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THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1914.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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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
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