Sensational Talk About Vice
Mrs. Morton S. Lewis, vice-president of the Girls' Friendly Society, reported at a meeting of church workers in New York City that there is “an enormous increase in numbers to be considered in connection with girl problems.” She agreed with Judge Ben Lindsay of Denver that the great publicity and sensational talk about the vices of this time are doing more to advertise and spread than to suppress them. There can be no question but that much that is said to mixed audiences in these times, as well as some of what is said to segregated companies of men or women alone, might far better be left unsaid. “For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret!” (Eph. 5:12) is the inspired advice of the apostle Paul. It is necessary to speak of the awful vices and debaucheries of the time, in order to sound the clear note of warning against them. But in speaking of them, it is not necessary to relate the vile details that will spread the vices rather than spread disgust for them,