Show KATHLEEN NORRIS Must Good Girl Be TIME AGO I wrote an SOME article about Just plain old-fashioned modesty in in the books we read and the clothing we wear and the Jokes at which we I asked the women who read that article to write They wrote me by the The letters and postcards came in tied in And they all said one that America's mothers and teachers are sick of nakedness and coarseness in and radio in drugstore books and shameless Because I simply cannot answer all these messages I say thank you for them And I ask these mothers and teachers to take up this work of protecting our young people from the contagion of of ugly familiarity with the most degraded aspects of criminal and sexual Take up this cause with your own children with your with the parents-teachers and with protests to your Keep it up steadily and talk about If this flood of mall is any every responsible woman in the world is with is It Too LateT One woman wrote me that she did truly believe in In in in she has the world any use for them Is it too late to start training daughters in the old-fashioned virtues of daughter Is and she Is gifted and says Harri Paget's her young- became boy crazy er school days she was the center of a admiring group of But at 15 and 16 all that The girls became they began to They making dates in their early teens that we would not have been allowed to make at Pamela shared none of I had long prepared her mind for the fact that she was not to be one of the crowd that flocked about to drugstore night and sophisticated her father and I saw to it that she had a happy but we watched her amusements and her and above her was the that she was regarded as a and gradually dropped from all the plans of her they was no couldn't do never got away from parental she was actually disliked because she supposedly herself encouragement does her story offer to mothers anxious to bring up their girls in the old Pam's week ends are If she sees a movie it Is with her father or yet as I began by telling she is an exceptionally lovely and gift-I d airL What chances ordinary girl have if this is the present attitude toward character and Half the Problem To this mother I say in answer that she has only grasped half the Merely to forbid children dangerous amusements Is to leave a big vacuum in their That vacuum must be filled by safer and if Pamela's mother and father haven't been finding them and developing they are almost as much to blame as are the purveyors of the more dangerous sort Since childhood Pamela should have been encouraged in friendships that her parents could Not all girls are not all comic strips and paper-covered books are not all movies stress the Immodest and sexy side of Most of our American living in In in small country have high and most mothers and fathers are in touch with enough that is going on in civic and social and church and charitable circles to Introduce their children to some of life's |