Show it is true that social reformation as regards the q lack of standards or problem r 0 b I 1 c in of the among our students young 0 man lies in the hands of t the lie parents and young 13 by bir MARIAN T mj milwaukee Iree will W women but a closer analysis discloses more primary drefs refs reasons sons for the lack of respect with which the average young man of today ic ichards ards tile the young woman with whom he is thrown into daily contact this is especially true of the so called society or better elements it was wa my privilege to attend one of the lie foremost if not the foremost of the secondary schools in the W vast est and I 1 noticed especially espe bially this terribly obvious lack of high standards because I 1 could not see the application of the barn dance and its kindred movements to the file school corridors I 1 was branded as a grouch because I 1 could not see the reasons for transferring 0 the classroom into social centers where cicero find and virgil were mere by a monotone of social gossip I 1 was pointed out as a pseudo frealic at lunch and during 0 vacant periods it was no uncommon tiling thing to hear bear r groups of sophisticated men and women all under eighteen years discuss the progress so and so was making in his latest crush or how bow far you could go with the newest arrival in school the way a girls reputation was torn lorn to shreds was shocking the blase manner assumed by these young society cutups was absolutely disgusting 0 1 I have often seen been boys and 0 girls kissing 0 and embracing in the halls think thinking ing they were acting in accordance with twentieth century ideas 0 of decency and propriety we find docial reformers trying to clear the way of the working gal of the many obstacles that obstruct her path but I 1 say that sm social reform is needed among the better classes tor for it is they who will assume positions in leadership in years to come I 1 do not know how these abuses were punished a generation ago as that antedates in my y existence but I 1 think a little corporal punishment applied to a seventeen year old society queen and a good deal more to the year old pimply faced man of the world would work wonders |