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PROSTITUTION AND WAR

Is the World Growing Worse:

SATURDAY, MARCH 3 1923.

thas the percentage of decrees time the chemists in allied granted 's less in our country than countries worked day and night wilb in any other part of the world. experimenting with gases

In leaving the subject of divores aba objees of finding a suitable let ma reler you tử what. Christ) wespen to reply to this new form id in St. Matthew 5 and $1 of thless warlare. It is sad to Whoever shall put away his wife, I think that there civilized nations. saving for the case of fornication, should have suak so low as to tre The Taikoo Club Literary Asso- causeth ber to commit adultery: a weapon which tome of the world's ciation on Thursday had down for and whoever shall marry her that greatest soldiers of an Feather debate with St. Andrew's Church is divorced committeth adultery." ***period had disdained to touch. Association the subject "Is the After dealing with the increase of We read in ancient history of World Growing Morally Better."illegitimacy in the United Kingdom poisoned well- and poisoned At the last moment. however, and Germing, referring to the evils arrows of sulphur fumes and considerable disappointment was of prostitutivo, Mr. Duncan said: Greek fire, but in' the 15th. cani experienced by the few enthusiasts Dr. Shad tell has written a very tury when war in western Europe present on the eleventh hour clear article on this subject, and became a more formal afair there discovery that the members of St cannot do better than quote a few ¦appested a tendency to depart from Andrew's Association, who were to of his remarks which, I think, will | these fighting methods, and to lay take part in the debate, were unable convince the most stubborn miod (dows laws which would protect] to attend. In order that the even-that, in spite of all the laws which mankind from what was considered ing should not prove a complete have been passed for centuries in to be a barbatous form of fighting. fissco. Mr. B. K. Busesa very the various countries of the world, | Lord Dundonald's proposal for the kmaly offered to read his own this dreadful trade is thriving mots use of asphyxisting smoke clouds st remarks on the subject as a paper and more as time goes on. Dr.the siege of Sabastopol was rejected and-, mi sevordingly append sa Shadwell says:—The principal on ethical grounds by the British abridged version of his views causes of prostitution are--!1) | Cabirat. In 1563 experiments respectics the

world which he dificulty landing employment, (2) were made with asphyxiating abells [contended is not growing better.. excessively laborious and ill-paid on dogs before Napoleon, who

Mr. Pancan said:

work: (3) harsh treatment of girls stopped the trials and declared There is no abundance of proof at home:) promiruous and in-that such barbarous means of "des- ths: the morala of the present agt decent mode of living among the truction would never be employed are very bad, and unfortunately overcrowded poor; (5) the aggregs- by the French Argy are growing worse as the world tion of people together in large In spite of laws laid down at the grows older. The events of the communities and factories" whereby Bagus Convention to the contrary, war years 1914 1s made the most the young are brought into constant gases of a nature to cause life-long optimistic feel how very insecure sofact with demoralized compan-injury, liquid fire, molten metal the foundation=

moral) pas; (G) the example of luxury;{and burning phosphorous were em- civilization are.

demoralizing iterature and ployed with a prodigality limited There is an unhealthy restless-famusement; the arts of pro- caly by the inventive powers of De io persons of every age and digate men and their agents Inad. conditiua; the immodesty of wo Alcohol often LA aid men seen in their dress, their prostitution, but it can hardly be conversation and their dances, and exted a cause. for the practice) Mr. Duncan concluded with a the open insult to the poverty of flourishes even mare in the most reference to Mr. Masterman's bes others show in the impudent o abatemicus than in the most book "England after War" se tentations of those who, by sudden drunken countries. These observa-follows: gain, have become wealthy but tions apply to the west. In Oriental Mr. Masterman, in his very able countries girls are commonly born manner, ma pointed out in bis Mr. Dedea then said he would

fiato or brought up to the trade, Intest book, England after War") coariae himself to parts of the sub and in that case bare no choice. the deplorable state of England to ject, the parts being Sexual The early Christian Church laid day and the awful hardships. under|| orality and the morality of great stress on chastity, which which the people at home ase

probably suggested to its Roman struggling. He tells us of unem persecutors the horrible punish-ployment, profiteering, bad housing, ment of forcibly prostituting Chris-distress and poverty, and the effect tans. The Church, however, was each of these has on civilization. nok severe apos prostitutes. Some He says there is more demoralizing al life of the whole world to day in the fathers explicitly recognized distress in England today than ia such a molten, drendent state their trade as a necessary evil.thers ever was in the worst years is high time that those of us who Among them a St. Augustine, a before the war. are igtarant of what is happening man of the world, who saw that ita He cites one case which without in our present-day civilization, and suppression would stimulate more any support proves how rotten and especially the who are prepared destructive forms of immorality decadent are the morale of our to uphold and defend it, should Gradually charity degenerated into country to-day. It refers to hous patronage. Rome, conquered spicing:-"A house in Swansea which Divorce to practically all civili itxity by Christianity and mater in pre-war days would rent at about the cutest of ally by the northern barbarians, 915 a year, and now living in it some kind of Itumoral conductapped the virtue of both.

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Sexual Morality

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khow the truth.

ed countries 2-

and no arzuqucnt, buwevor strong,

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Regulating Prostitution.

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can le produced to prove that Dr. Shadwell goes on t› tell us divorce is divcreasing. - & matjof the coplitius: ersting to-day in ter of fact the increasing number the warnes esastrigs of the warhi.

England After War.

serin or eight families from whom the landlord is extracting the exorbiteok sum of £406,"

Mr. Masterman cprsiders that the churches and all" political and intellectual idealistic effort, are, to

of petitions presented to the pas Hays that in penetically all use his own words, in the doldrums of Licent Britain and America in European countries prostitutes are and that unless some great change recent years is startling.

registered, but in the l'aired King takes place to present inventors In Great Britain in 1 there dem the l ́arted State and almost od late-men from rushing the were 787 petitions, and ten years all the British erkalas there is people along paths of destruction bater, in 1910, there were 5045

parative frvedum All the sya- [ and to teach us to think more of petiticas, an increase in ten years, tomos have their defects; all fail to moral stature there is no future for

than 120

THE STANNARIES. ·

Cornwall's Ancient Industry.

mance than 717 In 1019 test their purpose in the great four country, petitans tumbered 2,24, and for cities Under the English system. The growth of increasing power the next twelve months 3,085, or the streets had be, and sometimes of destruction must be checked, and ал increase in oor year of motejare, kept orderly in provincial it is only a moral power greater ten by an energetic police: but than bumanity has yet shown that Surels this in itself ample in London the mass of prostitution will prevent us and the whole proof that Cazladdat any rate is en great that the police seem word from ruin. not growing uralle better.

totally able to repe with it. Im Statistie conperping rastriage portant thoroughfares and restres and disce is Ames are not are frequented by large numbers of ecopiled each year; however it al prostitutes in broad daylight, and apparent that disure, in that choked by them at night. The enuatry is rapidly increasing as the law with regard to leitering is af bgunes for the gears 1956, 1986de d letter, for these women do and 196 will -how. In 1500 the outbing but loiter.

The ancient (and modern) acars Burnber of deco granted was A general view of the whole 42.5017, in 10 thi bad increased subject suggests u

pleasant upon the moorlands of Cornwall; to 2002 and in 1916there were t

Prostire the honourable marks of the < hapelul conclusions corded 112,85 From 1967 to 1900 tution appears

country's most ancient industry. to be insepar- the pumber of divorces granted able from human society in large They relate & history that is totalled 1.274.516. each period of communities.

In diferent coun-old enough to reconcile romance, ten years showing a constrot in tries and ages it bas in turn beer as the tourist demands it, with in- crease averaging about 30% while patronized and prohibited, igoured dustrialism, and to qualify stone the population was increasing sari recognized. tolerated and con- chimneys and spoil-heaps for & dmed, gulated and let alone. place as of right among the The number of divorces per flaunted and concealed. Chris beather and the granite outcrop 100,000 population in 1916 was 112 tianity, the greatest moral force in along with the cromlechs and the as compered with 8 in 1906, the history of mankind. has re-dolmens, the fox and the curlew peatedly and systematically attack-

the rate of about 10%.

increase of about 34

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They

are monuments

to the

The foregoing is ample pronted it will a scourge in one hand Phenician and the Roman and that America

aut improving and balm in the uber: but the the "aby Iberian." They were

first our

liok with civiliz morally.

effect has been triding or tran. Divorces in France in 15 nsient.

tion. bered 12,944, decreased in 1915,

The mines of Cornwall can Dealing with the second part claim mors: as they developed HEX++Z+++Zt+ increased to 8.121 in 1918, and of his paper "The Morality of their own courts and legislature. |

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11,637 in 1919. During the first six months of 1920 the total was 5,614, more than double the figures for the corresponding period of

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War. Mr. Duncan continued:

German Submarinism.

with more then rudimentary pro vision for self-expres ion" on Five months after Britain's entry the part of the tinners, they laid into the war with Germany the down an early pattern of in! Divorces in Germscy show a world was startled by the news dustrial self-government. The steady increase siper 1000 when that twasteamers, the Tokemaru industry has had its ups and the figures were 8.1 per 10.000 sad the "Ikaria""bad been torpedo-downs. Under Eing Jobo, Bor- marriages: in 1901 the figures were er without warning off the coast of lase assures us, production was the same, iz 1902 there were 9.3, France. This happened on Janu-low, and "what fin was raised 10.1 in 103 and 11.1 in 1904. ary 30th, 1915, sad the German engrossed and managed by In 1910 there were 23.3 divorces responsible for this act, an act the Jews, to the great regret of granted per 100,000 inhabitants; contrary to all known laws of the barons and their vassals.”. In in 1914 the number had risen to warfare; was the notorious Schwei-bis successor's time, the Moors, 26.2, and in 1919 it had reached ger on U. 20., the man who earned by stopping the working of the 36.2, or about 20% greater than the reputation of a hero later for Spanish mines, gave Cornwall a similar sets, and for une in European monopoly, since Còr- particular for which he was nishmen bad not yet emigrated decorated by the Kaiser-tbe to teach the Germans and other sinking of the **Eusitania".

nations how to work their tin.

1914.

The Morals of Europe.. The figures just quoted will show ihat the morals of Europe are not

mproving.

Referring to the wee of poison gas, Mr. Duncan said:

As it is much more difficult to obtain divorce in Great Britain

This new weapon was frek used than in any other country in the in the World War by the Germans world, excepting, of course, Italy on April 22nd, 1915. The Allies and. Bprio where there are no adopted all kinds of 'means to pro- divorce laws, it may be assumed | tect their soldiers and at the same

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