The general tendency of the members who have been beset with fear, has been to avoid all talk and consideration as much as possible. But one member of the House Judiciary Committee was an exception; he leaned to loquacity. As his remarks give a vivid picture of the lengths to which fear and super sex-consciousness can distort an otherwise reasonable mind, the substance of one of the recorded interviews with him is given here. “Hon. Mr. X of ——, “I hear you are going to make a speech against the bill, Mr. X.” “Yes, if necessary I am, though I expect to kill the bill in Committee. But I shall make a speech on the floor if I have to.” “It is a great advantage to be a lawyer, if you are going to work against this bill, Mr. X.” He agreed heartily to that, said it was an advantage on any bill to be a lawyer. “Yes, for you will have the sort of mind that whittles away all the irrelevant stuff, and puts attention on the real points of the bill, and those are very simple as well as important.” “I see what you are driving at, Mrs. D——, but to my mind the most important consideration is the danger which this bill would make for young girls, and I am against it for that reason.” “Do you then really distrust the majority of young girls?” He thought he did,—that he had to, as a practical man, knowing the world and its ways. “If you had been a lawyer, as I have, and tried quantities of bastardy cases, you would see why.” Asked if he didn’t think a lawyer’s experience was like a doctor’s, limited largely to the pathological side of life, and that one had to consider the great fairly normal majority. Well, he felt the majority were weak and could be safeguarded only by their fear of “getting in a family way.” “Would you be willing to say that publicly, Mr. X? It is a pretty serious thing for a man in public life, representing the people, to say he distrusts them. I can understand your talking that way privately, but would you want to say it openly.” “Yes, I would, for I believe it.”