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"GIVE, GIVE!"

SOME REMARKS ON PROSTITUTION, AND AN INQUIRY AS TO THE BEST MEANS OF
PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF VENEREAL DISEASES.

"The horse-leach hath two daughters, crying, Give,
Give!"--Pro. xxx. 15.

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Many observers point out an increase in loose conduct during the war. In
that period there were established large camps of soldiers in lonely
places, who were freed from the neighbor's eye: women also were
withdrawn in large numbers from the influences of the home. The war
lessened restraints and increased temptation.

I will refer to two out of many newspaper cuttings which dwell on the
consequent evils:--

WOMEN, WAR, AND MORALS

_Mr. Justice Darling's View_

_Mr. Justice Darling, in a case at the Old Bailey yesterday,
said the harm the war had done to the morals of the people of
this country was far beyond the material damage._

_In nothing had it done more harm than in the relaxation on
the part of the women of this country. This had now reached a
point that it could be seen in a walk along the street. Women
differed by the width of Heaven from what their mothers were._

This is quite the hardest thing that has been said about women, the
hardest comparison that could be made; but unhappily it cannot he
denied. And a second paragraph, taken from the _Daily Telegraph_,
carries us a stage further, from cause to effect. The looseness of
morals has increased alarmingly the spread of venereal diseases.

"_Giving evidence before the National Birth Rate Commission in
London, Dr. E. B. Turner, after advocating early marriage and
urging the necessity for a higher moral standard, without
which venereal diseases would never be kept down, made this
statement:_

"_These diseases were now being spread not only by
professional prostitutes. People had gone wrong through the
wave of sentimental patriotism which had swept over the
country. Out of 112 soldiers taken to the Rochester Road
Institution, only fourteen had contracted disease from
professionals. The others had contracted it from flappers._"

The condition of the streets is such that it is not safe to let any
young man or boy walk about, not so much because of prostitutes, men may
learn to avoid them, but because of dressed-up, flighty girls, who have
earned big wages during the past four years, and now are feeling the
want of money to spen