WRONG WAYS OF HANDLING DISEASES 77 



States, respecting hygienic and eugenic 

 laws and regulations, are behind the West, 

 and as the result the appalling number of 

 socially diseased people that we have in 

 the East today is greater than the same 

 class in the West. Not very long ago, 

 the percentage was the other way. In 

 Western mining towns, in some States, 

 where the laws of examinations and certifi- 

 cates are weekly issued, you seldom find a 

 diseased man or woman today. In Lexing- 

 ton, Ky., The Purity League broke up the 

 fast houses, instead of enforcing the exam- 

 ination and certificate system, with the re- 

 sult that at night the Pikes and fields are 

 filled with such people who formerly fre- 

 quented the fast houses. 



Now, my indulgent reader, with these 

 appalling facts before you, is it not time to 

 call a halt, and for every parent to instruct 

 his or her sons and daughters as to the 

 preliminary investigations which they 

 should make before they allow their fan- 

 cies to run away with their reason? Today 

 young people who marry have as much 

 thought about the offspring of their mar- 



