Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
HER
ATTACK On
SOCIETY
Christian Citizenship Speaker Re-
iterates Charges Of Girls Tip
ping at Exclusive Clubs,

Expressing her surprise that scores
Of Atlanta women should have hast
ened to deny her assertion that many
society girls are carried drunk from
fashionable cafes and clubs" wher
none Of the clubs of the defenders
was named in the accusation, Mrs
G. 3. Lindsey. Of College Park, secre-
tary of the Civic League of America
whose speech at the Christian Citi-
zenship Congress last week created a
stir in the social world, issued a state
ment Tuesday morning defending her
position.
Mrs. Lindsey declares she based her
statement on absolute and incontest-
able evidence. and that she has plent,
Of proof to back up her assertion.
= have more proof now" she said
than when I made the statement
Since the excerpts from my address
and the criticisms of me were pub
lished. corroborative testimony from
different sources has been volunteered
to mo"
Her statement follows:
Surprised by Defense.
That my little paper read before
the Southern Christian Citizenship
Congress should have created such q
furore of defense and criticism from
leading clubwomen Is both surprising
and gratifying, and it would be anus
ing were IL not that so serious a
cause is involved 7 had not hoped
FOR more than that my message should
be tiny mustard seed in the arous-
ing of he organized forces Of strong
Christian women in Atlanta and
through them the women of this sec
lion, and So was not prepared fol
such startling recognition of the
maiden effort of this nice little wom-
an
But why those ladies who have
rushed into print should have felt q
necessary to take the matter up from
"a defensive standpoint is both a sur
prise and a Tatuity Neither these
distinguished ladies nor the clubs
with which they are identified were
directly or indirectly referred to as
participants in the conditions which ]
condemned"
Certainly many women of Atlanta
have high ideals, and I was APP
pealing to them. I was clearly cor
demning the blghting course of the
idle rich and the foolish poor q.
Well who should have high idea's
and genuine high living but who have
not; who should not forget God in
thei. homes. but do: Who should not
serve wine and gamble over th-I
card tables, but do, who should dress
i'm modest and unsuggcstive manner,
but do not; who should refrain froIl
profanity, beer and cigarettes. but do
not.
That this sporting type OF girls ami
boys and their thougltless parents
exists in alarming numbers in al
cities. Atlanta not excepted, is a ia u
that is entirely too evident even TO
the casual obs yer to be denied.
Watch Swell Clubs" She Says.
1T only takes a little close wateh-
ing of numbers of automobiles that
unload their passengers o. our streets
day after day, or TIE crowds that HI
many Of our stylish cafes and swell
est clubs and private and public balls,
to establish the painful evidence If
the statement which made With de
regret but ,nXious purpose.
Let it be remembered first and
last. that l made no wholesale charge
against Atlanta society girls. In
pleading for what DR.. Broughton call
ed Americas greatest need, a bap-
tism Of motherhood, I warned against
the danger to our Christian citizen
ship from certain types of pace set
ting homes-the pace that kills
When ] sand that girls are sometimes
carried ont of fashionable cafes ana
clubs ir 'supefed responsibility Of
cours. knew my ground not from
personal observation in the circle in
Ay#-nu I move as has been iutimated
by one OF my critics. but from inCOn-
tcs,ahle evidence.
Commemorative testimony from diff
ferrut sources has been volunteered
90 me. but il would be a funny thing
FOR either the guilty or the innocent
tsf demand the l,V4tF