Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Men as Pure Minded as Women [ARTICLE]

Men as Pure Minded as Women

By PROF. WM. A. McKEEVER Kan. State Agricultural College

Judged from the standpoint of the future well being of the American people, social purity is a more important issue than the tariff or the conservation of natural resources. Boys and girls of all ages should be allowed frequent association with the opposite sex under proper restrictions. The line fence that separates the sexes at school and elsewhere is a shameful ad-, vertisement of our dual standard of morals. Women are not naturally any more pure minded (than men. Take down the line fence; inculcate the same degree of '

cleanness of thought, speech and Conduct before boys as before girls. Pareiftal ignorance and neglect constitute the first contributing cause of the great prevalence of the social evil. Let American parents rally to the great social obligation of training their, children for pure thinking and clean sexual life, and the race will quickly manifest the splendid manly and womanly qualities inherent in our ordinary human breed. Athletic sports, vigorous and joyful outdoor exercises so both the physical and mental exuberance of youth' may find a wholesome outlet, are recommended. The long-standing theory that every boy must sow his “wild oat*** has been successfully controverted by special iyta.