Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1914-01-16
CLEANLINESS OF SOUL
INSTRUCT YOUR CHILD
Mothers to Blame for Daughter
Loose Morals.
CHILDREN NOT SAFE-GUARDED.
Parental Respect, Wisdom and Fear
Of God Needed in Rising
Generation.

the February, 1914. number. 1t is
headed" "What Shall We Do About
It?' and was written by an Annapo-
Is mother. This mother lives in
college and cadet town, where
young girls run after boys" AMI
where the things one sees and hears
are things that justify this article:
That this il the day OF public and
private uplift we are already well
lware. Moral forces are at work in
he home, the school, the industrial
and the recre alton centers. Where
ever two or three public-spirited men
and women are gathered together,
there you will find well-drected ef-
fort to teach the doctrine of right liv-
ing. The city supervises its play
grounds and teaches morality through
he altb The employer establishes
clubs and welfare work in his factory
to cleanse the moral atmosphere
Editors preach clean living in fiction
and essay. The church has come to
DO its part in the combat with social
evil, frankly, openly.
And yet, with all these moral
forces at work, has there ever been a
time in the history of the country
when immortality has reared it's head
20 daringly and so frequentlvi Has
there ever been a time when the
charge Of immortality has been
brought with more Justice against
the home ard the social body7 Re.
Gently in one OF the most conserva-
tive towns of conservative Eastern
state, the Board of Education an
nounced abruptly that the semi
monthly chops given by the high
school cadets had bee stopped. Fol
lowed then mutiny in the cadet ranks,
sulIenuess in the class-rooms. Par
ents protested The high school was
public building. Why should it's
gym 1nsium not be used as q social
center?
''The Board Of Education called
meeting of parents, and told them
why. So much immortality had been
brought to the attention OF the teach
ers detailed to 'chaperen' the fort
nightly dance, that the hop had been
pronounced social menace. These
men did not offer glittsring generali-
ties. They presented specific in
stances and offered TO furnish names
of all parties concerned.
In an exclusive suburb Of a New
England city which has given the
United States some of its greatest
men and women, statesmen, scien-
fists, authors, artists and preach.
ers, there were three grave scandals
in one high school term Two mem
srs of the senior class were unable
to complete the years work and
graduate The third girl was q
| junior. Ina each case the young man
involved was q iellow-student. Dur
ing the ensuing summer, the high
school was remodeled. That particu-
lar town no longer has coeducation.
The manager OF hotel at a popu-
lar Atlantic Coast resort gave out q
remarkable interview concerning a
certain situation which arose during
the Fourth of July holiday week.
Here al a hotel whose rates, European
plan, start at So per day, fully half
the weekend guests consisted Of un
chaperoned parties of young people.
Two or three or four girls would
write for accommodations. Young
men came singly or in groups. 1t
was quite evident, however, that the
/ PARTIES had been made up in the diff
/ ferent cities contributory 10 this par.
ticular resort, but the young people
| quickly drifted together. Somtimes
they even arrived together, the young
men carrying the hand baggage for
| the girls. registering for them, as
suming all the RESPONSIBILITIES of hus
bands or brothers. These young
people shared tables in the dining
room or grill came strolling in from
the beach at midnight or later and
went for long automobile trips, still
unchaperoned.
THE boys and girls involved in
those two high school scandals spring
from good old American families,
from refined homes where college
| culture and daily courtesy are 20 be
found. Most of the young girls Were
being reared fer college or the pure
ly social life The young meu wers
coaching for professions. The young
women registered at the Atiantic
Coast hotel for an unchaperoned out
ing included teachers, bookkeepers,
! steno yraphers, saleswomen, high
school and college students and daugA-
ttrs Of leisure with sufficient income
to pay 81 day for room without
board. The young men represented
all classes of life, professional, cleri-
cal, industrial, were well dressed and
outwardly respecters Of the conven.
lions. Yet these young people, all
unehaperoned. were practically travel
ing together. Not so many years
ago, young woman who missed her
train. or was caught in accident or
flood from homs overnight in com
ptny with a young man felt forced to
seek q separate refuge or married
the young man next day.
Professional philanthropists have
[ hesr invaichinr against tie idle rich