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Show Free Love Is Termed Peril By Britishers r By Universal Service JjONDON. July 29. Eminent public men. doctors and religious leaden are joining a great campaign for the de st ruction of the canker of free Iovp "passionate affinity." as they term it which, they declare, is eating away the moral fiber of the nation. The archbishop of Wales Mr Shortt. Mr. Fisher, Ladv Rhondda. Lord Robert Rob-ert Cecil, the Rev. F. B. Meyer, the chief rabbi, Prof Hermann Gollancz, Dr Horton, Sir Jarne.-, Crichtoh-i Browne, and Sir R Baden -Powoll are among those who are leading in thisj movement An international congreps is to bp' held In London In October. The con-1 gress will seek to re establish the family fam-ily and the home as the sole- basis of I national welfare At tho same time a simultaneous appeal will be madu from every puMplt in Britain for the pursuance of this ideal 'The old moral landmarks are becoming be-coming submerged." said Sir Jamefl Marehmont, general secretary of the congress "The most obvious smp-tom smp-tom of the decay of moral responsibility responsi-bility is seen In the widespread Irregularity Irreg-ularity of sex relations. The whole idea of restraint and temperance is rejected. re-jected. . A still graver dHnp,er Is that the responsibilities of parenthood are being be-ing evaded. Social morality has: scarcely entered into the minds of the multitude Tlie high standard of woman's influence in the home, th.-j nurture of child-lifp. and the tone of Society are being lowered. ' Tn the novel nnd drama 'sex rela-1 lions' are being discussed with an abandonment of reserve winch la mor ally pernicious." |