WHITE CROSS LEAGUE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 300, 15 June 1912, Page 6

WHITE CROSS LEAGUE

This society was founded in England thirty years ago by Ellice Hopkins, the writer of "Power of Womanhood." It exists* to promote knowledge of sex. Some fifteen, years ago Mr. R. H. W. Bligh, who is now visiting New Plymouth for the third time, took up the work in Australia. He recognises that the most useful opportunity is in the schools. Mr. Littlejohn opened the doors of Nelson College to him ten years ago, when he gave his first lecture in New Zealand. The primary .schools, with very few exceptions, received him throughout the Dominion, and this rk induced the Teachers' Institute to i <ve for the appointment of teachers o;i sex physiology by the Education Department, relieved of all financial difficulty. As it is hoped that all parents wall teach their children concerning the elementary truths in sex. the executive of the White Cross League do not wish it to be thought (that to impart this form of instruction a medical training is necessary. As young people do not require much physiological knowledge it is not necessary for the teacher to teach more than the child can receive, but it is essential for the teacher on sex to have a true conception of the physiological side of it. Many people, and among them those who are not parents, are ready to bliime those who have children for not teaching them physical purity, but the nearer" one is related the more difficult at is to do justice to the subject. Boys will readily listen to a comparative stranger concerning the most vital subjects, but they are awkward when taught on such matter by relations. Mr. Bligh is to give lectures on Sunday, and parents are asked to attend and take with them their sons.