, 1921-11-01
GIRL SCOUT MOVEMENT
is URGED TO SUPPLANT
'FLAPPER' TENDENCIES

No little amount OF attention is be-
ing given lately TO tho development
of organizations for tho working. and
professional girls of tho city. Work
has been started on n campaign for
n community house for the young
women and tho Y. w. c. A. cafeteria
Is progressing in n rapid manner. But
little has been thought OF the young
or girls who OF all are most suscept-
ible Of beneficial organizations and
training.
With the growth of tho Boy Scout
movement which is a recognized help
to the boys OF the city. little a been
said OF the Girl Scout movement un-
I'll the present time.
The fathers and mothers OF the
Young school girls OF the city have Ill
ready felt the fearful 'nnpper'' move
rnent which is one OF the worldwide
menaces, and arc asking the solution
OF the problem OF how to so MI the
minds OF the young girls hat they
viii Iiot be drawn into the net with
the dance mad, rolled hosed. cigaret
smoking throng OF dormantly think
ing girls.
An article in tho New York Times
Weekly Review. entitled "From Flap
per to Girl Scout discusses the prob
lem in detail and offers as the only
sensible soiution-the Girl Scouts.
In the first place. the tendency OF
the girls to flap" which may be ex-
planned as the desire to smoke. drink.
act Independent of any parental adj
vice. and 10 create the atmosphere of
"wildness' is explained AZ a reaction
from the 10000 years of snassertive
ness.
And while Haunting behavior of the
young girl shocks the grandparents.
and torments the parents. It is no sill
lier. according TO tho author of the
article. than the ridiculous reforms
as are suggested by many of the. re-
formists OF tho age. Where as the
Girl Scout movement takes the self
sarne napper n instead of creating
her az a mans equal by allowing her
the age-old follies accumulated by the
men. deals to her a few Of the more
wholesome privileges.
Not least of man equal rights that
the Girl Scout has found is the knack
of having as good aytime without men
as men al always have without
girls.
And take the mere matter of legs
mans most cherished perquisite
throughout civilization. For genera
lions he has forbidden legs to the la
dies. Why. n old painter OF Spain
literally accommodated because
painted Our Lady's foot and indi-
Gated her knee under the folds of tho
ONLY a generation & and
any nice girl had just feet pasted TO
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woman has rebelled. Behold the left
of the feminist movement-the
f1appers who roll their own.
But. because she has been made
body-consclous by the centuries of the
past over which she had no control.
the young girl in her teens. regaining
her legs and discarding her lacinSs.
does 1t as a 1aunt In the lace OF con-
ventions. Generations of self-con-
sc!ous coneealments of commonplace
items of physical equipment. like legs.
have made these young pioneers of
equal rights acutely sex-conscious.
So the dress-reform advocates would
solve the problem by turning back
the sands of timely squeezing these
breezy little birds back into the egg
shell OF the nineteenth century. In
stead OF such folly, the Girl Scout
movement gocs the fiappers n bets
ter. On camp. 1t takes them entire
iy out OF skirts and puts them into
boomers and briar-proof stockings.
1t starts the radical idea that legs
are given US neither that we should
conceal them by skirts nor that we
should display them by silk stockings
Instruments to swim NJ climb
mountains with.
Every mother has the trial to find
an outlet for the .'emotions'' OF her
daughter. Scouting is Just one emo
ton after another. wholesome, help
ful. developing. emotions. which take
the place of the matinee idol and the
boy struck age. Never on land or sea
were there such noble rules and
p~ledges-from ITO do my duty to God
and country to do a good turn
daily"-which- are the emotions In
stnled in the Girl Scout.
1t is while the girl is in the teens
that the Girl Scout idea takes hold of
her mind and leads It along the right
channels And 1t is In h teens that
the emotion eanrs- e rampant 1t
is while in the teens hat the Cath-
ollie girls plan 10 take the veil. that
other maidens learn 10 love a. MAJ
ito reform him. that boys would be
Nathan Hales. that even the selfish
glri would volunteer an a Red Cross