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Show IIS THE COUNTRY IMMORAL. Recently a group of prominefl women, students of eugenics, appeared before members of congress to urge the lawmakers to pas a bill legalising legalis-ing birth control by allowing the j spread of information on the subject, I The women met with disappoint nu n? and they sharplv criticised the sena : tors and representatives for failure to bo abreapt. of the times. On Thursday, at a mission in Salt Lake, Rev. father B-oyle touched on this question in his sermon on present day social evils and sounded a warn ing of the moral and physical decay resulting from the practice of birth control. He cited conditions in Euro pean countries which have led to their social degeneration and collapse and . declared that a parallel condition ex- ists in the United States today. Father Boyle instanced the collapse of Greece and Rome and the causes, and de ' clared that the decline of Btrength of ( every decadent nation has been preceded pre-ceded by the almost universal hnmn I relit and licentiousness of their peo- . pies. Many public speakers aro declaring ' that America is descending in the scale of morality and are predicting natural decay. But the same alarms were sounded in Colonial days and have been heard at Intervals ever since Too often we get a too close-up view of our shortcomings which . gives a ! poor perspective and enlarges on our' present defects. We have more churches than ever before, more organizations devoted to health and good morals, more laws j?gulating the general conduct of the i ople. We havo less drunkenness F j n in the past and less hypocrisy. v ur one big weakness is in the ab- j lance of the home life of fifty years CO, but that is accounted for by the j Jiickening pace of life made possible I' the greater facilities for travol |