it nvr aijU.o: c-l .cation in sex nBicno is foil oi ihiegcm If' carried on in the ,gOflBr;il piiliile schools. "1 datii'Mifj Sid, that llii- . i iillcil pnul n'.H si and n o'dunre of tiastx suli.loi u lu tll'o liHt Reni'i'.'.tb n bu.. ( v i- nilndetl avg h iiiutnntliil nuniber of gii.s or ht?rtf i tbp wleKi'.iMpm of vIcV, or nnwo them easier victims of temptation." tempta-tion." Cfdveriior Edward V. nuiiPo, of 11 IlnOli, in a letter addressed to the I'lOsfibn' "f tho Rtnto Unlveisltv, expressed ex-pressed the conviction that t'.i' leaching; leach-ing; .qf sex hygiene "will ImliiCJ i'P-' i'P-' thut- than suppress limnnrn'tty and uiiDhnstltv." "Personally," sahl Govorin r Dunne, "1 would mil pnrnii', my young nnd Innocent daughters to bo aunt to either a public or prlvaii iieliool where sex hygiene Is dlsriiss cd In public. In thotr lioaring nnd In tho hearing of children of their lender len-der nge ' Kx-Goveruof Joseph W. Folk of Mlssotiii. who Is now uujli a pi.uiu-nent pi.uiu-nent lluure lu Federal "nestlgatton work. Is on record as strongly oppoh ed to this proposed Innovation, llish op ('Italics P. Anderson, of Chii ago. Rev. George P. Williams, I). I)., of Philadelphia, Superintendent Roneo vlerl of the San Francisco public schools and Piesldent Tlerney of Woodstock College, Maryland, tiro among tho distinguished ele-gymeii nnd educators who have registered their protests; while tho objections advanced by such men ns Dr. Howell How-ell T. Pershing, an alienist of nation wide tepute, and Dr. Richard C ('a hot of llnrvnrd .Medical School are highly slKuillcailt, oouilllg Us tliev do from trained thlnkcis whose com u-il u-il i.s are based on critical ohseria th ns IVIenda of our publle schools should hesitate long before Indors ing u subject that arouses such pio iioiiiicpi opposition from leadhu' thliikura representing many sliinb t-of t-of oiilulou, and must sensible per BMiH.wlll no doubt agreo with thosi cltieus who deploro tho hasty action 1 of the United States Comiiilshium i ut Kducntlou lujuilorslni! tunchiugh and thcoiles that! If Introduced Inn the public schools, would Impair tin uscliilnoss of these Institution!., " linpelllng many consclentlons (iii xens to take their children from the public schoolB, 08 Gov ei nor Dunne de dares ho would do If sex luglcii' wen- taught. |