Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1918 — A NASTY PROFESSOR [ARTICLE]

A NASTY PROFESSOR

For brazen impudence and unparalleled shamelessness the case of Thomas, the unmoral University of Chicago professor, caps the climax. His escapade is still, fresh in the public mind and his five-column palliation for his conduct is still making decent people gasp. That he was not fired bodily from the university is disgraceful, but it is in keeping with the institution of learning. God save the mark, which has harbored too many notorious professors of loose living to do anything else but leave a bad-taste in the mouth when mentioning it. Thomas registered in a loop hotel with a young woman, young enough to be his daughter. She Is the wife of an officer in the U. S. army fighting for freedom in France. The Couple were in a bedroom and trapped in an exceedingly uncompromising situation. They were arrested despite their prominence find later the wife of the professor excused her husband’s conduct by taking the young woman into her home as a sickening example of condonement of the behavior of her spouse and the soldier’s wife.

The professor, who Justifies his teachings and preachings and his studies of the sex question by raw methods, says he was merely studying woman and tells the world that he has done the thing before and tries to make out a case in the /face of an outraged and disgusted public opinion. The world is not yet ready for private sex clinics and we doubt that it ever will be- When. a brave man gives up all to fight for his country, he is supposed to be able to leave his wife and children behind safe from the machinations and advances o.f goatish professors. His mind should be free from anything that would arouse lurking suspicions and uneasiness as to the

conduct of his wife at home for whose safety from outrage he has gone to the front to fight. The preservation of the Home is what our boys are, giving their bipod for in France. If Thomas is too old to go to war, he ought to be too old to interest a soldier’s. wife when her husband is thousands of miles away. ■ ' ■ Thomas is a flne specimen of educator for classes of young men and women, for it is only to be expected that he preaches what he practices. Some day we hope that this brave officer will return from France to take care of Thomas. If he takes care of him in the way he ought to we do not believe that there is a jury of decent American citizens ■who will be very long in returning a verdict against so contemptible a creature as this University of Chicago professor.—Lake County Times.