| Show TEMPTATION GREATER t i t IF CONTROL OF YOUTH IS RELAXED OR Ml M MISSING 1551 INC NG i T r I By BETTY BElTY BLAIR v Dear Readers Just a a note to tell you I am back from Carmel- Carmel the Sea fit tit as a fiddle and d. d to thank you for the many letters letters let let- which express your appreciation for the return of the column and of my recovery from that old ravager ravage t the e Flu I hope to catch up with column answers to your letters as fast as time and space pace will Swill let me In the meantime keep your letters coming for lor lorf f hc will be answered In due time Dear Miss Blair Now ow that spring is really here the young people of 01 our town are nil all planning on trips Here where I live it is customary for a group 0 of boys and girls to go out on the desert or up In the mountains to camp for a few rew days 9 For the past two years my girl girlfrIends girlfriends girlfriends friends have gone gono on these trips as u well as on on fishing trips and stayed for several days But I have never been allowed to go My loty mother doesn't think it proper for boys and girls to go out and camp camp like that tha without a chap- chap crone I am 15 old and would like especially to go on these trips so mother told me roc to see what you think about it Do you think I should go Our crowd usually consists con con- of 01 about eight boys bos and eight girls They usually go Friday evening eve eve- ning and return Sunday evening Thanking you for any advice yO you might Ight give WAITING I am glad that your yourl mother has the good sound judgment to hold holdout holdout holdout out against your going with other young oung boys and girls on camping trips that arc are It isn't as if you or any any- of the others were going to take advantage of 01 being away from watchful eyes for those who ho haven't the will power to resist wrong-doing wrong will find ways and means of doing as they please whether the they go on canyon trips or not But even though man many of our conventions have fallen by the tho waysIde way- way sIde Bide in the past few decades this is one thing that cant can't be done with without out severe and unsavory criticism Temptation Greater Then here is 15 another point When young oung people are arc away by themselves themselves themselves them them- selves the temptation to step aside from the beaten path Is Js greater than when they are concerned with their daily routine of living with other pe people Seclusion the darkness of night and the desire of young people to love and be loved somehow lose their proportionate balance And on such a trip whether you observe all the conventions or not note the Grundys Grundy in your town and elsewhere else else- where arc going to whisper it about with arched eyebrows that so BO and nd so 80 and such and such a crowd is Inthe in inthe inthe the canyon and heaven only knows what is going on ona a arid and so on and so on And it is no easy y matter to fo live down the gos- gos alp ot of the Mr and Mrs Grundys Weve We've V ve it never seen happen yet S that young people w who o gave heed to the best judgment of their pare parents par par- e cuts ts were sorry But weve we've seen It happen too many times when they scorned parental injunctions that regrets were deep and painful No Nomy my dear your good name is something to be guarded all your the thing to do is to scorn the appearance of anything that even even resembles evil for all too often people have mistaken appearances for their prototype and have had to suffer sutter the slights and scorns of a misjudging world Get up a crowd of- of f. f young people and take a mother or both parents along for chaperons chaperons chap chap- when you go on overnight trips and thus avoid the appearance of ot breaking standard conventions that will endure a as as' as long as the r race cc seeds reeds eds them PREFERS GIRLS S Dear Miss Blair i In our we have found that one teacher always gives the girls better mar marks than the boys The girls are her favorites and we Ive know it because we can do algebra and general science and other things better than the girls gIrIs can do them and still sUII they get higher marks than we Weve We've made up our minds to do something about it before school closes and wed we'd like you to tell teU us what to do so well we'll get our just dues on our final report cards Its It's especially hard on some of us boys because we have sisters Inthis in inthis this same school and wo we have to ito face the same sam parents re report report report re- re port cards We hope you can think up something to help our cause causo along long Thank you In advance THE uTHE BOYS Haven't you ever noticed how much h human man nature works In the school room Dont Don't you boys like people who are nice to you and if you like them dont don't you give them all the favors at your command And could anybody ever endure a teacher who was like a robot and who couldn't If she tried take into consideration the human qualities of her students Now what Im I'm getting at is this Just notice how the girls girls' hang around teachers teacher's desk and take their problems to her personal problems and carry flowers and a choice appIe apple apple ap ap- ap- ap pIe and strive for neatness in their work even though they may not give an absolutely accurate account of how erosion works or of the decidIng deciding Ing issue of ot the battle of Waterloo But of course this human equation system must be combined with generally gen gen- emily good work too or It wont won't work |
