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Show I AN EDITORIAL BY j FLORENCE DAVIES .H st ONE HOPE? Mr Meredith Nicholson sees just i one hope for the race. His one hope I Is the men. " Perhaps." he says, "the I men will get to worrying about set-I set-I ting us women a bad example and BO I mend thfir ways and we will all re-1 re-1 form and live on a higher plane." Mr. Nicholson's forlorn hope would j be (i musing If It weren't so tragic and j so altogether forlorn. And yet, there Is a bare chance that the men will decide de-cide that they don't want to see their ! flsters and sweethearts forsake old ; fashioned morais. and so in desperation, despera-tion, set about it to make them fash-j fash-j lona ble again. That In spirit Is about what Mr. Nicholson said m a recent interview 'in New York City when he deplored our vanishing morals, our vanishing taste, our vanishing church and speech and homes and Ideals It is a pretty sodden view to take rot things to be sure, but rather astonishingly aston-ishingly borne out by the facts. The swing of the pendulun from extreme modesty almost tainted with prud)shnes to the ultimate "1 don't care" In matters of conduct has been worrying us all for a good man years Ev. rv one has said all along thatl the women were the hope of the race It has been tak'en for granted that It I was the women vho would have to stand for high Ideals and fineness of living. Por eenturles that has been pretty much woman's Job She was so busy doing It that she didn't have much lime to look out for her material in-terests in-terests ir would Indeed bo a strange - ite of affairs If In waking up to these new Interests she should forget her old calling, that of the guardianship guardian-ship of the taste and morals of the i race. But turn about Is fair play If th- men hand over the reins of government gov-ernment there Is nothing left for them to do but pick up the old standards of social life and act as the traffic c.ips on I he dangerous crossings turrv , lng the "stop" signals once In a while when the crowd got to putting on a little too much speed. A 1 read) ther.- a ,i tendency for some pf i ir young men to at least look with relict at this new freedom assumed by their sisters Perhaps If It ever really gets on their nerves they will do KS Mr Nicholson suggests and try lo Influence us by a better example But that as vvr said before seems I forlorn hope, because In the very! hi ture of things guarding the Ideals o'fl , ih.- race will always belong to thel mothers of the race. No, we can not let ourselves descend to Mr Nicholson's forlorn hope. Bo-fore Bo-fore that time surely women will have discovered 'hat there Is no percentage In exchanging a birth right for a mesa of pottage. fin |