Faith in the uprightness of American youth is so strong that strenuous effort for their enlightenment is justified.

Once they have their attention drawn to the need of action, they will act.
Self-preservation is one of the strongest instincts, and it may be dangerous to call upon the self-interest of these inexperienced souls; but for the sake of the results we must risk the lesser evil, if we can develop a resolution to secure a personal and race efficiency.
When the young people, with a deep appreciation of the possibilities of sane and wholesome living, marry and attempt to realize their ideals, the conditions are all against them.

They find little sympathy in their yearnings for a rational life, and soon give up the effort, deciding that they are too peculiar.

They slip almost insensibly into the routine of their neighbors.

There is great need of a cooperation of like-minded young married people to form a little community, setting its own standards and living a fairly independent life.