requires someone charged with responsibility, earnestness and high
character to explain to men precisely what they are doing and what
it means; and secondly, prophylaxis is of very little use to
drunken men. My experience has been that when these precautions are
properly used venereal disease may disappear."

That proved to be exactly my own experience in the army. Failures in the
army were due to the absence of proper personal instruction of the men and
the laxity of control, and these conditions can always be assumed to exist
in any army having a high v.d. infection rate.--E.A.R.]

Nevertheless, the people who would put sacerdotalism before science, and
the still meaner minds who would substitute legality for morality, raised
storms of objection to my work, in the midst of which came a few strong,
clear calls of understanding and encouragement.

One Scotch padre wrote me in 1918:--

"It is a magnificent adventure for a woman to go practically alone
on the very edge of things, and I salute you, and congratulate you,
and wish you _God-speed_."

An old family doctor, then with a colonial ambulance, wrote:--

"Many women ... will owe their health and happiness to you, and not
a few will be indebted to you for their lives."

The editor of the Sydney _Bulletin_ (Australia) was continually publishing
helpful articles and paragraphs--after my letters and articles were
censored;[M] and from Dr. W.H. Symes, of Christchurch, New Zealand, I