Impact of Modern Culture on Youth

Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and

stimulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in

our movies,

vaudeville, and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny

that this is not the

right kind of food, particularly for the youth.

In shop windows and billboards, the vilest means are used to attract the

attention of the crowd. Anyone who has not lost the ability to

think himself

into their soul must realize that this must cause great damage in the

youth. This sensual, sultry atmosphere leads to ideas and

stimulations at a time when the boy should have no understanding

of such

things. The result of this kind of education can

be studied in

present-day youth, and it is not exactly gratifying.

They mature too early and consequently grow old before their

time.

Sometimes the public learns of court proceedings which permit shattering

insights into the emotional life of our fourteen and fifteen-year-olds.

Who will be surprised that even in these age groups,

syphilis begins to

seek its victims? And is it not deplorable to see a good number

of

these physically weak, spiritually corrupted young men obtaining

their

introduction to marriage through big city whores? No.

Anyone who wants to attack prostitution must first of all help to

eliminate its spiritual basis. He must clear away the filth of the moral

plague of big city civilization, and he must do this

ruthlessly and without wavering in the face of all the shouting and

screaming that will naturally be let loose.

If we do not lift the youth out of the morass of their present-day environment,

they will drown in it. Anyone who refuses to see these things

supports

them and thereby makes himself an accomplice in the slow

prostitution of our future, which, whether we like it or not,

lies in the coming generation. This cleansing of our culture must be

extended to nearly all fields. Theater, art, literature,

cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of

all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral,

political, and cultural idea. Public life must be freed from the

stifling

perfume of our modern eroticism, just as it must be freed from all

unmanly, prudish hypocrisy. In all these things, the goal

and the road must

be determined by concern for the preservation of the health of our people

in body

and soul. The right of personal freedom recedes

before the duty to

preserve the race.