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U 1 li ' .IKIIIII 'Ul VII I I Tfli 111. THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1914. LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER .1 i.4 PAGE TWO i I s "V. a mi 3 . ..... -. ....... . . : Feed the Kidlets WHEATLETS A Food Worth While Ask Your Grocer Snook Bros. Produce Company fhone Main 706, Phone Us Your Wood And Feed Order. Just Received A Complete Assortment of READING LAMPS PRICES MODERATE Waite Electric Co., New Foley Bldg. Phone Main 98 Fourth Street Grocery Full Line of Fancy Groceries and Candies THE PLACE WHERE THE CHILDREN TRADE NEAR THE HIGH SCHOOL Complete Equipment for Resetting and Repairing Rubber Buggy Tires LA GRANDE IRON WORKS D. FITZGERALD, Proprietor Complete Machine Shops and Foundry The Union Nurseries, Union, Ore. Roses. Order your roses now for spring planting, strong two yr. old plants, will bloom profusely this summer. Hardy, hy brid, perpetual, hybrid tea, $3.50 per doz. The wonderful new Climbing Mad Caroline .Tcstout, Climbing F. K. Druski, Dor othy Perkins, pink, red and white. Crimson Hanjbler, Thous and Beauties. All on their own roots. Also a general line of Nursery Stock . Send for Price List. L B. WAVER, Prop. Specify - Electric Lights -For Your New Home- If you are building this year specify elec tric lights. It is safe to say that 90 per cent of the houses built in La Grande this year will install them. No home is modern without them. They are as important as sanitary plumbing. Good lights are equally important, how ever, if you happen to live in a rented house. Your landlord owes it to you, and you owe it to yourself to have nothing but the best light. Electric lights are easily installed and will prove a source of lasting satisfaction to you. Call or phone Main 34. Eastern Ore. Light & Power Co. "Always at Your Service" HYGIENE NOT THEME FOR THE SCHOOL-PRIEST The teaching of sex hygiene is one of the problems that is interesting the entire nation. It is not universally conceded that this subject with all of its possible effects is a fit subject for j the schools and what is more, some of the best authorities in the United States and Europe on this matter are bitterly opposed to its introduction in the schools. In view of the fact that this sub ject has occupied the attention of the best people in La Grande and may be to some extent an unsettled matter, it- will be well for all persons to per use the following argument delivered by Father Tieniey, S. J. at the recent sex hygiene congress in Buffalo, N Y. on this important and ' farreaching subject. The argument is clear and cenvincing and comes from a man who has dealt with the moral problem all his life as priest. Supporting the theory of Ovc-goii and La Grande prime mvers in the hyK'ene campaign now on, that the school is not the correct ji-ace U teach the child sex matters. Father Tierney j-oes on to say: In this department on February 21st, under the caption "the Roman Catholic Church and Sex Hygiene," depending upon a statement con tained in The Common Good (pub lished in Rochester by E. A. Rum ball, a Unitarian minister), it was said that at the recent sex hygiene conference in Buffalo, Dr. Tierney, S. J., a teacher in a Roman Catholic Seminary, advocated the teaching of sex hygiene. This brought forth a letter from Father Tierney, in which he said, "I am unequivocally opposed to any movement in favor of instruct ing our school children in such mat ters." That his position might be fully ascertained, I asked for a copy of his address, which he promptly furnished me. Some portions of it are so interesting that they are pro duced herewith, not only that read ers may for themselves judge of the matter, but that the view-point of a learned Roman Catholic may be had: "This question of sex hygiene is not merely pedagogical, nor yet one that affects temporal interests only, such as the health of the individual and the present welfare of the fam ily and state. It does not neglect these; still it reaches beyond them and has itis chiefest concern with the eternal destiny of man. the fate of his immortal soul. Man's temporal and ternal interests are involved in the problem. Hence its unique im portance. "In the last analysis, the question concerns the abolition of sexunl sin. Many suggestions have been ma:!i for the accomplishment of this. That which is most in favor at present, ad vocates the public teaching of detailed sex hygiene to our school children. Its main effect will be knowledge, information; not will-power, not vir tue, either natural or supernatural The course is in -mable of arousing strong moral forefs. The appeal is made to the wrong faculty. The em phasis is put in the wrong place. Hence motives for right conduct will be weak and ineffective. In forma tion, aye, even learning and love of learning, cannot keep a man up right before God, cannot cleanse a i heart or keep it clean. Knowledge is not moral power. "Almost all our sinful men and youths realize that some dread dis ease follows sexual sin. The result it not virtue, but precaution to avoid the disease. Better sanitation, not more morality, is the outcome. A race of hygienists, not a galaxy of saints, is the result. An apostle of this movement sums up my conten ! tion in thio-pithy sentence: 'I confess I am not moral, but I am hygienic "Hygiene is a barrier of straw be fore the flaming onrush of the pri ' mal passion in man. Christ, not hy , giene, saved the world. Christ, not j hygiene, will clean the world and keep it clean. I "Some ten or twelve years ago the physical dangers of this sin were 99c THE BEST SPECIAL of ALL 99c Saturday, April 4th, we will place on sale in our bar gain basement one hundred 27-in. x 54-in. rugs in pretty Floral and Oriental designs at the very low price of 99c. You will find that these rugs are especially useful to place in front of dresser, i, couch or heater. Don't delay, but come early as they won't last long at this inviting prke. . , One Day Only in Our Bargain Basement See Our Window HENRY & CARR Complete House Furnishers Visit Our Bargain Basement Bargains All the Time In Our Bargain Basement WATCH THIS I PACE Geo. H. Currey He Who Sells Real Estate La Grande, Oregon (Con tinned on Pas Three.).
