Fighting the Debauchery of Our Girls and Boys by Phillip Yarrow

The Reverend Yarrow appears, from the record, to have been a busy guy, challenging gambling laws, leading speakeasy raids, and swearing out warrants against plays he considered obscene.

He lists the poisons in cigarettes, including nicotine, furfural, and carbon monoxide, and writes 'the use of tobacco, and especially of cigarettes, by boys is assuming such proportions that in the interest of the future of the race the traffic in it must cease.' () Kress devotes a lot of space to the dangers of tobacco. In the chapter entitled, 'Why Women Live Longer than Men,'ĭr.one common conclusion was reached in regard to segregation, i.e., that it was from every point of view an unmitigated evil which should never be recognized or tolerated.' (Pages 399-400) similar bodies in more than thirty-five other cities. The Chicago Vice Commission of 1910.made a careful study of the problem. 'Fifteen years ago the segregation of vice was the common rule in most American cities. Hallman, member of the Chicago vice commission, writes: Regarding red light districts, Wirt W.In like manner this general disregard and overthrow of the old historic forms of American morality which for years have been the controlling factors in molding American character, will, if continued, inevitably lead to a deterioration in the moral, and indirectly, in the intellectual fiber of the nation.' (Pages 456-7) Persisted in, such a movement would sound the death-knell of true art. 'Women smoking, jazz dancing, obscene music, libidinous abandon of the stage, increase of divorce and illegitimacy - these are symptoms of a general revolt against the ancient Christian standards of morality.Ĭubism in painting, having no evolutionary background in the noble creation of the past meant only a frightful perversion of the historic use of the canvass and brush. Comparing lax morals with cubism, of all things, Yarrow writes:.Here are some of the passages I found interesting:

Fighting the Debauchery of Our Girls and Boys by Phillip Yarrow