Show The Sentence of Silence rooN COMON sense would suggest that the safeguarding safeguard- safeguard ing of public morals and the quickening of sex responsibility is the time most important task society may nitty attack It embraces not only the permanency of the republic since moral decadence of a people saps the tho vitality of the themselves el cs and their government but it involves s the physical mental and industrial welfare of future generations Ignorance of tIle the of this topic is largely responsible ible for the immorality of which such appalling revelations have been made during luring tho timo past decade because tho the ranks of vice are recruited from tho the innocent It is a curious phenomenon that a subject of such paramount importance should be taboo oven o among hose w who o ought fully to comprehend its gravity ly Logic urges that the tho avoidance of the pitfalls which beset the tho path of the younger generation the thc fathers lathers and mothers of the future win will bo be rendered possible only by reverent but frank instruction concerning them hem No sensible man or woman will if cand candor r move moye them hem argue arguo that knowledge concerning a n matter so vital ital should be gathered b by youths and maidens only through innuendoes and double entendre stories clothed in a mystery that can con but corrupt But that i if s the modern method by which the young absorb tIle the fundamental facts concerning a 11 matter of such grave concern and by an extraordinary paradox oft often Jl the most lost upright and pure-minded pure members of society arc re those that cling most tenaciously to the old order resisting the reform that ordinary logic advocates a Tho The innocence and purity purit t o of the thc young cannot be bed d destroyed by being informed of the time workings working's of this greatest and most moat powerful of human instincts instincts- reproduction ignorance is the real foe of innocence Time The sex impulse is is an emotion with which every cry human inmon being must deal Society by relegating its discussion to the background and neglecting a l manifest mani- mani lest fest est duty is but increasing tho time dangers clangers that pan any lack of control The rhe pioneers that have ha been striving to repeal the tho ao sentence of silence imposed b by misguided and amid harmful customs have e lived to see ECO many ninny recruits to their leir ranks But false mod modesty sty continues to garner its ts victims i |