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Show Social Purity Outlook Dark At Present Time PITTSBURG, Pa., Nov. 14 Condi lions with respect to socn' pur-ty are not at the present time "in every waj encouraging," B. S. Sleadvel, Lacross, Wis., president of the National Purlf .Federation, said oday a Mi confer J ence on social purity jf (he Thirl j Wot Id's Christian Citizenship confer I ence being held here, nhough h I marked advance was -cored bj n Itrit lion ami prohibition in many countries upon ' the twin of social vi?e( the use 'of intoxicating liquor as a beverage--Mr. Stead well cited as offset fing it somewhat "a general increase in thv use of tobacco throughout ?ne worl J by both sexes." and while there ha-been ha-been much desirable legislation and wide diffusion of information that the speaker considpr" .1 beneTIcial lo the movement, yet h" pointed to much si II! remaining to be lone. "Opportunities ,.re multiplying rapid ly for sexual temptation .'nd license.'' he said. "The associations of the sexes are largely unguarded during those years when oexual passion is strongest, marriage is beinr deferrJ until middle life; divorce is increasing; most authorities agree that abor'ioi is on the increase And to these conditions con-ditions the tact that the sex appeal is universal every w he i e , in the new s papers, at the theitrr. tnc movie, the street carnival, the dance, the fair, the successful novel depends on it, our magazines cater to it. society reeks with It, the home is steeped in It, the school condones it and often encour-agee encour-agee it. professional life wallows in it, the government Is often influenced by it, and if we do uot turn about facj soon we will and where some of the Oriental peoples stand we will wor hln it " He declares the automobile is a greater menace to morality tod.y than the red light districts were thirty years ago because it put.- ihe 'country road house practically i t the city limits." The stand taken by th-"' American government on its entrance into war against social vice ind uisease, Mr. Steadwell termed "by far the greatest thing that has eer been done in beharT of public morality " He ptesented ar guments for and against the Amen can plan" for the control of social di.-ease, di.-ease, drawing the conclusion that It was not well-adapted to civil life however how-ever beneficial it might be for an arm and he offered in its stead a program of education, together with enfon . ment of all laws oearlng on the social morality problem. That the American army was the "cleanest in the world" was a compara tlve statement, he said, ard "Is not saying a great deal for it." It wa.i the cleanest army, he thought, because it "started with 'he cleanest bo.h oi men ever mobilized for wai" and he re Joiced that a sincere effort was mado by the government to keep it so. He believed, he said, that the influence of the young men of nigh ideals in the army ' did more to keep our army clean than all the social hygiene an ! remedial measures expended during the war." |