| Show it is true rue that social reformation r q lack of standards problem or as of regards the the among our students young youn a man lies in the hands of the parents and young by MARIM MARIAN T WRIGHT milwaukee we women but a closer analysis discloses more primary reasons for the lack of respect with which the average young man of today regards the young woman with whom lie he is thrown into daily contact this is aspeci especially illy tru true of the so called society or better elements it was dinv inv my privilege to attend one of the he foremost if not the foremost of the secondary schools in the west and I 1 noticed noticed especially this thi a terribly obvious lack of high standards because I 1 could not see the application of the barn bam dance and its kindred movements to the school corridors I 1 was br branded a as a grou grouch elf because I 1 could not see the reasons for transferring the classroom into social centers where cicero and virgil were by a monotone of social gossip I 1 was pointed out v as a pseudo freak at lunch and during vacant periods it was no uncommon thing to hear groups of sophisticated men and women all under eighteen years discuss the progress so and so was making t in liis his latest crush or how far you could go with the newest arrival in school the way a girls reputation was torn to shreds was shocking the alie blase manner assumed by these young society cutups was absolutely disgusting 0 I 1 have often seen boys and girls ki kissing and embracing in the halls thinking they were acting in accordance with twentieth century ideas ot 0 decency and propriety we find social reformers trying to clear the way odthe of the working gisl gimi of the many obstacles that obstruct her path but I 1 say that thai reform is needed amona among the better classes for it is they who will vill assume positions in leadership in years to come I 1 do not know how these abuses were punished a generation ago as that antedates my existence but I 1 think a little corporal punishment applied to a seventeen year old society queen and a g good deal more to the eighteen year old pimply faced man of the world would work wonders |
