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portance of these matters to themselves 

 and to their children? 



The time is near at hand when the United 

 States Government must, for six months at 

 least, take every boy between the ages of 

 fifteen and sixteen to a Military camp or 

 on the Naval Eeserve and give him a train- 

 ing in the rudiments of protection, and edu- 

 cate him and instruct him as to his duties to 

 the State and to himself in sex hygiene. If 

 this were done, the country would be safe 

 from foreign invasion and we would have 

 healthier, more loyal, and longer-lived citi- 

 zens. 



Society would heartily endorse such a 

 propaganda could it be known how great is 

 the agony of the thousands of good women 

 who, in marriage, have drawn blanks, in- 

 stead of inen. The story of the divorce 

 court reveals something of what these 

 splendid women have had to endure and 

 there are more of such cases than the world 

 generally knows. I would call in the aid of 

 science in the way of preliminary examina- 

 tions for the purpose of making the disap- 

 pointment and the agony of such divorces 



