| Show VIcE E SPREADS AMONG AIO YOUTHS South Bend Shocked By Arrests of High SchoolBoys School Boys D B K S Special SpecIa cl cm 1 Ibe l be an Copyright 19 1921 J SOUTH BUND nu Tad Ind 10 1 May Iday 12 12 The junior class South B Bend nd High school is I-i I crushed and silent today Its president and idol Huel fI a athletic with the t clean cut features of the American i Is h In the count caunt counti jail confessed upon arrest to crimes including six holdups holdup ana anu 1 thefts of ot automobiles his disgrace are two other lads In high school John lG 16 Samuel Samul Gro 19 and a recent recent graduate Oscar Johnson Johnon IS who It is said ems H cor to a part in deeds of ban ban- banEl ban banditry El i try The fhe elt city citi of South Bond Bend Is shocked J Here Hete are boss bos bo s who ho ye yes yes- yesterday yes yesterday were wOre considered normal bv br society boys of good families who wert apparently preparing tor for use use- useful use useful ful lieS l es One Ono planned to b be I a lawyer la or another a dentist and n a third a n merchant Today they arc facing prison sentences as members of the tho criminal cia class As II a n conse conse- cOMe I consequence consequence quence people leople are arl asking Who I or what hat Is for the crime of these boys II O AI INQUIRY I It is h possible for tor th the writer to throw some light on the situation as the r rosult ot of o an extended In- In In t just completed Ru- Ru Rumors Rumors Ru Rumors in-I in mors had hail been prevalent In the city for some Rome time that all nil tas as not well eli 11 with tb the I genera tion Renera-tion hon tion There were ere whispering of oft I thinking petting and Ice 1 mei lei and women wonton in authority werl t 1 ls to get their opinion on condi condi- conditions conditions Very little definite Inform Inform- Information I condl-I tion was as as revealed The 1110 Tl o writer then set about bout to question the boss bo sand s and girls themselves and held Informal interviews s with scores cores of them Students cd ere chosen without lion tion Iton taken at as they ere met In the halls hall's or on time street street T VI r J In thu tho our course e Or of interviews near near- near near-Iv lv Iv one fourth of the boss bos bo s they had first band evidence e of liquor parties by hIgh school 1 hois 05 A number of ot lads among them school loaders laders d de do described scribed wet wetS they had attended The manner at t kt holding a part party they said oad was as as to go fur for a a d he in Sr an automobile with a group of ot boys I 1 Liquor was ass obtained eithel through friendS fr in school who were re appal- appal appal bootleggers apprentices 1 br r from the master bootleg bootleg- bootleggers bootleg gers gel gers In the outskirts oC ot the city I Girls seldom Beldom attended the set et patties parties thel boSS bos s Insisted but t O boys and a gin girl tol l of occasions when liquor had been ben serie serse 1 1 girls girls in then homis ever Ho nil all of ot the 3 loune oung Informants avert averted I ed that the girls were S SE TIO'S REL TIO S The subject of ot petting and se sec relations was s I by the young people The fhe more intelligent ent girls freely on time the of petting Man Man girls gins both and nod s sensible n In ap- ap ap voiced the opinion that petting lieges wore were by mo most t boy boys Petting is ju lust just t taken fr r grant grant- granted rant ed rant rant- td ed saS J a bright junior girl of good and common Renie Boys expect It and it Is difficult for a 0 girl to know where here bere to drawl vl the tho I hate to see Ice It oer- oer done o done The rhe girls aa as If n ft n class em- em em opposed r o i Boys Bov should hould bo be treated as friends wis their slogan logan l libeL of ot the thc younger girls seemed semd to bo little aware of ot th the problem willing w them When asked naked hat they good Urn times the majority of ot the young people Do- Do nien thel tinned athletics and parties panties Sport I lere e favored ta by the boya bor and and by tho the different ages Rles Dances found fat fa favor faor or lIh Ith I ih ISA upper classmen particularlY I with junior and senior girls Many boys and nd girls bald they could o basea ha base hae haa e a good time anywhere wll with a a Li con con- congenial con congenial genial crowd d pointing out with wisdom that it It all aU depends on the bunch AUTOS u nn rD Closely connected Ith parties and goo good 1 times was the use ISO of 1 0 an yearly Nearly three three fourths ot of the boys questioned say sav that I they had ne access to car ears earn You Young 11 I people apparently apPt onder ion ider them nl iii part parl of their thE equipment thol tho boy who must inSist gd get wong along without I one I Ii I the exception rather than the rule Questioned on their taste In n reading boys and girls showed do- do de decided preference for over books bools Edison and on ere cIted mOb most frequently as our great reat greatest greatest est living men Wilson draving draw dra most of ot his support from Irons the girls byboth EdIson from thu bos but ord by both I |
