ADDITIONAL FACTS ABOUT RACE HEALTH 



Recently a series of thirteen questions was sent to the college Young 

 Men's Christian Associations of the United States. It was desired to 

 know whether or not our college students are being taught about such 

 laws of right living as pertain to personal morality and to race health. 



Answers came from sixty-three prominent colleges and universities, 

 located in all parts of the country. Dr. Exner's report l says : " The 

 replies show that every one of the sixty-three institutions from which 

 replies were received make some provision for educating students in 

 these matters." The report also shows that this education is of great 

 advantage to the universities, although, as stated, " only one of these 

 gives the result in figures. This is a large eastern institution which one 

 of our strongest lecturers has visited regularly for four years, and where 

 the college Association has done effective work with the use of literature. 

 From this institution the report is that venereal disease has decreased 

 80 per cent, . . . that the attitude of coarseness and vulgarity toward 

 the subject of sex has given place to serious respect, and that the whole 

 moral tone of the institution has been changed. This report comes from 

 reliable and conservative sources, and the figures are obtained through 

 the university physician." 



Other quotations from other institutions combine to prove that when 

 young people know the facts they are usually ready to respond with 

 right living. It is evident, then, that ignorance and thoughtlessness 

 are largely responsible for the present widespread dispersion of such 

 diseases as peculiarly imperil the future of the race. 



" The Next Generation " was written to help remove this ignorance, 

 and this Supplement to the book is presented separately because the 

 facts given here are not for classroom use or for public discussion. It 

 is important, however, that they should be read by all who are prepared 



1 " Facts Relating to Sex Education in Colleges and Universities." 

 Compiled by M. J. Exner, M.D., Secretary Student Department of the 

 International Committee of Young Men's Christian Associations. 



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