| Show i CHALLENGE TO EAST TAST GIRLS FOR DATES DATES' TES' TES ig STILL UNDELIVERED J. J Popular opu ar r Boy and Pals Seek Way of Encouraging Encouraging Girls t It Possible for Make r to DO Do Their Full Duty and Them to Attend Girls' Girls Dance 1 f By BETTY BLAIR t I 7 The value of extracurricular activities in high school cannot annot be overestimated for their broadening g cultural effects Contacts are made and social stimuli awakened in the formative formative formative form form- period of students' students lives th that t have lasting effects for good Students should miss no opportunity to take part in them Dear Miss Blair How am I to lo get a date to the Girls' Girls dance I am a male malc student student stu stu- dent of the East high school Up c to the present I II I fl flattered myself by byR thinking that I had hadI I- I IA A I some appeal to the A R B I fairer sex because I I iiI have been attending I- I I the school dances quite regularly But ur f now as the biggest I event of ot the thc year car I the thc Girls' Girls dance I II comes s in such a II 11 short tl time e. e March 16 I find myself without a date Since the Haven for Lonely Hearts has not yet been established at East high I must appeal to you for advice This matter of ot adale le a date to the ther Girls' Girls dance is not only personal r I but one that concerns many of my S pals who have been troubled by bythe bythe the same thing Please give this your deepest consideration HOPEFUL I understand that it It- Itis is traditional t st the East high that an an invitation to the Cadet hop is reciprocated b by bythe bythe the girl so honored with an invitation to the Girls' Girls dance Did you dp your full dut duty Hopeful by inviting an East high girl to accompany you to the Cadet hop Well whether you ou did or not it is too late to do anything about that phase of ot the situation now and it Ismy is ismy ismy my opinion that any boy who really wants to go to the outstanding social event at East should not be pointed I have a plan in mind the answer 5 to which will determine just how democratic democratic dem demo East high students can be be- be and just how mobile In Iu other words how h quickly they can be mobilized d Into action By this plan every boy 00 who wants to go to the Girls' Girls dance nay may receive a bid and ever every girl who is sensitive about asking a boy who did not take her to the Cadet bop hop may have that sensitiveness ruled out cut Girls Must Get Busy i t As a preliminary movement to the Letters questions and requests requests requests re re- re- re quests for advice should be addressed ad ad- dressed sed to MISS B BET BETTY E T T Y BLAIR HEARTS HEART'S HA HAVEN VEN TELEGRAM SALT L LA LAKE A K E. E Write legibly upon only one side of the paper I It Is necessary that you append ap ap- pend the right name and address address ad ad- I dress but these will vill be beheld held in strict confidence and will n not mit appear in print Questions involving in advertising information cannot be answered I plan interest other boys who have dates and those who have not to join you in an appeal to that very personable person able athletic director of girls Miss Charlotte Stewart Steart and to th the president president dent of ot E. E H. H A. A G. G Sa Say to them in your nicest informal manner You see sec its it's this W way 1 girls sirls and go goon goon goon on to explain that you think every boy bo who wants it should have an invitation to the Girls' Girls dance Tell Ten them you ou have heard It rumored ru ru- ru mored there are arc many girls who want to ask bo boys S 'S but whose conscious self neLs h has s kept them from it and some others who have been dilatory In Inthe Inthe Inthe the face of this situation you are arc willing to swallow your pride indI as it may prove to help them out Ask them if it it couldn't be announced announced an an- in girls' girls gym ym classes that those girls who have certain boys in mind deliver their invitations in person person per per- son or by telephone before Monday March 12 On Monday a plan will vIll be beset beset beset set in motion by which every girl unable to get into action before that time will be helped This is the plan Democratic Enough Ever Every boy and girl in school who has a date for the dance and every dateless boy and girl cirl who wants to togo togo togo go will be asked to register in his or her respective gym class during Monday Monday Mon Mon- day and Tuesday The registration will vill consist of writing name nam address and phone number on separate slips of paper and the words yes or no indicating that they have or have not nota a date for the dance Both dated and dateless datele t boys and girls are asked to register in order that the populace looking on will not know who vho have and who have not so f far r been een dated The papers are to be folded and given in confidence to the teachers who will duly deliver them themo to o officers of E. E H. H A. A G. G Cooperation Needed G Girls having no dates should then thene be e asked by the officials to draw the he slips of or paper paper- containing the thc boys' boys names and forthwith to date the thebo bo boy oy whose name they have drawn There should be a penalty imposed on every very girl neglecting to do her full dut duty uty Cooperation in the plan should be e asked of ot every girls' girls club and organization or or- in the school It should be e made a point of honor that every girl irl see to it that her loyalty to the cause ause be unswerving It should be bc made a point of f gallantry that no boy whose name has been drawn refuse I a girl who asks him Without this sort of ot mutual cooperation coopers tion ion the plan of course would fail If t it is not feasible for you OU to present this his plan you plan you do not have to divulge the he authorship hip of it to it-to to Miss Stewart and nd the president of ot E E. H. H A A. A G. G arrange ar ar- ar range ange to have them see this letter setting etting forth the existing facts and you may be sure they will act in some someway someway someway way to obtain sa satisfactory factory results PUBLIC DANCE ETIQUETTE Dear Miss Blair In going to a public dance with your own crowd what is the correct correct correct cor cor- cor- cor thing to say and do should you meet other friends there outside outside out out- side your crowd and they ask to exchange a dance during the evening Thank you STUMPED I Rules of public dance hall hail etiquette are re very elastic and can be made or remade to suit the requirements of ot othe attending he guests As a rule those who attend in a crowd exchange dances ances with each other only but if he the outside friends whom you meet are re the kind who would be congenial to o your entire crowd you should be besate sate safe in introducing them Otherwise an n announcement should be made to your crowd that you had met other friends and would exchange b but t one dance lance with them You could explain to the outside outride friends that you had come with a crowd and they would understand that your aU allegiance to o those with whom you come should be preserved e BELIEVES IN GOING STEADY Dear Miss Miss' Blair I think it is a good plan for high school boys and girls who have found someone with whom they are congenial to go ste steady dy There is 13 just something ng about a girl who goes flitting about with a different boy for every date that makes others raise their eyebrows at her She gets a reputation in other words that though it may not be exactly bad is not exactly good l W When en a boy and girl like each other better than anyone else for forthe forthe forthe the time time being beIng why shouldn't the boy ask k the girl to togo go steady and the the- gh 1 accept Itis the natural thing for them to doA do A good many older people think just because a boy and girl go steady they spend their time together in petting or necking That all depends on the boy or girl Those who do would probably ably pet pd and neck with every boy and girl they went out u with anyway Those who dont don't find other ther interesting things to do with the one with whom they can have the best time Im Ini for lor goIng goIng go go- Ing steady BRIGHT IDEA I cant can't quite understand why a girl should hould get an nn unsavory l' l reputation because she accepts dates from a continuous variety of boy friends I had thought particularly among the younger generation that the more boy joy friends a girl could rate the more popular she was suppo supposed d to Ito be I wish v someone would tell me the reason rea rea- son on back of this very startling statement statement state state- ment of yours that a girl gets a questionable ques ques- reputation if she doesn't go steady with one boy whom she chooses from among the others I am ann open minded on the question and stand to be corrected and con con- One of ot my my principal indoor sports is having the opportunity to see into the minds minds' of f the young wh whose se eagerness for far r life lie In all its legitimate phases whose honesty whose virility I admire so much ABSENT FRIE FRIED D Dear Miss Blair vacation Last I met a boy whom I liked very much and who liked me well enough to ask i if he could write to me rae We have corresponded corresponded corre corre- since and now he writes to ask if it he can visit me on his vacation I dont don't know what such sucha a visit might lead lend up to and I doubt if Jt I am ant yet ready to make makeup makeup makeup I up my ray mind to any anything thin 1 Can you advise me CORA You need not make up your mind to anything but friendship in your our acquiescence to this boys boy's request to toI I pay you a visit Seeing him again may convince you that your role with him n. n as a good friend nothing more I has been firmly established You I should not fear meeting lifes life's I and having to cope with them themI I ade W I 1 11 J 4 |
