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Show impending childbirth. Then she enrolled in our school as a senior (after a furious row in the :board about whether she should be admitted.) In retrospect, I know she was a grand kid and a nice girl with one mistake, but most of us were advised by our parents not to speak to her. , Our preacher had a daughlter who was a little on the wild side. She "got caught." My Dad voted, along with the rest of the . deacons, to fire the preacher. AND PERSONALLY, I got it too. Two couples of us, high school seniors, took some pictures pic-tures on a Sunday afternoon. In one, my girl friend was waving wav-ing merrily from astride my shoulders. She was wearing overalls. When Dad saw the picture pic-ture he tore it upas indecent. Ah, well, time flies. But can you imagine, in one short generation? gen-eration? Mac. ALL OF US out here in the hills owe a sincere vote of appreciation to our motion picture pic-ture house operators. Far as I know, not one has shown an X-rated movie. They bring us fine entertainment fit and suitable suit-able for the entire family. Maybe I'm lucky I've never seen any of the vulgar or violent pictures which are bringing a storm of protest and still making mak-ing money. Closest I've come is several years ago when "Irma La Douce" was out here, and there were no njisty scenes-just scenes-just a kind of questionable comedy com-edy about a Paris! lady pro who became pre gnant. Nowadays, they tell me, they even show how it happened. It doesn't seem possible that moral standards could have changed so rapidly in one man's lifetime. I'm no oldfogey maybe may-be it's all right to bare the facts of life. But in one short generation . . . here's what, it" was . like when I was in hfgh school: PASSING NOTES was strictly forbidden. One of our most popular senior girls was caught passing a note which was a poem. Can't remember how it started, but the finish was: Get the habit of the rabbit, reproduce and multiply." She was suspended for two weeks. A girl from 200 miles away came to live with her married sister to hide the shame of her |