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� cation. It was a mixed audience of doctors, clergymen, educators, social workers, of both sexes. Just as I expected everybody talked all round the subject, fearing they might say something. The Clergy proposed that the church should give its moral aid to the scheme of public instruction and so as through a lot of piffling[?] generalities - without one solitary gleam[?] of a grasp of the situation, women excepted who talked clearer and more sensibly than the men. It was close[?] the circus began. A doctor with more zeal than discretion protested strongly against the church hitting into sex education - said it had had blundered for two thousand years with the questions and the sole product was the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, a physiological humbug[?], and the miraculous broch[?] of the founder of the order of Jesuits, similar in character. He would as [illegible] anointe[?] a plumber to teach sex hygiene as a clergyman. In two minutes the academic discussion veered[?] and brickbats[?] (verbal) began to fly. One R.C. priest got up, white with rage and said if he was not a clergyman he would take the last speaker out into the alley and beat him up! He