SNAP SHOTS
Middleton, George
Snap Shots By GEORGE MIDDLETON WE ARE GRADUALLY REALIZING that the problems of sex cannot approach solution until they can be discussed in the open air. In re-reading Lecky's celebrated chapter...
...This book, unfortunately, is not easily obtainable, owing to some curious fear that truth is more contaminating than ignorance...
...In a new volume The Task of Social Hygiene (Houghton Mifflin Co...
...Recent history must be known, or the relation of nations will be an enigma, and foreign news will be a mere maze...
...As he looks ahead he is especially concerned with what marriage will become and how it may be bettered as a race ideal...
...How far we have gone on since then is evinced in the fearless utterances of men like Moll, Krafft-Ebbing and, in English, by Havelock Ellis...
...I doubt if the young lady has the enthusiasm needed for the task...
...If those with a poetic temperament realized the opportunity now open, some one could hit a chord arousing a national response.—The Survey...
...MORAL O Child, before your woes begin, Control your appetites by reason...
...Economics must open the way to a knowledge of the problems of labor and of capital...
...It is this spirit which is at work all over the world and it need not give any conservative spirits the cold shivers since it aims at an ideal so high that it takes on the element of sanctity...
...In his phrase, "the eugenic ideal is not an artificial product but the reasoned manifestation of a natural instinct...
...But a social poet is wanted all the same...
...There must be a rapid view of the sciences...
...THE OBJECT OF JOURNALISM is the service of the State, and no man can serve the State unless he knows its history, its structure and its working in administrative and party government...
...There are lots of good ones...
...In re-reading Lecky's celebrated chapter on woman in his History of European Morals one is struck by the apologetic manner with which he discusses, for example, the relation of prostitution to marriage...
...and so it must be left for discovery to the devices of the interested...
...She is looking back, not ahead, for inspiration...
...Havelock Ellis is a scientist with a vision: he is not content merely to collect facts and set them in statistical armies to overwhelm us: he sees into the heart of the subject he discusses and in his interpretation wisely makes every allowance for the personal variation...
...Literature must be studied...
...The whole object of the school must be to concentrate its training on the issues, the problem, the policies, the authors and the agitation which will people the next thirty years...
...The tavern-keeper brought her in, As something good to bake and season...
...The message in this book is too broad to be caught within the limits of a column: One can merely call attention to a book full of facts, suggestion and vision which, with the wide publicity it might have were there not so much mock modesty afloat, would help in the courageous discussion of this vital motive of the race...
...Pending issues fill its dicussions of constitutional law...
...He makes the point first that marriage or the sex relation is not an affair of the state and should only become so with the coming of children...
...Each new change must be met by changes in its training.—Dean Talcott Williams, Director of the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University...
...Its survey of European literature will begin with that year...
...They express the feelings of men in another age...
...Fables in Verse (AFTER AESOP) By WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD To be published in book form by the Open Court THE THIRSTY PIGEON ATHIRSTY Pigeon saw a cup Upon a tavern sign-board painted...
...As Meredith said, "This subject is kept too much in darkness...
...she asked...
...European history in the School of Journalism will be chiefly the period since 1870...
...Mother will not let me go into a settlement," and besides, she added with a sigh, "I am more of a poet than a worker...
...Write a hymn...
...I do not want more of the kind we have," I replied...
...exhaustive series on The Psychology of Sex has done yeoman work in clearing the ground from the myriads of misconceptions inherent in this baffling subject...
...She whirred along to drink it up— And banged her silly pate and fainted...
...What would you have a poet do...
...Wanted: A New Kind of Social Worker By SIMON N. PATTEN IN A recent conversation a woman said: "I wish there was some social work I could do...
...and the explanation is that he wrote for a Victorian public in 1869...
...Our emotions need expression and some poet must help us out...
...The nations which have the highest birth rates have also the highest death rates and those children who survive where civilization and poverty press most cannot develop with the same social and physical health as those reared in the smaller and deliberately restricted families...
...Incidentally he shows, with a range of compelling facts that so-called sex morality cannot be made by the law...
...The higher ideals of marriage must lie mainly in the woman's choice of a husband, and physical health as a pre-requisite for the family she will rear will influence that selection...
...What is possible for social betterment lies fundamentally in subjective education...
...Why do you want more...
...for all such measures have only resulted in an increase of the evil attacked by legislation...
...Havelock Ellis believes firmly in woman suffrage for he feels with Susan B. Anthony that while suffrage is merely the vestibule to woman's emancipation, yet it will open the door to woman's greater power of selection...
...A hymn...
...One poet is worth a dozen social workers...
...If so," I replied, "you are the person I am looking for...
...much of the substance of the earlier book, however, is presented in less detailed form and its healthy consumption is recommended to those who are not content in accepting traditional fears and prejudices but who believe there is true growth only when oxygen is handy...
...I have little hesitation in saying that the last volume of this series—Sex in Relation to Society—is one of the most wholesome discussions of all the title implies which we possess...
...All this must be recent...
...The author discusses with his usual frankness the falling birth rate, shows the causes, and deduces that quality is better to be desired than quantity...
...she repeated in evident astonishment...
...Eugenics is not mere cattle breeding on the part of the superior law maker but a deep-rooted wish of the social thinker that the physically unfit will be prevented from procreating: those mentally unbalanced to be compelled by legal process to refrain—such as is now practiced in some states—and those mentally capable forced to refrain by their own enlightenment of the consequences...
...Then again morality is a subject in whose definition even the wide majority will differ...
...Air it...
...The volume does not confine itself to this one aim but touches on all the collateral problems...
...Air it...
...from that alone will come the greater emancipation and a direction towards the eugenic ideal...
...The trust and the union are the chief care of the economics...
...The latter's...
Vol. 4 • November 1912 • No. 47
