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Show Ofi Where Is My Girl Tonight I The attention of this paper has been drawn a number of times of Into to the freedom permitted tho young girls of American Fork, or for that matter thoso of tho surrounding towns also. Within the past ten days Justice Hunter hns bound over two yoiuig men to answer In tho district court on Btutuatory charges. The unfortunate un-fortunate young ladles are hardly old j enough to bo out of high school, yet will soon become mothers, und bo-sides bo-sides causing their fond parunts' hearts to be tilled with grief, the effect ef-fect of their Indlsuesslon will g0 with them to tlfelr grnves. The two young men and two young women Include In-clude tho four towns of Lehl, Alpine, Amerlcnu Fork nnd Pleasant Grove. Tho evidences In tho cases goos to ,show that the girls had too much freedom. They woro permitted to go ito dances without escorts, nnd thnt often hours would Intervene between tho closo of tho dance and tho time when tho girls would nrrho home. Last Sun. night two boju and girls drove up to tho school property One of the bo)s went urouud the building and when ho returned was henrd to W, "drink, It wont hint you, ' The liquor strangled hor, but the other geemed more used to It. As tho empty bottle wns tossed out of the bugcy, It fl' pi fco-1 up nnd found to be labeled a cortaln brand of whiskey sold by a local dealer. The testlmons lnDt WOpk feforo Judge Hunter showed thnt nf-lor nf-lor returning from n party tho couple wore In the habit of cnlllng nt a certain cer-tain lM-1 club whore liquor would bo obtained, und after being drunk thoro could be but one result. It appears thnt of lntothcro has grown tip u custom of allowing young glrlsi freedom that a few yenrs ago wns undreamed o. Wo don't pretend to say Just what steps should bo tnk. en. but we do think that the parents of young Blrls should know where their girls nro nt nil times, nt lenst till nrtor they have passed tho high school age, and it appears that the old poem "Oh Where Is My Iioy Tonight," To-night," could glvo way to ono of model n origin, "Oh Where is My Glr Tonight." |