Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-12-12 | Page 4 | Washington Preacher's Views on Love

WASHINGTON PREACHER'S VIEWS ON LOVE. Rev. E. Hcz Swem, a popular Washington preacher, in a sermon recently referred with regret to the lack of any instruction on love in our schools and home3. People now get all their ideas about love, courtship, engagement and marriage from novels, and these are not reliable guides, he pointed out. Mr. Swem has struck a true chord this time, but not a popular one. These subjects are virtually tabooed in all respectable society. Mating, among the human race, is left almost altogether to haphazard chance, and is it any wonder that the results are so unsatisfactory? Some day it will be seen that if humanity is to be uplifted it will have to be done through a more intelligent in-telligent and scientific handling of the subject of love and marriage. The race is now producing a large percentage of offspring that are degenerates ; it is these degenerates which make the most trouble for society. The measures of sociological reform now in vogue no more reach the root of the evil than a piece of court plaster over a pimple will remedy the vitiated state of the blood which produces the pimple. The corn yield has been greatly increased by looking to the propagation propaga-tion of fit seed. How long is it going to be before we shall see that the crop of human beings is as important as the corn crop?