GUARD YOUR RACE

White Ribbon, Volume 44, Issue 537, 18 September 1940, Page 1

GUARD YOUR RACE

•\ pertinent ques ich, at some imu . confronts i w rj man and woman. Lift \ quesicli has fi ntioti oi i • hers, and sci< n all ag< s. Man) and varied have been 11 u given, nidi as - corn spondeno with environment." Life is knowing, being, acting and reproducing oik - load Life, like electrices tk nition. Mi n of tin laws g it- manifests it cannol tell us is. No answer ifying lias evet i n as tltt one hand in the opening Of ' nil* • "Aad (iod breathed inti breath of life,

a "d i became a living soul." Life—of < rod the outflowing of the breath and its inflowing into henai YOUR life? Have you reit it is the glorious gift oi ' rod -that our triple nature ii His gifl—ul and spirit \!an> live as bodj was their all and i ravi thingi material: "What shall What mall we drink? and al -hall we be clothed?" Others ntdked soul and desire those ich foster mental growth. But i Ileal of die earth comes the « thai spirit die very bread of •old Ik- in command of this •nality.

Life is not on!) an individual thing. "No man liveth to himself." Ever) man has influence upon ' ns companions and friends. But deeper and more far n ing i- the fad that life is a gifl to be passed on t<> other-, and 1»> passing on ■ tainted life stream we injure the rare Life i- held in the of two powerful instincts the instinct of self-preservation and that of race-preservation the desire to preserve <>ur life and the urge to reproduce our kind. The instinct for selfpreservation has been brought under the control of reason and conscience by a strong public opinion. The man who deserts a comrade in danger to -aw hii own life i- branded as a coward and shunned as a deserter. The man who saves another at the risk of his own life

unes a i i medal-, and i- greeted h> the homage oi tne crowd. '"Skin for skin, all that a man hath u ill lie give for In- life." Vet life i- risked dail) the sake of others, and in the ' rreal \\ ar millions willing!) t life itsei! for the defence oi home and country, tlm> showing how oik strong instinct can ibjecl to the con trol oi racial opinion, the -low evolution oi eenI'lrn i rom the daj - i>l earl) Komi', sung of b) die "How can man da better than fa arful <>dd\ For the ashes of fathers and die temples of his K"d s .' through the long age 4 was built up the rule of conduct in

the hour of danger "Women and children first." Medals for life-saving, the \ A . for rescuing an officer under fire, 11 . at risk to self, have all graven deeply into die race consciousness thai self isecond to others. But what about the other instinct, the -r\ urge, the desire t«» reproduce one's own kind? Here no -tern public opinion ha- punished the coward, the deserter of the weak and helpless, no medals, no plaudit- greet the hero who conquers his own passion t'or the protection of others. When public opinion brands the man who deserts his unborn child and it- mother as the coward that he i-. then will -hame compel die conquest of thi> elemental pa—ion. UflCOn-

Irolled sex [assion spells racial d< and d« U i ioratioti ; tin \ ast iiu Pea weak. 11u -ul»inirmal. and tl,« i tall> il< mi a tainn -! I lean In ritagi t<» tltc next imi It denies t<> tin child il ell born, ami Uxj often robs it tl love and t.itlki - llapp* the bulwark ol i ''on. ami the foundation ol these is lean low oi man tor In- mate, ati'l tlieir desire to found a home ami a happy, health) fainil) 11« young man. who lias wasted In- substance in riotous living, found -mli a home ? u \ oung n your records (Iran." is good advice. Then i- as much need t<> tram our fatherhood .1 is to tram our girls for niotlntlhmml Think oi tin wonderful miracle oi hirih How two, who low ilevotedly, join hands with tin. tor tin ation of a new life. The young man who realises this could m smirch sueli a hoi) thing l»\ lewd anecdotes, dirt) jokes, or Miggestive films, than lie could ol In* \ doctor before the Royal Commission on \ enereal ! ' :a\( tin follow : ? .' m ( In |iassing I would a-k you to note the ironj oi call im.; these diseases Venereal Venus was the goddess ol love, Imt tin se dis< 'ln product oi lust the diret t anti thesis ol love. Love means sell denial, lust means self'indulgent told how he was called to tin wife oi an English athlete visiting Sydney w ith a team of athli tes 11» found i il ! . and saw thai she was sufTerin her husband's pre ital indulgence. Vcrj angry, he did not -pan the young man. but broke the truth most brutally. The husband fainted with tin shock, and upon In- recoverj told the doctor the trutl ral y\ ars a night ol dissipation with fellow students, an awakening to tin truth of In- |»hysical condition, long treatment, and at length a aire pronounced Pri< his wedding he wenl again to the famil) physician, wh<> assured him thai there was no n-k to In- win Mow his wifi was invalided, and ail horn famih wreck)

I \ -1' week children are mnt to thi ol the Stat( becaust no father is then to can for them. health) imblic opinion is needed to compel fatherhood to take it- place beside motherhood in a dual res|ionsibilit) for the young life the) haw brought into tin workj The Divine Master cared for the children, and v<

Mi- indignation ii|»on those who injured •-' little on. Still Hivoicc sounds down tl bidding the young men who follow Hi- commands that thej guard the child and rear it tender!) i" whom the) law handed on the stream ol 111 pies <'i the Spiiit \1 n i out bodies he, I i- < fn mi all intern iterance, I i( e lrem slaver) ; I >atc to he a fre* man. St it ami sense control, < lean and pure th\ Imm|\ . Clean ajal pure th> tool.