Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-09 | Page 4 | Are We Going to This Dogs?

ARE WE GOING TO THE dogs: 3 ijiscupBinK praaentrdaty morals, Prof. T iiddlnps of Columbia university, has M 'caused a stir by declaring that the morals of today are "neither j-ubwian Si fially higher nor lower than they wi r- fjl one or two generation ago," and he j quotes with ironical appositeness the ' 'a remark ot a former public official jl ihat "we have always h en jrnin in j "the devil and here we rue tQdg ' l Commenting on tins heresy to th j j .higher principles of moral reform, the H I New York World a 1 ' I' fl bad enough to see no evil in woman's clothes, but to impugn the! j moral standards of the "good old! 1 nines" betrays a regrettable menial' IH j myopia. As all professional ceusor.j Of public manners know, there has j y been a continuous fall from grace , i incc the beginning of history. Each j j Haw generation si arts on a lower! blbh i. ii. ii ii.rni mi, in , ii' pHnci a i ion i" fore and bequeaths to its successor a new heritage of corruption, ft was so j In the time of the poet Horace, who .nld nearly 20Q0 years ago that the j Hires, themselves iniquitous, transmit their increased iniquity to the sons. v. ho pau it on. with additions, to their offspring And no doubt it was so in i ancient Egypt and in Babylon. Fifty .1 years or so from now these will have become the good old times, and their Tugged virtues will be extolled by the moralists of that day. The scant 1 aklrted Ooatumaa that grandmother ;i wore in her youth will then be pat- terns of propriety. But to say fr.tnkh j now that those same costumes are anything but indecent and to intimate j ihat their wearers are as modest as 'fl their own grandmothers were merelv M convicts the apologist of moral obll- j Qulty." BB. . 19 no